Graduation day sends 99 off to college - Cary Academy

Graduation day sends 99 off to college
UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp delivers wry keynote address
UNC Chancellor Dr. Holden Thorp
opened his address at CA’s commencement
exercises May 22 in the SEA with a
mixed metaphor from his own high school
graduation’s valedictorian speaker.
“Fellow students,” Thorp recalled the
speaker intoning, “the time has come to
leave the nest and swim against the stream.”
your brains, your heart and your courage.
We need you.”
In closing, Thorp relied on his own mixed
metaphor to sum up his speech: “Out
there in that parking lot waits the train to
your future.”
Dr. Holden Thorp
Only connect
Before Thorp spoke, class speakers Eric
Kofman (’10) and Alex Rosenthal (’10)
addressed the crowd.
Drawing on the bonds his classmates
had formed with one another over the
years and employing E.M. Forster’s motto
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“You need passion”
From there, Thorp kept the gentle laughs
coming as he delivered a thoughtful
speech, salted with Beatles song references,
that touched on the need in life for
ideas, passion, courage and dreams.
“You need passion,” he told the seniors.
“It is your life; love it. Don’t settle for like.
Do whatever it takes to get from like to love.”
He encouraged the students to dream,
to think of ideas. “Smart is not enough.
Knowledge is nothing till it becomes an
idea. When you have an idea, I encourage
you to do something with it.”
Don’t be afraid of failures
But, he cautioned, “You will have to
struggle to get your idea up on legs.”
After reiterating his point on passion,
Thorp advised the students to learn from
their eventual failures and have the courage
to keep going, to keep trying.
“Each of you has my permission to be a
dreamer,” he added. “We (the world) need
$200,000
$100,000
Cary Academy Fund Update (as of 6/5/10)
You can still give
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We are so close…have you made your family’s annual donation
yet? Meeting our goal is very important, and we are still short.
Your gift makes a difference.
Show your support for CA and our students’ programs and
activities by making your gift today…
Left to reach budget .. . . . . . . . . $ 21,860
(73% family participation to date)
Total gifts/pledges to date . . . . . . $ 178,140
2009-10 Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 200,000
12 th grade (68%) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 16,145
11 th grade (72%) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 25,035
10 th grade (72%) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 27,927
9 th grade (76%) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 16,645
8 th grade (71%) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 10,588
7 th grade (78%) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 31,315
6 th grade (76%) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 18,839
Cary Academy May/June 2010

Don Berger, Head of School
Welcoming comments from graduation 2010
Mentions class successes, including Morehead and Park scholars
The following are my
In the arts arena, the class of 2010 provided the
the Raleigh News and Observer. I will point out three
welcoming comments
leadership for our jazz band that captured the top prize
that have been particularly powerful:
from commencement 2010, held May 22 in the SEA,
in which UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp delivered the
keynote address:
Dr. Goodnight, Dr. Thorp, members of the board
of directors, faculty, staff, parents, friends and class
of 2010, welcome to Cary Academy’s 11 th
commencement.
Let me introduce you to our graduating class. The
class of 2010 is an extraordinary group of scholars,
athletes, artists and leaders.
It is the first class to have a Morehead-Cain
scholarship recipient attend the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and the first class to have two
Chapel Hill Carolina Scholars. In addition to these
three students, 20 other classmates will attend
Chapel Hill, one of our nation’s finest universities.
Furthermore, one of our proud parents today is
considered by many to be the greatest player in the
history of the Tar Heels men’s basketball program.
Clearly, if there was ever an occasion to have Chapel
Hill’s chancellor speak to our community, this is it.
And clearly, if there was ever a time for this Head of
School to profess his college allegiance, this also is
it. (At this juncture, I donned an NCSU cap.)
at the recent Southeast Regional Heritage Music
Festival. Our outstanding chorus, which we will hear
shortly, boasts nine seniors, and I would encourage you
to take a few minutes following commencement to
view the inspiring work of the class’s advanced art
students, which is displayed in our Fine and Performing
Arts Building Basement Gallery. And three years ago
students from the class of 2010 founded a Thespian
Troupe, which has produced four student-run, directed
and acted plays. Ten seniors from the class have
performed in Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Contemporary
Comedies and As You Like It.
Combining their love of music with a commitment
to service, members of the class of 2010 began a
Share the Music Club, which performed at senior
centers, local children’s hospitals and charity
fundraising events. They also coordinated an
instrument drive to collect sheet music, strings,
instruments and supplies for the Community Music
School in Raleigh, whose mission is to provide
quality music instruction to children from low
income families in the area.
Under senior class leadership this 9 th year of our
Reedy Creek Elementary School Tutoring program
was its most successful yet, as more students
participated than ever before. As a result, Reedy
Creek Elementary School was recognized as one of
the top 10 Wake County Public Elementary Schools
in annual student growth in math and reading.
Reedy Creek students showed more academic
growth than 90% of students in other county
schools, and according to the Reedy Creek
program liaison and school principal, Cary
Academy’s Tutoring Program is directly responsible
for this accomplishment.
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After all, I do have two daughters who attend
North Carolina State, and my boss, Dr. Goodnight, is
an NC State alum. And because I also have a
daughter who is graduating today, Courtney, this is a
good time to profess my allegiance to ECU as well.
(Now, I donned an ECU cap.)
Returning to NC State, this class additionally
boasts a Park Scholar, which like Chapel Hill’s
Morehead-Cain is extremely competitive and rewards
its recipients with a full tuition scholarship and
special academic and internship programs.
And these are not our class’s only scholarship
recipients. The class of 2010 received more than $4
million dollars in scholarship awards.
In addition to attending many of North Carolina’s
public universities, this class will be our school’s first
to have two students entering United States Service
Academies, Army and Navy, and it also has students
matriculating at some of our nation’s best small
liberal arts colleges, such as Bucknell, Davidson,
Lafayette, Sewanee, Shenandoah, Williams,
Washington and Lee, and Wellesley.
Wolfpack backer Don Berger
As for athletics, 15 members of this graduating
class hold school records. They have led the way in
winning Triangle Interscholastic Athletic Conference
Championships in volleyball, girls’ swimming, boys’
swimming, and boys’ tennis, and have captained teams
that were state championship runners-up in girls’
volleyball, boys’ cross country, boys’ track and boys’
tennis. Furthermore, senior leadership led to our best
seasons ever in field hockey, lacrosse and golf.
One might be inclined to conclude that this class
stands out for its academic, artistic and athletic
accomplishments, but I propose that the class’s most
profound legacy to our school has been its service. The
class of 2010 has given back to our school, Triangle
community and world in numerous ways, many of
which were listed in yesterday’s tribute to the class in
Finally, students in the class of 2010 led our school
in its adoption of a new values statement
emphasizing respect, integrity and compassion. In
addition, this class’ National Honors Society
leaders selected ethics as the topic for its annual
speaker series. At a time when our country seems
overwhelmed by political scandals and corporate
malfeasance, this class’ refocusing our school’s
attention on respect, integrity and compassion
gives cause for optimism. Seniors, you have
helped the Cary Academy community reflect on
how it conducts itself, and not only am I optimistic
that your work and influence will improve the
ethical underpinnings of our school, but I am
optimistic that you will have the same impact on
the colleges you attend and eventually on the
businesses or organizations where you will work.
It is with that sense of optimism for our future, and
for your future as well, that I will soon shake your
hands with pride that you are Cary Academy
graduates. Congratulations.

College Acceptances and Choices
for the Cary Academy Class of 2010
The 99 students in the Class of 2010 received offers of admission from more than 110 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada.
They are listed below. Ultimately, the seniors chose to enroll in 50 different colleges across the country (in bold). In addition, the seniors
reported being offered more than 4 million dollars in merit scholarships. Congratulations to the Class of 2010!
Bold = 1 Cary Academy student attending. If more than 1 senior is enrolling in the college, the number enrolling is indicated in
parentheses after the name of the college.
American University
Appalachian State University
Auburn University
Babson College
Ball State University
Belmont University
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bucknell University
Campbell University
Carnegie Mellon University (3)
Case Western Reserve University
The Citadel
Clemson University (2)
College of Charleston (2)
College of William and Mary
Columbia University
Davidson College (2)
Dickinson College
Drexel University
Duke University (2)
East Carolina University
Elon University
Emerson College
Emory University (3)
Franklin and Marshall College
Furman University
George Washington University
George Mason University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Gettysburg College
Guilford College
Hampton University
Harvard University
High Point University (3)
Hofstra University
Iowa State University
Ithaca College
James Madison University
Knox College
Lafayette College
Lenoir-Rhyne University
Loyola University New Orleans
Massachusetts College of Art &
Design
McGill University, Canada
Meredith College
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Mexico Tech
New York University
North Carolina School of the Arts
North Carolina State
University (6)
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Oglethorpe University
Pennsylvania State University
Pratt Institute
Princeton University
Quinnipiac University
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
Rhodes College
Rice University
Rollins College
Rutgers University
Santa Clara University
Sewanee: The University of the
South (2)
Shaw University
Shenandoah University
Skidmore College
Stanford University
Stony Brook University
Texas A&M University
Tulane University
United States Coast Guard
Academy
United States Military Academy
United States Naval Academy
University of Arizona
University of Chicago (2)
University of Cincinnati
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Georgia
University of Maryland
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of North Carolina-
Asheville (4)
Chapel Hill (23)
Charlotte
Greensboro
Wilmington (4)
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of South Carolina (2)
University of Tennessee
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University
Villanova University
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest University
Washington and Lee University
Washington University in St. Louis
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College (2)
Wofford College
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Thirteenth tourney not unlucky for
Cary Academy’s 13 th Annual Scholars’ Golf Classic turned out to be a perfect day for golf:
sun, moderate temperatures, little to no wind.
And it turned out to be a perfect day for CA students as the tournament raised $73,346
for need-based scholarships, besting last year’s amount of $64,710.
With a shotgun start, 56 teams spread out over two courses at Prestonwood Country
Club May 10.
For the 12 th year, R.N. Rouse and Co. Inc. served as the grand sponsor of the event.
The money raised will go to the Scholarship Fund, which enables the school to extend
the benefits of its education to an economically and socially diverse population.
The winning teams from the day’s action were:
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Meadows
First Place
SAS
• Dr. Jim Goodnight
• John Danis
• Ray Rouse
• Don Parker
Second Place
Bonitz Flooring Group
• John McDonald
• Eddie Shannon
• Joe Wilson
• Roxanne Hicklin
Third Place
Precision Walls Inc.
• Brian Allen
• Scott Duckworth
• Ben Rives
• David Wheeler
Highlands
First Place
Lifetouch/Hunt Ward
Photography
• Hunt Ward
• Ben Taylor
• Fred Owen
• Eddie Crowder
Second Place
Brady Trane Sales
• Evan Bundros
• Joe Miller
• Phil Camp
• Mark Skiff
Third Place
McGuire Woods, LLP
• John McDonald
• Rob Salpietro
• John Boswell
• Chris Kennedy
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Scenes from the 2010 Scholars’ Golf Classic
tournament at Prestonwood CC.

CA students
GRAND SPONSOR
R.N. Rouse & Co., Inc.
ENDOWMENT CIRCLE
Atlantic Tire & Service
Davis Kane Architects, P.A.
Revels Turf & Tractor/
John Deere Golf
SAS
SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORTER
Bank of America
Cary Nephrology
Cherry Huffman Architects, PA
Ernst & Young
First Citizens Bank
Lenovo
Preston Development Co.
FACULTY FRIENDS
Aon Risk Services
Baker Roofing Co.
Barnhill Contracting Company
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
North Carolina
Bonitz Flooring Group
Brady Trane Sales
Bryant-Durham Electric, Inc.
CADCO Construction
Capital Associates
Carolina Hurricanes
Cary Car Care
CEI - The Digital Office
Contract Steel Sales, Inc.
Curran Family Foundation
Fred Adams Paving Co.
John J. Kirlin, LLC
McGuireWoods, LLP
National Rebar Fabrication
Pinnacle Masonry
Precision Walls, Inc.
Progress Energy
Seegars Fence Co.
SPS Corporation
St. Moritz Building Services, Inc.
Stock Building Supply
tw telecom
BLUE TEE/GREEN SPONSOR
Classic Graphics
PBM Graphics, Inc.
SAGE Dining Services
CARY ACADEMY FRIENDS
Damian McHugh
Don Berger
Gary Fischbein
Leo Nemetz
Steve Eubanks
Mike Dunn
Dave Andrews
Neil Frank
Andy Hartsfield
Bakul Modi
Chris Walker
Hill, Chesson & Woody
Allied Fire Protection, Inc.
Ready Mixed Concrete Company
Cecilia Davis
SteelFab
Shelco, Inc.
Bruce Hamilton
Lifetouch/Hunt Ward Photography
Colony Tire
Chick-fil-A at Stone Creek Village
FRIENDS/NON-PARTICIPANT
Mr. and Mrs. George Case
Economy Exterminators
George Finch/Boney and
Associates, P.A.
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Friday
Dellon and Carolyn Holt
Mark and Kathy Marshall
Gene Matsuo
Pro-Tec Finishes
Royalwood Associates, Inc.
A special thanks
to our host, Prestonwood
Country Club, and our other sponsors
who helped make the 13 th annual Cary
Academy Scholars’ Golf Classic a
success. We appreciate your support!
42 nd Street Oyster Bar and Seafood Grill
Bel Gusto Restaurant in the Millennium Hotel
Carolina Hurricanes
Chapel Hill Restaurant Group
Coca Cola Bottling Company
Durham Bulls
Edwards Mill Bar and Grill
Embassy Suites – Cary
Embassy Suites – Raleigh/Crabtree Valley
Fairview Dining Room of the Washington Duke Inn
Harris Wholesale
LeBleu Five Gallon of Raleigh
McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant
Moe’s Southwest Grill
Neo-China
Panera Bread
Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley
Ruth Chris Steakhouse
Second Empire Restaurant & Tavern
Sysco Food Systems
Umstead Hotel and Spa & Herons Restaurant
University Ford and Kia
Vintage Bar and Lounge
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Graduation day
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Patrick Lambert (‘13) and Hannah Robison
(‘14) will travel to China this summer with
a group of 11 North Carolina students as
part of a Chinese government-sponsored
program. The Chinese Bridge Summer
Camp is organized by the Confucius
Institute at NCSU. The Confucius Institute
pays all the in-China costs of the selected
students. Lambert and Robison’s
applications for the program involved
writing an essay on Why Chinese is
Important to Me in a Global Society. They
have studied Chinese at Cary Academy
since sixth grade. While in China, the
The CA Computer Science Team finished
sixth in the All-Star contest of the
International ACSL Computer Science
Contest held May 28-30 at Conrad Weiser
HS near Reading, PA. Earlier, the team of
Jason Chow (‘10), Jeffrey Dudek (‘11),
Allen Yang (‘12) and Evan Zayas (‘11) had
finished seventh in the world in the regular
International ACSL contest. That finish
qualified the team for the All-Star contest,
during which the students worked as a
team to solve four challenging programs
on one computer over three-and-a-half
hours. After lunch, the students then had
of “Only connect…” from Howard’s End,
Kofman said, “Every ending is a beginning
to a new stage of life. This is the commencement
of our next adventure.
“Moving forward can mean breaking
connections,” he continued. “There are 99
new beginnings about to begin. We
should all strive to only connect.”
We could be heroes
Rosenthal urged his classmates to be
heroes in life. Mentioning the heroism and
greatness he
witnessed from
his grandfather
and father during
the loss of his
grandmother, he
said, “All of our
choices make a
group will visit Beijing, Jilin province and
one hour to complete 12 tricky written
Shanghai for the 2010 World Expo.
problems without a calculator. Dudek was
Their trip will include intensive language
unable to compete because of his foreign
tuition and cultural activities as well as
language trip, but received a plaque for
sightseeing.
winning first place in the Southern Division
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Members of the Cary Academy Singers
performed with famed rock band Foreigner
June 9 at a concert at Koka Booth
Amphitheater in Cary. The CA Singers
were the only chorus that performed
with Foreigner. The group sang back up
on I Wanna Know What Love Is.
Middle School teacher Meredith Stewart
has been published in an educational
journal. Stewart, who teaches language
arts and social studies, has been published
in in education, a peer-reviewed, openaccess
journal based at the University of
(Southern U.S.) during the regular season.
Chow, Yang and Zayas scored 33/40 points
on the programming round, and 31/36
on the written round to earn sixth place.
The trio won book awards for their
written results.
CA students won four of seven awards in
the 15-18 age group of a North Regional
Library photo contest. The contest
reception and awards ceremony was May
22. Maia Szulik (‘11) won the People’s
Choice Award for Cat Nap. Rachel Braun
(‘12) took third place for Gone So Young.
Honorable mentions went to Ian Fincham
difference. If
we do not choose to be great and heroic,
the world stumbles. Choose to be heroic,
choose to be great.
“Our choices will shape this world. I
pray we commit to greatness, and I pray
we each find the hero within.”
After Rosenthal spoke, the Founder’s
Award was presented to Jaclyn Udell (’10).
Remembering friends, teachers
Following the conferring of diplomas,
the graduates gathered on the quad for
hugs from families, pictures with friends
and the ceremonial tossing of caps.
Future UNC student Kedar Karkare (’10)
echoed Kofman’s speech when he talked
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Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. The
(‘11) for Sunset on St. John and Kaity
article is a book review of DIYU:
Pechanek (‘11) for Alone.
Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming
Transformation of Higher Education that
she co-authored.

Cost cutting: The hidden side of the financial equation
Over the past 19 months, Cary Academy
has been adjusting to the new financial
“normal” along with everyone else. These
adjustments included two of the lowest
tuition increases in the history of the
school to keep Cary Academy as affordable
as possible for our parents and increased
efforts in fundraising and auxiliary programs
to maintain our non-tuition sources
of revenue.
There has, however, been a lot more going
on that is hidden from view, yet incredibly
important to our efforts to maintain both
financial sustainability and program excellence
during this challenging time. We thought we’d
pull back the curtain and give you a brief
glimpse at some of the cost cutting measures
we have taken, both big and small.
We have made mandatory 5% annual
expense reductions in the following
non-academic areas: Advancement Office,
Business Office, Human Resources, Head
of School’s Office, Diversity, Admissions,
Information Services and Facilities.
Facilities personnel have undertaken
major projects in-house rather than hiring
outside contractors. Some of these
projects have included the installation of
scoreboards, repair of main sewer lines,
installation of wainscoting in SEA, and
the annual spreading of mulch. Speaking
of mulch, we were able to obtain free
mulch from SAS this past year, another
big cost savings.
We’ve reduced postage costs by making
greater use of electronic communications,
consolidating mailings, reducing the
physical size of items being mailed, and
switching from one- to two-day or ground
delivery whenever feasible. Our Summer
Quest brochure is also now online rather
than being mailed in hard copy.
We’ve reduced paper and copier costs
by emailing monthly financial reports,
going to electronic records for our audit
wherever possible, going paperless
during Leadership Team and Upper
School faculty meetings, including more
Advancement announcements in
electronic monthly mailings rather than
mailing them to homes, sending
enrollment and admissions visit reminders
via email, moving to online summer
camp registration, and converting to a
paperless hiring process in the Upper
School.
We’ve cut costs in our dining program by
not allowing takeout two days a week
(resulting in a 30% reduction in disposable
papers costs) and by serving pizza
prepared in-house several times this past
year (instead of purchasing it from an
outside vendor). These reductions
allowed us to avoid a dining fee increase
for the coming year, even as food and
labor costs have climbed.
We’ve eliminated the distribution of
small gifts during events such as the golf
tournament and volunteer reception and
the distribution of spirit items during
homecoming.
We’ve made even greater use of
discount textbook sources as we
purchased teacher texts, issued student
texts, and books for resale to students,
passing savings on to families as well.
We’ve cut down on energy consumption
by strategically reducing the number of
active light fixtures across campus
We’re not done yet! Here’s a few more
cost cutting projects currently in the
investigative stage:
A consolidated printing solution on
campus that will reduce the number of
printers required and the amount of
paper and toner being consumed.
The implementation of electronic
monthly student billing statements
With all this cost cutting, you should
know that there are some budget items
we would reduce only as a last resort.
Those items include academic program
funding, campus safety and security,
personnel compensation and benefits, and
professional development. We consider
these items to be at the heart of our
mission and to reduce them would be
detrimental to the school.
As part of the new strategic plan, we will
place a greater emphasis on running the
school even more efficiently, and we could
use everyone’s help. Have you been on
campus and spotted an idea for a costsavings
measure? Let us know by emailing
deborah_reichel@caryacademy.org.
— Debby Reichel
Director of Business Operations
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about what he will miss from his seven
years at CA.
“I made close connections with teachers.
I really treasure that and will miss that.”
He added with a smile, “Hopefully, the
teachers will accept my Facebook friend
requests.”
Lauren Phillips (’10), who will attend the
University of Pennsylvania in the fall, said
much the same. “The friends I made here
and the impact of all the teachers on me
won’t be forgotten.”
Jason Sigmon (’10) also mentioned the
impact of classmates and faculty on his
time at CA.
The University of South Carolina enrollee
then said wistfully, “It’s crazy to think after
seven years of struggle to be done and
never to walk through Cary Academy (as a
student) again.”
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1500 N. Harrison Avenue
Cary, North Carolina 27513
Telephone: 919-677-3873
Fax: 919-677-4002
www.caryacademy.org
i mportant dates
New faculty training
July 26-30
Teachers return
Aug. 2-6
New student orientation –
9 th grade
Aug. 9
New student orientation –
10-12 th grades
Aug. 9
New student technology training –
7-12 th grades
Aug. 9-10
School starts
Aug. 11
It’s Only the Beginning
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Recently, I
was
fortunate
enough to attend the Cary Academy
commencement. The Class of 2010 is an
impressive group and the speakers were
wonderful in helping all of us to fully
celebrate the moment for our school.
Whether heading off to Stanford,
Harvard, the University of Chicago or
staying right here in the Triangle this
ceremony reminded me that graduation
may be the close of the students’ time at
CA, but it is only the beginning for new
opportunities.
The PTAA also is ready to transition to
a new school year. The originators of our
parent-led organization provided for the
movement from one school year into the
next, in a very logical fashion. To prepare
for taking on the task of becoming PTAA
president, the organization’s presidentelect
spends an entire school year serving
on the PTAA board, overseeing our grants
program and working closely with the
president. This training allows for a more
seamless transition from year to year. It
also requires a significant commitment on
the part of the individual who will become
the organization’s leader. To provide an
even more complete circle of support for
our organization’s leadership, following the
year as president, the past president
continues to serve on the PTAA board to
help provide historical perspective — helping
the organization not to have to re-create
the wheel, so to speak.
During the summer of 2010, the PTAA
will move into the next year of leadership.
Manju Karkare will step into the role of
president, following her year in “training”
and will provide Monica Udell, our president-elect,
with her foundation to serve in
that same capacity the following year.
Karen Carlisle and Lisa Duke will be
returning to the board and serving as
mentors to our new US and MS reps, Vicky
Ravenel and Susanne Dudash. Terri
Burroughs will continue as secretary, and
Donna Hodgdon will move from her role as
assistant treasurer to serve as treasurer
along with our soon to be appointed
assistant treasurer, Sharon Lee.
This consistency of leadership makes it
more difficult to notice the end of a term.
The movement from one school year to the
next does not close the book on an agenda
specific to one PTAA president; instead the
commencement of a new year signals the
continuation of the PTAA’s strategic goals
and objectives. Look for great things from
this returning and new group of volunteers,
all of whom realize the culmination of one
school year allows for the promise of new
beginnings!
— Karen Green, PTAA President, ’09 -‘10