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<strong>532</strong>osuna road<br />
A magazine for the <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> Community<br />
<strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Lighting the Path<br />
New programs cultivate<br />
innovation at <strong>Prep</strong><br />
<strong>Prep</strong> Profiles<br />
Alumna: Katie Sharp '03<br />
Students: Odyssey Scholars<br />
Faculty: Helen Haskell<br />
Alumni Wrap-Up<br />
<strong>Prep</strong>Studio: Photography
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<strong>532</strong> refers to the school’s physical address - and the sense<br />
of place felt by all who come here. The <strong>532</strong> staff welcomes<br />
you to our school magazine, published for alumni, parents,<br />
students, friends, and the entire <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> community.<br />
We hope you enjoy the magazine.<br />
Our Mission: The joy of learning and living is at the<br />
center of all we do. <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>aratory School provides<br />
remarkable opportunities for intellectual and personal<br />
growth within a challenging and balanced program. As an<br />
extension of our families, <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>’s diverse community<br />
inspires students to find their academic focus, talents and<br />
creativity.<br />
Our Vision: At <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>, we will inspire our students to<br />
discover their purposes in the world by:<br />
• Developing essential skills and intellectual potential<br />
through challenging academics;<br />
• Cultivating a socially responsible environment of<br />
innovation and creativity; and<br />
• Engaging as a vibrant community for the betterment of<br />
society.<br />
FEATURE STORY<br />
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Cultivating Innovation<br />
In this age of innovation, <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> has<br />
developed new programs that unleash critical<br />
thinking and curiosity, distinguishing the<br />
School and its students on both local and<br />
national levels.<br />
On the Cover<br />
SPACE Director and Spanish instructor<br />
Daniel de León and students Calvert King '21<br />
and Warren Stacy '19 oversee a 3D printer<br />
demonstration in <strong>Prep</strong>'s makerspace.<br />
Our Five A’s: To foster growth toward human as<br />
well as academic excellence, <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> seeks<br />
to create balance among the Five A’s:<br />
Academics • Arts • Athletics • Activities • Atmosphere<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>’s logo represents our balanced philosophy<br />
and program. Our Five A’s converge to form an integrated<br />
whole with the student at the center, reflecting the<br />
comprehensive, well-rounded education that <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong><br />
students receive.
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FEATURES<br />
IN EVERY ISSUE<br />
5<br />
Alumni Recaps<br />
3<br />
<strong>Prep</strong> Around the Web<br />
11<br />
Alumni Profile: Katie Sharp '03<br />
4<br />
7<br />
From the Head of School<br />
Alumni Notes<br />
13<br />
Student Profile: Odyssey Scholars<br />
10<br />
From the Archive<br />
15<br />
Faculty Profile: Helen Haskell<br />
20<br />
SPS Briefs<br />
17<br />
Drumroll, Please: Innovation at <strong>Prep</strong><br />
21<br />
24<br />
Smart Giving<br />
Sundevil Sports<br />
19<br />
<strong>Prep</strong>Studio: Photography<br />
25<br />
Congrats Class of 2017!<br />
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<strong>532</strong>osuna road<br />
is published by<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>aratory School,<br />
an independent co-ed school with a<br />
nationally recognized college preparatory<br />
program for students in<br />
grades 6 through 12.<br />
Bill Sinfield - Head of School<br />
Scott Jeffries - Dean of Students<br />
Cheryl McMillan - Head of Upper School<br />
Susi Hochrein - Head of Middle School<br />
Julie Cook - Director of Development<br />
Jenny Davidson - Director of Information Technology<br />
Laura Fitzpatrick - Director of Admission<br />
Melissa Morse - Director of College Counseling<br />
Melissa Jo Stroud - Director of Marketing &<br />
Communications<br />
Managing Editor - Melissa Jo Stroud<br />
Designer/Editor/Contributor - Alexis Magaña-Jaggli<br />
Contributors:<br />
Melissa Besante Dineen ’97<br />
Julie Cook<br />
Pete MacFarlane<br />
Patricia Gabbett Snow<br />
Susan Walton ’72<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>aratory School<br />
<strong>532</strong> Osuna Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113<br />
505.338.3000 phone • 505.338.3099 fax<br />
sandiaprep.org • info@sandiaprep.org<br />
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photos are great. I get to stay in<br />
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Proud to be a Sundevil. Go Unicorns!<br />
We love hearing from<br />
Go Lions! Celebrating the Five A's of<br />
the <strong>Prep</strong> community<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> on social <strong>Prep</strong>aratory media. School. Academics,<br />
Athletics, Arts, Activities, and Atmosphere.<br />
"When I think of<br />
The joy of learning and living Pete MacFarlane is I think at the<br />
about how much he<br />
center of all we do. <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>aratory<br />
changed and altered<br />
School provides remarkable the course opportunities<br />
of <strong>Sandia</strong>’s<br />
athletic department.<br />
for intellectual and personal<br />
Pete started to change<br />
growth<br />
within a challenging the and culture at <strong>Sandia</strong> balanced<br />
<strong>Prep</strong> and I benefitted<br />
program. As an extension of from our his competitive families, but T<br />
" <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> has such<br />
o provide remarkable<br />
responsible<br />
opportunities<br />
nature. Pete is<br />
a great environment for<br />
definitely one of the forces<br />
for personal kids to learn in a small growth, and that led to me to become cultivate<br />
classroom setting. Our<br />
a successful Division I<br />
each student's passions, talents,<br />
sons are thriving in their<br />
college athlete.<br />
creativity academics and as well as intellectual - Kerin development,<br />
Jones '81<br />
their activities. We are so<br />
Pete MacFarlane's<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> thankful Our to be a Five part of A's converge to form<br />
retirement after 42 years<br />
an integrated<br />
such a great school, with<br />
whole, reflecting as <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>'s the<br />
great administration and<br />
Athletic Director<br />
comprehensive, great teachers! - well-rounded education<br />
James Huron,<br />
that <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> students receive. 10<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> Parent<br />
Things We Believe: Educating is not a<br />
job; it is a calling. Education is about<br />
the students. Their needs always come<br />
"The school's beginning, as a place to creatively<br />
first. The measure educate of young our women and success to encourage them is how<br />
to strive for excellence in whatever field(s)<br />
we treat our most challenged student<br />
called to them, must still resonate<br />
on his or her most in the character challenging of the school.” day.<br />
- Barbara Sparks Federico '75 recalling the<br />
<strong>Prep</strong> seeks to create balance among<br />
years when <strong>Prep</strong> was an all-girls school<br />
the Five A's: Academics, Athletics,<br />
Arts, Atmosphere, and Activities.
FROM THE<br />
Head of School<br />
“I want to oppose the idea that<br />
the school has to teach directly<br />
that special knowledge and those<br />
accomplishments which one has<br />
to use later directly in life. The<br />
demands of life are much too<br />
manifold to let such a specialized<br />
training in school appear possible<br />
[...] The development of general<br />
ability for independent thinking<br />
and judgement should always be<br />
placed foremost.” - Albert Einstein<br />
I don’t usually start my articles with quotes as long as the<br />
one above, but I think that Einstein’s statement needs to<br />
be understood as a whole, especially in these times, when<br />
education is seen as a means to a lucrative end.<br />
Einstein included this statement in his book, Ideas and<br />
Opinions, published in 1954. Though I am sure that Einstein<br />
had the intellectual capacity to see into the future with more<br />
clarity than most, I wonder if he could have contemplated the<br />
magnitude of change that would come with the development<br />
of digital and cyber technology. He states that the “demands<br />
of life are much too manifold to let such specialized training<br />
in school appear possible,” but could he have ever anticipated<br />
the complexity of the demands and the rapidity of changes<br />
that our children are experiencing in their lives today? I don’t<br />
know the answer to that, but my guess is that he wouldn’t be<br />
surprised. He was a thinker, and, as such, he had the courage<br />
to untether himself from conventional wisdom of his day,<br />
and to let his mind and thoughts take him to places of which<br />
others could not conceive.<br />
Schools should aspire to develop that kind of untethered<br />
thinking. Certainly, our students must be exposed to the<br />
knowledge and wisdom of the ages, and there are skills and<br />
algorithms that they need to learn. However, the fundamental<br />
purpose of education should always be to develop<br />
independent, critical thinkers. That is the skill that is essential<br />
to our children’s future, and the future of our society.<br />
Unfortunately, because of national and state educational<br />
policies that fixate on standardized curriculum (e.g., Common<br />
Core) and state assessments that compel teachers to teach<br />
to those tests (e.g., the PARCC), we miss the mark on what<br />
is truly important. The emphasis is on grades rather than<br />
enlightenment.<br />
Happily, <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> has long rejected the notion of<br />
standardization. The school has for many years pushed back<br />
on the populace slide toward homogenized education that<br />
force marches students through a preordained curriculum<br />
and leaves no room for deep and meaningful exploration<br />
of content and concepts. Instead, we put much greater<br />
value on curiosity, imagination, and critical thinking skills.<br />
We encourage our students to find joy and passion in their<br />
learning experience.<br />
I have the great pleasure of roaming this campus and stepping<br />
into classes where students are led on a journey of discovery.<br />
I see young people, from grades 6 to 12, challenged to think<br />
rigorously, to engage skillfully in conceptualizing, applying,<br />
analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information. I<br />
witness collaborative, hands-on, active learning in all our<br />
classes, from math to art, English to science, history to theater.<br />
And when I come back to my office after those “walk-abouts,”<br />
I feel grateful that we have teachers who have chosen to take<br />
the road less travelled in education, and who will, indeed,<br />
make all the difference.<br />
In the pages that follow you will read stories of students<br />
and alumni who have benefitted from the kind of education<br />
offered at <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>. Some of them have taken circuitous<br />
routes to their present positions. This is, to be certain, the way<br />
of the future. Our children will take many turns on their life<br />
journey. They will meet challenges and take risks. It will be<br />
their ability to think with clarity, work collaboratively, and<br />
communicate confidently that will ensure that the journey will<br />
bring them joy and satisfaction.<br />
Bill Sinfield<br />
Head of School<br />
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Alumni RECAPS<br />
classroom crawl<br />
dallas meet and greet<br />
alumni voices:<br />
early days<br />
NOVEMBER 12<br />
2016<br />
santa claus visits prep<br />
APRIL 7<br />
2017<br />
APRIL 8<br />
2017<br />
A special thank you<br />
to <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>’s<br />
Young Alumni<br />
Committee for<br />
planning this<br />
event, as well as<br />
Tim Hebenstreit '09<br />
and Karl Nelson '09<br />
of ABQ Events.<br />
DECEMBER 5<br />
2016<br />
Washington dc Meet and greet<br />
recent grad lunch<br />
Alumni voices: how i got to where i am today<br />
MARCH 4<br />
2017<br />
5 <strong>532</strong> • <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
JANUARY 5<br />
2017<br />
JANUARY 18<br />
2017
DECADES celebration<br />
pete macfarlane<br />
5<br />
k<br />
sundevil athletic hall of fame 2017<br />
APRIL 8<br />
2017<br />
Thank you to our 50th<br />
Anniversary Committee<br />
JULY 7<br />
2017<br />
The inaugural Sundevil<br />
Athletic Hall of Fame<br />
induction ceremony<br />
celebrated 13 alumni,<br />
1 former coach, and<br />
the 1985 Boys Soccer<br />
Championship team.<br />
JULY 8<br />
2017<br />
100+ community<br />
members joined<br />
the race to honor<br />
the long-time<br />
Athletic Director's<br />
retirement.<br />
Photo by Andrea Kennedy '02<br />
alumni weekend 2017<br />
Atlanta meet and greet<br />
APRIL 20<br />
2017<br />
Alumni Induction Breakfast<br />
MAY 19<br />
2017<br />
JULY 7 - 9<br />
2017<br />
Included:<br />
Class Reunions<br />
Campus Tours<br />
Alumni Family Picnic<br />
Alumni Athletic Events<br />
Children & Tween Clinics<br />
<strong>Prep</strong> Scavenger Hunt<br />
teacher appreciation day<br />
MAY 9<br />
2017<br />
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AlumniNOTES<br />
’80s<br />
Dean C. Hines '81 was selected by NASA<br />
to be a Co-Investigator on "Network for<br />
Exploration and Space Science".<br />
Dana (Mozer) Reed ’84 is a Contracts<br />
Manager at Quest Aircraft Company, LLC<br />
in Idaho.<br />
In June, Julie Curro '92 and her foreign<br />
exchange student sister, Mirna Mirkovic<br />
'90 stopped by <strong>Prep</strong> for a campus visit.<br />
They coordinated a gathering with<br />
Melanie East Polansky '92 and their<br />
<strong>Prep</strong> faculty favorites Pete MacFarlane<br />
and Ernie Polansky.<br />
Kelly Heath ’96 is the<br />
director for Webster<br />
University’s Study<br />
Abroad program.<br />
Kelly spent the last 15<br />
years working with<br />
Loyola University Chicago as a Study<br />
Abroad Advisor, Assistant Director and<br />
Beijing Center Coordinator, and Associate<br />
Director of Study Abroad. Our ’96 grad<br />
has a B.A. in Spanish from Bates College in<br />
Maine and an M.Ed. in Higher Education,<br />
Student Affairs Specialization, from Loyola<br />
University Chicago.<br />
Dr. Aaron Reich '85 and his family<br />
stopped by <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> in July for a<br />
campus tour. Aaron is the President<br />
of TRINU Healthcare, an accredited<br />
healthcare education, development and<br />
consulting company; and the President<br />
of the Arlington Independent School<br />
District Board of Trustees.<br />
’90s<br />
Sundevil alumni continue to support<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> in a variety of ways.<br />
Thank you Susan Przekurat Epstein<br />
'91, Jillian Gonzales '91, Cristie<br />
Sappington Sandoval '90, and Todd<br />
Sandoval '91 for volunteering in our<br />
Russell Student Center!<br />
Sara Coon '93 was featured in the<br />
May 17, 2017 issue of the <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong><br />
Times article, “Thirty Years Later, Lost<br />
Purse Surfaces”. After an exchange via<br />
Facebook Messenger, we learned that<br />
Sara lives in Belgium with her husband,<br />
Darrin and their daughter, Brennan.<br />
In November 2016,<br />
Raúl Torrez ’95<br />
was elected<br />
Bernalillo<br />
District Attorney.<br />
In March, Jed Brock<br />
'96 of the Jonathan<br />
Brock Insurance<br />
Agency stopped<br />
by campus to<br />
finalize an Alumni<br />
Weekend sponsorship<br />
agreement.<br />
We appreciate our ’96, ’97<br />
& ’98 class reunion liaisons!<br />
Dana Blaugrund Carroll ’97 &<br />
Michael Beinenson ’97<br />
Lesley Siegel ’97<br />
is an Assistant<br />
Professor in<br />
the School<br />
of Education<br />
at Arcadia<br />
University.<br />
She lives with<br />
her wife in<br />
Philadelphia<br />
after many years<br />
in Seattle and Denver. Dr. Siegel has<br />
designed curriculum for museums and<br />
arts based community programs, worked<br />
for the Washington State Department of<br />
Education, directed special education<br />
programming for an alternative teacher<br />
licensing program, and worked on<br />
multi-state grants. Our ’97 grad has a<br />
Ph.D. from the University of Denver and<br />
a M.A. in Special Education from the<br />
University of New Mexico.
In May, Gayle Polansky ’98 graduated<br />
with an M.S. in Environmental Studies<br />
from Lamar University. Gayle is back in<br />
Albuquerque and is actively searching<br />
for a position in Ecosystems Management<br />
while running her photography business:<br />
www.glp-photography.com. Our ’98 grad<br />
also has a Civil Engineering degree from<br />
Texas Tech University.<br />
Sam Stribling’s '98 company, Eight 14<br />
Solutions, is working on the new multimillion<br />
dollar Facebook data center<br />
in Los Lunas, NM. Stribling's business<br />
will help ensure the facility is under<br />
environmental compliance. He said,<br />
"We've completed dozens of projects<br />
in New Mexico, but we've never done<br />
a project that has this type of notoriety<br />
to it."<br />
’00s<br />
In Remembrance<br />
Branson Quenzer ’99<br />
Dr. Adam Raff ’01<br />
is a Board certified<br />
Dermatology faculty<br />
member at Harvard<br />
and is dividing his time<br />
between clinical and<br />
research work. Laura,<br />
Adam’s wife, works at<br />
Stem Cell Technologies<br />
in Boston and is<br />
regional head of that division.<br />
Adam and Laura have a son,<br />
Asher.<br />
Ima Rahmaniar Husein stopped by<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> in August for a campus tour.<br />
Ima was an Indonesian exchange student<br />
during the 2001/2002 school year. Ima<br />
brought her husband and her host father<br />
to meet with some of her former teachers<br />
and Joelle Shaw '03. Ima has three<br />
children and works with PT GMF Aero<br />
Asia.<br />
Sara Tracy-Ruazol ’01 graduated with<br />
a Master of Laws in Military Law at the<br />
U.S. Army JAG School. Sara, her husband<br />
Jerwin, and their son Harrison live in<br />
Charlottesville, Va. where Sara works as<br />
an as an Associate Professor of Contract<br />
and Fiscal Law.<br />
In November 2016, Coach Audra Gentry<br />
'06 led the Lady Sundevils to the 2016<br />
4A Rudy's "Country Store" & Bar-B-Q<br />
State Volleyball Championships with a<br />
3-0 victory over Robertson High School.<br />
This was <strong>Prep</strong>'s third consecutive state<br />
championship.<br />
Corey Cooper ’07 was named to<br />
Albuquerque Business First's "40 Under<br />
Forty". Corey served<br />
as the Deputy Chief<br />
of Staff for the City<br />
of Albuquerque<br />
under Mayor Berry.<br />
In May 2015, the ’07<br />
Sundevil received a<br />
MBA in the field of Study Management of<br />
Technology from the University of New<br />
Mexico’s Robert O. Anderson School of<br />
Management.<br />
We appreciate our ’07 class liaisons<br />
JoAnna (Phillips) Nevada ’07<br />
and Dani Castioni ’07<br />
In May, Kelsey Benedick ’07 graduated<br />
summa cum laude with a J.D. from<br />
Lewis & Clark Law School. She passed<br />
the Oregon bar exam in September.<br />
Lauren Amagai '08<br />
and her husband,<br />
Kevin welcomed<br />
daughter,<br />
Isla Jean Amagai,<br />
on March 30, 2017.<br />
Lauren works at<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> National<br />
Labs and has master’s and bachelor’s<br />
degrees in English from the University<br />
of New Mexico.<br />
Young<br />
alumni<br />
committee<br />
Become a Member.<br />
Make a Difference.<br />
We launched <strong>Sandia</strong><br />
<strong>Prep</strong>'s "Young Alumni<br />
Committee" in October<br />
2016. Within a few<br />
months, the group made<br />
a noticeable difference in<br />
the lives of both students<br />
and alumni. The advisory<br />
board does not have a<br />
membership fee and is<br />
made up of graduates<br />
from 2001 to 2017.<br />
The group’s main goal<br />
is to further strengthen<br />
the relationship between<br />
young alumni and <strong>Sandia</strong><br />
<strong>Prep</strong>, while creating<br />
networking opportunities<br />
for our young professionals.<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>’s Young<br />
Alumni Committee<br />
meets once a month<br />
and encourages support<br />
for the School through<br />
social event coordination,<br />
educational programs<br />
and community service<br />
projects. We appreciate<br />
their time and expertise.<br />
Thank you!<br />
To learn more, please email<br />
alumni@sandiaprep.org.<br />
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Alumni NOTES<br />
continued<br />
In April, Julia Fay Bernal '09<br />
was featured in an Albuquerque<br />
Journal article for her work with the<br />
AmeriCorps' Native American Water<br />
Corps program. Julia is working on a<br />
Master of Water Resources degree at<br />
the University of New Mexico. The ’09<br />
Sundevil works with Earth Force, an<br />
international non-profit, and volunteers<br />
with the Pueblo Action Alliance.<br />
’10s<br />
In May, Jake Contos-Heidrich ’10,<br />
Michael Hudock, Elise Peterson ’10, and<br />
Caitie McGuire ’10 met for lunch at Café<br />
Lush in Albuquerque.<br />
In May, Michael Eaton '11 received<br />
an MBA from the University of New<br />
Mexico’s Anderson School of Business.<br />
Michael works as a Financial Services<br />
Professional at MassMutual Southwest.<br />
In August, William<br />
Verrillo ’11 began<br />
a four-year program<br />
at Creighton<br />
University School<br />
of Dentistry in<br />
Omaha.<br />
Emily Maxwell ’13 was accepted<br />
to and will attend San Diego State<br />
University’s Doctor of Physical Therapy<br />
Program.<br />
Sammy Navarro ’10 and RJ Ortiz ’11<br />
welcomed daughter Aubriana Elena Ortiz.<br />
She was born at 6:16 a.m. on December<br />
8, 2016, was<br />
20.5 inches,<br />
and weighed<br />
in at 7 pounds,<br />
six ounces.<br />
Sammy attends<br />
the University<br />
of New<br />
Mexico’s nursing program, and RJ works<br />
with <strong>Sandia</strong> National Laboratories.<br />
In November 2016, Amanda Custer ’15<br />
was nominated by the Department of<br />
International Studies at Dickinson College<br />
(Carlisle, PA) to represent Dickinson at<br />
the 68th Annual Student Conference<br />
on U.S. Affairs at the United States<br />
Military Academy at West Point. This<br />
conference tied into her internship at the<br />
Peacekeeping and Stability Operations<br />
Institute at the U.S. Army War College.<br />
Amanda is pursuing a B.A. in International<br />
Studies with a concentration in U.S.<br />
National Security Policy.<br />
In July, Samuel Albert ’14 and Gabi<br />
Albert ’15 met up with former ’13-’14<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> exchange student Alex Flok at<br />
Cologne, Germany.<br />
Sam Binkley '16 was named to the<br />
Dean's List in the Ira A. Fulton School of<br />
Engineering at Arizona State University for<br />
the Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 semesters.<br />
Sam is a Mechanical Engineering student<br />
in the Barrett Honor College at ASU.<br />
Kiersten Huitt ‘16 was named to Hendrix<br />
College’s All Region Team for both indoor<br />
and outdoor track<br />
and field, All<br />
Conference 2nd<br />
team as a runner<br />
up in the 100<br />
meter hurdles, and<br />
was chosen as a<br />
Southern Athletic<br />
Association all<br />
academic honor roll student. Our ’16<br />
grad spent her summer vacation in Fresno<br />
interning with TFS Investments.<br />
In Remembrance<br />
Alex Askenazy '16<br />
UPCOMING<br />
SANDIA<br />
PREP<br />
EVENTS<br />
Noche de Celebración<br />
Saturday, April 28, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Alumni Weekend <strong>2018</strong><br />
July 13-15, <strong>2018</strong>
FROM THE<br />
Archive<br />
All About "A"s<br />
We talk about education at <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> using<br />
words that begin with "A": academics, athletics,<br />
arts, activities, and school atmosphere. Our<br />
founders knew that when students engage<br />
in efforts outside the classroom or of books,<br />
their education comes to life, creating deeper<br />
understanding.<br />
2010<br />
1980s<br />
ATHLETICS • Our first<br />
individual state championships<br />
were in gymnastics. Freshman<br />
Brenda Horn took 1st in State<br />
Championship Floor Exercise in<br />
1974, and Marion Bushnell won<br />
1st in Balance Beam. Our no-cut<br />
policy allows students to compete<br />
in sports and win many state<br />
championships.<br />
ACADEMICS • Science classes<br />
took to the field, where they could<br />
launch class-made rockets or keep<br />
a paper mâché ball in the air. Field<br />
trips to the Ojito wilderness for<br />
geology or to the (then) Holiday Inn<br />
Pyramid Hotel to see the physics<br />
of those open elevators, or simply<br />
to the nearby gravel pits, all meant<br />
engaging in hands-on learning.<br />
1974<br />
ATMOSPHERE • Studentdirected<br />
community service has<br />
led to important partnerships in<br />
Albuquerque. The December trip<br />
that middle schoolers make to the<br />
Roadrunner Food Bank after the<br />
semester ends is a School tradition<br />
with important messages taught in<br />
the spirit of giving back.<br />
ACTIVITIES • Teachers follow their<br />
passions in choosing what they offer for<br />
activities twice per week. Students who<br />
chose Ms. Karen Lyall’s African Dance<br />
activity learned movements, music,<br />
and dress. Guests from United World<br />
College visited campus and reinforced<br />
the students’ newly acquired skills.<br />
ARTS • Rick Wilde was a music<br />
teacher who encouraged his<br />
students to perform for an audience,<br />
not just to practice and play in class.<br />
He was one of many music teachers<br />
who brought students out of the<br />
classroom or under an architectural<br />
element for them to hear how space<br />
affects sounds.<br />
1990<br />
2000<br />
Susan Walton '72<br />
Parent Relations, Archives, & Activities
Alumni<br />
PROFILE<br />
Katie Sharp '03<br />
11 <strong>532</strong> • <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
11 <strong>532</strong> Fall 2017
Fruit flies have followed Katie Sharp for many years and<br />
through many transitions. Not literally, perhaps. But the<br />
tiny insects have been an important part of her life since<br />
her days in Ernie Polansky’s Biology class at <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>.<br />
Sharp, ’03, uses fruit flies in her work as a postdoctoral<br />
researcher at the UC Berkeley Department of Molecular and<br />
Cell Biology. With fruit flies as her model organism, Sharp<br />
studies epithelial cell polarity and function.<br />
"Tubes or sheets of epithelial cells make up many of our organs,<br />
including kidneys, liver, lungs and intestines, to name a few,"<br />
she explains. They are polarized with a distinct top and bottom<br />
side, and this polarity is crucial to their proper function.<br />
“For example, without it, your kidneys can’t filter blood,” Sharp<br />
says. “Also, most human cancers come from epithelial cells<br />
that have lost polarity and started growing out of control.”<br />
Researchers don’t understand very well how this polarity is<br />
established or maintained. Sharp hopes her research will<br />
contribute to scientists’ understanding of how disrupted<br />
polarity causes cancers and other diseases.<br />
Fruit flies are Sharp’s organism of choice because “they’re small<br />
and cheap, their genetics are easy to manipulate, and because<br />
their cells and genes are very similar to our own,” she explains.<br />
Sharp first worked with fruit flies during Polansky’s Biology II<br />
class. “Mr. Polansky’s class was the first time I really understood<br />
the idea that you can learn things by doing experiments,” she<br />
says. “It opened my eyes to the idea of a career in research and<br />
prompted me to seek out lab experience in college.”<br />
The reward, however, “is when you get a great result or have a<br />
flash of insight and you’re the first person in the world to know<br />
a new piece of information. Then the fun begins because you<br />
get to tell everyone about it by publishing papers and talking to<br />
other scientists. That’s the part of my job I love the most.”<br />
During college, Sharp worked in a research lab studying T-cell<br />
activation. After graduation, she spent a year teaching English<br />
to high school students in Lyon, France, “which was mostly just<br />
an excuse to live abroad for a year,” she says.<br />
She landed in Boston for her next job, as a research assistant at<br />
Harvard Medical School. From there, Sharp headed to Stanford,<br />
where she worked as a graduate student while earning her<br />
PhD. During a 2005 summer study abroad program in France<br />
run by the University of Rochester, she met her now-husband,<br />
Toby Teel. They married in 2013.<br />
Sharp, an Albuquerque native, attended <strong>Prep</strong> for grades 6-12<br />
and describes herself as a “very diligent” student. Outdoor<br />
Leadership Program camping trips are among this Lion’s<br />
fondest memories. Sharp credits her science classes and<br />
teachers at <strong>Prep</strong>, especially Polansky and former chemistry<br />
teacher Leigh Thompson, with putting her on the path to a<br />
research career. “Along the way, I’ve considered other options,<br />
but you can really draw a pretty straight line from Mr. Polansky<br />
and Ms. Thompson to my job now,” she says. Still, <strong>Prep</strong>’s<br />
emphasis on learning to write well was perhaps the most<br />
important preparation for college and career. “A career as an<br />
academic scientist requires strong writing skills to win grants<br />
and fellowships to fund your work as well as to get your work<br />
published,” Sharp says. Sharp’s long-term goal is to become a<br />
professor.<br />
Sharp in the lab<br />
She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry, with<br />
a minor in French, from the University of Rochester in 2007,<br />
and a Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford in 2016.<br />
Sharp spends most of her time reading the scientific literature,<br />
planning and executing experiments, and analyzing her data.<br />
While she enjoys being responsible for planning her time,<br />
deciding what work to do and following her interests, “It can<br />
be hard because when you’re struggling, you have to keep<br />
yourself motivated,” she says.<br />
“Scientific research requires a lot of relentless determination,<br />
resilience in the face of disappointing data, and optimism<br />
that you’ll discover something eventually,” Sharp adds. “It’s<br />
not uncommon to have months of disappointing or confusing<br />
results.”<br />
When she’s not studying her fruit flies, Sharp enjoys cooking<br />
and baking. “I’m always trying to make ever more impressive<br />
desserts. My husband always teases me because I remember<br />
events in my life based on what I was eating at the time. I’ll<br />
say, ‘Don’t you remember when so-and-so told us they were<br />
engaged? We were eating that really good chocolate mousse.’ ”<br />
She also loves spending time outside, especially biking, taking<br />
Pilates classes, and exploring restaurants and cuisines. “My<br />
husband and I are always on the hunt for the best ice cream,<br />
the most creative brunch, and really excellent Vietnamese<br />
food," she says.<br />
Sharp’s advice to <strong>Prep</strong> students as they venture into the<br />
world? Keep an open mind. “Just follow your interests in<br />
college and don’t worry too much about what specific jobs<br />
a particular major prepares you for,” she explains. “If you do<br />
things you love and take advantage of interesting and exciting<br />
opportunities as they present themselves, you’ll be okay. Use<br />
your college summers wisely: study abroad, travel, do a cool<br />
internship or research project. It’s those experiences that will<br />
help you figure out what you want to do next.”<br />
- Patricia Gabbett Snow<br />
Alumni PROFILE
Student<br />
PROFILE<br />
Odyssey Scholars<br />
Jake Blanchfield '19<br />
Abby Crouch '19<br />
Emma Mannal '19<br />
Colin Miller '19<br />
13 <strong>532</strong> • <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
13 <strong>532</strong> Fall 2017
Jake Blanchfield '19<br />
Online Entrepreneurship Abby Crouch '19<br />
Life Through the Eyes of Immigrants<br />
"I have been a student at <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> since the eighth<br />
grade. I decided to transfer from another independent<br />
school in Albuquerque, and it was one of the best<br />
decisions I’ve ever made. Since I started attending<br />
<strong>Prep</strong>, I have enjoyed the vast variety of classes, and<br />
am excited about what the future has to offer. After<br />
learning that I had been accepted for the Odyssey<br />
Program, I was thrilled to get started. In the Odyssey<br />
Program, my ultimate goal is to learn all there is to<br />
know about online business. I have created an online<br />
e-commerce business, and every day I strive to better<br />
my business and learn. During the remaining duration<br />
of the Program, I hope to deepen my understanding<br />
and gain a fresh outlook on business, spending<br />
many hours getting hands-on experience, as well as<br />
developing new ideas to offer to the global discussion."<br />
"Hi, my name is Abby Crouch and the focus for my<br />
two year Odyssey project is studying people who<br />
have been marginalized in society. This includes<br />
people who have faced prejudices and overcome<br />
them. I’m doing this by interviewing those who fit my<br />
topic and telling their stories through journalism. My<br />
mission is to educate people on views, cultures, and<br />
ideas that they may not relate to, yet hopefully learn<br />
to be accepting and tolerant of."<br />
Colin Miller '19<br />
How the arts affect and serve those with autism<br />
Emma Mannal '19<br />
The Business of Fashion blogging<br />
"Hi, I’m Emma Mannal. I am a junior at <strong>Sandia</strong><br />
<strong>Prep</strong>aratory School and recently moved to Albuquerque,<br />
New Mexico, from a quaint town on the coast of Cape<br />
Cod, Massachusetts. For as long as I can remember,<br />
I have always been interested in fashion and design.<br />
At age eight, I created my first dress, with absolutely<br />
no experience. With nothing more than a stapler,<br />
some fabric scraps, and a vision, I designed my first<br />
outfit. Since then, I have evolved tremendously as a<br />
designer, and have decided to pursue my love of fashion<br />
here at <strong>Prep</strong>. Over the next two years, I will have the<br />
opportunity to learn about the business behind the<br />
beautiful garments we see, on and off the runway. By<br />
using social media and marketing to develop my own<br />
personal brand, I hope to catch a glimpse at the inner<br />
workings of the fashion industry."<br />
"I am Colin Miller, and I am a junior at <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>. In a<br />
phrase, I love to act. I feel absolutely free on the stage, and<br />
it is the one place where I have not a care in the world. As<br />
much as I love the theatre, academics come first. I am vastly<br />
aware of the importance of research, turning in timely work,<br />
and digging deeper to find as much information about a<br />
subject as I can. I maintain at 3.85 GPA at <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> and<br />
hope that will rise this spring. The Odyssey Scholars project<br />
that I will be working on for the next two years is a two-man<br />
stage play that I will write, direct, and perform, along with<br />
my mentor and very good friend, Darryl Bryant, MFA. This<br />
play will have a main focus on autism and how the arts affect<br />
those with autism – especially the performing arts. I plan to<br />
have the performance(s) at a small theatre in town, and all of<br />
the proceeds will go to an autism center to continue assisting<br />
those with autism and the families of those with autism. I am<br />
so pleased to be working on this project because it has always<br />
been my dream to write, direct, and star in a stage play. This<br />
opportunity will assist me in gaining more responsibility as a<br />
person, and I hope will continue to further my career as an<br />
actor/director/writer. Thank you so much for supporting this<br />
project, and I hope you will come see the finished product."<br />
Student PROFILE
Faculty<br />
PROFILE<br />
Helen Haskell<br />
Haskell "takes the wheel"<br />
during her stay aboard the<br />
NOAA ship, Fairweather.<br />
15 <strong>532</strong> • <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
From self-proclaimed “desert dwelling ocean rookie”<br />
to Teacher at Sea alumna in Southeast Alaska, <strong>Sandia</strong><br />
<strong>Prep</strong> science instructor Helen Haskell experienced a<br />
profound transformation last summer that she’ll be sharing<br />
with her land-locked students.<br />
Haskell, who teaches 6th Grade General Science and 9th<br />
Grade Geology and is a faculty member of <strong>Prep</strong>’s Outdoor<br />
Leadership Program, spent June 2017 aboard the National<br />
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship<br />
Fairweather, learning about hydrography. This science uses<br />
sonar to examine the ocean and marine floors. Data is used<br />
to make nautical charts but also to learn more about plate<br />
tectonics, effects of natural disasters, and coastline changes.<br />
As a Teacher at Sea, Haskell was exposed to lots of different<br />
jobs on the ship, done by a “cast of characters” from different<br />
backgrounds and areas around the nation. One task was<br />
“bottom sampling,” or collecting seafloor mud to determine<br />
good locations for vessels to anchor.<br />
students to figure out neutral buoyancy with a glass vial – for it<br />
to not sink or float – as part of their quest to learn more about<br />
density, buoyancy, and how boats stay afloat.<br />
This year, she will integrate her seafaring experience with<br />
lessons on sonar, bottom sampling, mapping, and bathymetry<br />
(the study of water depth), as well as NOAA and career<br />
paths. Students will communicate with and interview the<br />
Fairweather’s scientists and staff.<br />
Haskell’s most important take-away from the Teacher at Sea<br />
experience? “Perhaps that there is so much to learn about our<br />
planet,” she says. “It’s a huge endeavor to collect valid data<br />
and to use it in meaningful ways.”<br />
Haskell was born in Mansfield, England, near Sherwood<br />
Forest. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Applied Community<br />
Studies at Manchester Polytechnic in England, then a master’s<br />
in education from the University of New Mexico.<br />
She first came to <strong>Prep</strong> in 1996 when she worked for a<br />
non-profit organization that used non-releasable raptors in<br />
classroom presentations. “Dave Darling and Dibby Olson<br />
housed the birds, and I would come to <strong>Prep</strong> several times a<br />
week to pick the birds up from the front office,” Haskell says.<br />
She began teaching at <strong>Prep</strong> in 2004.<br />
Haskell says the relationships <strong>Prep</strong> teachers forge with their<br />
students inspire her.<br />
Haskell and her students show off their science project.<br />
"We were out in pretty wet, windy conditions on a small boat,”<br />
Haskell recalls. “By the end, it was hard to stand up on the<br />
boat, we were soaking wet, but had so much fun.”<br />
The Fairweather crew also was tasked with surveying a mud<br />
volcano in the Gulf of Alaska. “Finding a mud volcano and<br />
a big fault was pretty great,” she says. “We picked up the<br />
methane plume on the sonar coming from the mud volcano.”<br />
Though New Mexico is hundreds of miles from any coastline,<br />
Haskell says she is slowly incorporating more oceanography<br />
into her desert classroom. “The geologic connection is in fact<br />
an easy one to make,” she explains.<br />
For one thing, New Mexico hosted inland seas millions of<br />
years ago, so <strong>Prep</strong> students who visit the top of the <strong>Sandia</strong><br />
Mountains can find brachiopods and crinoids, fossils, and<br />
remnants of the ocean. But unless they apply that knowledge<br />
to learn how oceans function, “we are unable to understand<br />
how Earth fully works and how our daily actions and choices<br />
have global impacts,” Haskell says. “The challenge for me<br />
as a teacher is connecting my students to this modern day<br />
ecosystem so many miles away, one that many of them have<br />
not seen, or at least have not spent time with.”<br />
As soon as she learned last spring that she would be part of the<br />
NOAA Teacher at Sea program, Haskell challenged her<br />
“Sometimes the small, but specific<br />
conversation or opportunity or connection…<br />
is one of the pivots that propels a student<br />
in a direction that they might not have<br />
gone if that small conversation had not<br />
happened and had the teacher not known<br />
the student quite as well.”<br />
The connection with students’ families - especially through<br />
the <strong>Prep</strong>'s Outdoor Leadership Program (OLP) - distinguishes<br />
<strong>Prep</strong>. “It hits me every time we do a trip,” she says. “We<br />
share an experience, sometimes one with challenging weather<br />
conditions, and the parents watch their CAs (Camping<br />
Associates) and middle school students step up and meet<br />
the challenge. They support the OLP staff in making sure the<br />
group is safe, and we eat, hike, laugh, and clean up together<br />
as a community.” Haskell is married to Morris Albert and has<br />
two stepchildren: Samuel Albert ’14 and Gabi Albert ’15. They<br />
have an 18-year-old cat named Harry.<br />
When she’s not teaching, Haskell enjoys hiking and camping<br />
as well as experimenting with art. “The latest is silk painting,<br />
thanks to (<strong>Prep</strong> art teacher) Lynn McColl,” she says. “I love to<br />
travel and see new places and what’s around the next corner.”<br />
- Patricia Gabbett Snow<br />
Faculty PROFILE
ENGINEERING<br />
INNOVATE<br />
PREP<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>'s Engineering & Coding<br />
classes begin in the 8th grade and<br />
continue through senior year. Students<br />
build on a foundation of engineering<br />
concepts and basic coding taught in 8th<br />
grade and progress to Mechatronics and<br />
longer, more complex strings of code.<br />
As an Independent Curriculum<br />
Group founder, <strong>Prep</strong> prides itself<br />
on remaining at the forefront of<br />
education. In keeping with that<br />
tradition of innovation, <strong>Sandia</strong><br />
<strong>Prep</strong> is excited about the latest<br />
programs and ever-evolving<br />
opportunities for our students.<br />
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SPACE<br />
The <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> Autonomous<br />
Creative Environment (SPACE)<br />
is a community-oriented<br />
makerspace where science,<br />
engineering, technical, and<br />
visual art enthusiasts meet<br />
regularly to share, explore,<br />
innovate, and collaborate using<br />
textiles, electronic hardware,<br />
manufacturing tools, and<br />
programming techniques.
Distinguished Scholars are students who<br />
have chosen to take additional classes<br />
during their time at <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> while<br />
maintaining a 3.5 GPA. These students<br />
graduate with 28+ credits. While some<br />
may focus specifically in a given area<br />
(math, science, arts, etc.) others may<br />
have branched out and accumulated the<br />
credits in a variety of areas.<br />
DISTINGUISHED<br />
SCHOLARS<br />
PROGRAM<br />
ODYSSEY<br />
SCHOLARS<br />
PROGRAM<br />
This program sparks the creative<br />
passion and critical thinking that<br />
lies within our students. Juniors<br />
and seniors challenge themselves<br />
academically, intellectually, and<br />
creatively by designing a two-year<br />
course of study that culminates in a<br />
major public presentation.<br />
This program combines the<br />
elements of Independent Study,<br />
Senior Experience, and research<br />
(capstone) projects.<br />
HERITAGE<br />
LANGUAGE<br />
PROGRAM<br />
Sixth and seventh grade students with a<br />
strong proficiency in Spanish explore language<br />
instruction through advanced reading,<br />
conversation, essays, and presentations.<br />
Discussed themes include Latina women in<br />
history and the idea of the hero.
JOSH HARLING '18<br />
ANTONIA PATTICHIS '23<br />
SAM MCGINNIS '18 NATALIE PEAVY '18<br />
RYAN HUGHES '21<br />
SHAMUS O'LEARY '19<br />
prepSTUDIO<br />
photography<br />
DEREK BENAVIDEZ '18 ARIANNA ARAGON '18 DEREK BENAVIDEZ '18<br />
We asked...<br />
What is<br />
one of your<br />
favorite<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong><br />
classes?<br />
19 <strong>532</strong> • <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
History Moorea Medina '23<br />
Art Tatiana Dalton '23<br />
Theater Samia Dominguez '23<br />
Science Jolie McGinnis '20<br />
Journalism Cristian Rojo '20
SPS BRIEFS<br />
Our Mini Cooper<br />
Raffle was a<br />
tremendous success<br />
with proceeds<br />
benefiting <strong>Sandia</strong><br />
<strong>Prep</strong>'s Annual Fund.<br />
Our very own Strings<br />
Director, Erin Rolan,<br />
was the lucky winner!<br />
In August, our<br />
Canadian Head of<br />
School, Bill Sinfield,<br />
officially became<br />
a U.S. citizen. The<br />
School gifted him<br />
with a very patriotic<br />
hat and tie.<br />
In April, English<br />
teacher Ms. Molly<br />
Rennie traveled to<br />
Morocco as part<br />
of her Teachers for<br />
Global Classrooms<br />
program trip.<br />
<strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> was<br />
recently named a top<br />
private high school<br />
in New Mexico and<br />
earned an A+ rating.<br />
Gorgeous silk<br />
paintings from <strong>Prep</strong><br />
seniors were featured<br />
in the Biannual<br />
Albuquerque Fiber<br />
Arts Fiesta.<br />
In May, our mid-school<br />
thespians took on the<br />
play Little Women.<br />
The story follows the<br />
adventures of four very<br />
different sisters during<br />
and after the Civil War.<br />
Students from all<br />
over Albuquerque<br />
joined us for<br />
Summer<strong>Prep</strong> 2017,<br />
which featured new<br />
class offerings like<br />
Super Hero Science,<br />
Ultimate Frisbee,<br />
and Star Wars<br />
Jedi Training 2.<br />
The School was more<br />
than ready for the Great<br />
American Solar Eclipse<br />
in August. Hundreds of<br />
solar glasses and half a<br />
dozen telescopes were<br />
available for students,<br />
teachers, and staff<br />
to witness the<br />
astronomical event.<br />
During the summer,<br />
a few of our Outdoor<br />
Leadership Program<br />
Camping Associates<br />
(along with OLP<br />
Director, Mr. Larry<br />
Hanley) embarked on a<br />
camping adventure that<br />
took them through seven<br />
states in two weeks.<br />
One of <strong>Prep</strong>’s<br />
chemistry labs got a<br />
major facelift during<br />
the summer. It now<br />
takes up two classroom<br />
spaces; one area for<br />
lectures and another<br />
area for lab work.
SMART GIVING<br />
21 <strong>532</strong> • <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
Outdoor Leadership Program Yurt Endowment<br />
Larry Hanley organized the first trip for <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>’s Outdoor<br />
Leadership Program (OLP) to Stone Lodge located between<br />
Heron and El Vado Lakes in Northern New Mexico southwest<br />
of Chama in January 1994. Doctors Marilyn and Paul Duncan<br />
of Albuquerque joined their daughter Lisa ‘98 during her<br />
freshman year in January 1995 to Stone Lodge. “As I remember<br />
we had lots of snow in the Chama area that year and from<br />
Stone Lodge the group spent two days cross country skiing<br />
around the summit of Cumbres Pass,” explains Paul. “I learned<br />
that there were four yurts at the time in the Cumbres Pass area<br />
owned and rented out by Southwest Nordic Center in Taos and<br />
by 1998, I organized the first yurt trip to Trujillo Meadows with<br />
Tom and Kurt VerEecke, Kate Clark, Jen Swearingen (a former<br />
French teacher at <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>), my son Patrick ‘01 and me,”<br />
Paul recalls.<br />
A skier since the age of five, Paul still enjoys getting out in the<br />
snow in the mountains. “Cumbres Pass in January is a winter<br />
wonderland that most New Mexicans never experience,” he<br />
says. “I enjoy seeing the students’ enthusiasm when they<br />
have been able to cross country ski into a yurt. Getting to<br />
any of the yurts requires a lot of stamina particularly with the<br />
packs many of them carry. Over the years, Larry Hanley has<br />
acquired very good cross country skis and boots. It is really a<br />
unique experience and I know many of the OLP graduates have<br />
continued to expand their skiing skills,” Paul maintains.<br />
Paul established an IRA when he was on the <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> Board<br />
of Trustees for which <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> was named the beneficiary.<br />
“Marilyn and I decided in the past year that we wanted that<br />
money to start benefiting the OLP to ensure that the yurt trip<br />
would have permanent financial support,” he explains. “The<br />
students over many years have sent us special notes with “Yurt<br />
Art Sketches,” and it is apparent that this is a trip which has<br />
resonated with each class. We knew it should continue,” he<br />
says. Paul reflects, “Over the past twenty years (this year was the<br />
20th year since that great first trip to Trujillo Meadows yurt) so<br />
much has changed in the Outdoor Leadership Program. Most<br />
importantly the OLP faculty have all become very familiar<br />
with the now five yurts - Trujillo Meadows, Flat Mountain, Neff<br />
Mountain, Grouse Mountain, and Spruce. OLP faculty Larry<br />
Hanley, Kate Clarke (former <strong>Prep</strong> librarian), Paul Ryder, Sarah<br />
Wilson, and Helen Haskell are all very capable skiers and have<br />
been the backbone of the program.”<br />
The Duncans contributed $15,000 to help establish the OLP Yurt<br />
Endowment. Nearly 50 <strong>Prep</strong> community members heard the call<br />
and donated an additional $10,000. This is a great testament to<br />
the popularity of the Yurt Program and to the generosity of our<br />
community. Thank you, Paul and Marilyn, and thanks to all who<br />
help create this endowment to ensure that the Yurt Program will<br />
happen for many, many years to come.<br />
- Julie Cook<br />
Director of Development<br />
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Elizabeth Kirschner, Chair<br />
Todd Sandoval '91, Vice Chair<br />
Vahid Staples '91, Treasurer<br />
Patrick Westerfield, Secretary<br />
Patrick D. Allen, At-Large<br />
Doug Clark<br />
Shari Cordova<br />
Susan Przekurat Epstein '91<br />
Pete Henderson<br />
Linda Kier<br />
Jeff Lawrence<br />
Jerry M. Lovato<br />
April Camilli Marker '93<br />
Raymond Nelson<br />
Parents Association President<br />
Al Park '88<br />
Brandon Saylor '03<br />
Alumni Association President<br />
Dominic Serna '01<br />
Ed Street<br />
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ENDOWMENT<br />
SPOTLIGHT<br />
In appreciation of the education their three<br />
children received at <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>, not to mention<br />
the countless memories made through sports,<br />
community service, and life at the school, Len<br />
and Liz Trainor made an unrestricted gift of<br />
$100,000 to the 2016-2017 Annual Fund, giving<br />
the school the greatest amount of flexibility to<br />
use their gift.<br />
We are truly grateful.<br />
The Trainor family were involved in just about<br />
every aspect of <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> over the 11 years<br />
they were parents at the school. Len is a past<br />
chair of the Board and member of numerous<br />
board committees. Liz also served on the Board<br />
of Trustees and most recently chaired the<br />
Development Committee. Len and Liz were<br />
fixtures on the sidelines of countless soccer and<br />
basketball games, and a constant presence at<br />
the girls' tennis matches.<br />
Len and Liz have four grown children, three<br />
of whom are <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> alumni. Ben '13<br />
is a graduate of West Virginia University,<br />
Samantha '16 a sophomore at the University of<br />
Alabama, and Madison '17 attends Flordia State<br />
University. Len and Liz were recently named<br />
Honorary Trustees of <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong>.<br />
The Odyssey Scholars Program Endowment was established in<br />
Fall 2016 by <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> grandparents Dr. Stuart D. and Jane<br />
V. Wilson of Farmington, NM to support <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> students’<br />
passion for a particular field or interest by connecting them<br />
to experts around the globe. Through this program, selected<br />
students focus on an academic passion during their junior<br />
and senior years requiring rigorous levels of reading, writing,<br />
studying, and research. This endowed fund pays for travel<br />
expenses, program activities, and other fees associated with the<br />
student experience.<br />
“The Odyssey Program appeals to me as well as my husband<br />
because it is an ‘out of the box’ endeavor that promises personal<br />
growth,” explains Jane. “Certain students think about dreams and<br />
goals that are theirs alone, not presented in the classroom. The<br />
Odyssey Program allows them to go down these special paths<br />
and investigate what they discover. Sometimes projects like this<br />
can even turn into a lifelong quest or career for these students.<br />
We want to give them that opportunity.”<br />
The idea of endowing the program holds particular appeal for<br />
the Wilsons. They believe “an endowment allows us to build on<br />
it annually.” Furthermore, “it has an outcome that our family can<br />
be proud of. We always like to know where our money is going,<br />
and the Odyssey Program is specific toward that end.”<br />
Philanthropy is a Wilson family value. “We believe strongly in<br />
helping. Our family has been profoundly blessed, and it is our<br />
wish to pass some of that along to individuals who are trying<br />
to find their own handhold to lift themselves up,” Jane reasons.<br />
“We consider <strong>Sandia</strong> <strong>Prep</strong> to be one our big blessings. With total<br />
confidence we watch our granddaughters walk through its doors.<br />
We feel assured that the outcome to their time spent there will<br />
make a difference for the rest of their lives.”<br />
The Wilsons established the Odyssey Scholars Program<br />
Endowment with an initial gift of $30,000.<br />
If you are interested in learning about the<br />
Odyssey Scholars Program,<br />
visit sandiaprep.org/academics.<br />
23 <strong>532</strong> • <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
Sundevil SPORTS<br />
2017<br />
SUNDEVIL HALL<br />
OF FAME INDUCTEES<br />
CINDY CELNIK ’89<br />
TOMMY EBEL ’89<br />
JOHNNY GRAY ’81<br />
KERIN JONES ’81<br />
AUDRA McCAMMON ’90<br />
LARA MOCK ’93<br />
STACIE McLAIN ’90<br />
DANA MOZER ’84<br />
BRUCE RAE ’94<br />
CONGRATULATIONS!<br />
New Athletic Director<br />
WILLIE OWENS<br />
COACH JUAN RAMOS<br />
ARTURO SANCHEZ ’91<br />
DAVID SHASKEY ’79<br />
VANESSA VENARDOS ’92<br />
TRAE WOOD ’84<br />
1985 BOYS VARSITY SOCCER TEAM<br />
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Congrats<br />
Class of 2017<br />
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INNOVATION<br />
NOCHE DE CELEBRACIÓN<br />
Saturday, April 28, <strong>2018</strong> • Hotel Albuquerque<br />
Tickets on sale now at sandiaprep.org/Noche<br />
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JULY 13 - 15<br />
SANDIA PREP<br />
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Sundevil Hall of Fame<br />
Induction Ceremony<br />
Pete MacFarlane 5K<br />
Alumni Family Picnic<br />
Happy Hour<br />
And more!