Paideia Magazine - Fall 2024 : simplebooklet.com

Dear Pythons, Welcome back! I hope that — whatever activities ﬁlled your time this summer — you and your family return to school this fall rested and renewed.Last year, in an attempt to get to know our students better, I invited small groups of seniors to join me in my oﬃce for lunch and casual conversation throughout the spring. While not every member of the class of 2024 took me up on the oﬀer, many did, and those conversations revealed an entirely diﬀerent perspective on our school than I received from my conversations with parents and faculty. The ﬁrst lunch will always linger in my memory. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect (and I’m sure the same could be said for the students). Would they want to talk to me? What would we talk about? Would they even show up for our scheduled time? Yes, heads of school do go through those mental ruminations too.In any case, I sat in my oﬃce awaiting their arrival and, sure enough, at the appointed time, in walked ﬁve senior boys. Now, these intrepid Paideia seniors (now all alumni, hopefully enjoying their ﬁrst weeks of college) did not arrive empty-handed. Rather, they brought board games and card games for us to play. As they came into my oﬃce, they explained, “We weren’t sure what we’d talk about, so we thought some games might break the ice.” There it was. I realize now I was catching a glimpse of the con-ﬁdence with adults that is so often heralded as a trademark of a Paideia education. This was the Paideia voice I’d heard so much about. This fall’s edition of the Paideia Magazine is focused on just a couple of the many ways our students ﬁnd their voices, speciﬁcally through writing and the visual arts. In those arenas (and in so many others) we see our kids develop a strong sense of who they are as people, how they want to interact with the world around them and discov-er how they can use their voices to make positive change in the world. They learn and exercise creativity and expression through trial and error, all in the supporting and caring context of Paideia classrooms. Watching our students progress from their early learning classrooms in elementary school through junior high and ﬁnally into high school, one can see the myriad ways children develop a strong voice in our community. Seeing this progression each and every day is truly one of the greatest privileges of my role.I’m grateful to be a part of a learning community that doesn’t merely allow students to ﬁnd their voices but that actively encourages (even demands) it. If we want our children to graduate ready to change the world, we should expect nothing less. Warmly,Tom TaylorLETTER FROM2

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EAT LUNCH WITH YOUR CHILD Led by the Black Parents Organization (BPO), parents are invited to join their children for lunch on campus with great options from the grill. All proceeds from the event support ﬁnancial aid. Visit paideiaschool.org/eatlunch for more information. PEPPERDENE SPEAKER SERIES Join us for the Pepperdene Speaker Series with Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, screenwriter and activist Tony Kushner. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Learn more and register at paideiaschool.org/pepperdene. GRANDPARENTS AND SPECIAL FRIENDS DAY This special day is open to all grandparents and special friends of current students. Highlights of the day include classroom visits, campus tours and student performances. Visit paideiaschool.org/grandparentsday for more information. PI PARTYPaideia’s annual fundraiser to support ﬁnancial aid is coming this spring! Rooted in fun and fundraising, the event aims to bring the Paideia community together to create authentic connections while making Paideia more accessible for all students. Visit paideiaschool.org/piparty for more information.PAIDEIA’S FALL BARBEQUEFamilies come to campus to enjoy great music and our traditional barbeque chicken. We focus on community by creating a fun and relaxing day ﬁlled with music, games and good food. Visit paideiaschool.org/bbq for more information. STELLAR GATHERINGS3THE SLITHERPaideia’s annual 5k run/walk will be held at 8:00 a.m. Register to walk/run at paideiaschool.org/slither.

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“Good morning, artists!” greets Shondra Thomas as her 3rd/4th grade students gather around the art tables. The students go to their storage boxes and pull out fabric and yarn to continue working on their “stuﬃes” — some based on animals and others on imagined crea-tures. The students sketched the ideas on paper, patterned the pieces, selected and cut fabrics, and began sewing, using the original drawings as references to transform a concept into a three-dimensional soft sculpture. During this process, students learn hand sewing to add details and design elements, and machine sewing to connect the larger pieces. The project introduces Elementary students to the process of creating a scaled sculptural project and taking an idea through the ideation phase to design and build stages. Shondra encourages students to embrace mistakes in her classroom as a way of teaching them to approach learning art just like any other subject. Mistakes can be crushing, but they can also allow students the opportunity to access their inner resilience and approach a setback with a sense of fun and opportunity to let loose. “Sometimes I make students draw in Sharpie so they can’t erase and start over. They have to keep moving forward, and sometimes that is very hard,” Shondra says.Shondra knows well what resilience looks like: she is currently enrolled in a hybrid master of ﬁne arts program at the University of New Mexico, where she is focusing on activist art. Shondra’s experience includes a bachelor of art in art history from the University of Georgia and experience as a ﬁne jewelry artist and designer with a focus on gold and silver metalwork. Her varied material and professional experience gives Shondra a solid perspective about the kind of learning environment she wants to create in her art room.“I like to allow for experimentation because that’s where creativity and innovation come into play. My projects often begin with a speciﬁc goal but evolve into opportunities for students to express their curiosity and explore alternative paths,” she notes. The Elementary art program teaches the fundamentals students will take with them into Junior High and allows students to try a breadth of artistic processes while allowing humor and creativity into the assignments. Scan to see more stufes!9

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Next door in Joe Cillo’s art room, students in Patrick and Annie’s 5th/6th class enter the room, move swiftly to their assigned drawers, ﬁnd their portfolios and sit down to work. Joe dims the lights as he begins sharing images and introducing students to color theory with a brief history of the artist Henri Matisse. The impor-tance of color combinations is as much about learning the rules as learning to break them as a statement and to make a declaration of self. Joe asks students to think and act intentionally in a fast-paced, fun-ﬁlled 45 minutes of collaging. As he moves around the tables, he peppers the students with questions: “What is the art form we are working on?” asks Joe.“Collage!” answer the students.“If you have red on top, what goes well with red?”“Green!” Joe’s mother instilled a love of art in him from a young age. An avid traveler and photographer, she brought Joe crafts from multiple trips to Rus-sia. Those crafts ignited an interest in Russian art and led him to investigate two Russian artists: Alexander Rodchenko, a founding member of the Constructivist Working Group in 1921 that deﬁned art-making as a form of professional expertise and labor like any other, and Wassily Kandinsky, one of the pioneers of abstraction and a prominent faculty member at the Bauhaus. Growing up in a family of builders, makers and photographers, Joe was surrounded by construc-tion, engines and cameras. “I learned a lot about how things work. I spent a lot of time with my grandfather growing up. He was a true craftsman who paid careful attention to how things ﬁt together and looked, even if you would never see those parts,” he says. That exposure taught Joe about the role of form within function, long-term thinking and problem solving.Joe began studying biochemistry at Marietta College in Ohio, but his continued interest in photography inspired him to reach out to the school newspaper with a plan to improve the quality of their photographs. Realizing the depth of his interest, Joe changed his major to mass media and photography, given that the digital revolution in photography was at hand. Marietta College hired Joe after graduation to work in the public relations department to print and scan an extensive collection of large-format glass plates because of his knowledge of traditional photogra-phy and the Macintosh operating system. Joe later moved to Atlanta, where he began working with an advertising ﬁrm in their digital studio, making use of his skills and training. He eventually transitioned to teaching art, ﬁrst as a substitute and then full-time. While teaching photography at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, photography student and Paideia teacher Elisa Herrera handed him a note with a request for him to apply. “This is from the art teachers at the school where I teach,” the note read. Joe began teaching art at Paideia the following school year. Naomi, a 6th grade student, describes the freedom she has to explore in Joe’s art class, saying, “I don’t have to worry about making it pretty. I like to focus on qualities and make them extreme, which can make it really silly, and I like silly things.” The artistic skills that students gain in Elementary art, along with the ability to chan-nel themselves and their perspective into their artistic expression, is part of the gently structured approach that helps students learn skills, explore expression and have fun. Like many of the teachers, Joe maintains an art practice while continuing to make and tinker, but above all else he is a community helper, providing advice to colleagues about car and house repairs or what kind of lens to use for a new camera. He inspires conﬁdence in his students and teaches them to have fun and explore as part of the process. “I tell them not to worry about making art, it’s exercise. They are preparing themselves for the opportunity, and if they make art along the way, cool.” 10

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11Across Ponce de Leon on the second ﬂoor of the new Junior High, Lowell Thompson moves from table to table observing and giving instruction and feedback. Students in Jennifer and Wilson’s Junior High class quietly work, glancing back and forth from photographs of themselves to their drawing papers. Grid-drawing self-portraits are an annual exercise for Junior High students and an important exercise for observing self during a pivotal developmental phase in a student’s life. “Self-portraits help build character as you have to get familiar with your own self. You have to get comfortable and look at yourself. It requires patience” says Lowell. Lowell begins the project by discussing the grid method, a way of breaking down a larger image into smaller parts so students can focus on sections. He brings art history into the conversa-tion by discussing the artist Chuck Close as an example of an artist who struggled with learning diﬀerences, vision problems and then a medical condition that caused paralysis. Junior High is an intense developmental period when students’ relationship to themselves and others evolves. By highlighting an artist who ex-perienced developmental and physical challenges, Lowell hopes to inspire resilience and persistence. “I look at myself every day when I’m brushing my teeth, but it’s cool to see the shadows and how you see yourself diﬀerently than when you look in the mirror,” says Benjamin ’28. “Grid drawing slows everything down and allows students the opportunity to look closely, invite a diﬀerent perspective, ﬁgure things out and reach a goal,” Lowell says. The class spends ﬁve weeks drawing this one picture of themselves, which results in big, 20x16” self-portraits. 7th and 8th graders explore as many mediums as possible before moving to High School. “It’s fun to work with diﬀerent mediums. We get to expe-rience all diﬀerent kinds of art,” says Adele ’28. “I never thought about making a basket in art class, and it’s cool to do that in school.” Lowell prepares students for the specialized art classes they will choose in High School by oﬀering exposure to ceramic sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, digital art and collage so they can choose from the specialized classes with conﬁdence and experience. “Not all students are interested in drawing or painting. Some kids need to be more tactile and some need to move around a lot as they are working. My job is to expose them to as many diﬀerent art forms as possible so they know what they want to explore next,” says Lowell. Evolving and exploring is a big part of Lowell’s own journey as an artist. Having graduated with a degree in art and technology from the Art Institute of Chicago, Lowell worked in music studios, live recordings and advertising. More recently, he has focused on linoleum cuts, a relief printmaking technique where an image is cut or gouged from a sheet of linoleum. The surface is inked and paper laid on top, with printing accomplished either by rubbing manually with a spoon or similar tool, or on a printing press. Lowell can often be found in his classroom working alongside students on his prints or on the class assignment. “Anytime I do a project or present a project to the class, it is either something I have done many times and can share examples of my work and coach them through the process, or I do the project alongside them. It gives me a sense of the problems they’re going to run into, helps me think about breaking the steps into bite-sized pieces and allows students to see me working alongside them as a way of being approachable and accessible,” he says.“Our kids are prepared so well in Elementary and Junior High that, by the time they are in High School art, they have a sense of where they want to dig in,” says Dianne Bush, chair of Paideia’s art department. Paideia’s High School classes are structured to help students bring their own indi-vidualized interests and ideas into the classrooms. Some students approach High School art as a way to explore the diﬀerent mediums oﬀered in the overall program while others have a clear idea of what they want to accomplish. High School art is structured to develop critical thinking and decision skills, as well as to provide an outlet for students to think and express themselves through materials and form.

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12Over at the High School, Holly’s photography class is in the middle of a studio photography session with strobes, a backdrop, props and a student model. The students are quiet. They move in the studio like a commercial photography team, adroitly adjusting lighting and lenses while Holly oﬀers instructions, gentle suggestions and reminders. The class operates as a team with classmates knowing their roles and working together to make each shot successful. Pausing every few minutes, the team crowds around the camera to review shots and make adjustments. Holly’s experience in photogra-phy and digital art oﬀers students opportunities to learn many approaches to image making, a rapidly changing art form. Through-out the photography program, students move through a structured artistic process, similar to what they will encounter in college or graduate school. They learn to develop artist statements, submit proposals and pres-ent their work as a way of not only building artistic muscles but also developing skills as a professional. Within this framework, students can imag-ine, create and build on their interests. At times, students layer in writing, science and math and create intersections between the artistic and academic. They also interweave extracurricular interests such as dance and music into visual arts. Some students may have a strong pull to express themselves and dive into visual storytelling and installation art while others want to master lighting, ﬁlm and development. After earning a bachelor of ﬁne arts from the Atlanta College of Art and master of ﬁne arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art, which focused heavily on technology, Holly returned to Atlanta and began teaching at the Atlanta College of Art and Design and worked at IMAGE, now the Atlanta Film Society, while also pursuing her art practice. While Holly enjoyed the excitement of working events and being part of art nonproﬁt organizations, her passion always came back to the classroom; hence, she began teaching at Paideia in 2010. Holly brought a new perspective to the photo lab, introducing more technology into her classroom. She added updated computers, cameras and darkroom equipment to ensure students’ skills were developing in keeping with photography standards. She also found opportunities for students to exhibit art, and this eﬀort has been met with count-less awards, including Atlanta Celebrates Photography Best School Photography; 21 National Scholastic Art Awards, three with distinction; Best of High School in Photo Forum; and College Book. Most important, she focused on developing the conceptual side behind the work and enabling students to see the power within their voices. “Photography students excel when they have a strong foundation. They can take the art form in many diﬀerent directions,” says Holly. Establishing a vision for what students want to create teaches them to be storytellers. Early on in High School photography, assignments focus on identity, helping them see and understand who they are now and what they want to communicate to the world. “I want them to explore establishing a voice and inter-weaving that voice in their artwork,” says Holly. Scan to see more advanced photography work.

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13During her undergraduate work at Temple University, Baker worked with world-renowned artist Remo Saraceni, who created the walking piano in the ﬁlm “Big,” starring Tom Hanks. This experience taught Baker about life as a working artist. After gradu-ating with a degree in graphic design specializing in ﬁlm and tele-vision, Baker worked at a television studio where she learned the Quantel Paintbox, a pre-Adobe photo-editing tool that integrated digital art and graphics into television and movies. She transitioned into set and wardrobe styling, which led her to Tyco Toys, where she became the lead stylist at the International Toy Fair, clothing and accessorizing models. Noticing a lack of multicultural dolls, Baker created a line of multicultural dolls and a related curriculum, and that’s when it all connected for her. “I loved writing the curriculum for the dolls, and I talked to my mom who was an English teacher and she encouraged me to go into teaching,” she says. Baker completed an art education degree at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and worked at several schools in the Northeast before moving to Atlanta to teach at the Westminster Schools. After learning about the Atlanta school community and driving past Paideia every day for seven years, Baker landed her dream job teaching painting and drawing at the High School.Baker’s classes oﬀer an opportunity for students to enhance their artistic skills while making them think deeply about themselves and the social issues they encounter as high school students and world citizens. Looking for opportunities to connect artistic work with the humanities, math and science, Baker collaborates with other teachers and departments. This year, she worked with Oman Frame — director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging — to highlight civil rights leaders. Students researched and chose civil rights leaders from the past and the present and drew them through the process of microg-raphy, an ancient Jewish practice, with parallels in Islamic and Christian art, that uses Hebrew letters to make images. By creating portraits using micrography, students can play with how they see and represent value and form. Loose, large letters create light while dense, small letters create shade. Building oﬀ the skills introduced in Lowell’s Junior High grid drawings, students create a value scale with letters introducing them to nontraditional shading and graphics. The project also focuses on edge work, observational drawing and learning the science and anatomy behind the proportions of the human face. Students read, researched and reﬂected on the work of these civil rights leaders and the impact of their words and writing, and they incorporated these words into the drawn piece. “The micrography project was an artistic display highlighting voices often overlooked and underrepresented in our society,” says Kayley Simmons ’25. “Learning foundational skills of value, form, depth and composition was critical in my artistic journey, and I can already see the beneﬁts.” Advanced Painting and Drawing students learn the importance of the pause in art and life. The pause encourages internal and exter-nal reﬂection, consideration and empathy. It is a way of learning about oneself and one’s artistic vision to give something of the self to the world. “I hope my students leave my class with conﬁdence and curiosity to try new things and not be afraid to fail because mistakes are al-ways a gift. The process of learning is an endeavor unto itself, and production and execution follow the learning stage,” says Baker.

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Next door, a cacophony of buzzing, pounding, drilling and sanding ﬁlls Dianne Bush’s classroom. Students in the advanced jewelry-making class are creating wire work, metal boxes, necklaces, enamel, medallions and casts. In Dianne’s beginning jewelry making, ceramics and mixed-media classes, students develop important basic skills, while in ad-vanced classes they have more freedom to design and create artwork. Emma Edge ’25 is in her third year of jewelry making. After spending two years learning the fun-damentals, including working with wire, metal, soldering and enamel, she is applying these skills in her jewelry work and working on perfecting her enameling for her pieces. “You can make what you want in this class because it’s less structured,” says Emma. “I can research what I want to try to make and just have some fun.” With a focus on jewelry making as an art form versus wearable objects, Dianne pushes her students to take the materials and themselves beyond what they think is possible. “It’s not a class where you sign up to create things that you want to wear or give as gifts,” says Dianne. “Instead, I want students to think about creating miniature sculptures and pushing their creativity to think about the mechanics of how to scale and attach something within more ﬁnite dimensions.” Dianne is a born teacher. As the eldest child, she made her siblings play school while she acted as the teacher. After completing a bachelor of ﬁne arts in art education from the University of Georgia, Dianne taught elementary, junior high and high school art — including drawing, painting and sculpture — before coming to Paideia. After Madeline Soloway’s retirement in 2013, Dianne became the chair of Paideia’s art department. Year after year, Paideia’s art students are recognized and win awards in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition. Dianne attributes that success to the emphasis Paideia’s art teachers place on individual expression.“Sometimes students’ work can be technically amazing, but there is no voice behind the work. There is no sense of who the student is and what they are passionate about. The strength of Paideia students’ work is they have a strong voice and know who they are and who they want to be. They understand the importance of expressing their perspective because all of the art teachers, other teachers and staﬀ create an environment where student voice is important,” she emphasizes.The more time students have in a creative environment, the more well-rounded they become. They can then think more critically and conceptually about the world around them and under-stand the diﬀerent possibilities that exist or that they can create. The intentional collaboration and camaraderie developed among the art faculty creates a strong foundation for a student’s artistic experience at Paideia. “We become a family in here, and it creates a place for kids to belong. No matter what students are going through in their lives or what changes they experience with classes and teachers, the artistic space is available to them,” says Dianne. “There is consistency in the artistic practice, and a lot of students take that connection to creativity and the work with them into life. Being an artist means that the work is never truly ﬁnished.” SOME PAIDEIA ALUMNI WHO ARE PRACTICING VISUAL ARTISTS. Nicole Buchanan ’11 Rachel Deane ’12 Olivia Escobedo ’18 Lares Feliciano ’03 Abby Freed ’13Ariel Fristoe ’93Alexander Glustrom ’04 Todd Harris ’97 Agasha Irving ’18 Jennifer Justice ’89Pablo Rochat ’07Sawyer Sadd ’19 Walker Jernigan ’08 14

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Belladay Barry ’29 — Flash Fiction (one Gold Key)Jo Critz ’28 — Flash Fiction (one Honorable Mention, Poetry (one Honorable Mention)Margaret Elliot ’26 — Poetry (one Honorable Mention)Sophia Hou ’28 — Flash Fiction (one Silver Key), Poetry (one Silver Key)Alexandra Huynh ’27 — Poetry (one Gold Key, one Silver Key, one Honorable Mention)Adele Issa ’28 — Poetry (one Honorable Mention)Ethan Jonker ’28 — Flash Fiction (two Honorable Mentions)Kenzie Leonard ’27 — Short Story (one Silver Key)Lexi Markham ’27— Personal Essay/Memoir (one Silver Key), Poetry (one Silver Key)Benjamin Moon-Chun ’28 — Flash Fiction (one Silver Key), Poetry (Honorable Mention)Madeleine Moon-Chun ’26 — Poetry (four Gold Keys, three Silver Keys, six Honorable Mentions)Mari Reese ’25 — Flash Fiction (one Honorable Mention)Lucy Rotenberg ’25 — Poetry (one Honorable Mention)Charlotte Topol ’28 — Personal Essay/Memoir (one Gold Key), Poetry (one Honorable Mention)In 2023, 47 Paideia students received recognition from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, winning a total of 81 awards — MORE ART AWARDS THAN ANY OTHER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL IN GEORGIA. In art and photography, Paideia won 18 Gold Keys, including two photography portfolios, 21 Silver Keys and 28 Honorable Mentions, including one photogra-phy portfolio. Paideia students were again successful in 2024 with 65 awards in art and photography, among them 18 Gold Keys, including two portfolios, 16 Silver Keys and 31 Honorable Mentions, including two portfolios. The state of Georgia received 12 awards in the Jewelry category, with 8 of them going to Paideia. Paideia’s photography pro-gram has been awarded the most Gold Keys in the state for eight years, a testament to Paideia’s art curriculum and the talent that is encouraged, nurtured and discovered in our Elementary, Junior High and High School art programs. ArtAwardsWritingAwardsSelam Aman ’24 — Photography (one Gold Key, two Honorable Mentions)Kaj Barron ’24 — Mixed Media (one Gold Key)Dasha Borodovskaya ’24 — Art Portfolio (one Honorable Mention)Ian Cambas ’26 — Photography (one Silver Key)Niko Carpenter ’24 — Photography (one Gold Key)Jayden Clay ’25 — Photography (two Gold Keys)Olivia Colby ’25 —- Photography (one Gold Key)Anna Cook ’24 — Photography (two Gold Keys, two Silver Keys)Katy Cywilko ’25 — Editorial Cartoon (one Silver Key)Esteban De Alba ’24 — Photography (one Silver Key)Mauro Drocco ’24 — Photography (one Honorable Mention)Emma Edge ’25 — Jewelry (one Honorable Mention)Daniela Elisa-da Silva ’26 — Mixed Media (one Honorable Mention)Audrey Ferguson ’25 — Painting (one Honorable Mention)Andes Finch ’26 — Photography (one Gold Key, one Silver Key), Drawing/Illustration (two Honorable Mentions)Oliver Gillett ’25 — Photography (three Gold Keys, one Silver Key)Elyssa Golivesky-Bloom ’25 — Jewelry (one Gold Key, one Silver Key)Anabel Gonzalez ’27 — Photography (one Honorable Mention)Lyle Graves ’27 — Mixed Media (one Silver Key)Nat Hamrick ’24 — Drawing/Illustration (one Silver Key)Lila Haspel ’24 — Jewelry (one Honorable Mention)Gabrielle Howard ’25 — Photography (one Honorable Mention)Alexandra Huynh ’27 — Photography (two Gold Keys, one Silver Key), Mixed Media (one Silver Key)Kennedy Maberry ’24 — Photography (two Honorable Mentions), Art Portfolio (one Honorable Mention)Griﬃn May ’25 — Jewelry (two Honorable Mentions)Luke Miller ’25 — Photography (one Honorable Mention)Madeleine Moon-Chun ’26 — Photography (one Honorable Mention)Rowan Oxley ’24 — Art Portfolio (one Gold Key)Isha Parashar ’25 — Painting (one Gold Key)Kalia Pearson ’24 — Jewelry (one Silver Key, one Honorable Mention)Jack Pelissier ’27 — Photography (one Honorable Mention)Rohan Ramalingam ’24 — Photography (one Silver Key, one Honorable Mention)Alexandra Resnick ’25 — Editorial Cartoon (one Honorable Mention)Madeline Reynolds ’24 — Photography (one Gold Key, one Honorable Mention)Rachel Ringstron ’26 — Digital Art (one Honorable Mention), Photography (one Silver Key, one Honorable Mention)Sasha Robbins ’24 — Photography (one Honorable Mention)William Rudolph ’25 — Photography (one Silver Key, one Honorable Mention)Sienna Vanegas ’25 — Painting (one Honorable Mention)Joanna Wallack ’24 — Photography (two Honorable Mentions)15

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17“Wouldn’t it be easier just to let the robots do the writing for us?” I asked. After all, thinking and writing are hard! Usually, you don’t even know what you think until you’ve put it into words, and that can be an arduous, ineﬃcient process. Why not skip to the ﬁnished product so we can get onto the next task?What I hope I instilled in my students from that conversation — and what many of my col-leagues are no doubt trying to teach — is that ceding writing to the robots is also ceding our individuality. And to what or whom exactly? To robots that have, rather tautologically, been trained by us with all our biases, small-mindedness, and shortcomings baked in. As just one example: during Hanukkah, I’d lost track of which night we were on so thought I’d check with our good friend, ChatGPT. Immediately, with all the sureness of an Orthodox rabbi, even going so far as to cite the Hebrew calendar, it declared we were on the 12th night of Hanuk-kah. When I informed ChatGPT it was wrong, it (ever so politely) apologized and immediately returned a completely diﬀerent answer, sounding just as authoritative and remaining just as wrong. That process repeated four times, with ChatGPT never reaching the correct answer and never admitting it could not translate its Gregorian calendar mentality into a Jewish one. That was not how it had been trained and therefore not how it could “think.”For all the convenience it seems to oﬀer, if we defer to AI, we will end up thinking like it, which leaves us even more susceptible to hallucination than we already are. Not to get too woeful, but I was especially distressed when I heard a recent interview with Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft (which has “partnered with” ChatGPT). To prepare for the interview, Steve Inskeep had asked ChatGPT for information about Nadella and was informed that he was the author of a book of poetry. Laughing, Nadella admitted that was a “hallucination.” In quite a balanced way, Inskeep then asked about the potential promises and perils of AI. What, he posed, can tech companies do to ensure citizens’ safety and equal access to credible information? “Why are we even here?”I’LL ADMIT IT WAS A PROVOCATIVE WAY TO GREET MY NEW STUDENTS THIS SCHOOL YEAR, BUT GIVEN THE RECENT RELEASE OF ChatGPT — THAT SEEMINGLY MIRACULOUS ANSWER TO SO MANY STUDENT WRITERS’ WOES AND PRAYERS — IT FELT ESSENTIAL.Finding Your Voice L/!1J.-.J I ~ •• --\

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18SCAN TO LISTEN TO SATYA NADELLA INTERVIEW: Without even an attempt to sugarcoat it, Nadella admitted that the driving force of any tech company is proﬁt: “[AI is] compatible with creating more economic opportunity. . . . How do we do it safely? We can’t break things because, if we break things, one, you’re not going to have a business.” (There was no two.) Microsoft is not interested in AI for the goals of spreading peace, encouraging cu-riosity, healing the sick, ending poverty, or increasing access to truthful informa-tion. No, it’s interested in making money — and for the select few at the top.And who’s going to stop them? Quixotic teachers dragging our students through classic works of literature and histories from a bygone era?As daunting as that sounds, I think it’s our best hope.And if we’re going to pull it oﬀ, students must experience the absolute joy and pleasure that comes with both appre-ciating and creating art. Why miss out on that glorious, messy, unpredictable opportunity? Why iron out our individ-ualized voices into bland, vanilla, char-acterless automatons? Why conform our disparate worldviews and perspectives into one that maintains the status quo?Tech CEOs have no interest in encour-aging young people to ﬁnd their own voices. But we at Paideia do. Now the question is: How? Well, in some ways, it’s by doing what we’ve always done: allowing our students to come together as a community of writers as they explore, wonder, share and create. We guide our students to encounter as many diﬀerent narratives, voices and traditions as they can — to widen their scopes, yes, but also to recog-nize that there are as many stories in this world as there are individuals. Our nar-ratives and experiences cannot be gen-eralized, as convenient as that might be for some. We give our students reasons to write, reasons to tell their own stories, reasons not to sound like everyone else. Reasons to seek out the truth and spread it — as well as the means to do so.llinding Your Voice

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The Jane Pepperdene Lecture Series is sponsored by the Pepperdene Fund, a trust established in 2009 by Jane Pepperdene, a professor of English at Agnes Scott College and then a teacher at Paideia for 20 years. Professor Pepperdene’s generous endowment allows Paideia to bring writers of distinction to the school for the beneﬁt of its students and the community. This year, Paideia has the privilege of welcoming Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, screenwriter and activist Tony Kushner as the Pepperdene Speaker on November 14, 2024. Kushner’s invari-ably political works tackle issues within contemporary history — from the AIDS epidemic and Reaganism to racism and the civil rights movement. He is most well known for his two-part epic “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” which was later adapted into an HBO miniseries. His oth-er plays include “A Bright Room Called Day,” “Hydriotaphia,” “Homebody/Kabul,” as well as the musical “Caroline, or Change.” Through his work, Kush-ner gives voice to characters who have been rendered powerless by the force of circumstances. As a screenwriter, Kushner has collaborated with Steven Spielberg on works ranging from “Lincoln” to the 2021 remake of “West Side Story.” Several High School English teachers have assigned “Angels in America” as summer reading, with many teaching it next fall. Pick up a copy from our partner Charis Books and read along with us. More information will be available at paideiaschool.org/pepperdene.To be able to communicate clearly, eﬀectively and persuasively is perhaps the most powerful tool we can give our students. I can’t tell you how many alums have let me know that they were so well prepared for their college coursework — for the higher-order thinking and writing it requires — and that their classmates would regularly seek them out for essay help. Not only do we challenge our students to write in a wide range of genres in our academic classes, but we also oﬀer opportuni-ties for them to express themselves creatively during our short-term classes and outside the classroom. The literary magazine invites students to write for the sheer pleasure of it, and very little can match the thrilling pride of seeing your own words in print, knowing there’s an audience out there connecting with what you’ve written. Paideia is in an especially privileged position to foster creativity because of our Pepperdene Speaker Series, a program that came about when Jane Pepperdene, a retired Agnes Scott professor and then teacher of English at Paideia for more than 20 years, left an endowment that allows us to bring writers of distinction to visit with our student body and the larger community. Students have gotten to hear ﬁrsthand from such luminaries as Doro-thy Allison, Edwidge Danticat, Chang-rae Lee, Ron Rash, and Natasha Trethewey (and this fall, Tony Kushner). The English department also hosts the “Dickens Day of Writing,” an opportunity for students to respond to an essay by Charles Dickens in a timed setting and submit their writing for prizes and publication. Our stu-dents likewise participate in the Scholastic Writing Awards, and each year walk away with a long list of recognitions. Many of our alums have gone on to become professional writers (not to mention other kinds of artists), but our doctors, entrepreneurs, farmers, lawyers and so on have no doubt beneﬁted from our school’s commitment to individualized expression and persuasive communication. If the robots want to come for Paideia, not only will they have to get past a squadron of fuddy-duddy teachers (as formidable as we are!). They also will have to get past our generations of quick-witted, highly creative, problem-solving, incisive-thinking, truth-telling students.19

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20Dissecting Paideia’s Literary Magazine with Editor BRODIE GROSS ’24Paideia’s literary magazine, the Blue Rider, is a creative publication free to Paideia’s student body that provides space for the artistic devia-tion of writing students as well as artists.What is the legacy of Paideia’s literary magazine?We’ve been producing the Blue Rider literary magazine for more than two decades. Joseph Cullen led the Blue Rider for a long time, and now we’re under new leadership. In our club and in the creative writing class during the short term, we looked at past Blue Riders for stylistic models — what can we derive from them and where we can stray from them and try something new? It’s been a lot of fun to see what we like and what we’re interested in chang-ing and how the diﬀerent personalities of our staﬀ and the themes of their work impact that.Why do you think having a student body of writers at Paideia matters?Paideia is really successful at teaching students to be good academic writers, and our teachers place a lot of emphasis on that. Part of our goal in expanding the literary magazine is isolating writing as an art form, especially ﬁction, poetry and creative nonﬁction that students might be exploring in their free time. Writing for those who might not connect as much with academic writing is something that is an artistic asset of the school, a place where the school shines.What advice would you give to younger writers?Usually your ﬁrst few drafts will have too many words that you care about, but ultimately some need to go. I had a teacher in a creative writing class tell me that every teenager should cut 50-75% of their words and see where that leads them and then return to that ﬁrst draft and see if there’s anything that you’ve lost that you need to add back in.Examining the Forum’s Superior Scholastic Journalism with Opinion Editor SONIA ALIZADEH ’25Paideia’s student-run newspaper the Forum allows students the opportunity to develop journalistic integrity as they report on school, local, national and international news. It also gives students a voice to share their thoughts on topics ranging from Taylor Swift’s most recent album to the war in the Middle East. What is the legacy of Paideia’s student newspaper?For the past 30 years, the Forum has been an outlet for curious people. It welcomes experienced writers as well as those who want to learn and develop their skills. It teaches students how to write meaningfully and eﬀec-tively and how to work as a team. One of my favorite parts of being in the Forum is being able to work alongside a group of talented, funny and kind people. It is truly so special to be a part of the staﬀ.Why do you think having a student body of writers at Paideia matters?Having a student body of writers at Paideia is important because writing is a form of creativ-ity and self-expression that can help you grow as a human being. Furthermore, it’s a tool that you can use for the rest of your life. What advice would you give to younger writers?I would encourage younger writers to write as much as they can. Whether it’s an essay, story, play, song or poem, write and get lost in your writing. What I mean is, don’t worry about stylistic expectations or goals of perfection; write what your heart tells you and immerse yourself in the emotions you experience during the process. In writing, there is never a right or wrong way to express yourself. Have faith in your skills and remember that the more you write, the more you learn and grow. A COMMUNITY OF WRITERSLook for works from self-identied writers within our community.Alumni WritersTal Birdsey ’83Julia Napier ’92Shannon Van Sant ’95Priya Jain ’96Mosi Secret ’97Anna Sonoda ’99Charles Bethea ’00Hunter Alexander ’01Emily Alpert Reyes ’02Meico Whitlock ’02Jessie Paddock ’03Emily Strasser ’06Grant Lindsley ’07Allison Mathis Jones ’08Kelly Carr ’09Hugh Hunter ’09Clark Moore ’09Charles Boyd ’10 Cameron Albert-Deitch ’11Carly Berlin ’14Alex Gazmararian ’15Alex Murdoch ’15Erin Meller ’18 PAIDEIA’SFinding Your Voice Tortured Poets Department

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Current Faculty and Sta WritersMike Baccarini Elly BookmanChristopher CruzLiz DeSimoneBrian Eames ’88Oman FrameMashadi MatabaneMelissa McKay-HaganDavid Millians ’84Tom PaintingAndy SarvadySarah SchiﬀBonnie SparlingJohn TerryJim Veal Donna WoodsWe often refer to Paideia as a COMMUNITY OF WRITERS. Decades’ worth of newsletters, schoolbooks, forums and Blue Riders line the bookshelves in the communications oﬃce, provid-ing suﬃcient evidence to back up this claim. Paideia faculty and staﬀ recognize that writing is not simply a necessary tool students must learn as they journey into the professional world; they recognize the power of writing. Find-ing one’s voice and being able to articulate it to the world by sharing feelings and ideas is a powerful act. Many faculty members lead by example, empathizing with their students as they establish a writing process or navigate revisions. We hope their advice will revitalize your own relationship with writing. TOM PAINTING Between bottle-feeds and being a stay-at-home dad, 8th grade English teacher Tom Painting fell for haiku while on sabbatical from the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY. Twenty-ﬁve years later, Tom continues to be a vocal proponent of the power of haiku and considers the condensed poetry form a cornerstone of literacy. Tom has published work in association with the Haiku Society of America and serves as an associate editor for the journal The Heron’s Nest.What inspires you to write?I’m not a full-time writer. I’m a teacher ﬁrst, but I can integrate haiku into my life without it being all-encompassing. There’s a say-ing that “haiku happens”; it becomes a way of interfacing with the world. You simply have to be on the lookout for those moments, keenly perceived, juxtaposing nature and human nature. I’m intrigued by this imperfect vehicle we call language and how we try to make sense of our world in a way that allows others to share in that awareness. What advice would you give members of our com-munity who want to incorporate creative writing into their daily lives?Writing is a lot like adopting a ﬁtness program. Good intentions only go so far. You’ve got to be diligent. It has to be a daily practice. It doesn’t mean you have to kill yourself every day with it, but you have to do something every day to commit words to the page. It’s not just a resolution, it’s action, and you have to do it in times when you don’t necessarily feel like doing it. Take a workshop. Read a lot. Immerse yourself in language.Why is writing important to both our school com-munity and our greater world?Writers are struggling right now. I’ve reverted to having the kids pre-write most of their work in notebooks by hand. I think it was the author Virginia Woolf who said “each of us has to make our own experiment with the dangers and diﬃculties of language.” It’s a great quote. I think when we write we are having a conversation with ourselves, and it’s hard, but in its essence, writing is an act of self-discovery. If we let something else do the writing, then it becomes external to who we are.21The Writers' Boom

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22ELLY BOOKMANBefore she knew how to put words together, 7th grade English teacher Elly Bookman felt compelled to write. Watching her parents, both writers, she grew up believing it was just what adults did. In college, Elly discovered her love for contemporary poetry and her ability to process the world through writing. Elly’s work has been featured in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, and her ﬁrst book, “Love Sick Century,” will be released this September. What inspires you to write?Inspiration is hard, and I don’t think it comes very often. That’s why routine is im-portant. If I show up regularly to put some-thing down when an idea does come to me, I’m ready to receive it. In terms of ideas, I’m constantly thinking about the world — how people relate and how countries and gov-ernments relate. I’m trying to understand the individual perspective, like all of these systems are still run by individual people. When I don’t understand something, I try to write my way through it.What advice would you give mem-bers of our community who want to incorporate creative writing into their daily lives?I know a lot of people in our community in one way or another practice mindfulness. To me, that really means being present. Taking that extra second to register what I notice, whether it’s a tree or an article I’m reading. My ﬁrst instinct is to put it into words. I think the act of noticing is a daily practice anyone could adopt. I journal a lot.Why is writing important to both our school community and our greater world?It’s communication. I think it was Stephen King who said “Writing is telepathy.” Writing is being able to put your mind into somebody else’s mind. When our minds and our ideas are so easily separated and turned against each other, it’s one of the most important ways for us to be able to communicate those ideas. As writing teachers, Bonnie and I try to help our kids articulate their ideas clearly so that they can be received and understood. They can go out into the world and have their voice heard. BONNIE SPARLINGEighth-grade English teacher Bon-nie Sparling attributes her love of words to her French grandmother whose fascination with the English language turned her into quite the wordsmith. After reading Theresa Cha’s “Dictee,” a genre-bending poetry collection that intertwines the lives of women, Bonnie was inspired to start generating her own memoir pieces. Bonnie has written and published several articles and postmod-ern poetic pieces. She recently taught her 26th memoir-writing class for community members, and she is currently working on a writing textbook, inspired by her work in the classroom. What inspires you to write?Right now, it’s the goal of the book, but gen-erally, I’m a story person. I just love them. No matter what kind of story, how it’s told or what elements it uses. It’s art. What advice would you give mem-bers of our community who want to incorporate creative writing into their daily lives?In Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way,” she says to do morning pages. Just get up and write, and I think there’s something there. Even if what you write is terrible, just put the words down. Trust your process more than your product. I think there’s also something to be said about following and trusting what arrives ﬁrst. First thought, ﬁrst image, ﬁrst phrase, whatever it is. Follow it. Let that thread lead you where it wants to go. Michelangelo wrote about revealing what’s in the marble, and I feel the same way about words. Your story already knows what it wants to become, so get out of its way and just let it happen. Be open to discovery!Why is writing important to both our school community and our greater world?It’s fundamental. Who would we be? What would life be without writing? What would life be like without us talking to each other about our thoughts, opinions and view-points? What would life be without art? It would be an absence. I come back to that love of words. I don’t want someone else choosing my words. It is supposed to be fun, creative and playful. As a teacher, I’m also thinking about communication skills. Whether my student becomes a chef, doctor or driver, they’re going to need to know how to communicate eﬀectively.CHRIS CRUZWhile High School En-glish teacher Chris Cruz has dabbled in ﬁction writ-ing, his most recent writing centers on academic essays and nonﬁc-tion. For Chris, the writing process has always felt slow and laborious as he has written while also completing grad school and teaching full-time, squeezing in most of his writing at night. Chris is currently working on a nonﬁction book about edu-cation, exploring the idea of curriculum as confession, which he expects to publish this fall. What inspires you to write?I write because I have to. I’m very con-cerned with this idea of truth. Every time I write, I’m very aware that I don’t get to the heart of the truth. It’s like a journey or quest that I’m trying to ﬁgure out. I only ﬁgure it out when I articulate it, but the problem with articulating something is that it rarely comes across the way it does in your mind. Say you have an idea for an essay and you think it’s going to be awesome and when you put it into words you realize the things you’re writing don’t track with the ideas you were thinking. You begin to realize how diﬃcult writing and expressing yourself is and how diﬃ-cult searching for truth is. What advice would you give mem-bers of our community who want to incorporate creative writing into their daily lives?The best piece of advice I ever received was from a writing teacher named John Dufrense, who said, “If you want to be a writer, you have to sit your ass in the chair.” It’s the best piece of advice because Ffndfng Your Voice

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we romanticize writing, and that’s part of the disconnect that people have — that it’s pie-in-the-sky thoughts or you’re waiting for a muse, but the muse doesn’t come. You have to sit down and doodle or type stuﬀ. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but the act of sitting in the chair and doing it is the necessary condi-tion of writing. Why is writing important to both our school community and our greater world?It’s really important that faculty continue to study, and I count writing as a form of study. I think deeply it’s important to maintain our study life. Students need to see us studying alongside them. We’re not just people who come here to collect a paycheck — this is my life. This is what I was made for. When I come here and talk about books, I hope students understand that this is all I’ve ever imagined doing. JIM VEALFor the past 20 years, High School En-glish teacher Jim Veal has maintained a personal blog of nonﬁc-tion writing called “Fussy Jim.” Whether reﬂecting on teaching English, the sport of Ultimate, or weird family history, such as Aaron Burr’s humiliating misadventure in his mother’s hometown, Jim’s writing embodies his love for words and storytelling.What inspires you to write?Authors like Sarah Vowell or Gary Shteyn-gart and others like them always make me feel like I want to play too. I write about whatever is on my mind at a particular time. None of it is worthy of a wide audi-ence. I feel like a guy who makes decently crafted chairs in his basement and sells them at ﬂea markets. Good feedback is really nice to get, but 95% of the gratiﬁca-tion comes from being able to revisit one of my posts a few months or years after I wrote it and think, “Man, that’s pretty good. I really did that.” In my case, the famous line “I don’t like writing, but I like having written,” really is true.What advice would you give mem-bers of our community who want to incorporate creative writing into their daily lives?In the past few years, I’ve seen a lot of fervent counsel on social media urging people not to give up on activities that give them pleasure just because they’re not great at them, and I love that trend. Not getting club dates? Do your garage band anyway. You’re really kind of a joke on the court? Join the tennis league anyway. The practice of writing is especially prone, I think, to people talking themselves out of it because what they’re composing has no chance of showing up in a bookstore. That premature resignation problem probably has a lot to do with the inﬂu-ence of people like me and our red pens, but I really do hope we don’t think that the only worthy creative writing undertak-ings are the ones that result in something publishable. Why is writing important to both our school community and our greater world?I point to Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Letter” as an illustration of the im-portance of writing. When we exclusively value the product of writing, it egregiously discounts the experience of writing and what it can bring about in our confound-ed hearts and minds. In “The Letter,” Lubimov thinks Orlov’s letter reﬂects his intentions. On the walk home with Anastasy, he can’t stop talking about how splendidly it reﬂects his intentions. But it doesn’t, not really, as he comes to ﬁnd out. It is not until Lubimov sets about to do his own writing that something like the truth of his intentions emerges. Writing gives us a chance to ﬁnd out what we know. BRIAN EAMESLike a lot of kids, Elementary teacher Brian Eames wrote his ﬁrst book in Kinder-garten — a story about his dog Spook, entirely in crayon and mostly in pictures. In adulthood, Brian’s love of writing ﬂourished. While teaching at Paideia, he scored a literary agent and a publishing deal for a manuscript he tapped out on his school-issued laptop. In 2011, he published his ﬁrst book, “The Dagger Quick,” a middle-grade adventure ﬁction story, which he read to his students as he churned out chapter after chapter. What inspires you to write?Wanting to write has never been quite the right word for how I’ve experienced it. Needing is closer, although a little melo-dramatic. As a younger person, writing daily (journal, novel, whatever) made me feel like I was using my time on the planet well. When I wasn’t writing regularly, I could never shake the feeling that life was passing me by and I was squandering my shot. At the right time in my life, I happened to read the book “Close to the Wind” by Peter Goss. At some point while reading it, I knew what my dream was and decided to make it happen. A few years later, I was signing my name in books.What advice would you give mem-bers of our community who want to incorporate creative writing into their daily lives?Shut up and write. I know it’s harsh, but procrastination requires a drill sergeant. Writers write; people who fantasize about writing when they could be doing the real thing don’t get much done. Nor do people who wait around to be inspired. I’ve been inspired while writing, but much more often, writing is rolling a rock up a hill. You have to push.Why is writing important to both our school community and our greater world?Writing is about ﬁguring out who you are, what the world is, and what either (or both) could become. Paideia is like that too, as is every good school and every good community that wants to be even better. The act of writing moves the writer and it moves the reader, without which we’d all be busy going nowhere.Writeon!23

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DONNA ELLWOODIf you could sum up your experience at Paideia in one word, what would it be?Nourishing.Why did you choose Paideia?My husband’s friend told me about the school, and it sounded wonderful, so I interviewed. I had a lovely conversation with Paul and while he didn’t have a position at the time, he was will-ing to work with me to create something. I had worked at a public school where I went through so much trouble and paperwork to create a new course. When I came to Paideia, it was as if I had been freed. I realized how much energy I had and that I wanted to put that energy toward teaching and writing courses. Enlightenment feels like a strong word, but the awareness that there were schools where your creative energy could really ﬂow was important to me.What’s the best piece of advice that you could give newer members of our community? Maintain enthusiasm and honor the academic rigor that becomes so healing. Holding knowl-edge grounds students and makes them feel accomplished. If you are enthusiastic, maintain rigor and form connections; in that way, students have something that they can hold and take with them. It makes them feel powerful and conﬁdent, both intellectually and socially. What’s your favorite Paideia tradition or memory?One of them is Paul playing the piano. But it’s hard to give just one answer. My favorite thing is the classroom, just being in the classroom with the kids. There’s nothing better. They’re just lovely. You can’t just put it into one day, because every day there’s something. It’s coming to school and seeing them. It’s talking with them and engaging them.What are you looking forward to in retirement?I am looking forward to long walks, spending more time with my grandchildren, more time for reading and friendships. I look forward to seeing how retirement unfolds. I want to do some volunteer work, take some classes, and continue learning and growing.After 35 years of joy-ﬁlled teaching, endearing conversations and warm hugs, Paideia bids farewell to Donna Ellwood, who retired this May. As a high school student, Donna was fascinated by history and literature. Her American history teacher, Mrs. Rich, inspired her to pursue history in college. She obtained her undergradu-ate degree in history from Georgia Southern with minors in literature and education before teaching at Riverwood High School in Sandy Springs. As her commute grew longer and longer, Donna searched for a school closer to home and family. In spring 1989, she met with Paul Bianchi and that fall she started teaching in Paideia’s Junior High. Donna is most well known for her many years teaching high school history, captivating students’ attention and making history tangible. She will be very missed. Q&A24Farewellfriends!

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If you could sum up your experience at Paideia in one word, what would it be?Grateful. Why did you choose Paideia?I went to an independent school myself and it was sort of a traditional New England prep school. What attracted me to Paideia was its progressive nature, emphasized in the context of Atlanta. Paideia stands out within the independent schools around Atlanta. I had the tremendous advantage of having Caroline, who had visited all these schools, but I feel lucky that it was the school that I started with.What’s the best piece of advice that you could give newer members of our community? Embrace it. The community is very strong, very positive and very supportive. And more than anything, fun. I think new members would beneﬁt from jumping right in rather than hesitating and feeling like “well, I won’t go to that or I don’t want to do that.” I would encourage them to really dive right in.What’s your favorite Paideia tradition or memory?My absolute favorite tradition is the cross-age relay. I’m a sucker for the cross-age relay. It was more meaningful to me because my kids went here. It’s a great event. Over the years, I knew so many of those runners. You recognize the classmates of your children and those classmates’ sisters and brothers. And also, the juniors and seniors who I get to know so well through the college-counseling process.You developed a bit of a reputation for your limericks; can you tell me more about that?It came about because I wanted to get more students to pay attention during Monday Morning Meeting. I would make an announcement, then make a limerick that reﬂect-ed what I just said, hoping that if they heard it a diﬀerent way, they would remember it. During COVID, I started doing a limerick almost every Monday Morning Meeting. I thought we needed to add something to get kids smiling because things were hard enough, so I gained the reputation as the limerick guy. It comes pretty naturally. My grandfather was a great poet, so I had grown up reading his poetry, which is full of verse and rhyme.What are you looking forward to in retirement?Time. I’m looking forward to having time to pursue things. I am a project person. I have lots of projects — I really do not feel like I’m going to be lost in retirement. I do a lot of woodworking and more creative projects. I still play a bunch of tennis. My lifetime sport is squash, so I hope to remain active in that. Last, I look forward to spending more time with Caroline and to see places we haven’t seen and to enjoy our family.JOHN STUBBSFor the past 25 years, Direc-tor of College Counseling John Stubbs has worried, mourned and celebrated with students as they have con-templated their futures and searched for a university that would nurture the curiosity that began at Paideia. A long and winding road led John from Harvard University to Paideia. While working as a dean, John contemplated the idea of working in an independent school, but he questioned what school would take a doctor of an-thropology. In 1992, John’s wife Caroline, a Harvard admission oﬃcer, connected him with Paul Bianchi. After talking, the two decided to keep in touch. Five years later, when the director of college counseling and the di-rector of admission positions opened, Paul made the call. While at ﬁrst reluctant, John and Caroline made the move down to Atlanta to work in shipping and receiving. Our community is grateful for their decades of life-changing guidance.Q&A25

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ANDY SAVARDYAndy Savardy retired from Paideia after serving 19 years across multiple school levels. For the past 10 years, Andy primarily taught 8th grade humanities as a homebase teacher with Tony Helms. Prior to her time at Paideia, she worked as a high school teacher before pivoting to freelance writing while raising her small chil-dren. Andy’s journey to Paideia started by driving past the school routinely and won-dering what the heck it even WAS?! When she became a Paideia parent, she knew that the school would be a great ﬁt for her return to teaching. Andy brought joy, humanity and humor to her work in the Junior High that will be dearly missed.If you could sum up your experience at Paideia in one word, what would it be?Entertaining.Why did you choose Paideia?Prior to moving to Atlanta, I’d only lived on the coasts. You can just imagine the level of igno-rance and snobbery I carried deep within my heart. So I thought I’d ﬁnd my people at Paideia. I did. Many of them are born-and-raised Southerners, of course, and after nearly 30 years, I can say “y’all” without irony. I love Atlanta, and the creativity factory at Paideia is a large part of what I love. Now I visit the coasts and roll my eyes.What is the best piece of advice that you could give newer members of our community? As Gen Z likes to say about nearly everything, Paideia is a vibe. Of course, it’s a vibe that is ever changing. Give yourself time to get it, and by all means add your own special ﬂavor to our sauce. We need whatever you’re oﬀering!What’s your favorite Paideia tradition or memory?I’m going to borrow a tradition from a Paideia Mom I used to run into at every function. She’d look around at the kids, smile and say, “This is the good stuﬀ.” She was right. Getting together and building community was always the reason to be at Paideia.What are you looking forward to in retirement?Maybe I’ll ﬁnally ﬁnd out what this pickleball craze is all about, right as the trend dies and everyone looks at me sadly because I’m STILL playing pickleball. Yet I’ll probably travel, return to my writing career and spend far more time than they want or need with my children Jocelyn ’11, Rebecca ’14, Kate ’21 and husband Glen. Paideia will still be my neighborhood school, and I look forward to hearing what’s next!Q&A26PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEW FACULTY AND STAFF, AND CHECK OUT OUR SOCIALS. THEY ARE A GREAT WAY TO MEET OUR NEW COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND LEARN WHY THEY CHOSE PAIDEIA. instagram.com/thepaideiaschool facebook.com/paideiaschool

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If you could sum up your experience at Paideia in one word, what would it be?A privilege. It’s a privilege that people trust me to teach their young children, who make my day bright and beautiful.Why did you choose Paideia?When we started looking for schools for our kids, we knew many neighbors and babysitters who were Paideia students and they were the most wonderful young people. We decided to check it out for our kids and felt that it would have been the kind of school we would have loved to attend. When the position in the Half Day opened, I took the job because I love children and I wanted to be a part of something bigger than myself. I think Paideia is constantly reminding our students, “In this world, you are a part of something bigger and the way you treat other people matters.” I love the message behind the school. What is the best piece of advice that you could give newer members of our community? Embrace the community. From a teacher’s standpoint, it’s being present with your students. Being with these children is just so meaningful. I’ve enjoyed getting to know the other teachers and parents too. I know so many young families that are a part of Paideia, and it’s going to be hard to rip the Band-Aid oﬀ now. To this day, so many of our best friends are parents who we started with in Half Day. We’ve built friendships that will be lifelong for us. What’s your favorite Paideia tradition or memory?The Why I Teach speeches are so inspiring. They’re a good reminder that a sense of humor needs to go into everything we do. So much of what the students beneﬁt from comes straight from the heart — it’s the passion of these legendary teachers. There’s so much more — Field Day. Oh, and the singalong. I always tear up at the singalong.What are you looking forward to in retirement?Visiting my kids across the country. Spending more time in the mountains and Highlands, North Carolina. I’ve been looking into volunteering with the Global Village project. I’m also interested in gardening, maybe volunteering at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. I’ll visit my parents in Tusca-loosa who are in their 90s and dote on our family dog. SUZANNE PETERSONQ&A27For the past 14 years, Suzanne Peterson has ﬁlled Paideia’s Half Day with an imagina-tive spirit and warmth. Suzanne originally studied journalism at the University of Alabama, followed by a master’s at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Before coming to Paideia, Suzanne worked in media rela-tions at the Arthritis Foundation national oﬃce. She worked with celebrity spokespeople and arthritis experts on media tours across the United States. When Suzanne’s children started in Paideia’s Half Day, she began working as a room parent and substitute teacher. Her nostalgia for her own children’s experience in Half Day led her to her second calling — teaching art to Paideia’s youngest students.Juan Acosta: Director of College CounselingLylah Bannister ’20: Half Day Art, Elementary playground specialist and substituteLibby Griﬃth:Junior High Learning Specialist Lucius Jennett: Junior High homebase teacherClara Jurczak:Part-Time 6th Grade Math Teacher and Elementary Math Support Esther Kong: Elementary Permanent Substitute Marianne Lamarche: Junior High Modern Language TeacherLo Pantsari: Half Day Assistant TeacherTia Roper: Band Co-DirectorRebecca Richter ’96: Elementary Assistant Teacher (Grades 4-5)Cullen Sacha: High School Social Studies TeacherLilly Sahs: Elementary Assistant Teacher (Grades 3-4)Michael Walden ’15: Elementary Permanent Substitute (part-time) Melissa Westbrook: Yearbook Teacher and Art of Life School Photography LiaisonSheneka White: Elementary Learning Specialist

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paideiaschool.org/alumni29November 7, 2024 PYPline Happy Hour Join the Alumni Advisory Council (AAC) for a night of drinks, lite bites and networking with fellow alumni highlighting a certain profession. April 25-27, 2025 Alumni Reunion WeekendIn April, we welcome alumni back to campus for a weekend full of reunion festivities, including a barbeque, class parties around Atlanta and a Sunday morning playdate for alumni families.December 27, 2024 Holiday ReunionJoin us for food, drinks, raﬀle prizes and more at the annual holiday reunion to reconnect with old friends. The class with the highest attendance gets a round on us!September 19, 2024 Back to School Night The Alumni Advisory Council (AAC) and the Alumni Parent Council (APC) welcome you back to school to attend classes taught by your favorite Paideia faculty members. Join us for appetizers and drinks before classes commence. March 6, 2025 PEN/PYPline Speaker Series Every spring the Paideia Entrepreneurs Network (PEN) teams up with the alumni PYPline network to bring together stu-dents, parents, alumni, faculty, staﬀ and community partners for a networking reception followed by featured guest speakers in conversation. November 22, 2024 The Great Giveback Join students, faculty and fellow alumni on campus in the service of community. Projects include volunteering at Pi Farm, campus cleanup, recycling and more. February 23, 2025 Black History Month Celebration In February the Black Alumni Organization (BAO), in partnership with the Black Parent Organization (BPO), invites Paideia to come to-gether as a community to celebrate Black History Month with live dance performances and the “On the Come Up” display showcasing Paideia’s Black alumni, faculty and staﬀ.

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ALUMNI ADVISORY COUNCIL (AAC)The Alumni Advisory Council exists to serve and en-gage our alumni community by cultivating a mutually beneﬁcial relationship between Paideia and alumni that reaches far beyond the student experience. The AAC provides opportunities for alumni to remain connected to the school and to one another. We will serve our community by engaging our alumni to strengthen volunteer opportunities, network profes-sionally and provide ﬁnancial support for the school — all while perpetuating a passion for lifelong involve-ment with Paideia. BLACK ALUMNI ORGANIZATION (BAO)The Black Alumni Organization promotes diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the holistic Paideia experience by cultivating relationships between alumni and students for mentorship and professional development while at Paideia and beyond. We uphold the school’s core values of egalitarianism, social responsibility and empathy by creating space for ongoing conversation about the ways in which our diﬀerent backgrounds make our community stronger. Want to get involved? Email blackalumni@paideiaschool.org.LGBTQIA+ ALUMNI ORGANIZATIONThe mission of the LGBTQIA+ Alumni Organization is to create an inclusive and safe space where students, staﬀ, faculty and alumni can gather, network, feel respected and valued, and educate themselves and their community regarding issues surrounding sexuality and gender. Our initial aims are to foster connectivity among alumni and provide pipeline support and mentorship for alumni and students who identify as LGBTQIA+. Want to get involved? Email lgbtqiaalumni@paideiaschool.org. Jimmy Lowe ’04, 2024-25ChairNigel Smith ’15, 2024-25 Vice ChairJonathan Flack ’06Secretary Whitney Brown ’03 Susan Cadrecha ’05 Harlan Eplan ’83 Kali Franklin ’96 Evan Glustrom ’09Lisa Hayes ’91Rob Herrig ’05Andrew Lorber ’00 Analla Reid ’18Amanda Rubin ’13 Monique Robinson ’99 and Danielle Morris ’99Co-ChairsEthan Thomas ’20Chair30

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31“Ambassador Sarah Bianchi ’91 has been a highly valued part of the Biden team for well over a decade, serving in many key roles, including as chair of our Policy Advisory Board here at the Biden Institute,” says Valerie Biden Owens, chair of the Biden Institute. “I join countless others in thanking her for her service.” www.axios.com/2024/01/17/sarah-bianchi-trade-bidenJason Thomas ’96, a Daily Point of Life Award honoree this year, stands out as a beacon of hope and community engagement in Atlanta. His 15-year journey as a volunteer with multiple organizations, including Hands On Atlanta and the King Center, exempliﬁes a deep commit-ment to servant leadership, a value that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself championed. “In 2023 alone, I had the chance to serve 12 diﬀerent organizations in a variety of roles,” Jason shared. “I’ve served in several food pantries, provided pajamas for kids in the foster-care system, worked with youth who have incarcerated parents, provided basic necessities for single mothers, served unhoused men and women, provided administrative support to the King Center, specif-ically recruiting volunteers for the Students with King program and the MLK Week of Service. Regardless of the organization that I serve, I give my all and love every chance that I get to help people.” Julia Quinn ’10 was joyfully married to Alec Kann at her parents’ home in Decatur, Georgia on December 15, 2023. They live in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Julia works as a nurse practitioner in abortion care at Planned Parenthood and Alec is a professional goalkeeper for FC Cincinna-ti. Alec is a 2008 graduate of Lakeside High School and former goalkeeper for Atlanta United. They met at Dark Horse Tavern in Virginia Highlands.Lauryn Adams ’18 writes, “I am making my Broadway debut in ‘The Wiz’! Ever since I was a kid, I’ve tried to imagine this moment in a thousand diﬀerent ways and I’m pinching myself quite literally every day since ﬁnding out this was happening. I have so many people to thank but ﬁrst I want to thank my parents, my brother and my entire family. I owe it all to you guys!”Tommy Davis ’19 recently graduated from Emory University, where he faced career-altering injuries as a young man and leveraged his personal knowledge and a passion for helping others into life-changing experiences in global health. Starting in June 2023, he spent six months in Las Terrenas, on the peninsula of Samaná in the Dominican Republic, for the Peace Villages Foundation. “Going there was a very big switch for me. I was a newfound person, not Tommy from track. I enjoyed stepping into this new life and I have a lot more goals I want to achieve,” Tommy shared. “I am writing a book about the experience, interviewing people and gathering oral history… You can always give more to someone else and it can improve people’s lives in a more meaningful and quicker way.”Still Squeezing TightSarah Bianchi ’91 Jason Thomas ’96Julia Quinn ’10 Lauryn Adams ’18 Tommy Davis ’19

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helping support our belovedcommunityTHE IMPACT OF ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE STEPHANIE BROWN’S “SEESAW”Hands wave in the air in a “Y” shape back and forth, the American sign language for “me too,” a common sign in Paideia’s Elementary School. It’s Friday morning and students in Kristen and Chidike’s class sit in a circle around Stephanie Brown, this year’s Cecelia Caines Artist-in-Residence. Stephanie and the students talk about interactive art, museums they have visited, the construction of her art installation “SEESAW” and what it means to make others feel seen. “What do you feel when you play?” questions Stephanie. “Joy!” one student blurts out. “Fun,” yells anoth-er. “SEESAW” was designed with play in mind, as Stephanie explains: “Conversation in a place of play opens our minds.” Throughout her time at Paideia, Stephanie showed the community how interactive art can help to physically grasp concepts, such as justice and equity, that can sometimes be diﬃcult to under-stand through classroom conversation alone.A photographer and sculpture artist from Tampa, Florida, Stephanie has dedicated her art practice to exploring how people of color construct their identities within the greater context and conﬁnes of racial constructs, systemic racism, the concept of tradition and the global phenomenon of colorism. She serves as Paideia’s second Cecelia Caines Artist-in-Residence.As a member of the Paideia community and a patron of the arts, Cecelia Caines is memorialized in this grant, which allows artists to visit and maintain residency at Paideia. “The purpose of hosting an art-ist-in-residence at Paideia is to help us better understand ourselves as a community,” says Oman Frame, director of the Oﬃce of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. The origins of “SEESAW”In October, “SEESAW” was brought to Paideia’s campus after being featured in the Atlanta Science Gal-lery’s exhibit “JUSTICE.” Stephanie ﬁrst sketched the concept for “SEESAW” in 2019 after she learned from an art collector who worked for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that much of the NIH data wasn’t reaching the communities it should. In December 2022, Stephanie was one of a few artists commissioned to create pieces for the “JUSTICE” exhibit. Using the NIH data, she worked on the physical components of the installation — the seesaws, golden bars and exploratory tables — with her brother, a woodworker and engineer. Each golden bar was 3D-printed, taking eight to nine hours to complete. At the same time, Stephanie collaborated with Emory students to develop technical aspects of the design, using radio frequency identiﬁcation technology and raspberry pi computers.When Oman visited the “JUSTICE” exhibit during summer 2023, “SEESAW” stood out to him. “I knew that I wanted something tactile for this year’s artist-in-residence, something that students had to experi-ence,” remembers Oman. “That’s what blew me away about ‘SEESAW’ — you physically engage with it.”When Oman invited Stephanie to bring ‘SEESAW’ to Paideia, she said, “It was a dream come true! I had dreamed that people would learn from ‘SEESAW,’ but never imagined a school would want it.” In Novem-ber, Stephanie came to Paideia for the High School’s Day of Dialogue and spoke with students about her installation, which oﬀered a preview of her work in January as the artist-in-residence. Helping people get back upBack in Kristen and Chidike’s room, Stephanie speaks with students about their central subject: home. “I heard you all are learning about houseless individuals,” Stephanie inquires. “How do you think society views homeowners versus people who are houseless?” “People treat people without homes terribly,” remarks a girl in the back of the room. “I don’t like that when people go down, we don’t help them back up. It’s way more helpful when you acknowledge them as a person,” she continues. 36• ' 'l1re Weight of Justice:

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37Stephanie nods approvingly, “Absolutely! The beautiful thing we ex-plore in ‘SEESAW’ is that no matter which of the bars you identify with, they are all potential aspects of people because, at the end of the day, we are all people.” For Kristen, it was important for Stephanie to talk with her stu-dents, so they could share their questions after visiting the exhibit. “Identity is a big part of the teaching and learning we do related to our central subject, home,” explains Kristen. “Our students had much to say about the ‘unfairness’ of the imbalances represented by ‘SEESAW’ regarding identities like race and gender, and it was powerful for them to be able to share with Stephanie why they felt that it was unfair. They recognized opportunities for change and saw how they can combat the imbalances that exist within our society.”Stephanie’s work on campus helped many students not only recognize their own identities but also see others’ identities and empathize with them. The physical weight of the bars produced a visceral reaction, “It couldn’t be a photo. It couldn’t just be a video that you watched. You need the experience of holding and feeling that weight. Holding the homeowner bar or the renter bar, students recall their own experience living in a home or seeing someone who is houseless. Connecting these identities to an experience develops a diﬀerent kind of empathy,” explains Stephanie. “It’s one thing to see someone on the street and be like, ‘Oh, that’s sad. They don’t have a house like I do.’ It’s another thing to feel that nothingness or emptiness and think, ‘This is unfair, what can we do?’”In the Art Lobby, Stephanie walks from station to station guiding students from Naimah and Lou’s class through the installation. One group plays with ‘SEESAW,’ comparing the weight of gold bars with labels such as White, Asian, Cisgender, Queer, Houseless and U.S. Citizen. Setting a heavy bar down on the seesaw tips the scale from one side to the other, mirroring the power of our identities. Visiting ‘SEESAW’ with her class was a priority for Naimah because it seamlessly connects with the yearlong race, class and gender curriculum her 8th grade students study. “It’s one thing to read, discuss, watch videos and participate in constructed activities to help reﬂect on these issues. Stephanie’s work allows students to measure their identities, so to speak. They feel the diﬀerence between iden-tities American society has deemed in opposition to one another; therefore, the artwork allows further exploration of their heart space rather than their head space,” says Naimah. Another group works at one of the two exploratory tables, writing their salient identities on a piece of paper that will fold into their own gold bar. At the other exploratory table, a third group answers prompts such as “Dear Lady Justice” and “What does justice look like at Paideia?” Stephanie designed the exploratory tables as a way for people to insert themselves into the work.“Oftentimes, when we are talking about social justice, it’s equally enlightening and frustrating. I wanted people to be able to express that in a healthy way. At a minimum, you can say your piece. At a minimum, you can insert yourself. At a minimum, you can let others know how you feel,” says Stephanie. The goal of the artist-in-residence program is to better understand ourselves as a community. During her month at Paideia, Stephanie challenged us to reﬂect on the identities that are central to who we are — as individuals and as a community — and to think about what justice looks like at Paideia. “Having known Cecelia, she would have loved the installation and its play aspect,” remarks Oman. “To me, Stephanie embodies what Cecilia would have wanted and promoted. Simply stated, she under-stood that this is for kids.”Looking at the Art Lobby wall plastered with notes, it is clear that our community holds varying ideas of what justice looks like, but there is a common theme of respect, listening to others and treating people the way they want to be treated. “I hope that the Paideia community continues to question their reality, consider their feelings around ‘SEESAW’ — good, bad, happy, sad, angry and, in response, have empathy, be better advocates and be more aware of their privilege or lack thereof,” shares Stephanie. Living in accordance with our understanding of justice, we strive to maintain a diverse community where equity and inclusion allow all students, faculty and parents to know they belong.

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Senior HonorsNATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FINALISTSDasha BorodovskayaMaisey BrownQuinn DyerSahil GandhiLily GaoSimeon HartmanKrish LeveilleEmerson MooreGiovanni SilvestriTyler SmithLiam SwinneyINTERNSHIP COMMENDATIONSKate BanksAnna CookBabisha DahalJack JordanLuisa LiebermanNina MulkowskyRowan OxleyMia SidorskiDaniel SommerfeldCOMMUNITY SERVICE AWARDPartage CadetteCharlie CollinsEsteban De AlbaKelsey EilerROBOTICS AWARDNicholas FuenzalidaJOURNALISM AWARDMaisey BrownWalker DunnKrish LeveilleMUSICIAN AWARDOmair FarooquiKensington ManrossENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP AWARD Ari GoodmarkEmerson Moore GOLDEN TIN CUP AWARDRowan OxleyMUSICAL THEATER AWARDCelia ReedOwen VaccaroDRAMA AND FILM AWARDTyler Colby (Film)Stella Roumanis (Drama)YEARBOOK AWARDKate WolfMOCK TRIAL AWARDMaisey BrownAnna ChanceShree KanjiSammy KodishCole WilliamsATHLETES FOR A BETTER WORLD AWARDNiko CarpenterCarolina HardinMARTY HAYS AWARDKate BanksOwen TobiasHEAD OF SCHOOL AWARDSEvie BabcockOmair FarooquiMiles FurmanLily GaoBrodie GrossMercy HilloShree KanjiArianna MerinoMadeline ReynoldsOwen VaccaroJoanna WallackLEADERSHIP AND SERVICE AWARDSKate BanksMaisey BrownCharlie CollinsEsteban De AlbaKelsey EilerThomas GrantKrish Leveille Luisa LiebermanStella RoumanisEva YoungSUSAN EHRHARDT AWARDBabisha DahalAJC CUP AWARDMaia Pope38

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41The Pi Party exceeded its goal, raising more than $300,000 to support ﬁnancial aid. A true commu-nity event, more than 150 Paideia parents, faculty and staﬀ volunteered to make the Pi Party a success. A sub-stantial number of Paideians — 595 — attended the event on March 23 and happily bid on 469 items.A special thanks to our Pi Party co-chairs — Lindsy Haworth, Allie McFarling Horne ’04, Laura Henriquez and Abbie Weeks — and our generous corporate and in-kind sponsors. The co-chairs would also like to thank the members of Paideia Aﬃnity groups, including the Black Parents Organization, Lati-no Parents Group, Paideia Asia Society, Pi Islamic Heri-tage Community, Pi Jewish Parents and Rainbow Pi for their outstanding support of this endeavor. To participate in Pi Party 2025, sign up to volunteer by emailing parentinvolvement@paideiaschool.org. 154 AdvisorsAlston & Bird LLPAnsley Eye CareAnsley Real EstateAon Risk Services, IncApogee Scholarship FundArnall Golden Gregory LLCAtlanta Orthodontic SpecialistsAtlanta Silverbacks ParkAuto-Owners InsuranceBennett GraphicsBoutte Tree, Inc.Campbell & Brannon, LLCCash, Krugler, Fredericks LLCCignaThe Cochran FirmCopper Sky RenovationsCopy CentralCummin Landscape SupplyDecatur Atlanta PrintingDruid Hills Civic AssociationE & E Solutions LLCEnvironmental Service PartnersFulcrum Equity PartnersGlobal PaymentsGreenlight Financial TechnologyGrimes Insurance & Financial ServicesHodges & Hicks General Contractors LLCHolly Witten Designs LLCHumanlyIntown PediatricsJustin A. Critz LLCKeith Adams & Associates LLCThe Language GroupLeapfrog Services Inc.Little Five Points PediatricsThe Meddin CompanyMorningside Pediatric DentistryNicole Davis HomesOakbridge InsuranceOakhurst PediatricsOnePoint Physical TherapyParker MacIntyreProperty WorksPublix Super Markets Charities, Inc.Siegel Insurance and Auto-OwnersStivers SubaruStruby Construction LLCTruistTurning Tide Psychotherapy LLCTwinEngines, Inc.Wallack LawWBL CPA’s and AdvisorsWild Interest PodcastWilliams Benator & Libby LLPThe Yay Company24/7 Moving42 WestAlex Guardia CreativeB10 UnionClassic Tents and EventsFeel Good DesignPullmanTip Top CocktailsTHE PI PARTYour sponsors: In-kind sponsors We Did It!

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4420+ Years of Consecutive GivingAnonymousValerie and David AdamsMartha and George AlexanderPaula AmisYum and Ross ArnoldErin and Ivan AstegheneBeth and Dean AthanassiadesMissy AueDebbie and Jesse AustinMary BallKathy and Ben BarkleyNatalie and Matthew BernsteinEmily Bianchi ’97 and Jon MarkhamMelissa Bianchi ’88 and Manny PastreichBarbara Dunbar and Paul BianchiSarah Bianchi ’91 and Grant VinikLaura Brachman ’76 and Tom PaintingVirginia DerMoushegian and Bob BradenGinny and Charles BrewerVirginia BrickmanIsabelle and Eric BrockBetsy and Gene BrodyJack Bross ’85Tiﬀany BrunnerKristi BuddVance Burgess ’88 and Leigh BurgessDale and Manuel CadrechaLee Thornton Camp ’79Amina Runyan-Shefa Canter ’93 and Chip CanterBob Carr ’80 and Ruth DinkinsJuanita and Allen CarterCatherine Springer and Clark CloydChristine Tryba-Cofrin and David CofrinJimmie Lee and Rich CogburnRandall ConstantineCaroline Ball Cook ’86 and Justin CookJulia Cooksey ’94 and José CorderoCarolyn Cooley ’87Renda and Matt CornickFlo Henry and Field CoxeMary Lynn and Joseph CullenAmy Durrell and Russell CurreyLynne and Lee DavisJeﬀ Dean ’86 and Heidi HopperSally and Peter DeanSarah Dean ’99Jeannette Guarner and Carlos del RioLiz and Sam DeSimoneWilliam DeWoskinNancy and Richard DoernbergJoan and Robbie DoksonAlice and Art DombySally DornBethea Finley Dowling ’77 and Michael DowlingJesica Matthews Eames ’89 and Brian Eames ’88Donna and Steve EllwoodKatrina Kropa ’90 and Eric Emmons ’92Jana Eplan ’81 and Craig FrankelLinda and Glen EpsteinDorothy Craft Evans and Todd EvansKathleen and Ron EverettGail and Jay FarrisBen Feinstein ’97 and Morgan FeinsteinKrista Brewer and Gary FlackTammie Quest and Robert ForbesRebecca Foster ’88Sarah Domby Gatenby ’98 and Jordan GatenbyDeborah and Louis GayCarol and Larry GellerstedtAlice and Stephen GertzmanDarren Glass ’93Philanthropic support for Paideia helps us live out our core values each and every day. Be it through annual giving, capital support for building projects or bolstering our endowment, the following donors supported Paideia with a gift in the 2023-24 scal year. We would also like to highlight our Proudly Paideia members who have hit important milestones in years of consecutive giving.

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45Pam and Bobby GlustromLisa and Rick GoldsteinSara and John GreeneLaura and Dana HardyLinda Judson and Jim HarrisonTilly Hatcher ’94 and Dave FergemannBonnie and Paul HaywardEddy HernandezJohn Herrmann ’79 and Leanne HerrmannBirgitta HerronMary Kay and Dennis HertleinJennifer HillDianne and Paul HiltmanMarianne and John HinesMelinda Cooper Holladay and Phil HolladayKaren and Mark HolzbergLaura and Joe IarocciNancy and Steve IsomSusan Cozzens and Juan JewellBobbi Cleveland and Stan JonesMarilyn and Steve KaszynskiHeidi and Jody KleinJudy and Leslie KlempererVladimir Kleyman ’98 and Tanya KleymanPatty and Kevin LaGreeHelen and Scott LaseterJean Shaw Leitner ’77 and Stephen LeitnerDebra Brand and Angel LeonDeane LeonardJennie Saliers and Bill LevisayBarbara LevitasKarin Levitas ’77 and Bob EenJenny and Mark LingCortney Lollar ’93 and Josh BarnetteJoyce Bihary and Jon LoweAlison Doernberg Marcell ’95 and Mary MarcellLaura MartinBruce MatherCraig MatthewsBecca and Dan McCauleyCaroline Ahmann ’85 and Matt McCoyd ’84Ginna and Mac McFarlingSheryl and Stuart MeddinJane Lowe Meisel ’00 and Jonathan MeiselAudrey and Seth MellenMaggie MerminLuanne and Keene MillerKim Serravezza ’86 and David Millians ’84Emily Millians ’87Fran MilliansSusan Kupferberg and Richard MitchellPatricia Moore ’91 and Bruce JungHeather Fenton and Richard OssoﬀAdrianne Fisher and Jonathan PetrashMargaret and John PetreyJo PichulikLinda Hilsenrad and Jonathan PierceJim RadfordRosalinda and Don RatajczakDara Simmons and Earnie RedwineMary Laney Reilly and Wendell ReillyLauren Roberts ’97Cynda and Carl RosenbaumAndy and Glen SarvadyDebra and Karl SaxeJudy Schwarz and Hugh SaxonRandi Engel Schnell and Scott SchnellJanet and Ira SchwartzLaura and Liam ShannonCharlotte and Tom ShieldsMandy Burr Shue ’81 and Tom ShueMary Anne Walser and Jimmy SmithEllen Hauck and Markham SmithBonnie SparlingZan McBride-Spence and Stan SpenceColeen Boyle and Randy StanczykThrower StarrDebbie Brown and Michael Stevens (d)Michele StewartCaroline Quillian Stubbs and John StubbsAmanda Styles ’96 and Megan SwettJennifer Swift ’88 and David BuséBill ThomasPaul Vandenberg ’01Alexis Wagner Scarminach ’02Chris Mitchell and Chris WagnerCharlotte and David WalbertMelissa WaldenMelissa WalkerAnna WatkinsMargaret and Jonathan WeissSusan and Terrell WeitmanJane Cronin and Sam WethernDeborah Maslia and J. Paul Whitehead IIIMelissa WilbornPatti WillardField Willingham ’88 and Beth WillinghamStacey WinstonRobert Wittenstein ’76 and Susan WittensteinBarbara and John WredeHeidi Glick and Uri WurtzelEllen and John YatesNoelle York-Simmons ’95 and Kevin York-SimmonsCharles Zimmer ’02 and Steﬃ Gom-ZimmerJennifer Howard and Jon Zimring20 Years of Consecutive GivingLynn and Tim BaxterSarah Martin Constantine ’04 and Derek Constantine ’03Wendy Kaye and Richard EhrenbergBlair Cumming Falivene ’00 and Chase FaliveneMartha FosterMichele and Ben GarrenJen and Bill GravesEllen and John GrimesMelissa McKay-Hagan and Tim HaganMary and Dan HinkelChristian HoudréSusan Levitas ’79 and Jake SchwartzBrandi and Brian MeeksJoey Metzloﬀ ’98 and Kimberly MetzloﬀAllyson and Robert SmithPenya Sandor and Eric TaubChris Walbert ’00Abby Shefer and Don WalterSally Ashe Wood ’96 and Scott Wood15 Years of Consecutive GivingOgerta and Artan AgolliVivian and John BencichSally Brockington ’94 and Ed Van NessZoe BrownSusie Fiorello and Greg BucciMadeline and Jim BurgessDianne BushJoJo Cadray ’99 and Leah Rebekah CadrayLenore CarrollSharon Zealey and Huiling ChenKatie Nall Clark ’04Monika Nikore and Bryan ConleyRobin and Justin CritzJan and Keith CroﬀordJim Crooks ’94 and Kristy CrooksNed Dannenberg ’05Maureen Zent and Tom DavisCheryl Eschbach and John DuﬃeldSarah and Scott EllysonJanet EmersonElise Eplan ’78 and Bob MarcovitchHarlan Eplan ’83 and Jen DenboErin Freeman ’91 and Drew CahoonPatricia and Robert FriedmanKathryn and Russ FurmanStacey and Mitch GallantLily Walden Givens ’08Daniel Glasser ’98Leigh Ann Allen and Ryan GuthrieEleanor HandHolly and Will HazletonKaren HegtvedtBetsy Morris and John HelyarWill Hiltman ’08Lori Kimsey Hobson and Andrew HobsonBarbara and Ted HoepnerMary Beth and Richard HolcombElizabeth and Michael IademarcoLynn Russell and Donna InksterMarcia JacobsKay and Steve JacobsenLinda and Jonathan KaplanAmy Carter and Jay KellyAnne Thayne Kott ’02David KruglerJuliet Hastings and Dan LondonJane and Bob LongAndy Lorber ’00 and Josephine NordHeather and Andrew MargolisChristina Forte Meddin ’04 and Shea Meddin ’04Sara Miller ’08Danielle Moore and Pat MirandaDana and Farzad NahaiLiz and Scott NesbitKathryn Honderd O’Day ’01 and Kyle O’DayMarie Tenaglia and Brian OlasovLeslye Howell Pace ’89 and Giovanni PaceLaura McDuﬃe Paul ’00 and David Paul ’00Kathleen Parker Presswala ’98 and Shak PresswalaBob ReedMolly Canﬁeld ’04 and Gray Reilly ’04Lizzie Morgan ’08 and Jamie Reilly ’07Molly Reilly ’10Deirdre and Tom ReillyLynn Goldowski and Sam SchwartzSidney Barr and Larry SperlingMarilyn Fish and Bill StiefelJennifer and Andre VeraniRachel Alterman Wallack and Sandy WallackMargaret and John WillinghamJon Wilson ’80Katelyn Wiltsee ’98 and Christopher GrakalAllison and Phil Wise10 Years of Consecutive GivingMaria and Wayne AaronCheri and James AbrahamTerri Lawson-Adams and Keith AdamsElizabeth and Mark AlexanderHailey Alm ’09Lacey and Jamie Andersen

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46Blake and Robbie AsheBruce BaberKimberly Broerman and Michael BaccariniDena DeCola and Star BarryTara and Matthew BarteltDara Steele-Belkin and Jeﬀ BelkinMartha and Barry BerlinLiza Gellerstedt Berngartt ’03 and David BerngarttJulia and James BerryMaya and CK BhatiaClaudia and Jim BilottoWhitney Staed and Tomas BjonnessBarry Golivesky and Daniel BloomNancy Maignan and Van BrownKellie and David BruceChristina Cadrecha ’03 and Doug MillerNicole and Che CalixLaurie and Bill CampbellSharon and Bill CampbellElizabeth and Guillermo CastroSujata and Nikhil ChananiHellena Moon and Elbert ChunKim and Chip CollinsKaren and Kevin ColtonKatherine Granish Conlon ’99 and Shaun ConlonAnn and Frank CritzJanet and Jim CummingAlexis and Will CutchinsBrandon Darrow ’91 and Kim DarrowKristen and Jess DavisMarianne DeHaanAri DeSimone ’06Katherine DingleLaura DollarSusie Trotochaud and Scott DorfmanMindy Duryea and Sandy DraperJane Goehring and Dan DurellBonnie DykesBetty and Bob EdgePhilippa and Burrell EllisJennifer Sproul English ’79 and Larry EnglishSarah Schiﬀ and John FavierNancy and Jay FinneganKathryn and Brad FriedlanderWick and Gardiner GarrardMiriam and Andrew GeryolGabriella Gonzalez-Smith ’09Erin and Brad GranerBill GravesBrittany and Justin GriswoldLauri Hicks and Michael GrupkaColette and Miles HallElisa Herrera and Travis HancockJennifer Casarella and Timothy HanesMarie and Jamie HarperKelly Douglas ’02 and Todd Harris ’97John Iannini and Tony HelmsRenee and Maurice HoeltingTracy Vettese and Julie HollbergJeﬀrey Holzberg ’03 and Elisa CastroAllie McFarling Horne ’04 and Brandon HorneChloé Houdré ’11Cindy and Scott ImlayJason JoﬀeJill and Allison JohnsonLauren Weitman Jonker ’95 and Dylan JonkerNancy and John JordakKeegan Kelley ’97Deana KingsburyLori Leland and David KirkShenia Kirkland MaddenMiranda Roth Knowles ’00Vickie Jory LeCroy ’77 and John LeCroyTai Yi Su and Scott LeslieDana Scharbo Lieberman ’88 and Josh LiebermanJimmy Lowe ’04 and Lynn LoweKirsty Lubicz-NawrockaBeth Mynatt and Blair MacIntyreLaura and Luca MagnaniniJo Morton and Deborah McAfeeMaggie McClatchey ’94 and Carl McClatchey ’92Catherine and Douglas McFarlandRonnie McKnightJoy Lewis-Mendez and Alberto MendezMichael Mermin ’85William Miller ’12Kathy Shands and Joe MulinareTaylor Nall ’99Norris and Phillip NelsonTami OliverAnnie PerryDavid Pierce ’01Leslie and Hunter PiersonJudy and Mike PleckoMaria Young Price ’90Margaret Ferguson Quinn ’02 and Anton QuinnJudy and Tony RagunasGretchen Colon and Ivan RioboPam Sugarman and Tom RosenbergEllen and Guido SacchiStephanie Maﬀett and Sanford SalzingerLee and Paul SchmidtNancy Field and Michael SchulderLaura Dickerman and William SewardAudrey Shields-Cloues ’03 and Dustin Shields-Cloues ’03Nisha and Jabari SimamaJanine Brown and Alex SimmonsErin Smith ’03 and Rich PaterMadison Smith ’15Jessie Starke ’04Meghan Stewart ’96 and Chas OﬀuttBeth and Edward SugarmanTracey Hogan and Santiago VanegasNeda and Chad VarnerBecki and Jim VealArminda Roman and Alfredo VisosoMike Walbert ’03 and Aimee Kahn-FossSuzanne and Jim WalkerKathy WashingtonJaime Sherman Wender ’93 and David WenderHolly WhiteJanet and Scott WillFive Years of Consecutive GivingWalter AilesTricia AnbinderKim and Kevin AppletonHolly Greene and Aravind ArepallyAnne and Daniel ArwoodScott AskinsAnne AverettErinn and Jason BariteauBeth and Tim BarryLisa Caucci and Ginny BartonDanielle and Corey BeckAdam Beskind ’16Smitha and Tanny BhandariGinger BirdseyDiana BlankJennifer and JC BoyantonTanya and Spurgeon BriggsJoan and Bud BroemanMichael Bryant ’00 and Carolina BryantSadie Burbank ’08Darlene and Tom CappelloMel Lockhart and Jon CarrCandy CasarellaArefa and Murty CassoobhoyRita Nahta and Craig CastellinoNatalie and Sergio CastillejosElizabeth Tanis and John ChandlerShilpa and Sundeep ChaudhryPete CiaschiniElisabeth CopelandJennifer CoxSonya Ko and Mike CrowleySydney DalyLynda Maraia and John DameronDani Hirsch and Rodrigo Dantas e SilvaJanice and Dave DarlingEmily Schreck Davis ’06 and Ben Davis ’06Susan Primo-Davis and Roosevelt DavisElliot Dennis ’17Josephine Malilay and Frank DeStefanoAlexis and Ethan DevineKate and Gavin DrummondCarol DwyerSarah and Derek EilerJenn Mathews and Michael ElliottTerri and Mike EmeryJohn Evans ’98Tara and Shaun EvansStephanie FeinmanArnold FeinsteinKimmy Pham and Eric FergusonNicole and Brandon FordeOman Frame ’91 and Naimah Oladuwa-FrameLeah Epstein and Jason FreemanPaige and Stacy FreemanZaida and Jorge FuenzalidaCathy and Kenny FunderburkeHelaine Woodroof and Stacy FunderburkeKathie and Mark GannonXiuhua Lu and Harry GaoFlo Scarfone and Rod Garcia EscuderoKimberly and Scott GarrettJan GegaxAnn and Gordon GelfondSandra and Michael GenoveseEvan Glustrom ’09Erika White Gonzalez ’88 and Brian SmithBarb and Larry GreyPatricia and Larry GriggsKristy McDonald-Grimm and Bennett GrimmErika Reed-Gross and Chip GrossTracye Miller and Jeﬀ HammerstromRyan Harbin ’03Allegra Lawrence-Hardy and Tim HardyPeter Harrell ’98 and Meryl HarrellRebecca Baggett and Moshe HaspelAndrew Haworth ’01 and Lindsy HaworthCarol HayesLisa Hayes ’91Kaela HendersonAlan Herrmann ’80 and Anita HerrmannPreeti Jaggi and Craig HofmeisterShirley and Bill HollbergJulia and Lea HollidayCatherine and Sean HoughStacey and Bruce HowardRosa and Daniel HuntXiaomei Gu and Dinh HuynhAnna Iademarco ’16

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47Nicola Iademarco ’16Nancy and Doug JamesTally and Brad JohnsonTene’ JohnsonKorri Ellis and Thad JohnsonMelissa and Alex JordanMary Beth and Ben JordanStephanie Millet and Kevin KakarekaAmelia Kane-Hester ’07Shelley and Dennis KimDena and Josh KimballNatalie and Jeﬀ KirshDrew KiseMarsha and Mark KozinnMegan and Dan KurziusEdna LambertMystic and Scott LandriganKarl Langberg ’05Mona and Bob LeveilleStephanie Yap and Robert LiuJennifer MarshallBrooke MartyDarolyn and Johnny McConnellLisa and Chris McIlvoyKathleen McKeon ’00Jessalyn and Kevin MeeksGail and Michael MeiselDe’Andria Griggs and John MooreMartha and Leighton MooreScott MorrisLena and Richard MurphyMary and Fred NewmanLeslie and John O’KellyAnne and Lee OstroﬀSusmita and Umesh ParasharLynn PattersonPam and Mark PearsonKris PintoMary and Danny PuckettLindsay ReidNatalie and Michael RogovinElizabeth and Matthew RoseMaureen Meulen and Adam RosenfeltBeth and Christopher SchildKara and Marc SerranoTess and Scotto SeydelAnand Shah ’97 and Kim ShahLillania and Nandu ShahGabby and Thad SheelyVictoria Silva ’20Margo and John SimmonsBetsy and Ted SimonEmily Sweitzer and Perry SmithHughes Evans and Eric SorscherSri Edupuganti and Gautam SreeramElizabeth StoneMatt Stroup ’96 and Lucy StroupHazel and Neil StrubyMeredith and Neil StrubyIndia Stubbs ’11Magdalena Tulibacka and Russ TaylorEmily Prince Thomason ’06Chrissy and Lowell ThompsonSarah and Michael ThompsonCarly and Aaron TopolMyDung and Thang TranPamela Bhatti and Srini TridandapaniAmy and Kris ValkPeggy WeissRashidah Bowen White ’00Billie Anne WilliamsLauren and Jeﬀ WilliamsJane Winﬁeld ’02 and Kyle HosierKatie Woolf ’99Amy WrightYuri and Daniel WuJonny Yeargers ’84Two Years of Consecutive GivingCarolyn and Robert AbramsStacey AbramsAntonjo AgolliLakshmi Chennareddi and Rama AmaraJan AndrewsJen Kim and Josh ArmentroutRachel Blaustein and Alex ArnoldKate Athanassiades ’16Ann AustinLori and Lyle Austin-CruseRamagopala AvutuBlaine Sergew and Fekade AytagedSherry Boston and Ed BainesAllison Bridges and Rod BarﬁeldVirginia Hepner and Malcolm BarnesVanessa and Billy BarronKevin BazelNina and Rick BeatoClaire and Bryan BenedictRobyn and Todd BethanyLeena BhatiaMarjorie and Doug BlackwellMuﬀy Blue ’79 and Stefan RitterBecky Blumenthal ’91Katie and Jesse BockstedtBaker BongiovanniCheryl BourneJessa and Tierson BoutteMichele Frost and K.C. BoyceJodi and Jeﬀrey BradleyWilliam Bradley ’88 and Jill Ann PonasikClaire Douglas-Bradshaw and Mark BradshawMary and Frank BrannonPeggy and Paul BrockingtonMarni and Casey BrownKristy and Michael BrownWhitney Brown ’03Elyse Weitman Bryson ’93 and Bill BrysonJonathan BurkeMery ButlerSusan Cadrecha ’05 and Gareth EvansUrsula CarterStephanie Borer and Lou CasillasShayna Gross and Alfonso CastroBrian CayceKeller Johnson Champetier ’04Ben Chandler ’99Hiatt Baker and Bassam ChaptiniNicole and Alan ChengJohn Chihade ’95 and E-Chia ChihadeYoung and Charles ChungMegan Joiner and Anthony ClarkKaren Cleveland ’97Cathy and David CloseTrisha and Chris CoadEmily and Kevin CoﬀeyDiana and Bryon ColbyMelanie and Rob ColeKim Kleiber and Jim ColeyJack Collins ’23Barbara and Rick CollinsAileene ColonTamara and Michael ConnorAnthony ContrerasSadia and Alan CoreyCheryl and Andy CornwellHeidi Hill and Matt CrenshawAudrey and Jeremy CritzJanet and Steve CywilkoMelanie and Alexis d’AmecourtAshley DanielSarah Smith ’07 and Luke Darch ’07Eleanor and George DavisSheryl Myers and John DavisKyle Davis ’08Zainab and Aneel DelawallaYasmin DelawallaMary Dott and Scott DePlontyDennis DiamondFelicia DixonAdam Domby ’02Emma Domby ’06Kristy and Andrew DonaldsonPatrick DoughertyElizabeth and Trent DouglasKris and Jerry DoyleCaroline DriebeBritt Dunn ’96Anne and Kevin DunnSusan Bailey and Lloyd DunnDorothy EdwardsTiﬀany Cochran Edwards and Jay EdwardsKate Benson and Michael EdwardsMaria Da Silva and Augusto EliasEdie and Ken ElkinsonJanice and Marty ElkinsonHannah Ellwood ’06Nat Emerson ’99Bri and Kevin ErwinJillian EugeneOlive EvansAudrey and James FarquharsonAmy Greiner Fehl ’93 and Peter FehlDeven Greene and Ingi FengerCatarina and Alberto FernandesMandy and Adrian FinchJustine Rubin and Robin FinchJonathan Flack ’06 and Ashley HedgesCaroline and Tracey FoosheeKali Franklin ’96Carmela and Joseph FrattasiKatie McLennan and Adam FrenchJudi and Mike FrenchMarta Kedu and Michael FretwellDeirdre and Ryan FruhLilly Lin and Andrew FuAlberto Fuentes and Kimmie PringleBeverly and Jon FullerJack FurmanErin and Roger Fuse BrownKaren and Alvin FuseMolly Carter Gaines and Jeﬀ GainesBronwen and David GarnerMary and Kirk GarnerAdria Waldbart and Allen GarrettSamara Minkin and Trent GegaxOrietta and Raif GehaLawrence Gellerstedt ’02 and Jessie LapointeJoan and Eric GershonNeena and John GhoseSonya and Vernon GibsonRudy GilbertMelissa and Chris GloverDavid Glustrom ’06Kevin Goldberg ’99

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48Angel and Aaron GoldmanTina and James GoochJames GoochValeda Dent and Geoﬀ GoodmanJohnna and Craig GoodmarkGeetha and Raghu GrandhigeLinda and Gavin GrantRidgely and Eric GreenKim and Jason GreenDerek Mize and Jonny GreggAnita and Charlie GreinerKelly Griendling ’01 and Daniel CookseyNatalie Turner and Edie GriﬃnAngela and Bob GrossGayle and Howard GrossKelli and Jamie HadﬁeldJessica and Chad HalesDel and Rich Halstead-NusslochSusi Smith Harbutt ’04 and Chris Harbutt ’02Janet Harman ’79 and Cesar BauvalletAllison and Brad HarperElisa HarrisonSunya Sweeney and John HarrisonBrittany and Matthew HartnettChristine Kempton and Donald HarveyMaggie Hatcher ’94 and Michael DeweyChowning HawkinsJonellen and Lou HecklerJohanna Chapin and Steven HecklerClaire and Matt HegartyDerrick Hegmon ’79Susan Maloney and Alden HendersonLaura and Oswaldo HenriquezDani Fallin Herfel and Chris HerfelShari HerzbergJennifer and Chris HigginsLindsay and Phil HillLeila and Gerald HolmannNathan HorneJJ Wu and Henry HouNan HuebnerClaire Marie and Will HuﬀOllie Green and Dave HughesZahara and Bahredin IbrahimNdidi IkeLauren Struck and Craig JabaleyAli and Travis JamesAnneMarie and Aaron JeﬀriesDiana and Drew JohnstonTom JurczakJen and Jay KahlonDolly Rajamannar-Kakarala and Raghu KakaralaDeepta Ghate and Sachin KedarBronwyn Kelley ’07Caitlin Kelley ’01Paulina Rebolledo and Russell KempkerMeseret Beza and Mureja KeragaLeslie and Bill KingBill King ’03Michael Kingsley ’01Jaclyn and Kyle KinsellJoanna and Andrew KobylivkerElisa and Thad KodishJackie and Michael KraftHelen KrishnaIris and Nevin KrishnaRohini and Ashish KukrejaJesse Kuniansky-Altman ’96 and Ashley EdwardsClare Latham ’04 and Alex GuineyDavid Lee ’92Sarah Debrey and David LeFevreAmani and Lionel LegagneurAnn and Richard LeibovitzChad Lennon ’04 and Samantha LennonKit and Cesar LeViedoPatricia Wheeler and Larry LevinJean and Hal LewisCora and George LimaKristal and David LitchﬁeldKate Koplan and Gregg LittleSonya Haw and Wes LonghoferDorothy LoveAnna Jimenez Lyle and Tyler LyleAnnapurna Valluri and Anant MadabhushiEbonee Mahone-TodmanMonika and John MajorsZahra Kassam and Sulaiman MamdaniRosalind ManceAmy ManlapasAshley and Rich ManrossKim MansionSusan and Jeﬀ MapenKeri Powell and Dan MarksJesse MarshburnCara Frattasi and Winn MartinDale Mason CochranSarah Dougherty and Pablo McCandlessCarolyn and Neal McCarthyDan McConaughey ’77Marian McDonaldColleen McGheeElsie McLauglinAnita Aysola and Dhanu MelethKuei and Frank MillenJennifer and Aaron MillerDuncan MillerMarsha MillerSamantha Rein and Scott MillerMary Anne and Spencer MitchemNancy MizeElena Dolmatova and Kasra MoazzamiFranklynn and Brooks MooreAlex Morgan ’00Rebecca Polinsky and Gabe MozesShweta and Neeraj NagpalTiﬀany NelsonAnh Ha and Son NguyenKendall O’Connor-TappanMarla and Steven OstroﬀJessie Paddock ’03Heidi Hayward Padovano ’86Tammy and Cindy Parish-LetteerMaria Polyakova and Matteo PasettiChhaya and Amit PatelJessica and Ade PattonAlex and Tom PearsonSusan PercySuzanne and Jim PetersonMandi PinaEllen Arnovitz and Michael PlaskerPreethi Rao and Shanker PolsaniSharon and Adrian PowellHarriet and Tom QuinnLisa Tadayon and Fred Rahbari OskouiSelvi and Suresh RamalingamChristina and Sebastian RandLaura and Mark RebillotDorothy and Mike RebillotDonna and Dan ReedRobin and Roy ReeseLeslie and Randy ReevesAnalla Reid ’18Ingrid ReinhardStephanie and Stuart ResnickJennifer Ide and Matt ReynoldsNedra RhoneKetra RiceRebecca Richter ’96Maya Atassi and Brad RitchieJeniﬀer and Cornelius RobertsAndrea Doneﬀ and Richard RobisonPearlann Arnovitz and Andrew RosenzweigMaryann and George RoumanisVivian Kremer and Robert RudeenKristine and David RudolphMargaret and Doug RussackOrsella and Chris RussellSonia and Mo SabnaniSabrina Kwon and Mustufa SalehbhaiBeth and Ross SchiavoJulia Schiﬀ ’06Nancy and Richard SchrockThea Delage and Aaron SchwartzJoan and Alan SchwartzSurya and Jeﬀ SchwartzMichael SchwartzLynne and Eric SegallJill SeglieZhanna and Scott SeglieSabrina and Scott SeraﬁnShama and Chirag ShahBhagya Sannananja and Hardik ShahJennifer Hsia and Waqas ShaikhAbby Shannon ’17Fiona ShannonOlivia ShannonLisa and Michael ShapiroMargaret and James SheldonJennifer Simon and Jim ShilkettJudith SigmanHayley and Kurt SimmonsCatherine SimpsonKaryn SkiathitisBrandon Smith ’97 and Abby SmithJessica Lima Smith ’99Nigel Smith ’15Parker Smith ’04Sabrina and Ramsey SmithTheia and Reggie SmithTaylor Smith ’03Elizabeth and Larry SommerfeldPhu-Tho Le Srikanchana ’03Cindy and Jeﬀ StempleCristina and Will StevensonGeorge Stubbs ’07Jeanie Park and John SuhEdward Sustman ’00Peggy and Caesar SweitzerKelley Bobo and Mike SwinneySonja and Weining TangCandice TateSara Fanucchi and Tom TaylorMaanasa and Mehul TejaniSiena Tetali ’16Corie and Anuj TewariEthan Thomas ’20Leah and Jason ThomasRoshan George and Sherine ThomasKen Thompson ’84Maurine and Bob TobinCatherine and Ethan TolbertAnne and Jim ToppleDominique Turner ’16Laura Hollengreen and Douglas UlmerMark Vandenberg ’12Jac Schaeﬀer and Jake Vaughan

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49Michael Vinson ’03 and Todd KaneKatarina Johnson and Paul VranicarConnie WaiteDavid Walbert ’97Christina and Chris WarburtonChrissy and Eric WeeksAbbie and Rob WeeksSuzannah Gill and Andrew WellsKatie and Matt WernerCindi and Dave WilliamsToye and Jeryl WilliamsKaren WilliamsRebecca Williams ’02 and Ross Williams ’01Anjali and Dan WilliamsonMary WillinghamTatum and Thomas WingﬁeldRand WiseHolly and Doug WittenNicole Tague and Jerry WuLi Zhang and Andy XuNatalie and David YassonWilson YorkEun-Sil and Ray YuWe also want to recognize the following donors who may not have hit a Proudly Paideia milestone, but made Paideia a giving priority: AnonymousGenna Panagopoulos and Waqas AbbasiDaniel Adamson ’94Vicki and Richard AdelsonAnil AdyanthayaTiti AgolliMartin Aguilera ’96Joe AikinsLeanna Ampola and Jim AinsworthCandace Perez and Jason AllenRachael AllenZack AllenBob AltmanCandace AndersonLiz and Steve AndersonKate Wagner Antman ’99 and David Antman ’00Gretchen and Scott AsherAlexandra and Carl BaileyRyan Baker ’96Marci BallKate Banks ’24Soﬁa Chaudhary and Azim BarodawalaApril BartlettMadhuri and Sridhar BasavarajuClaus Baxter ’24Blair and Zack BeasleyLeigh and Bruce BennettAlice Berry ’10Connie and John BlendDasha Borodovskaya ’24Matt Bracewell ’99Nancy Aitcheson and Patrick BredehoftJulie BrooksElaine BrownMaisey Brown ’24Lisa and Marijn BrummerMadelynn BrundageMary Hart Bryan ’90Elizabeth Bryant ’87 and John McFarlandJeri ByromSherilyn and Brian CalhounKevin CampbellJohn CaputeNicole CaradonaJustin Carr ’95 and Kailei CarrDavid Chalmers ’19Rebecca and Henry ChalmersMiguel ChristiePaul ClementSandra ClementBilly Cleveland ’01 and Angie ClevelandNikki and Adam CohnCharlie Collins ’24Hunter Collins ’20Leslie and Jeremy CollinsJack Colton ’19Sam Colton ’21Linda and Jerry ConnorAnna Cook ’24Charlsie and Ralph CookMary CoxJenny and Dick CrossSue and Jim CunninghamBeena and Lila DahalBen Dameron ’19Kelsey DardenNicole Davis ’99Isaiah DayThe Estate of Christina Del Piero ’75Angela and Ivan DeQuesadaDrew Derrico ’15Amity and Brent DeyRebecca Saxon Dey ’05Suzanne and Dan DinurMary Frances Callis and Oliver DroseElizabeth Duﬃeld ’12Walker Dunn ’24Catherine Dwyer ’24Barbara and Chris DyrdaAlison and Mike EberKelsey Eiler ’24Ryan Eiler ’22Katie and Josh EisenbergEmily and Rob EllisOscar EmeryTamir Eplan-Frankel ’16Aaren Evans ’20Jesse Evans ’95 and Lalah EvansCaroline and John EvansElizabeth FaistDonna and Gordon FalesMagdelina and Andrew FalkBeth Seelig and Michael FanucchiDuriya and Khurram FarooquiOmair Farooqui ’24Jennifer Farris ’12Stacey FedewaOcie Fehl ’24Gwendolyn FerrellRobin and Ben FinkRuby Forde ’20Pam and Kier FreemanNicholas Fuenzalida ’24Andra London and Joel FullertonMiles Furman ’24Jason Furst ’07Sahil Gandhi ’24Lily Gao ’24Grace GarrettJada GarrettBeth and Bryan GartmanHattie and Randy GelhausenJustine Germain ’24Barbara Stoll and Roger GlassAlice Goddard ’18Juliet Asher and Michael GoldenLela GomesAri Goodmark ’24Brittney and Matt GoveAnjali and Hemanth GrandhigeFelix Graves ’24Sherry and George GravesChloe Greene ’24Wendy and Damon GreeneKemi and Rory GriﬃnLeslie and Beto GuajardoDella and Theo GuidryGreg Guynes ’82 and Karen GuynesCeCe HagedornBersi Gebremariam and Benyam HailemariamMcKinley Hales ’24Tana and Kathy HallAnna and John HammondJames HamrickHannah and Dan HanlonJill HansonCarolina Hardin ’24Cole Harper ’24Rosiland and Meyer HarringtonNicole Harris ’99Kitty and Dave HartmanEleanor Hatcher ’91Debbie and Jimmy HaverstickLaura Burrows Haviland ’99 and Eric HavilandDaniel Haworth ’94Karen HazelAdele and Marshall HernandezKelley Bagby Hibberd ’94 and Bradley HibberdGabriela Atsepoyi and Brent HillPeggy and Howard HillJennifer Rasmussen and Mohamed HimedanTrish and Jonathan HodgmanForrest Holcomb ’24Patricia HomsackOlivia James ’24Lata Reddy and Suneal JannapureddyRosie JardinaMarion Carter and Kipton JensenJin Fu and Nathan JerpeDanielle and Eddie JohnsonDona and Hal JohnsonBrittany JonesTisha JonesJoe Jordak ’22Katherine Jordak ’17Sarah Jordak ’19Jack Jordan ’24Nicole and John JordanSally and Raines JordanToria Justicz ’10Andi KaufmanCraig Kennedy ’88 and Urmila RaghavanKarol and James KimmellCarol and Chris KirkseyNancy and Doug KnightEthel and John KnoxSammy Kodish ’24Brian LaRossa ’97Maureen and Ralph LaRossaRob Larsen ’02Christine and Thomas LawleyLinda Kondilis and Simon LeeCarla and Sunny LeeSue and Thomas LeFevre

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50Jo LesniakKrish Leveille ’24Ray LeveilleKaren and Mark LiebermanRenee and Mitchell LoganMichael London ’24Tracy Steen and Robert LongHannah Loonsk ’12Henry Lopez ’24Justin Lowery ’01Hellen He and Jinying LuoTiﬀany and Jed MangalElvira MannellyRayne Marcus ’94Rhoda and Stephen MargolisAlynn and Alex MartinezJenny and Nathan MascaroMashadi MatabaneEmily Mather ’89 and Kirk GravesNatali Thompson Mayo ’94Liam McCarthy ’24Sam McGhee ’24Marylon McGinnisAlice McIlvoy ’24Matt McIntyreDanielle Joiner McPherson and Mark McPhersonLinda MeirJohn Mellen ’15Kamy MerithewJennifer Middleton ’06Baikal Miller ’24Louise and Joe MillerJoy and Dwight MontagueEmerson Moore ’24Araceli Hernández and Antonio MorenoLou Anne MossMaria Arbatskaya and Kaushik MukhopadhayaLiza and Vincent MulkowskyAhelam NaserAli NathansonTyhuna NelsonKathryn and Drew NewmanJoselyn NorthropSawyer Northrop ’24Nancy and Willard NorthropEmily Sharkey and James OngKatie and Alex OrrRowan Oxley ’24Tam Parker ’82Kaila Pearson ’24Lauren and Jay PelissierBG and Rob PepperJim Peterson ’14Prinz PinakattMaia Pope ’24Liz Post ’09Andrew Preyer ’24Amanda and Justin PreyerSharon and Kent QuinnLisa and Jared RacineJoe Ramsey ’84 and Devra RamseySujatha and Mohan ReddyGinny Renjilian ’15Roberto Reyes-LujanJenny RhodesDeborah and Joseph RichardsonVicki and Joe RiedelSasha Robbins ’24David Robinson DwyerDJ RoedgerSandra RojasMarley RosenzweigBenita RoumanisKeith Royston ’88 and Holly RoystonJenna Rubin ’07Nancy and Steve RudyMeisa and Khalid SalaitaAmber and Andrew SalisburyBarbara SampleJocelyn Sarvady ’11Tamar Saxe Robinson ’00Karen SchlangerMatthew Schnell ’18Annie Schwartz ’24Molly Schwartz ’14Kaitlyn O’Shaughnessy and Jim SelzerNitya and Neal ShahKatrina Mather Sherman ’86 and Steve ShermanSara Dolores ShugertAron Siegelson ’10Mara and Brian SilverGiovanni Silvestri ’24Camryn Simpson ’24Charlie SimpsonErika SinhaSasha Smith ’24Katy and Adrian SoDorothy SpannCathy and Mike SpencerShari and Jay SteinbergCarrie and Matt StoddardRachel Stroup ’94Chinmayee Barve and Ram SubramanianMargaret SullivanTommy Sullivan ’24Liam Swinney ’24Lucas Tangpricha ’24Sharon and Clark TateGranvel TateJohn TerryEric Thomas ’84 and Laurie ThomasTeri ThomasCarol and Jim TobiasMargie and Mark TopolJaylan Troutman ’19Niassa TroutmanCarol and George UdeEsperanza Cervantes Urquiza and Mauro Urquiza FloresHenry Van NessCourtney and Joe VanceCaryn Robertson ’04 and Michael Vandenberg ’04W. Ray WagonerJoanna Wallack ’24Theresa WatkinsAlexis Weisbrod ’01Lekha Shah and Cabell WestbrookLaura Whigham-TrouvéMalika WhitleyClaudia WilliamsCole Williams ’24Ralph WilliamsEli Willingham ’24Inga Willis ’94Betsy and Chris WilsonJennifer Wingo ’94Matthew Winslow ’02Mariah Williams Wolek ’88 and Michael WolekMaria and Timilehin WusuDan WypasekEva Young ’24Nathan Young ’14Ava Zagoria ’24Sandy and Bobby ZayacOrganizationsAnonymous (12)AIGAmerican Endowment FoundationAmerican Express FoundationBank of America Charitable Gift FundBernstein Philanthropic Impact FundBessemer Giving FundBNY Mellon Charitable Gift FundThe Virginia and Charles Brewer Family FoundationBrickman Gross Family FoundationBroadcom Inc.The John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Family FoundationBug and Bean FundThe Catholic FoundationCharityvest Inc.The Community Foundation for Greater AtlantaCorebridge FinancialDaﬀy Charitable FundDecatur Health and Wellness LLCDelta Air Lines FoundationR. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation, Inc.Roy & Janet Dorsey FoundationFidelity CharitableFowler Firm, LLCGegax Family FoundationThe Generosity FundThe Shearon & Taylor Glover Foundation Inc.Aaron and Angel Goldman Family FoundationGoldman Sachs Matching Gift ProgramGoldman Sachs Philanthropy FundThe Graves FoundationArthur Halle Memorial FoundationThe Home DepotHopper-Dean Family FundI Can Be the Change Inc.ImpactAssetsJ.P. Morgan Charitable Giving FundJewish Federation of Greater AtlantaJohn Deere FoundationKakarala FoundationThe Language GroupThe Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc.Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding TrustNational Christian FoundationNational Philanthropic TrustNovelis Inc.Raymond James CharitableRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.RockefellerRSUI Group Inc.Salesforce.comSan Francisco FoundationThe Schultz FoundationSchwab Charitable FundThe Shannon Foundation, Inc.Truist FoundationThe Tull Charitable FoundationVanguard CharitableThe Wheless Foundation

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51The following gifts were made in honor or in memory of members of the Paideia community during the 2022-23 school year.In Honor of:Faith Abrams ’24Carolyn and Robert AbramsStacey AbramsKeith Adams ’21Terri Lawson-Adams and Keith AdamsLauryn Adams ’18Terri Lawson-Adams and Keith AdamsMartin Aguilera ’96Leila and Gerald HolmannDona and Hal JohnsonMuhamet AjetiJesse Evans ’95 and Lalah EvansAdeline AltmanBob AltmanKeenan AndrewsOrietta and Raif GehaMichael BaccariniJoan and Bud BroemanWill Hiltman ’08Jason BariteauErinn and Jason BariteauOlivia BariteauErinn and Jason BariteauPatrick BariteauErinn and Jason BariteauKaj Barron ’24Patricia HomsackBelladay BarryKaryn SkiathitisMoose BarryKaryn SkiathitisJay Bartelt ’20Tara and Matthew BarteltSally BartmesJennifer CoxAvery Davis Bell ’08Lynne and Lee DavisPaul BianchiMissy AueBetty and Bob EdgeMelinda Cooper Holladay and Phil HolladayThrower StarrBecki and Jim VealJane Winﬁeld ’02 and Kyle HosierBarbara Dunbar and Paul BianchiWalter AilesLisa Caucci and Ginny BartonGinny and Charles BrewerRobin and Justin CritzMary Lynn and Joseph CullenNancy and Richard DoernbergSusan Bailey and Lloyd DunnJesica Matthews Eames ’89 and Brian Eames ’88Wendy Kaye and Richard EhrenbergMichele and Ben GarrenAlice and Stephen GertzmanTilly Hatcher ’94 and Dave FergemannMarcia JacobsMaureen and Ralph LaRossaJoyce Bihary and Jon LoweMarylon McGinnisFran MilliansHeather Fenton and Richard OssoﬀMary Laney Reilly and Wendell ReillyCharlotte and Tom ShieldsJanine Brown and Alex SimmonsPeggy WeissJenna BilottoJudy and Mike PleckoTessa BilottoJudy and Mike PleckoBaker BongiovanniDanielle Moore and Pat MirandaJack Bross ’85Holly Greene and Aravind ArepallyDorian Brown ’07Whitney Brown ’03Tiﬀany BrunnerKeller Johnson Champetier ’04Che CalixLisa Tadayon and Fred Rahbari OskouiLiam Campbell ’24Laurie and Bill CampbellBilly Campbell ’02Sharon and Bill CampbellJohn CaputeJim Crooks ’94 and Kristy CrooksAlice Goddard ’18Lisa and Rick GoldsteinLenore CarrollHolly Greene and Aravind ArepallyThe Chanani FamilyVivian Kremer and Robert RudeenPete CiaschiniLisa Tadayon and Fred Rahbari OskouiClass of 1994Tilly Hatcher ’94 and Dave FergemannNatali Thompson Mayo ’94Class of 1999Matt Bracewell ’99Class of 2006Julia Schiﬀ ’06Darby Close ’23Cathy and David CloseClark CloydLisa and Rick GoldsteinAngela and Bob GrossCristina CocaTana and Kathy HallBarbara Cochran-BerryTiﬀany Cochran Edwards and Jay EdwardsCaleb ConnorLinda and Jerry ConnorAnna Cook ’24Mary BallElisabeth CopelandLisa Tadayon and Fred Rahbari OskouiLucy Coxe ’13Flo Henry and Field CoxeDorothy Craft EvansAlex and Tom PearsonCJ CrenshawPeggy and Howard HillPeter CrenshawPeggy and Howard HillSavannah CriselEdna LambertJoseph CullenBilly Cleveland ’01 and Angie ClevelandJanet EmersonBonnie and Paul HaywardAudrey and Seth MellenRebecca Richter ’96Mary Lynn and Joseph CullenPeggy WeissBennett Davis ’24Kristen and Jess DavisLane Davis ’13Lynne and Lee DavisTommy Davis ’19Susan Primo-Davis and Roosevelt DavisMonique DawsonEllen and Guido SacchiDan DeWoskin ’95William DeWoskinAmy Doneﬀ ’16Andrea Doneﬀ and Richard RobisonPatrick DoughertyJulia and James BerryElizabeth Doyle ’24Kris and Jerry DoyleBarbara DunbarKay and Steve JacobsenAudrey and Seth MellenGretchen Colon and Ivan RioboCarrie Dunham-LaGree ’98Patty and Kevin LaGreeWalker Dunn ’24Anne and Kevin DunnBillie Anne WilliamsEmma EdgeBetty and Bob EdgePhoebe Edge ’95Betty and Bob EdgeMagnus EdlundDanielle Moore and Pat MirandaSandy Guiﬀre and John EdwardsBob AltmanGabe ElkinsonJanice and Marty ElkinsonSisi ElkinsonJanice and Marty ElkinsonBurrell Ellis ’23Philippa and Burrell EllisJames EllisEmily and Rob EllisVictoria Ellis ’23Philippa and Burrell EllisDonna EllwoodHannah Ellwood ’06Blair Cumming Falivene ’00 and Chase FaliveneAlice Goddard ’18Angela and Bob GrossLeigh Ann Allen and Ryan GuthrieBill King ’03Alison Doernberg Marcell ’95 and Mary MarcellFran MilliansCharles Zimmer ’02 and Steﬃ Gom-ZimmerLinda EpsteinDanielle Moore and Pat MirandaJack EvansMadelynn BrundageJesse Evans ’95Maryann and George RoumanisJuniper EvansMadelynn BrundageAlex FarquharsonVicki and Richard AdelsonThe Feinstein FamilyDorothy SpannThom FlynnAngela and Ivan DeQuesadaNicholas Fuenzalida ’24Zaida and Jorge FuenzalidaMiles Furman ’24Mary Anne and Spencer Mitchem

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52Hattie GegaxJan GegaxStella GegaxJan GegaxCarter GelfondAnn and Gordon GelfondJoanna GibsonMaggie Hatcher ’94 and Michael DeweyRick GoldsteinJohn CaputeCathy and David CloseFelix Graves ’24Jen and Bill GravesJohn GreeneLindsay and Phil HillThrower StarrReed Guthrie ’24Leigh Ann Allen and Ryan GuthrieMcKinley Hales ’24Jessica and Chad HalesLaura HalfpennyTana and Kathy HallNat Hamrick ’24James HamrickAnne Hanes ’21Candy CasarellaBen Hanes ’22Candy CasarellaKatie HanesCandy CasarellaJill HansonNatalie and Matthew BernsteinBrett Hardin ’87Dorothy Craft Evans and Todd EvansScott MorrisLaura HardyVivian and John BencichErnestine HarrisInga Willis ’94Simeon Hartman ’24Kitty and Dave HartmanLila Haspel ’24Rebecca Baggett and Moshe HaspelTilly Hatcher ’94Sally Brockington ’94 and Ed Van NessPaul HaywardChristian HoudréTony HelmsKate Athanassiades ’16Dianne BushOscar EmeryLila HendershotMargaret and Doug RussackMaddie HendershotMargaret and Doug RussackSullivan HendershotMargaret and Doug RussackEddy HernandezKeller Johnson Champetier ’04Victoria Silva ’20Nour HimedanJennifer Rasmussen and Mohamed HimedanMarianne HinesLeigh Ann Allen and Ryan GuthrieLisa Tadayon and Fred Rahbari OskouiJeﬀrey Holzberg ’03Mike Walbert ’03 and Aimee Kahn-FossEric Inkster ’13Lynn Russell and Donna InksterAndrew Joﬀe ’24Jason JoﬀeThe Johnson FamilyTanya and Spurgeon BriggsBrittany JonesTana and Kathy HallLauren Weitman Jonker ’95Natalie and Matthew BernsteinSusan and Terrell WeitmanJoe Jordak ’22Nancy and John JordakKatherine Jordak ’17Nancy and John JordakSarah Jordak ’19Nancy and John JordakJack Jordan ’24Sally and Raines JordanTom JurczakHellena Moon and Elbert ChunThe Kelly FamilyKeith Royston ’88 and Holly RoystonSharif Kemp ’24Della and Theo GuidryNadia KimballMartha and Barry BerlinDiana BlankNessa KimballDiana BlankAnna Kimmell ’05Karol and James KimmellWill Kimmell ’08Karol and James KimmellDrew KiseField Willingham ’88 and Beth WillinghamMiranda Roth Knowles ’00Holly Greene and Aravind ArepallyEli KobylivkerSuzanne and Dan DinurMax KobylivkerSuzanne and Dan DinurRaymond LamHellena Moon and Elbert ChunLisa Tadayon and Fred Rahbari OskouiOlivia LeeHarriet and Tom QuinnSophie LeeHarriet and Tom QuinnChad Lennon ’04Andi KaufmanDonna LennonMandy Burr Shue ’81 and Tom ShueDavid Walbert ’97Ezra LennonAndi KaufmanBonnie LewisJean and Hal LewisJack LewisJean and Hal LewisLuisa Lieberman ’24Marianne DeHaanDana Scharbo Lieberman ’88 and Josh LiebermanKaren and Mark LiebermanParker LoganBarbara and Chris DyrdaMichael London ’24Juliet Hastings and Dan LondonEbonee Mahone-TodmanHolly Greene and Aravind ArepallyKensington Manross ’24Ashley and Rich ManrossKim MansionCaroline Ball Cook ’86 and Justin CookLilly Margolis ’24Catherine Springer and Clark CloydHeather and Andrew MargolisRhoda and Stephen MargolisLiam McCarthy ’24Carolyn and Neal McCarthyAlice McIlvoy ’24Kuei and Frank MillenLisa and Chris McIlvoyKuei and Frank MillenRonnie McKnightHolly Greene and Aravind ArepallyKennedy McPhersonDanielle Joiner McPherson and Mark McPhersonJack MeiselGail and Michael MeiselJane Lowe Meisel ’00Blair Cumming Falivene ’00 and Chase FaliveneJosh MeiselGail and Michael MeiselBaikal Miller ’24Marsha MillerKim Serravezza ’86 and David Millians ’84Emily Millians ’87Fran MilliansEmily Millians ’87Peggy WeissEmerson Moore ’24Sherry and George GravesScott MorrisLeigh Ann Allen and Ryan GuthrieNina Mulkowsky ’24Liza and Vincent MulkowskyKate MurrayRyan Baker ’96Michael Vinson ’03 and Todd KaneAndre NahaiJudith SigmanTyhuna NelsonHolly Greene and Aravind ArepallyPaul NewmanIngrid ReinhardSawyer Northrop ’24Nancy and Willard NorthropKendall O’Connor-TappanLindsay and Phil HillRowan Oxley ’24Catherine Springer and Clark CloydTom PaintingThe Eiler FamilyPenya Sandor and Eric TaubTybee Parish-Letteer ’24Tammy and Cindy Parish-LetteerAnnie PerryJulia and James BerryAdrianne Fisher and Jonathan PetrashLeigh Ann Allen and Ryan GuthrieCaroline Quillian StubbsPhu-Tho Le Srikanchana ’03Theo RacineSue and Jim CunninghamVivian RacineSue and Jim CunninghamChristina Campbell Rather ’08Sharon and Bill CampbellGrant RebillotLaura and Mark RebillotCelia Reed ’24Bob ReedDonna and Dan ReedLindsay ReidTracy Vettese and Julie Hollberg

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53Jenny RhodesLeigh Ann Allen and Ryan GuthrieKelly RichardsJane Cronin and Sam WethernSasha Robbins ’24Shari HerzbergDaniel RosenbergBeth and Edward SugarmanBenjamin RosenzweigEllen Arnovitz and Michael PlaskerMarley RosenzweigEllen Arnovitz and Michael PlaskerStella Roumanis ’24Connie and John BlendMansoor SalehbhaiSabrina Kwon and Mustufa SalehbhaiAndy SarvadyDianne BushOscar EmeryJocelyn Sarvady ’11Sarah SchiﬀAngela and Bob GrossBeth SchildRachel Alterman Wallack and Sandy WallackAaron Schwartz ’00Joan and Alan SchwartzAnnie Schwartz ’24Barbara LevitasJakob SchwartzJoan and Alan SchwartzJudy SchwarzRebecca Saxon Dey ’05Dianne and Paul HiltmanGinna and Mac McFarlingSpencer ShahBeverly and Jon FullerRebecca Hoelting Short and Daniel ShortRenee and Maurice HoeltingNisha SimamaPeggy WeissCamryn Simpson ’24Charlie SimpsonKaris SmithTheia and Reggie SmithDaniel Sommerfeld ’24Elizabeth and Larry SommerfeldCatharine Tipton and Ken SosebeeJim Peterson ’14Bonnie SparlingWill Hiltman ’08Luke StoneAngela and Ivan DeQuesadaJohn StubbsHolly Greene and Aravind ArepallyJennifer Swift ’88Lisa Tadayon and Fred Rahbari OskouiEmmaline TateElvira MannellyTom TaylorMelinda Cooper Holladay and Phil HolladayMona and Bob LeveilleSheryl and Stuart MeddinTeri ThomasHenry Van NessJohn TerryDanielle Moore and Pat MirandaOwen Tobias ’24Carol and Jim TobiasGabe TobinMaurine and Bob TobinCharlotte TopolMargie and Mark TopolMolly TopolMargie and Mark TopolWilliam TyusJesse Evans ’95 and Lalah EvansHenry Van NessBarb and Larry GreyMike Walbert ’03Jeﬀrey Holzberg ’03 and Elisa CastroMegan Walter ’23Abby Shefer and Don WalterJoshua Whitehead ’24Deborah Maslia and J. Paul Whitehead IIIAndrew WillJanet and Scott WillHeather Will ’23Janet and Scott WillJulia WilliamsCindi and Dave WilliamsLily WilliamsCindi and Dave WilliamsAdam WillinghamField Willingham ’88 and Beth WillinghamBeck WillinghamField Willingham ’88 and Beth WillinghamEli Willingham ’24Sara Dolores ShugertField Willingham ’88 and Beth WillinghamMary WillinghamRand WiseLisa Tadayon and Fred Rahbari OskouiKate Wolf ’24Catherine Springer and Clark CloydLuke XuLi Zhang and Andy XuWilson YorkLisa Tadayon and Fred Rahbari OskouiAva Zagoria ’24Jo LesniakIn Memory of:Heather AlhadeﬀMiguel ChristieChristopher Andriessen ’83Dan McConaughey ’77Tam Parker ’82Madabhushi Anantasayanam AyyangarAnnapurna Valluri and Anant MadabhushiGordon BarnesCatherine Springer and Clark CloydSharon and Kent QuinnMargaret BarnettAudrey and Seth MellenMyles BeskindAdam Beskind ’16Charlie BurrowsLaura Burrows Haviland ’99 and Eric HavilandSusan BurrowsLaura Burrows Haviland ’99 and Eric HavilandCecelia CainesSarah Domby Gatenby ’98 and Jordan GatenbyBrooke MartyBen Carter ’92Jennifer HillJudy ClouesAudrey and Seth MellenMargaret and John WillinghamHerman ColonAileene ColonBuck Davis ’02Nicole Davis ’99Larry DingleKatherine DingleTimothy DwyerCarol DwyerJeﬀ DykesBonnie DykesIsaiah EdwardsDorothy EdwardsSusan EhrhardtMartin Aguilera ’96Lisa and Rick GoldsteinChowning HawkinsMichelle Ferguson-Priestly ’88Sally DornMargaret Ferguson Quinn ’02 and Anton QuinnEleanor FinleyBethea Finley Dowling ’77 and Michael DowlingCabral Franklin ’92Kali Franklin ’96Martha and Alton GarnerMary and Kirk GarnerRob Gooden ’09Sadie Burbank ’08Evan Glustrom ’09Gabriella Gonzalez-Smith ’09Jari and Doug GrimmKristy McDonald-Grimm and Bennett GrimmJeﬀrey GurtlerColette and Miles HallPaul Randall GuynesGreg Guynes ’82 and Karen GuynesJuanita and Leroy HarrisNicole Harris ’99Derrick Hegmon ’79Patricia HarveyChristine Kempton and Donald HarveyMatt Hiltman ’05Emily Schreck Davis ’06 and Ben Davis ’06Dianne and Paul HiltmanCarol and George UdeGeorge HowellLeslye Howell Pace ’89 and Giovanni PaceBootsie JohnsonDeborah and Louis GayVG KuttyAnita Aysola and Dhanu MelethJudith LeonardDeane LeonardJacob LeveilleRay LeveilleSandy LittleDan McConaughey ’77Al MartinLaura MartinDede MatthewsMartha and George AlexanderJesica Matthews Eames ’89 and Brian Eames ’88Susan MetzloﬀJoey Metzloﬀ ’98 and Kimberly MetzloﬀCeleste MillenJennifer Sproul English ’79 and Larry English

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Nathan Moore ’20Anil AdyanthayaGretchen and Scott AsherKim and Chip CollinsHunter Collins ’20Jack Collins ’23Linda MeirJennifer Ide and Matt ReynoldsJanine Brown and Alex SimmonsHolly WhiteSelene MorganAlex Morgan ’00Subhadra MukherjeeVivian Kremer and Robert RudeenAnne MyerMargaret and John PetreyNuçi Phillips ’92Anita and Charlie GreinerSharon RadfordDrew Derrico ’15Eleanor Hatcher ’91Lori Leland and David KirkJim RadfordCarolyn and Ralph RamseyJoe Ramsey ’84 and Devra RamseyRalph Ramsey ’80Joe Ramsey ’84 and Devra RamseyMonte RichardsonAudrey and Seth MellenMartha RoarkThe Mellen FamilySuzanne and Jim PetersonEnir Severino da SilvaDani Hirsch and Rodrigo Dantas e SilvaSteve SigurAdam Domby ’02Susan Bailey and Lloyd DunnLisa and Rick GoldsteinMichael Mermin ’85Brandon Smith ’97 and Abby SmithParker Smith ’04Awadhesh SinhaErika SinhaJames SmithKaren HazelThomas William StaedWhitney Staed and Tomas BjonnessJeanie ThomasEmily Mather ’89 and Kirk GravesKatrina Mather Sherman ’86 and Steve ShermanBill ThomasEric Thomas ’84 and Laurie ThomasEthan Thomas ’20Zachary Tolchin ’15John Mellen ’15Dominique Turner ’16Valerie TuttleLauren Roberts ’97Alvis James WaiteConnie WaitePhilip Walden, Jr.Melissa WaldenJoel WeissPeggy WeissJo WesterveltAbbie and Rob WeeksMarie WilliamsRalph WilliamsEd WillinghamMary WillinghamMolly Wrede ’20Cheryl BourneGrace GarrettSarah Domby Gatenby ’98 and Jordan GatenbyMiriam and Andrew GeryolJen and Jay KahlonDonna and Dan ReedLaura Dickerman and William SewardBarbara and John WredeThank you to the following people who volunteered their time to assist the Development Oce with the Annual Fund, the Alumni Fund, the Alumni Advisory Council, the Alumni Parent Council and various projects and events.Kevin AppletonHiatt BakerMartha BerlinKrista BrewerWhitney Brown ’03Christina Cadrecha ’03Susan Cadrecha ’05 Dustin Chambers ’05Soﬁa ChaudharyE-Chia ChihadeAnthony ClarkKatie Nall Clark ’04, AAC Vice ChairMelinda Cooper HolladaySadia CoreyJustin CritzJane CroninJim Crooks ’94 Thea DelageAri DeSimone ’06Sally DornKatie EisenbergAugusto EliasElise Eplan ’78 Harlan Eplan ’83Joyce EvansBlair Cumming Falivene ’00 Andrew FalkMagdelina FalkGail FarrisThe Paul Bianchi and Barbara Dunbar Fund for Teaching provides Paideia with the ﬁnancial ﬂexibility to continuously and innovatively support teachers. The following teachers have been selected to receive funding for the 2024-25 school year: ELLY BOOKMAN — writer residency in the Dordogne region of FranceCHE CALIX — outdoor adventure trip in Costa Rica ELIEL FREER-SULLIVAN — introducing capoeira to PaideiaTONY HELMS — visiting the Silk Road in UzbekistanTALLY JOHNSON — haunted and inspired road trip through New EnglandSARAH SCHIFF — summer writer’s residencyBRIAN SMITH — visiting the Galápagos IslandsMARCI WIELAND — visiting Machu Picchu54The Hy and Blanche Professional Development and Creative Exploration Fund provides Paideia faculty members with a grant to undertake or participate in a program, project or experience that will strengthen the recipient’s eﬀec-tiveness as a professional educator at Paideia. The 2024 Hy and Blanche award has been extended to Magnus Edlund to explore and research American traditional music in the Appalachian region.1 $ Supporting Innovative Teaching

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Jonathan Flack ’06 Kali Franklin ’96Jorge FuenzalidaJason Furst ’07Adair Garrett ’17Laurie Dokson Gaydos ’94Pam GlustromEvan Glustrom ’09Johnna GoodmarkKim GreenHolly GreeneKelly Griendling ’01Janet Gross, APC ChairLindsy HaworthLisa Hayes ’91Holly HazletonLaura HenriquezJennifer HillKaren HolzbergAllie McFarling Horne ’04John JordakLinda KaplanSonya KhanJen KimJaclyn KinsellKim Lee ’06Chad Lennon ’04 David LewisAndrew Lorber ’00Jimmy Lowe ’04, AAC ChairJames Malone ’08Zan McBride-SpenceSheryl MeddinDerek MizeClark Moore ’09Genna PanagopoulosJim Peterson ’14Nicole Pozzo ’18Sakib QureshiJane RaceNedra RhoneJeniﬀer RobertsBerenice Rodriguez ’13Kristine RudolphAaron Schwartz ’00Sam SchwartzJudy SchwarzSabrina SeraﬁnBlaine Sergew Lillania ShahAndy SiegelJermaine Smith ’00Nigel Smith ’15Marjorie Hall Snook ’96Eric SorscherMeredith StockingElizabeth StoneRuss TaylorAnn Van SlykeMichael Vinson ’03Elizabeth Weaver ’00Abbie WeeksJeryl WilliamsTabitha Zubber ’07In April, Paideia welcomed more than 100 Paideians — including current and alumni parents, current and retired faculty and staﬀ, grandparents, former trustees and alumni — to campus for a celebration of this community’s ongoing commitment to Paideia. Head of School Tom Taylor expressed heartfelt appreciation for their enduring loyalty through 20-plus years of giving to the school.The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) recently conducted a Vital Signs Assessment, looking for indicators of fund-raising success or struggle ahead, and one data point stood out far more than any others — the number of donors who have given 20 years or more. We are so grateful to the more than 300 Paideians who have hit this amazing milestone and the hundreds more at the two-, ﬁve-, 10- and 15-year marks.These dedicated supporters, our nearest and dearest, exemplify the profound impact that long-term giving has on our community.Celebrating Proud Paideians for 20+ Years of Consecutive GivingTogether, let us continue to uphold the spirit of Proudly Paideia and nurture a tradition of giving that sustains our cherished community for years to come.55fi\PROUDLY Yaideia

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For this project, we asked the art class of Jenny Baker (Baker) to create works that reﬂect the Paideia story. Tom Taylor selected the cover, and the original artwork now hangs in his oﬃce along with the 2023-24 Directory cover. The selected cover was created by Justin Magliocca ’24. “Thanks to Jelaena Moreno’s photography, I was able to capture the liveliness of Paideia that I wanted to display. The biggest inspiration I have for this piece is the amazing community that accepted me when I ﬁrst came to Paideia,” says Justin. To see all of the submitted pieces, visit paideiaschool.org/covers. To access the most recent student, parent, faculty and staﬀ contact information, and to learn about school events, announcements, forms and policies, please visit paidieaschool.org/parent-portal. Login is required. Have you moved? Gotten a new cell phone number? Changed email addresses? Make sure Paideia has your most up-to-date information. This helps us keep in touch with you. Current parents, visit paideiaschool.org/proﬁle-update. Alumni parents and alumni, please send an email to infoupdate@paideiaschool.org.Main Number 404-377-3491Head of School 404-270-2303Admissions 404-270-2312Alumni Programs 404-270-2394Athletic Director 404-270-2663Business Oﬃce 404-270-2661Communications 404-270-2339Development 404-270-2337Half Day 404-270-2386Elementary 404-270-2341Junior High 404-270-2318High School 404-270-2389Parent Involvement 404-270-2338School Nurse (Main Campus) 404-270-2305Aftercare (Elementary) 404-270-2317Aftercare (Junior High) 404-270-2335Assistant Head of School 404-270-2361College Counseling 404-270-2330DEIB 404-270-2300 ext 235Elementary Library 404-270-2392Facilities 404-270-2364Financial Aid 404-270-2303Front Desk 404-270-2300Human Resources 404-270-2302Library 404-270-2391Python Park 404-284-0284Registrar 404-270-2307School Nurse (Junior High) 404-270-2388Security 404-270-2350Service Learning & Civic Engagement 404-270-2342STEAM 404-270-2300 ext 231Sustainability 404-270-2365Technology 404-270-2325Tuition/Billing 404-270-2310Urban Ag 404-270-2300 ext 234Below is a list of the most frequently used campus telephone numbers. For all of the faculty and staﬀ contact numbers, please visit the portal.Paideia School Campus Telephone Directory THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL

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