Report of the President: 2012 - UWC-USA

Report of the President: 2012 

THE ARMAND HAMMER UWC OF THE AMERICAN WEST

TABLE OF 

CONTENTS 

Letter from the President 1 

Report from the Board of Trustees 2 

Board of Trustees and Distinguished Trustees 3 

Report of Financial Activities 4 

Annual Fund Report 6 

National Committees 7 

Philanthropic Support by Giving Level 9 

The Mountbatten Society (page 9) 

The Castle Club (page 10) 

Other Supporters (page 13) 

Education Through Experience 19 

Philanthropic Support by Class 21 

A Laboratory in the Woods 23 

Service Learning 26 

Oh, the Places They Go! 29 

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

Onward 32 

Planned Gifts and Ways to Give 33 

On the cover: 

Class of 2012 graduates celebrate 

after the ceremony 

Photo credits: 

Malak Abureehan ’12, Timothy J. 

Dougherty, Hannah Freedman ’12, 

Valentin Herrgesell ’13, Austria, 

Titus Kabega ’13, Uganda, Milton Riess, 

Kate Russell, Arjan Stockhausen ’11 

DEAr FriENDS, 

As you read this, we will have just marked the 

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

ebration. Hundreds gathered for the festivities, 

and I was especially honored to share the stage 

with former President Phil Geier; Shelby Davis, 

the extraordinary philanthropist whose gen‑ 

erosity has transformed so many lives; and a 

group of very special alumni who are taking the 

mantle of leadership in supporting UWC‑USA. 

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

time to reflect on the good work that’s been 

done by so many, as well as to look forward 

to tasks and goals that lie ahead. The past year 

was particularly poignant as we saw nine fac‑ 

ulty and staff “graduate” into retirement and 

new projects. From the classes they led, the 

relationships they formed, and the countless 

initiatives in which they were involved, these 

good friends made significant contributions to 

the formation and growth of UWC‑USA. 

Last year also saw many achievements. We ac‑ 

celerated our work as an integral partner in 

restoring the Old Town Mission in Las Vegas, 

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

for local youth and community programs. 

Our students continued to see individual suc‑ 

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

the prestigious Gates Millennium Scholar‑ 

ship, which will support his studies all the way 

through graduate school. And hiring new fac‑ 

ulty and staff was wonderfully successful: This 

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

ented individuals who bring new perspectives 

to campus. We’re already feeling their energy 

and witnessing their commitment to the im‑ 

portant work of the UWC mission. 

Beyond our campus, I’ve had opportunities to 

meet alumni at points around the globe, from 

London to New York, Seattle to Hong Kong. I 

was very fortunate to participate in the first 

“unReunion” organized entirely by our alumni 

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

This three‑day event attracted nearly 100 alum‑ 

ni from around the world, and it was simply a 

joy to attend. 

As we move toward 2013, I am invigorated by the 

work ahead. We spent last year crafting a new 

strategic direction, which was accepted by the 

Board of Trustees in May. Implementation steps 

recommit UWC‑USA to supporting the impact 

of our mission through our students, staff, 

alumni, and program participants; strengthen‑ 

ing the quality of our distinctive experiential 

academic and co‑curricular programs; and mak‑ 

ing manifest our commitment to financial, en‑ 

vironmental, and social sustainability. 

All these initiatives—not to mention the cru‑ 

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

be possible without your generous support. 

Alumni, parents, trustees, distinguished trust‑ 

ees, friends, faculty, staff, and even current 

students understand the absolute value of 

UWC‑USA, and they have expressed that sup‑ 

port through financial gifts, volunteer efforts, 

and countless other ways that help spread the 

word out about this treasure of a school. I truly 

thank you for all you have done and continue 

to do. 

With gratitude, 

Lisa A. H. Darling 

President, UWC‑USA 

Letter from the President 

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT: 2012 1 

THE ARMAND HAMMER UWC OF THE AMERICAN WEST

Report from the Board of Trustees 

rEpOrT FrOm ThE BOArD OF TruSTEES 

This past year, the Board of Trustees has been 

involved in critical work through the strate‑ 

gic planning process, management of school 

finances, and ongoing efforts to advance 

UWC‑USA’s philanthropic goals. Our board 

members—who serve as volunteers—bring a 

depth of personal and professional experience 

to each of these areas. 

Three new trustees joined the board this year, 

including two UWC alumni. Kuo‑Chuan (KC) 

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

Partners, the first major local and independent 

buyout fund dedicated to North Asia. KC heads 

the Greater China operation. KC received a 

bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College 

and a master’s degree from Harvard Business 

School. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife 

and two children. 

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

logg School of Management at Northwestern 

University. His research considers obstacles 

to growth in developing countries, including 

subjects such as national leadership, higher 

education, and climate change. He also studies 

technological progress in advanced economies, 

including the link between age and creativity 

and the role of collaboration in innovation. A 

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

Department of the Treasury and as the senior 

economist for macroeconomics for the White 

House Council of Economic Advisers. 

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

he owns Peyote Bird Designs, a global com‑ 

pany that produces artisanal wholesale jew‑ 

elry. Mark started the company in 1973—his 

website includes a photo of him and his trusty 

Volkswagen Beetle which he once used to 

Mark Alexander 

Amin Badr-El-Din 

Rachel P. Belash 

Marc P. Blum 

Lisa A. H. Darling 

Sebastien de Halleux ’96 

Steven F. Dichter 

Nancy Anixter 

William Anixter 

Celeste Bartos 

Alvin Chereskin 

Kathryn Davis 

Shelby M. C. Davis 

Virginia Dwan 

Phyllis Rothschild Farley 

Board of Trustees and Distinguished Trustees 

travel the country selling Southwestern jew‑ 

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

include operations in Hong Kong, with addi‑ 

tional partnerships in Thailand, Bali, China, 

and the Philippines. 

As we’ve welcomed these three new board 

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

menna Lee ’89 left the board this year after 

three years of service. We are very thankful for 

her efforts on the school’s behalf. 

Tom Dickerson AC ’68 

Chairman 

BOArD OF TruSTEES 

ChAir 

Thomas P. Dickerson AC ’68 

Janet Smith Dickerson 

Ray R. Irani 

Ben Jones AC ’91 

Kuo-Chuan (KC) Kung ’87 

James Leonard 

Charlotte Ilfeld Rubin 

Peter Ruggiero 

DiSTiNguiShED TruSTEES 

Amy Yeager Geier 

Philip O. Geier III, 

President Emeritus 

Dorothy Goodman 

Martha Ann Healy 

William H. Moore III 

Ronald W. Rubinow 

Frederick Rudolph 

Jonathan L. Schneider 

Monique B. Seefried 

Michael C. Taylor ’91 

Tyler C. Tingley 

Rosemary Tomich 

Louisa Stude Sarofim 

Michael Stern ’89 

James B. Taylor, 

Chairman Emeritus 

Sarah W. Taylor 

Litsa D. Tsitsera 

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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT: 2012 3

Report of Financial Activities 

rEpOrT OF FiNANCiAL ACTiViTiES 

UWC‑USA ended its fiscal year with a modest 

surplus. Careful cost containment as well as ap‑ 

propriate revenue forecasting from the Business 

Office allowed the school administration to ac‑ 

curately plan educational programming for the 

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

Financial planning at UWC‑USA is unique 

compared to other secondary schools, just as 

our educational mission is unique. 

Payments from the respective national commit‑ 

tees that select our international students only 

account for 17 percent of the school’s annual 

budgeted revenue. Voluntary contributions to 

the Annual Fund—from friends who believe in 

our mission, including community members, 

parents, and alumni—make up the next 15 

percent. Mission‑oriented summer programs, 

such as International Baccalaureate teacher‑ 

training and short courses for global youth, 

made up 4 percent of our revenue last year. 

For the past decade, the biggest source of 

annual school revenue has come from the 

UWC‑USA endowment, which last year com‑ 

prised 43 percent of our annual budget. This 

extraordinary achievement is a testament to 

the commitment of a great number of people. 

Philanthropist Shelby Davis contributed the 

largest part of our endowment, but numer‑ 

ous other friends have contributed as well, 

strengthening our mission for future genera‑ 

tions of students. 

Alumni gifts to the Annual Fund are almost 

five times what they were five years ago, and 

participation rates have more than tripled. Not 

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

ates have given extraordinary gifts, in several 

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

we can to continue to provide opportunities for 

promising young people regardless of country 

of origin or ability to pay. 

Now, for the challenging news. We are in the 

final year of full support from the Armand 

Hammer Trust, which last year contributed 21 

percent of our budget. We’ve known for nearly 

a decade that the 2013‑2014 school year will 

represent a financial watershed, when a big 

portion of our budget will have to be made up 

somewhere else. 

The administration of UWC‑USA, in coop‑ 

eration with the school’s faculty and staff, has 

worked diligently to contain costs in anticipa‑ 

tion of next year. They’ve renegotiated large 

contractual costs such as insurance and food 

service, seeking savings wherever possible. 

One place the Board of Trustees does not want 

to cut, however, is the quality of teaching. 

When more than 50 percent of your school’s 

expenses come from salaries, there are a lim‑ 

ited number of savings opportunities available 

without hurting the quality of the school’s ed‑ 

ucational mission. We do not believe we can 

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

tional excellence. 

We plan to address the budget shortfall in the 

2013‑2014 year and beyond through an “all of 

the above” approach: We have redoubled our 

fundraising efforts, we are increasing payments 

from UWC national committees where pos‑ 

sible, we are initiating mission‑oriented ancil‑ 

lary programs, and we are engaging the entire 

campus community in cost‑saving measures. 

As the chair of the Finance Committee and a 

graduate of UWC‑USA, I am optimistic about 

the school’s financial future, despite the ex‑ 

haustion of the Armand Hammer Trust. 

UWC‑USA has been fortunate in its first 30 

years to benefit from the extraordinary gen‑ 

erosity of two world‑class philanthropists, Ar‑ 

mand Hammer and Shelby Davis. In my mind, 

Hammer and Davis are legendary philosopher 

kings, really, of international educational phi‑ 

lanthropy. They built this place. Hammer locat‑ 

ed the campus around the stunningly beautiful 

but neglected Montezuma Castle, halfway up 

a hill. Davis built the school’s endowment and 

enabled us to lovingly restore the Castle and 

make it our school’s vital center. 

Philosopher Kings also built the Angkor Wat 

temple in Cambodia, the pyramids in Egypt, 

Versailles in France, and Chichen Itza in Mexico. 

But what’s different now from those times is 

that we no longer live in an era that waits for 

a single great man to build something beauti‑ 

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

decade, who is going to build the next Mont‑ 

ezuma Castle? 

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

alumni who believe in the mission of UWC‑USA 

will play a crucial role in ensuring the values we 

believe in—of making education a force to unite 

people, of giving students experiences and tools 

to have real and lasting impact, of creating a 

sustainable and peaceful future—will continue 

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

Michael C. Taylor, UWC‑USA ’91 

Chair, Finance Committee 

of the Board of Trustees 

SOURCES OF FUNDING FY12 

National Committee 

Contributions 

Summer Programs/ 

Auxiliary Income 

Endowment Income 

Philanthropic 

Contributions to 

Annual Operations 

2011 2012 

Philanthropic Contributions to 

Annual Operations $1,548,039 $1,527,124 

Armand Hammer Trust * 2,250,000 2,250,000 

Endowment Income 4,913,508 4,488,928 

National Committee Contributions 1,434,700 1,818,200 

Summer Programs/Auxiliary Income 470,344 455,947 

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

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

Facilities 

General 

Administration 

Invested in Endowment 

Endowed 

Scholarships 

for U.S. Davis 

Scholars 

studying 

at other 

UWCs 

Armand Hammer Trust * 

USES OF FUNDING FY12 

Educational Programming** 

2011 2012 

Educational Programming** $6,942,689 $7,157,331 

General Administration 902,816 1,119,055 

Facilities 1,019,930 1,151,368 

Endowed Scholarships for U.S. Davis Scholars 

studying at other UWCs 1,026,424 1,016,987 

Invested in Endowment 724,732 95,458 

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

** Includes funds used for carrying out academic and co-curricular programs, including 

compensation and support for employees who facilitate these programs. 



Annual Fund Report 

ANNuAL FuND rEpOrT 

For the past three years, it has been my pleasure 

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

the role with Sam Opitz ’91 and Michael Taylor 

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

volunteers, we rallied classmates, parents, and 

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

lion for the Annual Fund. 

The Annual Fund runs from June 1 to May 31 

every year. Contributions support UWC‑USA’s 

operating budget and are directed to areas such 

as student scholarships, community service 

and the Wilderness Program, employee sala‑ 

ANNuAL FuND VOLuNTEErS 2012 

CO-ChAirS 

Sam Opitz ’91 

Michael C. Taylor ’91 

Melanie Weston ’86 

ALumNi 

VOLuNTEErS 

Dereck A.S. Alleyne ’11 

Ruben E. Ayala ’92 

Souleymane Ba ’99 

Mustu Barma ’98 

Brian A. Bava ’91 

James Bowen ’96 

Luke C.P. Brennan ’09 

Edward Burns ’84 

Inviolata S. Chami ’12 

Natalie Chan ’11 

Nelson F. Chiwara ’07 

Jason Coady ’93 

Michael D’Agostino ’01 

Gert Danielsen ’96 

Mauricio de Arruda ’88 

Benjamin Dryden ’02 

Shannon Duncan ’98 

Ashley Dunlop ’02 

ries, classroom and library materials, weekend 

and after‑school activities, and the mainte‑ 

nance and operation of facilities. In short, the 

Annual Fund has an impact on every person 

and program on campus. 

Michael, Sam and I would like to extend thanks 

to everyone who helped sustain the Montezuma 

magic and ensured that new generations of UW‑ 

Cers have the same life‑changing experience 

that previous generations continue to cherish. 

Melanie Weston ’86 

Annual Fund Co‑Chair 

Helen M. Durham ’85 

Manolo Espinosa ’87 

Andrés Franco-Vasco ’84 

Lullit Getachew ’88 

Stephan F. Grabner ’09 

Zipporah Guerin ’10 

Anna I. Harvey ’05 

Kirsten Healey ’88 

Kate (Saldin) Hunter ’00 

Adani Illo ’01 

Meghan Jennings ’05 

Aly Kassam-Remtulla ’94 

Lea J. Kliem ’10 

Clio Knowles ’95 

Lisa Krassner ’91 

Mauri E. Lahti ’12 

Joel Larson ’02 

Stephen S. Lavallo Jr. ’09 

Brian Lax ’92 

Colleen Lewis von Eckartsberg ’86 

Ariel Maddocks ’98 

Ciara N. McCartney ’07 

Dylan Elek McFarlane ’04 

Cecile Menard ’91 

Charlotte Meyer ’03 

Lais Miachon Silva ’08 

Theotonio Monteiro de Barros ’85 

Adriana Nordin Manan ’03 

Melkizedeck S. Okudo ’99 

Rabin Patmanathan ’11 

Morgante Orion Pell ’12 

Maria Auxilliadora Perez Ruiz ’08 

Zohar Perla ’07 

Eugenio Ruggiero ’84 

Jose Pablo Salas Rojas ’06 

Clay Samford ’92 

Bassirou Sarr ’05 

Kathryn (Holmgaard) Shaffner ’95 

Kain Sebaztian Smith ’12 

Jeremiah Stevens ’94 

Elena Tonc ’09 

Julie Trolle ’12 

Mudit Tyagi ’88 

Iris van der Heijden ’11 

Raechel Waters ’90 

Kristofer Wilson ’04 (E) 

Kenneth Kwokmung Yeung ’84 

Pui Shen Yoong ’08 

Risana Zitha ’95 

Firend Zora ’99 

National Committees 

NATiONAL COmmiTTEES 

Volunteer UWC national committees in 140 

countries select more than 1,000 promising 

candidates through national competitions. 

They nominate those students for places and 

scholarships to the 12 UWC schools and col‑ 

leges. This unique system enables students to 

be selected from within their own communities 

and cultures. 

All U.S. citizens and permanent residents ap‑ 

ply to UWCs through the Davis Scholar com‑ 

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

committee. Accepted students (about 50 each 

u.S. SELECTiON COmmiTTEE 

Mary Beth Byrne AC ’76, Co-Chair 

Bill Kolb, Co-Chair 

Amy Garrou 

Martha Lyman 

year) are awarded full merit scholarships cov‑ 

ering school fees, room, and board to attend 

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

UWC‑USA helps to coordinate and support 

the U.S. selection committee and its wider 

group of volunteers, who read hundreds of ap‑ 

plications and travel throughout the nation in‑ 

terviewing prospective candidates to select the 

newest cohort of Davis Scholars. 

We are deeply grateful to the volunteers 

throughout the world who enable UWC selec‑ 

tion to happen. 

Shaun Mabry MC ’01 

Andrew Mahlstedt 

Xochitl Torres Small WK ’04 

Tim Smith 

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



BY GIVING LEVEL 

ThE mOuNTBATTEN SOCiETy 

Philanthropic Support by Giving Level 

phiLANThrOpiC SuppOrT OF 

uWC-uSA By giViNg LEVEL 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

mOuNTBATTEN SOCiETy DONOrS 

gifts of $25,000 or more 

The Abdul Madjid Zabuli Renaissance Foundation * 

Bruce & Martha Atwater and the Prospect Creek Foundation * 

Marc P. & Leonor T. Blum * 

William Gardner & Solange Brown * 

Shelby & Gale Davis * 

Virginia Dwan 

Judith McBean Foundation * 

Paul & Yaffa Maritz (P) 

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Moore III * 

The Multinational Education Charitable Trust 1909 * 

Jim & Sarah Taylor (P) * 

The Mountbatten Society (page 9) 

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

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


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

years. 

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ThE CASTLE CLuB 

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

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

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

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

meeting rooms, and administrative offices. 

CASTLE CLuB DONOrS 

gifts of $10,000 to $25,000 

Eric & Sophie Archambeau (P) 

The Bernard Lee Schwartz 

Foundation * 

Common Counsel Foundation, 

the Kindle Project 

Lisa A. H. Darling (E) * 

Sebastien de Halleux ’96 

Thomas Dickerson AC ’68 & 

Claire Dickerson * 

Frank & Dolores Hines Family 

Fund of the Albuquerque 

Community Foundation * 

Philip O. Geier III & Amy Yeager 

Geier (P) * 

Astrid Nellemann ’93 

Paul & Laura Ricks (P) 

Ross Smith & Lynsey Newman (P) 

Southwest Capital Bank 


Gregor Andrade ’88 

Amin Badr-El-Din 

Berger Briggs Real Estate & 

Insurance Inc. 

Michael & Elizabeth Foose (P) 

Luigi Gentile ’98 

Diane & Guilford Glazer 

Goldman Sachs Matching 

Gifts Program 

Aziz & Farahnaz Hashim (P) 

Ulrich Kratz ’92 

Microsoft Matching Gifts Program 

Amit Mital ’87 

The New York Community Trust 

HRH Prince Pavlos ’86 

Charlotte Ilfeld Rubin * 

Dorothy & Frederick Rudolph * 

Jon & Claire Schneider (P) 

Monique Seefried 

Steele Family Foundation 

Subitha Subramaniam ’88 

Hans P. Utsch 

Xiaofang Xia & Zhonghong Mao (P) 


Anonymous (2) 

Rick & Kathy Abeles and 

The Abeles Foundation * 

Khamis Abu-Hasaballah ’86 

David & Pamela Albin * 

Zulfiqar Ali ’90 * 

Andrew Allen Charitable 

Foundation 

Mijail Apkarian & Alicia 

Ramos Valdenegro (P) 

Ruben E. Ayala ’92 

Souleymane Ba ’99 

Balboa Peaks Software LLC 

Adam Bartos & Mahnaz Ispahani 

Bartos and the Pannonia 

Foundation 

The Baupost Group LLC 

Yvette V. Baxter-Drayton ’87 * 

Rachel Belash * 

Ignatius & Laura Bezzam (P) 

Charles Bibilos ’96 

Chris Bickley ’86 * 

Paolo Bigagli & Cristiana Vallini (P) 

Paulo J. Bilezikjian ’87 

The Castle Club (page 10) 

Pamela (Parsa) Bond ’94 * 

Oru & Patricia Bose (P) 

The Boston Foundation Inc. 

Ted & Shirley Boucher 

William Brandenburg * 

Amir Brown ’95 

Stuart Brown & Sandra DeJong (P) 

Michael Buckley ’89 

Edward Burns ’84 * 

Marcelo Calliari ’84 

Paul Campbell & Carol Genetti (P) 

Joan & Gary Capen * 

Karl & Susan Case * 

Amporn Chaimaitri ’92 

Ali Chandani ’91 

Cliff Chapman & Pattye 

Henderson Chapman (P) 

Mars Chapman ’08 

Alvin Chereskin 

Chi Wai Chow & Yui Chuen Cheung (P) 

Matthew Christ & Sophia 

Goodman AC ’82 (P) 

Janine Chupa ’84 * 

Sierra Burnett Clark AD ’98 

Colgate-Palmolive Co. 


Rebecca (Cadwell) Day ’92 

Mauricio de Arruda ’88 

Josser Delgado ’96 * 

Amadou Deme & Siga Diop (P) 

Steven Dichter & Kate Buckley 

Ed Doe ’96 

Wojciech Domanski ’98 

Timothy J. & Katharine M. 

Dougherty (P) (E) 

Renata Dwan ’88 

Phyllis Farley 

Miguel Fidalgo ’98 * 

Edward Fischer & Mareike Sattler (P) 

Sai Wai Fong & Regina Dalipe (P) 

Izumi Fothergill AC ’76 

Andrés Franco-Vasco ’84 

Charles & Judith Friedlaender * 

Jürgen Frietsch ’91 * 

Xavier Furtado ’92 

Susanne E. Geier 

Jerry & Sharon Geist 

Rashna Ginwalla ’95 * 

Joseph & Trinidad Goldzieher * 

Google Matching Gift Program 

Jim & Mary Dale Gordon * 

Frederick John & Juliann 

Gunningham (P) 

Raj K. Gupta ’89 

The Harry Frank Guggenheim 

Foundation 

Irfan Hasan ’85 

Jens & Britt Helligsoe (P) 

Alan Hewat & Emily Joselson (P) 

Julian Ho ’90 

Susanne Holste ’84 

Tim & Laurie Howland (P) 

Hamilton M. Hoyler & Katherine 

McMillan (P) 

A. C. & Penny Hubbard * 

Robert Huber & Christine Solso (P) 

Michael Jenkins & Christi Hogin (P) 

Larry Johns & Nina Marquez Johns (E) 

Gregory & Jacquelyn Jones (P) 

Yale & Barbara Jones 

Aditya C. Joshi ’91 * 

Basim Kahleifeh ’84 * 

Alex Kalangis & Svenja Soldovieri (E) 

James Kavanaugh & Selena 

Sermeño (E) 

David Kay AC ’72 & Mary Milne (P) 

Nam & Wonsook Kim (P) 

Clio Knowles ’95 * 

Michihiro & Mizue Kotani (P) 

Kuo-Chang Kung ’87 

Charles & Naomi Lambert (P) 

Richard Lamson & Joan Freedman (P) 

Burt & Jennifer Lauderdale (P) 

Charmaine Lee ’88 * 

Day & Nancy Lee * 

Kamenna (Rindova) Lee ’89 * 

Colleen Lewis von Eckartsberg ’86 

Anders & Inger Liland (P) 

Ray & Joyce Litherland 

Rebecca Lloyd ’86 * 

Theodore & Lucille Lockwood * 

John & Margaret Loehr * 

LyondellBasell 

Declan & Anne MacFadden (P) 

Laura Machado de Wright AC ’94 


Edward Malley (P) 

Vuk Mandic ’94 & Pinar Karaca ’94 

Marcelo Marchesin ’86 * 

Joan McDougall 

Lance Meister ’90 & Gabriela 

Motyckova AC ’93 * 

Benjamin ’98 & Alexandra (Muñoz 

Smith) Melkman ’99 

Tracy Melton & Pamela Krulitz (P) 

Danesch & Kathryn Missaghian (P) 

Scott & Kelli Mitchell (P) 

Alice Mok ’95 

Carlos Montano & Claudia Mejia (P) 

Chris Morejohn & Rachel Platt (P) 

Andrea Morgante (P) 

Matthew J. Morse ’93 

Zafer Mudar ’84 

Werner & Helen Muller * 

Candice (Weaver) Murphy ’92 

Ramaiah & Gowri Narla (P) 

John & Beth Neidel (P) 

Wai Hong Ng & Ling Lo (P) 

Philip ’95 & Jasmina Nikolov * 

John Ochterbeck 

Brian & Jill O’Dwyer (P) 

Christian ’91 & Camila 

(Silva Leão d’Araujo) Olsen ’91 

Sam Opitz ’91 * 

Ravi Parashar (E) * 

Rebecca Pearson ’90 * 

S. Peter Poullada & Nancy A. 

Sheppard 

Abigail (Crampton) Pribbenow ’86 

Mia S. Prieskorn * 

Elad Rachevsky ’99 

Sebastien Ramseyer ’87 

Andres Resendez ’85 & Jaana 

Remes ’84 

David & Julie Rifkin (P) 

Jennifer (Lovitt) Riggs ’90 

Peter Ruggiero 

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





Clay Samford ’92 

Robert Saulters (P) 

Johannes J.C. Schiet 

Kristian Segerstråle ’96 

Mike Sennett & Jackie 

Baker-Sennett (P) 

Eyad Shabaneh & Intesar Shukhi (P) (E) 

Kathryn (Holmgaard) Shaffner ’95 * 

Dawningstar W. Sikorski ’97 * 

Caroline Sim ’85 

Nok Siriphonlai ’95 * 

Charles & Ann Smith * 

Tim Smith & Molly Lanzarotta (P) 

Tim Smith & Teodora Atanasova (E) 

Stephan & Karen Spitzer * 

Carl St. Remy ’88 * 

Robert J. Stamm & Mary Herring 

Stamm Designated Fund 

of the Albuquerque 

Community Foundation * 

Michael Stern ’89 & Pamela Paul * 

Lawrence Sutter & Patricia Lins (P) 

Douglas & Selene Swanson (P) 

Robert E. & Barbara J. Swanson 

Zoltan Szilassi ’91 

Taos Community Foundation 

Michael C. Taylor ’91 * 

Ajay Totlani ’92 

Erik Trolle & Yenan Chen (P) 

Amjad Tuffaha ’98 

Tumbling River Ranch Partnership 

United Way of Central New Mexico 

Hendrik G. van Oss WK ’72 * 

Rajesh Vedanthan ’91 & Sujatha 

Srinivasan 

James Waldroop & Valerie Zimber (P) 

Kenneth & Paulanne Ward (P) 

Zachary Weisfeld ’88 

Martin ’86 & Anja Weiss AC ’87 

Paul & Powel Welliver (P) 

Melanie Weston ’86 * 

Charles Chau-Chi Wong ’84 

Kenneth Kwokmung Yeung ’84 

Samuel Zell 

Ricardo J. Zemella ’84 

young Alumni and Current Students 

($1,000 or more donors are listed above) 

Seamus Abshere ’02 & Maria 

Bettina Miguez De Mori ’02 

Naa Aku Addo ’00 

Sheila Agiti ’07 

Michael A. Aleman ’10 

Brandon Anderson ’00 

Renu Badiani ’97 * 

Arod Balissa ’07 

Shanthakumar Bannirchelvam ’07 

Murat Bilgel ’07 

Dimitar A. Bounov ’05 

Luke C. P. Brennan ’09 

Ashton Brown ’07 

Anna Carmon ’09 

Benjamin Carlson ’03 

Mei Fong Chan ’98 

Natalie Chan ’11 

Bradley D. Chisholm ’97 

Nelson F. Chiwara ’07 

Deidre Ciliento ’01 

Michael D’Agostino ’01 

Ishmail S. Daoh ’07 

Emma D. Diouf ’07 

Aida Dominguez Ortiz ’07 

Ashley Dunlop ’02 * 

Sara El-Bohy ’09 

Pete H. Fitton ’09 

Mathew R. Freimuth ’09 

Sebastien T. Galperti ’07 

Mark A. Garner ’09 

Anand Gopalan ’02 

Stephan F. Grabner ’09 

Zipporah Guerin ’10 

Josh Hall ’01 

Emily Hogin ’06 * 

Adani Illo ’01 & Jimena Vivas ’02 

Arzika Illo ’03 

Eileen Jackson Ugueto ’97 

Jennifer S. Kim ’10 

Tamas Kolos-Lakatos ’07 

Harry William Lambert ’12 

Joel Larson ’02 

Jon Vegard Larssen ’97 & Beatriz 

Diaz Acosta ’97 * 


Chike C. Leigh ’08 

Chao Lu ’04 

Thembumenzi Shisizwe Lukhele ’04 

Lubomir Malo ’07 * 

Elian Maritz ’02 

Thema Modisi ’98 

Jennifer Modrich ’00 

Gilbert Mudenda ’12 

Len E. Necefer ’07 

Brendan O’Connor ’04 

Nicole Paulet Piedra ’09 

James Pautz ’02 

Robin Pedroza Weschle ’07 

Morgante Orion Pell ’12 

Zohar Perla ’07 

Shaina M. Pomerantz Kasper ’09 

Tara Kane Prendergast ’08 

Maria A. Rodas ’97 

Thea Rømmen ’09 

Carlos G. Sabatino Gonzalez ’07 * 

Emma Smith ’12 

Annie Sorich ’01 

Kathryn J. Steinweiss ’08 

Tara (Watkins) Stevenson ’98 

Anthony Szozda ’03 

Daniel Tan Ooi Peng ’03 

Jenny Thapa ’08 

Elena Tonc ’09 

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

OThEr SuppOrTErS 

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

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

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

community services; and maintain and improve our facilities. 

gifts of $500 to $1,000 

Ronald & Teresa Airey (P) 

Mauricio A. Albrizzio ’92 

Ivan Alves ’87 

David & Robyn Ball (P) 

Bank of America, N.A. 

Ian & Angela Bartlett (P) 

Roberto F. Bel ’91 * 

Ibrahim & Nazan Bilgel (P) 

Bjorn Bjerke ’85 

Boeing 

BP Foundation Inc. 

Andy & Audry Carter (P) 

Michael Cope ’96 & Catherine Cronin ’96 

Caitlin (Garland) Curtis ’91 

Michael Dewson & Ann Atkey 

Jason Dinger ’93 * 

Keith & Kristen Dobyns (P) 

Gerald Doyle & Christina Gomez (P) 

Margaret I. Drent ’86 * 

Roma J. Earles (P) 

Winifred Edwards 

Henry Everts ’90 

Cindy Ewing 

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

Matthew & Heide Felton 

Tomas Fernandez & Victoria Mora (P) 

Henry & Mary Flynt * 

Norton Francis ’88 

Franken Companies Inc. 

Lullit Getachew ’88 

Frederico Gil Sander ’94 * 

Oscar & Sandra Gonzalez (P) 

Saruhan Hatipoglu ’91 

Julia Broehl Hesse ’91 * 

Eva R. Hoffmann ’94 

David ’87 & Hiroko (Morita) James ’90 

Maria F. Jaramillo ’92 

Trent M. Jones ’92 

Aly Kassam-Remtulla ’94 * 

Mike & Pat Koldyke 

Gary Kowalski & Dori Jones (P) 

Wing-Pin (Winnie) Kwan ’93 

Jim & Story Leonard 

Leng Leroy Lim ’84 

Nadia Marinova ’93 

Wally & Terry Melendres * 

Theotonio Monteiro de Barros ’85 

Sophie Joy Mosko ’90 

W.H. Muir 

Shiru Mwangi ’84 

David Neidel ’87 * 

Don & Evelyn Neil 

Valerie Oke ’85 * 

Karen O’Leary ’87 

Matthew Hecht & Mary Olson (P) 

Charlie PC ’77 & Faye O’Neil 

Other Supporters (page 13) 

Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup ’86 

Karen Petroski ’86 

Rebecca Pitman ’92 

Christopher A. Price ’85 

Neil Pyper ’93 

Eugenio Ruggiero ’84 

Manuel Salazar Diez Canseco ’86 

Hoda Salem ’84 

Robert & Deborah Saylor (P) 

Erin Scales ’91 

Nour Scandar ’92 

James L. & Carol A. Smith * 

Didier Stainier AC ’81 & Megan Grether (P) 

Bob & Carol Stegeman * 

Daniel W. Stuckart ’84 

Nina Mary Stupples ’85 

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

Becker-Stuth (P) * 

Douglas Swartz & Karen Spencer (P) 

David Tagge ’94 * 

Sandra Thomas ’84 

Lori Thorlakson ’92 

Maria Jose Tort Canto ’85 

Emma Tucker ’85 

Mudit Tyagi ’88 * 

Hirotsugu Uchida ’91 * 

Henry Webb ’91 * 

Mark & Amy Wiebke (P) 

Alex Wisch ’91 





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James Wisener ’95 

Emily Wylde ’94 

gifts of $250 to $500 

Anonymous (2) 

Bob & Pat Amai * 

Elizabeth Ashby & Tim DeMoss (E) 

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

Carmen Balber ’95 * 

Jorida Banda ’96 

Arlita Bascome-McCook ’94 

Loes Becu ’94 * 

Kimiyo Bonnie Bennett ’85 

Teresa Bernheimer ’96 

Matthew & Carmel Bowman (P) 

Dana M. Brandon ’86 

Charlotte Brenner Zeile ’85 

Ron Brockman & Ellen Feldman (P) 

Harold & Norma Brown * 

Cameron C. Burch ’00 

Flannery Burke ’91 * 

Dietrich & Brigitte Busch 

Odd-Even Bustnes ’89 

Fiona Caldwell ’85 

Mr. & Mrs. Francesco Caputo (P) 

Bill & Georgia Carson * 

Alan & Lavender Chan (P) 

Yutthichai Chanikornpradit ’89 

Angeline Chupa ’90 * 

David S. Collison ’90 & Sandra 

Gastañaduy-Collison ’90 * 

Mikkel Conradi AD ’94 

Frank & Louise Cordova (P) 

Anthony DeGange & Emily 

Davies (P) * 

Bongani Dlamini ’94 

Julia (Lee) Drouart ’95 

David & Alice Elliott 

John A. & Lena J. Elzufon * 

Francisco H.G. Ferreira ’86 * 

Andreas Fidjeland ’98 * 

Janet M. (Roberts) Florez ’86 

Alan & Kathy Franken (P) 

Ivor Frischknecht ’86 

Michael Fuchs ’92 

Keith & Christine Garbutt (P) 

John Geffroy & Margaret 

Vazquez-Geffroy (E) 

Cristina Gomez Jimenez ’01 

Dorothy B. Goodman * 

Elisabeth Grabner (P) 

Trevor Z. Hallstein ’91 

Kristine Hauge Storholt ’92 

Koichi Hiramoto ’85 

Hilde Hustoft (P) 

Sandhya Jithoo ’98 

Mike & Agnes Jones (P) 

Jennifer Keith ’85 

Susan Keppelman ’01 

Torodd Kummen AC ’77 & 

Linda Vahat (P) * 

Mark Larrimore ’84 

Eileen Lau ’92 

Brian Lax ’92 & Tarra Hassin ’91 * 

James & Patricia Leo 

Nuno Limao ’92 

Andrew & Rebecca Loehrer (P) 

Timothy Long ’86 * 

Javier López Arangüena ’00 

Kaisu Luiro ’95 

Nat & Dottie Mann * 

Surbhi Sharma Martin ’96 

Samir Mastaki ’01 

James McNeil ’89 

Rona J. McNeil ’85 

Hideki & Keiko Miyazaki (P) 

Gabrielle Moore ’95 * 

Jason Patrick Morgan ’91 * 

John Morris ’85 

Harold Nevins & Andrea Shaw (P) 

Soren Nielsen ’95 * 

Carl & Saori Nishimura (P) 

Hakon ’95 & Ana (Fonseca) 

Nordang ’95 

Melkizedeck S. Okudo ’99 

Anna Francis Olsson ’91 

Chiara Osbat ’89 

Shelley Pasco-Verdi ’86 

Maria Carolina Perez Alvarado ’85 

Nicole Piche ’85 

Annukka Piironen ’89 * 

PPG Industries Foundation 

Daniel Pringle ’93 * 

Narisara Pungrasmi ’85 

João Quinta da Fonseca ’94 

Dorota I. Ratusinska ’84 * 

James Redmon ’95 * 

Sergio Ripamonti ’86 

Miguel N. Rivera ’92 

Rebecca Rogers ’92 

Ronald W. Rubinow 

Gian Paolo Ruggiero ’86 

Preeta Samarasan ’94 * 

Bill & Kris Sammons * 

Charlene G. Sanders (P) * 

Emiliano Schmidt Fiori ’91 

Peter Richard Schuurman ’86 

Robert J. & Monique Schweich 

Fiona Siu ’86 

Talal Soghaier ’85 

Bernd & Birgit Stelzer (P) 

Michael Sugar ’91 

Peter M. Tart 

Karen Ann Taylor de Caballero ’87 * 

Sue A. Thompson (P) 

Tyler C. Tingley 

Andrea S. Tisi ’84 * 

Enrique Torres ’96 

Guillermo Trejo ’86 & Anne 

Bax ’86 

Harald Tuckermann ’92 & 

Bertha R. Camacho ’93 

Walter & Jantina Tuthill (P) 

Akihiro & Kuniko Uchida (P) * 

Kimberly A. Vickers ’84 * 

Angela Vignoli ’01 

Ding Wei ’96 * 

Nadia Williams ’98 * 

Victor Williams ’89 

Kristofer Wilson ’04 (E) & Elgita 

Eglite-Wilson ’05 (E) 

Mark Yeager & Maia Fischler (P) 

Laura J. Young ’98 

Agnieszka Ziemba-Ahman ’88 

Risana Zitha ’95 

Firend Zora ’99 

William & Georgia Zwartjes (P) 

gifts of $100 to $250 

Anonymous * 

Inga Aalia ’98 

Michael B. Aaron ’87* 

Tamer Abdelgawad ’85 * 

Ann Aceves * 

Anthony Agadzi ’95 * 

Kevin & Margi Ahearn (P) 

Sanna Ahvenharju ’90 

Lamiae Aidi ’96 

Ursel Albers 

Michael Alcock ’98 * 

Carmen Alexander ’04 

Jorge A. Alvarez Garcia-Tunon ’06 

Felix K. Amankona-Diawuo ’04 

Kirsten L. Ambach ’93 * 

Mohan Ambikaipaker ’91 

Mohamed A. Amer ’85 

Ruben & Marjorie Andressen (P) 

Diego Angemi ’94 

Meher Antia ’90 

Anjali Arondekar ’87 

Eran ’91 & Daniela (Beran) 

Bar-Am ’91 

Mustu Barma ’98 * 

Carla (Castellanos) Bass ’87 * 

Brian A. Bava ’91 * 

Yunus Emre Bayrak ’95 

Jacqueline A. Bell ’85 

Robert & Mary Benishek (P) 

Adam & Sonya Berg * 

Johann Bergholz Villafane ’02 

Magnus & Karin Bergmar (P) 

Karla Bjelanovic ’98 

Yngvild N. Blaker ’00 

Gita Bodner ’86 

Richard & Virginia Bodner (P) 

Lyle Boelens ’84 

Elizabeth Bohlke 

James Bowen ’96 * 

Bill Boyd & Vicky Hemmes 

Jonathan & Valerie Brelje (P) 

James N. & Shirley Ann Brooke (P) 

Carrie (Mollatt) Brooke-Sumner ’97 

Dorrie Brooks ’85 

Mahdi Bseiso ’00 

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

Melanie Bush ’93 

Cherie Butler ’92 

James Byrne ’03 

Derlis Caballero Ruiz & Carmen 

Ciciolli Arce (P) 

Cristina S. Campbell ’85 

Eddy & Geraldette Campos (P) 

Ana B. Campos Mora ’87 

Michael Carlson & Holly 

Mackenzie Carlson (P) 

Gareth Carter ’01 

Cesar Castillo ’89 

Leonte Castillo ’94 

Soumya Chakravarti & Katya 

Fairbanks (P) 

Sovanna Chhim & Kinneang 

Chan (P) 

Marie Juhola Chilman (P) * 

John P. Christodouleas ’94 

Clark Construction Group 

Jason Coady ’93 

Ashley Crossland ’91 

Gisele Cuglievan ’94 

Joep W.H. Damen ’99 

Kisito & Adama Daoh (P) 

Glen & Shirlee Davidson * 

Tyler Blake Davis ’97 

Ivan Davtchev ’98 

Tala V. de los Santos ’93 * 

Heather Deutsch ’92 * 

Maria M. Diaz Fernandez ’94 

Ovidio Diaz Marin ’03 

Janet Smith Dickerson 

Gavin Dock ’86 

Martin Doe ’98 

Heather Lee (Bruce) Douglas ’94 

James & Julie Drennan * 

Louise Drlik * 

Nick Droege 

Benjamin Dryden ’02 

George A. & Arlaen J. DuBois 

Katerina Klimsova Dvorakova ’92 

Agneta Eikelenboom ’84 * 

Tore ’92 & Riina (Kallio-Koski) 

Eikenes ’92 

Elderhostel Inc. * 

Patricia Enzi ’02 

Ryan Erickson ’02 

Laro Escalada Navamuel ’04 

Fausto Espinosa ’85 

Manolo Espinosa ’87 

Alicia Estrella Santos ’95 

Akinsola Fafunso ’99 * 

Alioune Fall ’86 

Curt Fiedler (P) 

Jeffrey & Beth Finney (P) 

Philip C. Fisher 

Thomas G. Fitton (P) 

Niamh Fleming-Farrell ’02 

Jennifer Foerster ’98 

Emily Foraker ’05 

Felix Forster ’05 

Petra Fousková ’96 

Steven R. Franken 

Jackie Gakunga ’92 

Felicity Gallagher ’85 

Santiago Garcia-Verdu ’94 

Elisa & Ted Geier 

Rodney P. & Vallie C. Geier 

Janet Gerard (E) * 

Valerie J. Gerber ’99 

Atang Gilika ’06 

Dorothy Gillespie 

Aleyda González McKiernan (P) (E) 

Kathy Gould & Alexandra Walter 

Mary Alice Grant ’97 

C.B. & Eleanor Hall 

Bashar Abdullah Hamdan ’96 * 

Sandra Hamilton (P) 

N. Mollar (Nkiwane) Hanselman ’94 

Erika Harding ’85 

William G. Harley & 

Deborah F. Block (P) 

Brett (Van Veldhuizen) 

Hendrickson ’94 

Nella Hengstler ’93 * 

Mohammed Herzallah ’03 

Dafna Herzberg ’02 

Brittany Hesbrook ’06 * 

Aashild (Erikkson) Hettervik ’86 

John & Carolyn Hilden (P) 

Peter Hiller & Celeste Williams 

David Hite & Terra Louise ’96 * 

Melville & Elizabeth Hodder 

David H. Hogue ’03 

Rasha S. Hosni ’05 

Neil Hunter AC ’72 & Anita Carlson 

Oskari Jaaskelainen ’85 

Rebecca Jeffs (P) 

Catherine Jheon ’90 * 

Maria Tatiana Jimenez Liebana ’94 * 

Josée Johnston ’91 

Emily Jones ’96 * 

Jonathan Jones ’00 

Max Jones ’91 

A. Shafee Jones-Wilson ’98 * 

JustGive 

Valentina Kachanovskaya ’02 * 

Sashe Kanapathi ’94 

Khadidjatou Kane ’96 

Robin Aura Kanegis ’92 

Justin W. Karfo ’05 

Keith J. Kasper & Francine S. 

Pomerantz (P) 

Yohei Kawabata ’92 

Mary Keller 

Daniel T. Kelly Jr. * 

Michelle (Aitken) Kent ’98 

Richard & Judith Keppelman (P) 

Robert Killion 

Eugene & Linda King * 

Doreen Kirabo-Kasimbazi ’98 

Adam Kirk ’90 * 

Lisa Krassner ’91 * 

Ilyanna Kreske ’91 * 

The Kress-Miller Family (P) 

Patricia Kuhlhoff 

Brittany Ladd ’96 

Smriti Lakhey ’99 

Johan Lammers (E) 

Richard & Jo-Ann Lanzillo (P) 

Wing Wah Margaret Lau ’98 

Tsvetelina Lazarova ’86 

Michael Leach ’95 

Shari Leach * 

Chor Jye Lee ’88 

Jason James Lees ’94 

Homer & Mildred LeMar 

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

Wing Chiu Erik Leung ’96 * 

Steve & Peggy Leuzinger (P) 

David Alexander Lindsay ’84 

Anna Links ’96 

Hedvig Ljungerud ’94 * 

Olivia E. Llamas ’93 

Liane Asta Lohde ’94 

Diego Lopez ’89 

Michal Lord-Blegen ’86 

Nicola Mai ’97 

Mara Malakoff (P) 

Sanjay Manandhar ’85 

James Mark & Jean Roseman (P) 

Ashindi Maxton ’93 

Tamar Mayer (P) 

Stanley & Zelda Meer McCrossen * 

Judi McDonald ’84 

Eileen McKiernan González ’88 

Ruth C. Mead 

Mejia-Botero Family (P) 

Winston Meyer ’91 * 

Matthew Miller (E) 

Pierre V. Monteux ’98 

Sophie Moochhala ’86 

Morgan Stanley Annual 

Appeal Campaign 

Arnold & Patricia Morse (P) 

Simbai Mudzamba ’93 

Ivan F. Mustain & Marisa Isabel 

Leon ’87 

Nicholas Mwai ’02 

Emma Manda Mwanza ’86 

Sanval Nasim ’04 

Lana Nasser ’96 

Edward J. Necefer (P) 

Dejan Nenov ’86 

William & Louisa Newlin 

Corrine Ng ’96 

Anju Nohria ’86 

Jehanzeb Noor ’00 

Adriana Nordin Manan ’03 

Andrew V. Nowak 

Occidental Petroleum 

Charitable Foundation 

Tom & Rebecca Oden (P) (E) 

Teresa Ordorika ’86 





Jorge I. Oria ’91 

Tal Oron Cohen ’90 

Ruth Padilla-Ruiz ’98 

Theresa Page 

Kevin Park ’96 

Nuria Pastor-Soler ’86 

Swati Patankar ’86 

The Pew Charitable Trusts 

Paulina Pineda Garza ’85 

John F. & Rosaline C. Pintek 

Michael Polenz ’88 

Nicholas M. Poon ’05 

Bruce Poster * 

Erin Quintana (E) 

Nabina Rajbhandari ’86 

Aurelio Ramos ’91 

Trudy Rebert ’02 

Ryan Richards ’02 

Helle Ringgaard ’85 

Michael & Janet Rogers (P) * 

Mario Roman ’86 

Nicole P. Römer ’90 

Katie Romich ’94 

Jan Arild & Astrid Rømmen (P) 

Ben Rose & Lori Fisher (P) 

Tom & Carol Rose 

Guillaume Rougale ’96 

Rudolph Charitable Match Program 

Samuel Rugunda ’05 

Duncan RyanMann (P) 

Pawel Rybacki ’93 

Karl D. Sanchez (E) 

Donald Schaeffer ’85 

Andy M. Schatz AC ’69 & 

Barbara F. Wolf * 

Jay Schlechte ’91 

Thomas Schwingeler ’86 

Likeleli G. Seitlheko ’05 

Ed & Dianne Shinholser * 

Dinesh Lal Shrestha ’90 

JoAnne Sickeri ’93 

Leah Simmons-Davis ’97 * 

Vera Siregar ’87 

Saovanee Somchit ’05 

Chris & Sally Sonne 

Annelise Sprenger ’94 * 

Vinay H. Srihari ’89 

Janice Lee Stanfield (P) 

Orit Stein-Reisner ’85 

Jeremiah Stevens ’94 * 

Daniel T. Stuber ’05 

Kurt J. Stuermer ’90 

Megan B. Sullivan ’97 

William & Sandra Sullivan (P) 

Filip Sulma ’99 

Pawel Swieboda ’91 

Anneke Swinehart ’91 

Jody Taggart ’84 

Yoshiko Tanabe ’86 

Rafael Tarud ’90 

Gunhan Tatman ’86 

Havovi (Framji ) Tavadia ’90 

Carolina P. Tello Alvarado ’97 

Texas Instruments Foundation 

Dana Thordarson ’87 

Jacynth H. Tibbetts ’03 

Dean & Bonita Tooley * 

Thomas K. Trigg IV & Mary S. 

Schipper * 

Isabelle Trop ’87 

Jacek & Kristine Troska (P) 

Alan Tsang ’95 

Joyceline (See) Tully ’93 

Steve & Mary Turkus (P) 

David Turner & Kirsten 

Baumgart Turner AC ’79 

Sven van den Hazel ’85 

Ajla (Merdanovic) van Heel ’96 

Cecelia Vandewart 

Carlos Varela ’95 & Veronica 

Trujillo LPC ’00 

Fredalyn M. Vargas ’92 

György Vereb ’85 

Susanna Vervoordeldonk ’85 

Daniele Vidoni ’97 

Moritz Vogel ’90 

Katherine D. Waite ’96 

Don & Hilda Wales 

Gary Walker & Nesha Kovalick (P) 

Greg Walsh * 

Stephanie Walton ’90 

Amadou Wane ’84 

Zhihe Wang & Mejun Fan (P) 

Chanin Warakulnukroh ’86 

Chuck Warpehoski ’97 

Carolina Waters ’85 

Raechel Waters ’90 

Pilar Maria Weiss ’94 * 

Marina Wes ’88 

Allison West ’04 

Alan Wicks & Elizabeth Morse (E) 

Brendan Wild ’85 

Gerald O. Wilson ’98 

Jessica (Kosfiszer) Wilson ’92 

Birgitte Wøhlk ’86 

Kori Woodard ’92 

Erin (Kennedy) Woods ’89 * 

John & Linda Woods 

Shea Writer ’91 

Joseph Xavier Jr. ’91 

Aya Yamoto ’97 

Mei Yan (Rachel) Yeung ’98 

Pinar Yurekli-Aycan ’02 

Ray & Barbara Zimmer * 

Renate Ziverte ’03 

gifts up to $100 

Anonymous (2) 

Alfredo N. Achecar ’99 

Kamil M. Adamczewski ’07 

Murisa Ahmetasevic ’12 

Rayah H.S. Al Farah ’10 

Kareem Al Husaini ’10 

Zahra’a Al-Janabi ’09 

Audrey (Kollitz) Allen ’96 

Victoria Alleyne ’06 

Abuubakar R. Ally ’12 

Brian J. Almadi ’07 

Damian Almiron Bonnin ’05 

Maria Almond ’96 * 

Daniel Alpert 

Kristin D. Alveng ’07 

Iryna Ambroz ’09 

Vikram Anand ’04 

Yasmine (Benlamlih) Anaya ’97 

Elizabeth Anderson ’01 * 

Francesca Annicchiarico ’12 

Leonor Añó ’06 

Charlotte Antoine ’09 

Anjali S. Appadurai ’09 

Pekka Arikoski ’86 

Joanne S. Armstrong (P) 

Shona L. Armstrong ’88 * 

Janice J. Arrott * 

Paula Asbun ’90 * 

Antinea Ascione ’08 

Orit Ashkenazi ’86 

Anastasia Asmoro ’11 

Sarah Atwood 

Erin Axtell ’03 

Anga’aefonu Bain-Vete ’03 

Mary Jean Baldridge Los ’91 

Lorenzo Bartolucci ’07 * 

Brown Bear * 

Charlotte Benishek ’11 

Nina M. Bergmar ‘07 

Vishal Bharam ’10 

Vladimir Bilcik ’93 * 

Rasmus H. Bjorn ’08 

C. River Black ’07 

Kristina Blazanovic ’08 

Hanna Bobyk ’07 

Basiel Bogaerts ’08 

Luis E. Bonilla Rivera ’07 

Aaron Bos-Lun ’07 

Simona Stanislavova 

Boyadzhiyska ’12 

Sara Breslow ’91 * 

Kenneth & Hulda Bridgeman (P) 

Stina S. Bridgeman ’91 * 

Chinyere A.M. Brown ’12 

Jerome Axle Brown ’05 

Michael Brown ’90 * 

Barbara (Barbie) Burger ’88 

Alba O. Cabral ’96 

Sofia Victoria Calderon Miller ’94 

Gerylaine E. Campos ’12 

Alessandro Carini Gutierrez ’03 

Tracey L. Carter ’91 

Carla Castañeda ’92 

Andrea Cavina ’91 * 

Inviolata S. Chami ’12 


The Charitable Giving Card 

Program of The Community 

Foundation of Middle 

Tennessee 

Chevron Humankind Matching 

Gift Program 

Nicol D. Chinchilla Cordero ’12 

Kimberley K. M. Chong ’09 

Tsz Loi Gloria Chow ’11 

PJ Christeleit ’03 

Paul O. Cichocki ’12 

Simone (Hickey) Clark ’98 

Maria A. Coca Ramos ’07 

Thomas Compier ’07 

Curtis J. Cook ’12 

John L. & Linda S. Cope (P) 

Rodrigo P. Coronel Erazo ’12 

Corrales Historical Society 

George Costow ’00 * 

Sela Cowger ’08 

Andrea Cruz Quiroz ’10 

Yassine Daoud ’95 

Brien Darby ’04 

Miles Davenport & Helen 

Durham ‘85 (P) * 

Hannah Davies ’91 

Chimi Dema ’10 

Diana Denham ’00 

Åke Densert ’87 * 

Morgan ’86 & April (Ethier- 

O’Neill) Dewees ’87 

Adriana Di Graziano ’12 

Sidy M. Diakhate ’06 

Carlos Diaz ’93 

Gema Diaz Balboa Matthias ’91 

Bethany J.R. Dixon ’10 

Kripa Dongol ’12 

Alvaro Donoso ’07 

Christina Dragon ’05 

Bard Drange ’11 

Louise Drieghe ’12 

Shannon Duncan ’98 

Sara Dunleavy Berge ’09 

Eric K. Eileraas ’85 

Mohammed El-Mahdy ’03 

Daniela Emmerich Lopez ’00 

Ece Erdagoz ’10 

Roger & Juanita Esquibel (E) 

David K. Evans ’94 

Artur Fass ’11 

Amie Ferris-Rotman ’98 

Ethan Fields ’12 

Robert Finney ’11 

Benjamin D. Fishman ’88 

Kelsey L. Forbes ’10 

Daniel Franz ’06 

Hannah Rose Freedman ’12 

Duane & Nancy Freeman 

Jon Gajo ’12 

Roman Gautam ’06 

Sulav Giri ’94 * 

Adrian Gonzales (E) 

Ernie & Pat Gonzalez (P) 

Kathleen Gonzales (E) 

Adilson E. Gonzalez Morales ’12 

Juan Camilo Gonzalez Pelaez ’01 

Gayatri Gopinath ’86 

Francisco Eduardo Granizo 

Torres ’07 

Sergey Grechukhin ’04 

Ido Grosman ’08 

Henriette Gulbrandsen ’85 

Karianne Gundersen ’08 

Paulo Gusmao ’03 

Andres Guzman Garza ’06 

Donald W. Hagen * 

Ragnhild S. Halvag ’11 

Cordell & Patricia Halverson * 

Greta E. Hanson ’85 

Nora Hanson ’03 

Muhammad Hardiansyah ’08 

Mariela Hardy AD ’02 

Nono Harhoff ’02 

Carol B. Hart Ttee * 

Noor Titan Putri Hartono ’12 

Lisa Hartrich ’88 * 

Thayer Hastings ’07 

Ingerid V. Hatlegjerde ’07 

Carson Evan Hauck ’10 

John & Ruth Hazelton 

Kirsten Healey ’88 

Arianna Heiderer ’07 

Raustin Daine Hernandez ’10 

Joana C. Hiew de Sousa 

Magalhaes ’11 

Minette Hillyer ’91 

Robyn Hooper ’07 

Nahoko Hoshino ’02 

Alexis Howland ’04 

Elizabeth Hoyler ’12 

Jane E. Huber ’12 

Ellen Jules Hubrecht ’91 * 

Grace I. Humphries ’08 

Carolyn Hunt ’96 

Kate (Saldin) Hunter ’00 * 

Lisa (Strassner) Hutchcraft ’98 

To Nhu Huynh ’08 

Jasmin Imran Alsous ’07 

Anas Iqtait ’06 

David T. C. Ishmael ’10 

Kevin Francisco Jackson 

Ugueto ’06 

Yumna J. Jawa ’98 


Anne Marie Jensen ’07 

Anne (Jurkowski) Johnson ’01 

Larry & Monelle Johnson (P) 

Lea Johnson ’92 

Vickie A. Johnson ’94 

Kalene K. M. Jones ’12 

Milos Jovanovic ’03 

Agnieszka Kajrukszto ’94 

Daniel Kampel ’85 

Meriom Kastner 

Mbumbijazo U. Katjivena ’08 

Jeremy Kazanjian-Amory ’08 

Thomas & Berthe Keith (P) * 

Natalie M. Kennelley ’09 

Sarah (Stamp) Kenningham ’90 

Emmanuel S. Kirunda ’00 

Stephan J. Klasen ’85 

Adam Kleinberger ’92 

Bart Klem ’97 

John C. Knox ’91 * 

Sara B. Koplik ’89 

Judit Koppány ’02 

Travis S. Kotecco ’10 

Sarah Krasny ’04 


Saul & Ronni Krasny (P) 

Martin S. Krastev ’08 

Louis A. Lagoutte ’12 

Martin Laird ’94 

Laurie J. Laker ’07 

Gnagna Lam ’08 

Olivia Lau ’10 

Yu Mei Lay He ’10 

James Lazarus & Susan 

Gershenhorn 

Guojun Lee ’10 

Jae-Min Lee ’12 

Justin Lee ’95 * 

Mihret B. Lemma ’08 

Jonatan Eliu Lemus Avila ’08 

Kasia Leon-Lubowicz ’95 

Natacha M.D.C. Letort 

Gonzalez ’08 

Maggi Leung ’90 

Trevor Leuzinger ’11 

Yun-Yun Susan Li ’12 

Daniel (Hamburger) Lidar ’86 & 

Jennifer (Gould) Lidar ’84 

Dustin J. Lipson ’95 * 

Celene Lizzio ’02 * 

Ninya Loeppky ’02 

Andrew Louw ’06 

Thomas Lu ’12 

Rodrigo Luna Queirolo ’12 

Michael & Beverly Lupa 

Angela N. Lytton ’98 * 

Kimberly Ma 

Gadi Maayan ’02 

Justine MacWilliam ’02 

Riccardo Maggi ’85 

Susan Malley (P) 

John Manton ’91 * 

Danielle D. Maoz ’12 

Rachel Markowitz ’04 

Jonathan Shields Mason ’01 

Sarah (Sellers) Mayle ’95 

Aminata N. Mbodj ’12 

Ciara N. McCartney ’07 

Holly McDonald ’10 

Tom McDonald 

Joe & Katie McDonough 




© Kate Russell


Dylan Elek McFarlane ’04 

R. Charles & Linda McFate (P) 

John McKiernan ’86 

Hans O. Melberg ’90 

Edward D. Melillo ’93 


Jay A. Merchant ’07 

Charlotte Meyer ’03 

Jason Meyer 

Lais Miachon Silva ’08 

Robert E. Mishler 

Rose Alal Miyonga ’12 

Evelyn Moats (E) 

Ahtziri E. Molina Roldan ’91 

Pedro M. Monque Lopez ’12 

Harry & Christine Morris 

Anne Ulstrup Mortensen ’06 

Tseliso Mosiuoa ’89 

Maysa Mourad ’07 * 

Halimatou Hima Moussa 

Dioula ’06 

Jessica M. Mowles ’03 * 

John J. & Roseanne T. Mucchetti (P) 

Brighton Mudzingwa ’05 

Merisa Muharemovic ’11 

Carol Ann Mullaney 

Anasol Munoz ’90 

Pilar Murillo ’86 

Colette H. Murphy ’03 

Peter Musaeus ’90 * 

Veera Mustonen ’91 

Martha Nabukeera ’11 

Claudia Nagel ’09 

Emil Nagengast & Kati Csoman (P) 

Mariko Nakayama ’07 * 

Andrew Nalani ’12 

Amrita Narayanan ’94 

Ken Neal-Boyd ’85 

Iris K. Nevins ’10 

New York Life Foundation 

Eng Han Ng ’06 * 

Nghia Nguyen ’93 

Lukasz W. Niparko ’09 

Line N. Nyborg ’12 

Terence ’98 & Sabrina (Das) 

O’Dwyer ’99 

Ukachi Okoronkwo ’02 

Larry & Camille Owens (P) 

Hüseyin Özhan ’99 

Selen Ozturk ’12 

Kayton B. Parekh ’06 

Livingston & Joan Parsons 

Rabin Patmanathan ’11 

Alastair Paulin ’86 

Tine N. Paulsen ’10 

David & Nancy Paxton 

Bob & Carrol Pearson (P) 

Sonam Pelden ’07 


Israel Perla & Marieke Furnee (P) 

Antoine Picard ’93 

Maria C. Pineda Zorilla ’86 

Carlo Pizzinelli ’08 

Toby Pocock (P) 

Inna Poliakova ’00 

Soracha Prathanrasnikorn 

Magdalena Preciado-Lopez ’00 

Rhys Prinzing ’97 

Marlies Gabriele Prinzl ’98 

Tony Purvis ’94 * 

Anna Z. Qi ’06 

Diana Quilarque ’85 

Courtney Quinn ’11 

Daniela P. Raga Legarraga ’12 

Taavi Raidma ’04 

Muriel L. Rambeloarison ’07 

Rawiporn Rangponsumrit ’12 

Emma-Sara M. Raunio ’08 

Vanesh Reddy ’90 

Hilde Eliassen Restad ’98 

Mirjam (Mueller) Reuland ’92 

Ashlee S. Reynolds ’11 

Heidi Rhoderick ’91 * 

Ryan M. Rifkin ’08 

Hailee R. Robinson ’12 

Anna Rogers ’03 

Jamie Ronson ’04 

Jennifer Rowland (E) 

Jose Pablo Salas Rojas ’06 

Maida Salkanovic ’09 

Andrej Salner ’95 

Andrea C. Sanchez Nanez ’12 

Afua Sanders Kim ’97 * 

Luis Fernando Sandoval 

Jimenez ’10 

Marie C. Sappez ’12 

Patrick L. K. Saylor ’12 

Trish (Schofield) Scott- 

Cumming ’98 

Niki Sebastian 

Sara Sebti ’12 

Sophia M. Sennett ’12 

Samuel Y. Setsoafia ’12 

Kalpa Shah ’93 

Lalida Shank ’91 

David M. Shelton ’91 * 

Alison (Gilman) Shepherd ’98 

Mzwakithi M. Shongwe ’12 

Dristy Shrestha ’07 * 

Hugo Silverio Correia ’12 

Vipapat Sinpeng ’01 

Fernando Skerl ’86 

Kain Sebaztian Smith ’12 

Nick Smith ’05 

Peter Smith ’10 

Hillel Soifer ’91 * 

Giovanni Sorda ’02 

Ana Spadijer ’88 

Anthony Spearman-Leach ’86 

Nils J. Sprenger ’12 

Arjan F. I. Stockhausen ’11 

Amy Sullivan ’86 

Rita Suri ’10 

Lena Sutter ’12 

Matthew Svoboda ’88 * 

Chandra W. Swanson ’11 

Naomi Swinton ’89 (E) 

Nicole Szlezak ’92 

Hokchhay Tann ’10 

Madiha Tariq ’00 

Jill (Baty) Taura ’85 

Ramon Taylor ’06 

Carla Tennenbaum ’97 

Mildred Terr 

Emma Tilquin ’02 

Shana Tinkle ’07 

Tjizembua Tjikuzu ’12 

Consuelo Tolosa ’90 

K. Gretchen Trethewey 

Julie Trolle ’12 

Monica A. Trujillo ’91 * 

Anais Tuepker ’92 

Justin Turkus ’04 * 


Nanette van der Laan ’86 

Alexander Van Wyhe ’11 

Jacqueline Vargas Arellanes ’86 

Daysi Milagros Vargas Gonzalez ’07 

Aneta Vargova ’12 

Onno Veerman & Patricia 

Vriens (P) 

Taran J. A. Veerman ’11 

Erline Vendredi ’07 

Sonia Verjovsky ’90 * 

Ardjan J. Vermue ’08 

Del Walker * 

Kolo Wamba ’93 

Ngawang R. Wangchuk ’12 

Cheyenne G. L. Ward ’12 

Gina Webster ’86 

Wells Fargo 

Michael West ’86 

Katherine Wiebke ’10 

Amber Wiekamp ’02 

Daniel & Jennifer Willms (E) 

Althea Wilson ’00 

Stephen Wilson ’85 

Danielle Wollner (E) 

Tom Woodside ’08 

Helen Wright 

Jin Yan ’07 

Daniel K. Yeboah-Kordieh ’10 


Long Cheung Yu ’08 

Tomasz Zajaczkowski ’02 

Isabelle Zaugg 

Arianne Zwartjes ’97 (E) * 


EDuCATiON ThROuGh ExPERiENCE 

Many students arrive at 

UWC‑USA having never 

slept in a tent. They’ve never 

hiked up a mountain with a 

backpack, used a camp stove, 

or purified their own water. 

All that changes six weeks after 

school begins, when these same 

students find themselves standing 

on the rim of the Grand Canyon 

in Arizona, ready to embark on a 

wilderness adventure of a lifetime. 

They don’t know it yet, but at the 

end of the trip, they will have gained 

self‑confidence, basic camp skills, 

and friendships that last a lifetime. 

“At the beginning I felt stressed 

with every step I took, but later I 

became confident, and even if the 

obstacle was hard, I didn’t care 

too much,” says second‑year stu‑ 

dent Ula Snigurska ’13, Poland. 

Inspired by UWC founder Kurt 

Hahn, the Wilderness Program is 

a core component at UWC‑USA. 

Every student must participate in 

two expeditions a year, as well as 

training in first aid, CPR, map and 

compass skills, and camp skills. 

Last year, students had 14 expedi‑ 

tions to choose from in places as 

wide ranging as the Grand Can‑ 

yon, the Pecos Wilderness, Wheel‑ 

er Peak, and Ghost Ranch. 

During the 2011‑12 school year, 

an unprecedented 56 students 

participated in the annual Grand 

Canyon wilderness expedition, 

hiking seven different trails with 

the assistance of 16 professional 

wilderness guides. Among the 

multitude of experiences available 

at UWC‑USA, the Grand Canyon 

trips rank among the most gratify‑ 

ing and memorable. And as with 

all school wilderness experiences, 

these trips support the UWC mis‑ 

sion in uniting youth from vastly 

different cultures through shared 

experience and personal challenge. 

Through hands‑on outdoor expe‑ 

rience and adventure, students 

develop leadership, teamwork, 

communication skills, interper‑ 

sonal awareness, and self‑reli‑ 

ance. At the same time, they gain 

a deep appreciation for nature as 

well as for their responsibility as 

environmental stewards. 

“My best moment is when I felt en‑ 

closed by the Grand Canyon,” says 

Faten Al Mukhtar ’13, Bahrain. “It 

was surrounding me in all direc‑ 

tions. I felt a part of it.” 

—by Emily Withnall MC ’01 


19

BY CLASS 

Philanthropic Support by Class 

phiLANThrOpiC SuppOrT OF 

uWC-uSA By CLASS 

We are enormously grateful to our graduates and current students who gave back to UWC‑USA 

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

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

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

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

CLASS OF 1984 

$22,199 raised; 

29% participation 

Anonymous 

Lyle Boelens 

Edward Burns * 

Marcelo Calliari 

Janine Chupa * 

Agneta Eikelenboom * 

Andrés Franco-Vasco 

Susanne Holste 

Basim Kahleifeh * 

Mark Larrimore 

Jennifer (Gould) Lidar 

Leng Leroy Lim 

David Alexander Lindsay 

Judi McDonald 

Zafer Mudar 

Shiru Mwangi 

Dorota I. Ratusinska * 

Jaana Remes 

Eugenio Ruggiero 

Hoda Salem 

Daniel W. Stuckart 

Jody Taggart 

Sandra Thomas 

Andrea S. Tisi * 

Kimberly A. Vickers * 

Amadou Wane 

Charles Chau-Chi Wong 

Kenneth Kwokmung Yeung 

Ricardo J. Zemella 

CLASS OF 1985 

$15,493 raised; 


Tamer Abdelgawad * 

Mohamed A. Amer 

Jacqueline A. Bell 

Kimiyo Bonnie Bennett 

Bjorn Bjerke 

Charlotte Brenner Zeile 

Dorrie Brooks 

Fiona Caldwell 

Cristina S. Campbell 

Eric K. Eileraas 

Fausto Espinosa 

Felicity Gallagher 

Henriette Gulbrandsen 

Greta E. Hanson 

Erika Harding 

Irfan Hasan 

Koichi Hiramoto 

Oskari Jaaskelainen 

Daniel Kampel 

Jennifer Keith 

Stephan J. Klasen 

Riccardo Maggi 

Sanjay Manandhar 

Rona J. McNeil 

Theotonio Monteiro de Barros 

John Morris 

Ken Neal-Boyd 

Valerie Oke * 

Maria Carolina Perez Alvarado 

Nicole Piche 

Paulina Pineda Garza 

Christopher A. Price 

Narisara Pungrasmi 

Diana Quilarque 

Andres Resendez 

Helle Ringgaard 

Donald Schaeffer 

Caroline Sim 

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

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

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

names in purple indicate Castle Club members. 

20 

21 

BY CLASS

BY CLASS 

Talal Soghaier 

Orit Stein-Reisner 

Nina Mary Stupples 

Jill (Baty) Taura 

Maria Jose Tort Canto 

Emma Tucker 

Sven van den Hazel 

György Vereb 

Susanna Vervoordeldonk 

Carolina Waters 

Brendan Wild 

Stephen Wilson 

CLASS OF 1986 

$22,615 raised; 


Anonymous 

Khamis Abu-Hasaballah 

Audrey (Kollitz) Allen 

Pekka Arikoski 

Orit Ashkenazi 

Anne Bax 

Chris Bickley * 

Gita Bodner 

Dana M. Brandon 

Morgan Dewees 

Gavin Dock 

Margaret I. Drent * 

Alioune Fall 

Francisco H. G. Ferreira * 

Janet M. (Roberts) Florez 

Ivor Frischknecht 

Gayatri Gopinath 

Aashild (Erikkson) Hettervik 

Tsvetelina Lazarova 

Colleen Lewis von Eckartsberg 

Daniel (Hamburger) Lidar 

Rebecca Lloyd * 

Timothy Long * 

Michal Lord-Blegen 

Marcelo Marchesin * 

John McKiernan 

Sophie Moochhala 

Pilar Murillo 

Emma Manda Mwanza 

Dejan Nenov 

Anju Nohria 

Teresa Ordorika 

Shelley Pasco-Verdi 

Nuria Pastor-Soler 

Swati Patankar 

Alastair Paulin 

HRH Prince Pavlos 

Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup 

Karen Petroski 

Maria C. Pineda Zorilla 

Abigail (Crampton) Pribbenow 

Nabina Rajbhandari 

Sergio Ripamonti 

Mario Roman 

Gian Paolo Ruggiero 

Manuel Salazar Diez Canseco 

Peter Richard Schuurman 

Thomas Schwingeler 

Fiona Siu 

Fernando Skerl 

Anthony Spearman-Leach 

Amy Sullivan 

Yoshiko Tanabe 

Gunhan Tatman 

Guillermo Trejo 

Nanette van der Laan 

Jacqueline Vargas Arellanes 

Chanin Warakulnukroh 

Gina Webster 

Martin Weiss 

Michael West 

Melanie Weston * 

Birgitte Wøhlk 

CLASS OF 1987 

$15,806 raised; 


Anonymous * 

Michael B. Aaron * 

Ivan Alves 

Anjali Arondekar 

Carla (Castellanos) Bass * 

Yvette V. Baxter-Drayton * 

Paulo J. Bilezikjian 

Ana B. Campos Mora 

Åke Densert * 

April (Ethier-O’Neill) Dewees 

Manolo Espinosa 

David James 

Kuo-Chang Kung 

Maria I. Leon Gomez 

Amit Mital 

David Neidel * 

Karen O’Leary 

Sebastien Ramseyer 

Vera Siregar 

Karen Ann Taylor de Caballero * 

Dana Thordarson 

Isabelle Trop 

CLASS OF 1988 

$18,744 raised; 


Anonymous 

Gregor Andrade 

Shona L. Armstrong * 

Barbara (Barbie) Burger 

Mauricio de Arruda 

Renata Dwan 

Benjamin D. Fishman 

Norton Francis 

Lullit Getachew 

Lisa Hartrich * 

Kirsten Healey 

Charmaine Lee * 

Chor Jye Lee 

Eileen McKiernan González 

Michael Polenz 

Ana Spadijer 

Carl St. Remy * 

Subitha Subramaniam 

Matthew Svoboda * 

Mudit Tyagi * 

Zachary Weisfeld 

Marina Wes 

Agnieszka Ziemba-Ahman 

CLASS OF 1989 

$8,177 raised; 


Odd-Even Bustnes 

Michael Buckley 

Cesar Castillo 

Yutthichai Chanikornpradit 

Raj K. Gupta 

Sara B. Koplik * 

Kamenna (Rindova) Lee * 

Diego Lopez 

James McNeil 

Tseliso Mosiuoa 

Chiara Osbat 

Annukka Piironen * 

Vinay H. Srihari 

Michael Stern * 

Naomi Swinton (E) 

Victor Williams 

Erin (Kennedy) Woods * 

CLASS OF 1990 

$13,030 raised; 


Sanna Ahvenharju 

Zulfiqar Ali * 

Meher Antia 

Paula Asbun * 

Michael Brown * 

Angeline Chupa * 

David S. Collison * 

Henry Everts 

Sandra Gisella 

Gastañaduy-Collison * 

Julian Ho 

Hiroko (Morita) James 

Catherine Jheon * 

Sarah (Stamp) Kenningham 

Adam Kirk * 

Maggi Leung 

Lance Meister * 

Hans O. Melberg 

Sophie Joy Mosko 

Anasol Munoz 

Peter Musaeus * 


A LABORATORy iN ThE WOODS 

The slender Gallinas River 

that threads its way past the 

UWC‑USA campus pro‑ 

vides water to local farmers 

and residents. It also serves 

as the perfect laboratory for 

science classes. 

On warm days, students in wad‑ 

ers stand in the middle of the 

river capturing samples to test 

water quality and the effects of 

hot springs drainage. When a 

bird in the distance sings a minor 

descending key, Environmental 

Systems and Societies instructor 

Ben Gillock asks students to lis‑ 

ten. “Do you hear that?” he says. 

“It’s a Canyon Wren.” 

Environmental Systems and Soci‑ 

eties, better known as E‑Systems 

around campus, is one of five 

International Baccalaureate (IB) 

sciences offered at UWC‑USA. 

Taking advantage of the beau‑ 

tiful and varied environments 

of northern New Mexico, Ben’s 

classes travel around the state 

to apply what they’ve learned in 

the classroom to real‑life observa‑ 

tions and data collection. 

Among other projects, E‑Systems 

students have analyzed soil mois‑ 

ture at the Montezuma Hot 

Springs, observed reserve design 

and management at the Las Vegas 

National Wildlife Refuge, and cal‑ 

culated the impact of storm run‑ 

off and treated wastewater on the 

water quality of the Gallinas Riv‑ 

er. In an effort to raise awareness 

about conscientious stewardship 

of the local land, E‑Systems stu‑ 

dents also helped organize the 

first annual Watershed Olympics 

on campus—a highly successful 

educational event. 

Typical of other IB courses, the 

holistic Environmental Systems 

syllabus teaches students to con‑ 

nect their personal relationships 

with the environment to the sig‑ 

nificance of the choices they make 

in their own lives. 

“Environmental Systems has 

deepened my relationship to the 

natural wonder of New Mexico 

during out‑of‑doors class time 

while providing me with a base 

of knowledge useful in analyzing 

the various approaches to our cli‑ 

mate problem,” says Sam Kessler 

’13, USA‑N.Y. 




BY CLASS 

Tal Oron Cohen 

Rebecca Pearson * 

Vanesh Reddy 

Jennifer (Lovitt) Riggs 

Nicole P. Römer 

Dinesh Lal Shrestha 

Kurt J. Stuermer 

Rafael Tarud 

Havovi (Framji) Tavadia 

Consuelo Tolosa 

Sonia Verjovsky * 

Moritz Vogel 

Stephanie Walton 

Raechel Waters 

CLASS OF 1991 

$20,239 raised; 


Mohan Ambikaipaker 

Mary Jean Baldridge Los 

Daniela (Beran) Bar-Am 

Eran Bar-Am 

Brian A. Bava * 

Roberto F. Bel * 

Sara Breslow * 

Stina S. Bridgeman * 

Flannery Burke * 

Tracey L. Carter 

Andrea Cavina * 

Ali Chandani 

Ashley Crossland 

Caitlin (Garland) Curtis 

Hannah Davies 

Gema Diaz Balboa Matthias 

Jürgen Frietsch * 

Trevor Z. Hallstein 

Tarra Hassin * 

Saruhan Hatipoglu 

Julia Broehl Hesse * 

Minette Hillyer 

Ellen Jules Hubrecht * 

Josée Johnston 

Max Jones 

Aditya C. Joshi * 

John C. Knox * 

Lisa Krassner * 

Ilyanna Kreske * 

John Manton * 

Cecile Menard 

Winston Meyer * 

Ahtziri E. Molina Roldan 

Jason Patrick Morgan * 

Veera Mustonen 

Christian Olsen 

Camila (Silva Leão 

d’Araujo) Olsen 

Anna Francis Olsson 

Sam Opitz * 

Jorge I. Oria 

Aurelio Ramos 

Heidi Rhoderick * 

Erin Scales 

Jay Schlechte 

Emiliano Schmidt Fiori 

Lalida Shank 

David M. Shelton * 

Hillel Soifer * 

Michael Sugar 

Pawel Swieboda 

Anneke Swinehart 

Zoltan Szilassi 

Michael C. Taylor * 

Monica A. Trujillo * 

Hirotsugu Uchida * 

Rajesh Vedanthan 

Henry Webb * 

Alex Wisch 

Shea Writer 

Joseph Xavier Jr. 

CLASS OF 1992 

$21,307 raised; 


Mauricio A. Albrizzio 

Ruben E. Ayala 

Cherie Butler 

Carla Castañeda 

Amporn Chaimaitri 

Rebecca (Cadwell) Day 

Heather Deutsch * 

Katerina (Klimsova) Dvorakova 

Tore Eikenes 

Riina (Kallio-Koski) Ikenes 

Michael Fuchs 

Xavier Furtado 

Jackie Gakunga 

Kristine Hauge Storholt 

Maria F. Jaramillo 

Lea Johnson 

Trent M. Jones 

Robin Aura Kanegis 

Yohei Kawabata 

Adam Kleinberger 

Ulrich Kratz 

Eileen Lau 

Brian Lax * 

Nuno Limao 

Candice (Weaver) Murphy 

Rebecca Pitman 

Mirjam (Mueller) Reuland 

Miguel N. Rivera 

Rebecca Rogers 

Clay Samford 

Nour Scandar 

Nicole Szlezak 

Lori Thorlakson 

Ajay Totlani 

Harald Tuckermann 

Anais Tuepker 

Fredalyn M. Vargas 

Jessica (Kosfiszer) Wilson 

Kori Woodard 

CLASS OF 1993 

$15,847 raised; 


Kirsten L. Ambach * 

Vladimir Bilcik * 

Melanie Bush 

Bertha R. Camacho 

Jason Coady 

Tala V. de los Santos * 

Carlos Diaz 

Jason Dinger * 

Nella Hengstler * 

Wing-Pin (Winnie) Kwan 

Olivia E. Llamas 

Nadia Marinova 

Ashindi Maxton 

Edward D. Melillo 

Matthew J. Morse 

Simbai Mudzamba 

Astrid Nellemann 

Nghia Nguyen 

Antoine Picard 

Daniel Pringle * 

Neil Pyper 

Pawel Rybacki 

Kalpa Shah 

JoAnne Sickeri 

Joyceline (See) Tully 

Kolo Wamba 

CLASS OF 1994 



Diego Angemi 

Arlita Bascome-McCook 

Loes Becu * 

Pamela (Parsa) Bond * 

Sofia Victoria Calderon Miller 

Leonte Castillo 

John P. Christodouleas 

Gisele Cuglievan 

Maria M. Diaz Fernandez 

Bongani Dlamini 

Heather Lee (Bruce) Douglas 

David K. Evans 

Santiago Garcia-Verdu 

Frederico Gil Sander * 

Sulav Giri * 

N. Mollar (Nkiwane) Hanselman 


Hendrickson 

Eva R. Hoffmann 

Maria Tatiana Jimenez Liebana * 

Vickie A. Johnson 

Agnieszka Kajrukszto 

Sashe Kanapathi 

Aly Kassam-Remtulla * 


Martin Laird 

Jason James Lees 

Hedvig Ljungerud * 

Liane Asta Lohde 

Pinar (Karaca) Mandic 

Vuk Mandic 

Amrita Narayanan 

Tony Purvis * 

João Quinta da Fonseca 

Katie Romich 

Preeta Samarasan * 

Annelise Sprenger * 

Jeremiah Stevens * 

David Tagge * 

Pilar Maria Weiss * 

Emily Wylde 

CLASS OF 1995 

$12,863 raised; 


Anthony Agadzi * 

Carmen Balber * 

Yunus Emre Bayrak 

Amir Brown 

Yassine Daoud 

Julia (Lee) Drouart 

Alicia Estrella Santos 

Rashna Ginwalla * 

Clio Knowles * 

Michael Leach 

Justin Lee * 

Kasia Leon-Lubowicz 

Dustin J. Lipson * 

Kaisu Luiro 

Sarah (Sellers) Mayle 

Alice Mok 

Gabrielle Moore * 

Soren Nielsen * 

Philip Nikolov * 

Ana (Fonseca) Nordang 

Hakon Nordang 

James Redmon * 

Andrej Salner 

Kathryn (Holmgaard) Shaffner * 

Nok Siriphonlai * 

Alan Tsang 

Carlos Varela 

James Wisener 

Risana Zitha 

CLASS OF 1996 

$26,584 raised; 


Lamiae Aidi 

Maria Almond * 

Jorida Banda 

Teresa Bernheimer 

Charles Bibilos 

James Bowen * 

Alba O. Cabral 

Michael Cope 

Catherine Cronin 

Gert Danielsen 

Sebastien de Halleux 

Josser Delgado * 

Ed Doe 

Petra Fousková 

Bashar Abdullah Hamdan * 

Terra Louise Hite * 

Carolyn Hunt 

Emily Jones * 

Khadidjatou Kane 

Brittany Ladd 

Wing Chiu Erik Leung * 

Anna Links 

Surbhi Sharma Martin 

Lana Nasser 

Corrine Ng 

Kevin Park 

Guillaume Rougale 

Kristian Segerstråle 

Enrique Torres 

Ajla (Merdanovic) van Heel 

Katherine D. Waite 

Ding Wei * 

CLASS OF 1997 



Yasmine (Benlamlih) Anaya 

Renu Badiani * 

Carrie (Mollatt) Brooke-Sumner 

Bradley D. Chisholm 

Tyler Blake Davis 

Beatriz Diaz Acosta 

Mary Alice Grant 

Eileen Jackson Ugueto 

Bart Klem 

Jon Vegard Larssen 

Nicola Mai 

Rhys Prinzing 

Maria A. Rodas 

Afua Sanders Kim * 

Dawningstar W. Sikorski * 

Leah Simmons-Davis * 

Megan B. Sullivan 

Carolina P. Tello Alvarado 

Carla Tennenbaum 

Daniele Vidoni 

Chuck Warpehoski 

Aya Yamoto 

Arianne Zwartjes (E) * 

CLASS OF 1998 

$18,100 raised; 


Inga Aalia 

Michael Alcock * 

Mustu Barma * 

Karla Bjelanovic 

Mei Fong Chan 

Simone (Hickey) Clark 

Ivan Davtchev 

Martin Doe 

Wojciech Domanski 

Shannon Duncan 

Amie Ferris-Rotman 

Miguel Fidalgo * 

Andreas Fidjeland * 

Jennifer Foerster 

Luigi Gentile 

Lisa (Strassner) Hutchcraft 

Yumna J. Jawa 

Sandhya Jithoo 

A. Shafee Jones-Wilson * 

Michelle (Aitken) Kent 

Doreen Kirabo-Kasimbazi 

Wing Wah Margaret Lau 

Angela N. Lytton * 

Ariel Maddocks 

Benjamin Melkman 

Thema Modisi 

Pierre V. Monteux 

Terence O’Dwyer 

Ruth Padilla-Ruiz 

Marlies Gabriele Prinzl 

Hilde Eliassen Restad 

Trish (Schofield) 

Scott-Cumming 

Alison (Gilman) Shepherd 

Tara (Watkins) Stevenson 

Amjad Tuffaha 

Nadia Williams * 

Gerald O. Wilson 

Mei Yan (Rachel) Yeung 

Laura J. Young 

CLASS OF 1999 



Alfredo N. Achecar 

Souleymane Ba 

Joep W. H. Damen 

Akinsola Fafunso * 

Valerie J. Gerber 

Smriti Lakhey 

Alexandra (Muñoz Smith) 

Melkman 

Sabrina (Das) O’Dwyer 

Melkizedeck S. Okudo 

Hüseyin Özhan 

Elad Rachevsky 

Filip Sulma 

Firend Zora 

CLASS OF 2000 



Anonymous 

Naa Aku Addo 

Brandon Anderson 

Yngvild N. Blaker 

Mahdi Bseiso 

Cameron C. Burch 




BY CLASS

26 

SERviCE LEARNiNG 

On several Saturdays last 

year, UWC‑USA students 

could be found wearing or‑ 

ange hard hats and respira‑ 

tor masks while industri‑ 

ously smoothing the interior 

walls of the Old Town Mis‑ 

sion Church. In May, they 

joined teens from around 

the area to celebrate its near 

completion with a concert 

and an art show. 

Partnering with the First Unit‑ 

ed Presbyterian Church of Las 

Vegas, N.M., UWC‑USA has 

worked for 12 years to renovate 

the church and transform it into 

a community center. Hundreds of 

students have cleaned, plastered, 

and painted. They’ve made adobe 

bricks and removed walls, ceil‑ 

ings, and floors. Truly, UWC‑USA 

students have put hours of sweat 

equity into this project. 

Now with two rooms fully re‑ 

stored and two rooms near com‑ 

pletion, the Old Town Mission 

Community Center opens this fall 

to a host of community events and 

programs. Citizens of all ages can 

participate in Spanish‑language 

groups, academic tutoring, and 

peer mediation training—among 

many other programs. 

“It’s wonderful to see all this hard 

work bearing fruit,” says Sharon 

Seto, dean of co‑curricular pro‑ 

grams. “UWC‑USA is delighted to 

have a base in town and to have a 

more direct link to the community.” 

The church renovation is just 

one of more than 30 community 

services students have been able 

to participate in during their two 

years at UWC‑USA. Last year, stu‑ 

dents put in 18,769 hours of com‑ 

munity service—a typical number 

in any given year. 

It is through service that the UWC 

experience produces tangible and 

gratifying results. “Community 

service is an essential aspect of 

the UWC mission,” says Marisol 

Fernandez y Mora ’13, USA‑N.M. 

“It teaches us more about our‑ 

selves and brings us to the under‑ 

standing that any type of ‘force’ is 

fueled not by an individual but by 

a community.” 


George Costow * 

Diana Denham 

Daniela Emmerich Lopez 

Kate (Saldin) Hunter * 

Jonathan Jones 

Emmanuel S. Kirunda 

Javier López Arangüena 

Jennifer Modrich 

Jehanzeb Noor 

Inna Poliakova 

Magdalena Preciado-Lopez 

Madiha Tariq 

Althea Wilson 

CLASS OF 2001 



Elizabeth Anderson * 

Gareth Carter 

Deidre Ciliento 

Michael D’Agostino 

Cristina Gomez Jimenez 

Juan Camilo Gonzalez Pelaez 

Josh Hall 

Adani Illo 

Anne (Jurkowski) Johnson 

Susan Keppelman 

Jonathan Shields Mason 

Samir Mastaki 

Vipapat Sinpeng 

Annie Sorich 

Angela Vignoli 

CLASS OF 2002 



Seamus Abshere 

Johann Bergholz Villafane 

Benjamin Dryden 

Ashley Dunlop * 

Patricia Enzi 

Ryan Erickson 

Niamh Fleming-Farrell 

Anand Gopalan 

Nono Harhoff 

Dafna Herzberg 

Nahoko Hoshino 

Valentina Kachanovskaya * 

Judit Koppány 

Joel Larson 

Celene Lizzio * 

Ninya Loeppky 

Gadi Maayan 

Justine MacWilliam 

Elian Maritz * 

Maria Bettina Miguez De Mori 

Nicholas Mwai 

Ukachi Okoronkwo 

James Pautz 

Trudy Rebert 

Ryan Richards 

Giovanni Sorda 

Emma Tilquin 

Jimena Vivas 

Amber Wiekamp 

Pinar Yurekli-Aycan 

Tomasz Zajaczkowski 

CLASS OF 2003 



Erin Axtell 

Anga’aefonu Bain-Vete 

James Byrne 

Alessandro Carini Gutierrez 

Benjamin Carlson 

PJ Christeleit 

Ovidio Diaz Marin 

Mohammed El-Mahdy 

Paulo Gusmao 

Nora Hanson 

Mohammed Herzallah 

David H. Hogue 

Arzika Illo 

Milos Jovanovic 

Charlotte Meyer 

Jessica M. Mowles * 

Colette H. Murphy 

Adriana Nordin Manan 

Anna Rogers 

Anthony Szozda 

Daniel Tan Ooi Peng 

Jacynth H. Tibbetts 

Renate Ziverte 

CLASS OF 2004 



Carmen Alexander 

Felix K. Amankona-Diawuo 

Vikram Anand 

Brien Darby 

Miles Davenport & Helen M. 

Durham ’85 (P) * 

Laro Escalada Navamuel 

Sergey Grechukhin 

Alexis Howland 

Sarah Krasny 

Chao Lu 

Thembumenzi Shisizwe Lukhele 

Rachel Markowitz 

Dylan Elek McFarlane 

Sanval Nasim 

Brendan O’Connor 

Taavi Raidma 

Jamie Ronson 

Justin Turkus * 

Allison West 

Kristofer Wilson (E) 

CLASS OF 2005 



Damian Almiron Bonnin 

Dimitar A. Bounov 

Jerome Axle Brown 

Christina Dragon 

Elgita Eglite-Wilson (E) 

Emily Foraker 

Felix Forster 

Rasha S. Hosni 

Meghan Jennings 

Justin W. Karfo 

Brighton Mudzingwa 

Nicholas M. Poon 

Samuel Rugunda 

Likeleli G. Seitlheko 

Nick Smith 

Saovanee Somchit 

Daniel T. Stuber 


CLASS OF 2006 



Victoria Alleyne 

Jorge A. Alvarez Garcia-Tunon 

Leonor Añó 

Sidy M. Diakhate 

Daniel Franz 

Roman Gautam 

Atang Gilika 

Andres Guzman Garza 

Brittany Hesbrook * 

Emily Hogin * 

Anas Iqtait 

Kevin Francisco Jackson Ugueto 

Andrew Louw 

Anne Ulstrup Mortensen 

Halimatou Hima Moussa Dioula 

Eng Han Ng * 

Kayton B. Parekh 

Anna Z. Qi 

Jose Pablo Salas Rojas 

Ramon Taylor 

CLASS OF 2007 



Anonymous 

Kamil M. Adamczewski 

Sheila Agiti 

Brian J. Almadi 

Kristin D. Alveng 

Arod Balissa 

Shanthakumar Bannirchelvam 

Lorenzo Bartolucci * 

Nina M. Bergmar 

Murat Bilgel 

C. River Black * 

Hanna Bobyk 

BY CLASS 


BY CLASS 

Luis E. Bonilla Rivera 

Aaron Bos-Lun 

Ashton Brown 

Nelson F. Chiwara 

Maria A. Coca Ramos 

Thomas Compier 

Ishmail S. Daoh 

Emma D. Diouf 

Aida Dominguez Ortiz 

Alvaro Donoso 

Sebastien T. Galperti 

Francisco Eduardo Granizo 

Torres 

Thayer Hastings 

Ingerid V. Hatlegjerde 

Arianna Heiderer 

Robyn Hooper 

Jasmin Imran Alsous 

Anne Marie Jensen 

Tamas Kolos-Lakatos 

Laurie J. Laker 

Lubomir Malo * 

Ciara N. McCartney 

Jay A. Merchant 

Maysa Mourad * 

Mariko Nakayama * 

Len Necefer 

Robin Pedroza Weschle 

Sonam Pelden 

Zohar Perla * 

Muriel L. Rambeloarison 

Carlos G. Sabatino Gonzalez * 

Dristy Shrestha * 

Shana Tinkle 

Daysi Milagros Vargas Gonzalez 

Erline Vendredi 

Jin Yan 

CLASS OF 2008 



Antinea Ascione 

Rasmus H. Bjorn 

Kristina Blazanovic 

Basiel Bogaerts 

Mars Chapman 

Sela Cowger 

Ido Grosman 

Karianne Gundersen 

Muhammad Hardiansyah 

Grace I. Humphries 

To Nhu Huynh 

Mbumbijazo U. Katjivena 

Jeremy Kazanjian-Amory 

Martin S. Krastev 

Gnagna Lam 

Chike C. Leigh 

Mihret B. Lemma 

Jonatan Eliu Lemus Avila 

Natacha M. D. C. Letort 

Gonzalez 

Lais Miachon Silva 

Maria Auxilliadora Perez Ruiz 

Carlo Pizzinelli 

Tara Kane Prendergast 

Emma-Sara M. Raunio 

Ryan M. Rifkin 

Kathryn J. Steinweiss 

Jenny Thapa 

Ardjan J. Vermue 

Tom Woodside 

Pui Shen Yoong 

Long Cheung Yu 

CLASS OF 2009 



Zahra’a Al-Janabi 

Iryna Ambroz 

Charlotte Antoine 

Anjali S. Appadurai 

Luke C. P. Brennan 

Anna Carmon 

Kimberley K. M. Chong 

Sara Dunleavy Berge 

Sara El-Bohy 

Pete H. Fitton 

Mathew R. Freimuth 

Mark A. Garner 

Stephan F. Grabner 

Natalie M. Kennelley 

Stephen S. Lavallo Jr. 

Claudia Nagel 

Lukasz W. Niparko 

Nicole Paulet Piedra 

Shaina M. Pomerantz Kasper 

Thea Rømmen 

Maida Salkanovic 

Elena Tonc 

CLASS OF 2010 



Rayah H. S. Al Farah 

Kareem Al Husaini 

Michael A. Aleman 

Mr. Vishal Bharam 

Andrea Cruz Quiroz 

Chimi Dema 

Bethany J. R. Dixon 

Ece Erdagoz 

Kelsey L. Forbes 

Zipporah Guerin 

Carson Evan Hauck 

Raustin Daine Hernandez 

David T. C. Ishmael 

Jennifer S. Kim 

Travis S. Kotecco 

Olivia Lau 

Yu Mei Lay He 

Guojun Lee 

Holly McDonald 

Iris K. Nevins 

Tine N. Paulsen 

Luis Fernando Sandoval Jimenez 

Peter Smith 

Rita Suri 

Hokchhay Tann 

Katherine Wiebke 

Daniel K. Yeboah-Kordieh 

CLASS OF 2011 

$445 raised; 


Anastasia Asmoro 

Charlotte Benishek 

Natalie Chan 

Tsz Loi Gloria Chow 

Bard Drange 

Artur Fass 

Robert Finney 

Ragnhild S. Halvag 


Magalhaes 

Trevor Leuzinger 

Merisa Muharemovic 

Martha Nabukeera 

Rabin Patmanathan 

Courtney Quinn 

Ashlee S. Reynolds 

Arjan F. I. Stockhausen 

Chandra W. Swanson 

Iris van der Heijden 

Alexander Van Wyhe 

Taran J. A. Veerman 

CLASS OF 2012 



Murisa Ahmetasevic 

Abuubakar R. Ally 

Francesca Annicchiarico 

Simona Stanislavova 

Boyadzhiyska 

Chinyere A. M. Brown 

Gerylaine E. Campos 

Inviolata S. Chami 

Nicol D. Chinchilla Cordero 

Paul O. Cichocki 

Curtis J. Cook 

Rodrigo P. Coronel Erazo 

Adriana Di Graziano 

Kripa Dongol 

Louise Drieghe 

Ethan Fields 

Hannah Rose Freedman 

Jon Gajo 

Adilson E. Gonzalez Morales 

Noor Titan Putri Hartono 

Elizabeth Hoyler 

Jane E. Huber 

Kalene K. M. Jones 

Louis A. Lagoutte 

Harry William Lambert 

Jae-Min Lee 

Yun-Yun Susan Li 

Thomas Lu 

Rodrigo Luna Queirolo 

Danielle D. Maoz 

Aminata N. Mbodj 

Rose Alal Miyonga 

Pedro M. Monque Lopez 

Gilbert Mudenda 

Andrew Nalani 

Line N. Nyborg 

Selen Ozturk 

Morgante Orion Pell 

Daniela P. Raga Legarraga 

Rawiporn Rangponsumrit 

Hailee R. Robinson 

Andrea C. Sanchez Nanez 

Marie C. Sappez 

Patrick L. K. Saylor 

Sara Sebti 

Sophia M. Sennett 

Samuel Y. Setsoafia 

Mzwakithi M. Shongwe 

Hugo Silverio Correia 

Emma Smith 

Kain Sebaztian Smith 

Nils J. Sprenger 

Lena Sutter 

Tjizembua Tjikuzu 

Julie Trolle 

Aneta Vargova 

Ngawang R. Wangchuk 

Cheyenne G. L. Ward 


Oh, ThE PLACES ThEy GO! 

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

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

do national service before attending university. 

Brown University 

Bucknell University 

College of Idaho 

College of Notre Dame 

Colorado College 

Dartmouth College 

Duke University 

Earlham College 

George Washington University 

Harvard University 

IE University 

Imperial College 

Jacobs University 

Lehigh University 

Lewis & Clark College 

Macalester College 

Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology 

McGill University 

Michigan Technological University 

Middlebury College 

Millsaps College 

New York University 

NYU Abu Dhabi 

Princeton University 

Reed College 

Roosevelt Academy Utrecht 

St. Lawrence University 

St. Olaf College 

Texas Tech University 

Tufts University 

University College London 

University College Utrecht 

University of British Columbia 

University of California, San Diego 

University of Chicago 

University of Edinburgh 

University of Florida 

University of Michigan 

University of Iowa 

University of Oklahoma 

University of Richmond 

University of Wyoming 

Vassar College 

Wellesley University 

Worcester Polytechnic University 



in-Kind, in honor of, in Memory of 

iN-KiND, iN hONOr OF, iN mEmOry OF 

iN-KiND DONOrS 

Anjali Arondekar ’87 

JC’s New York Pizza Department 

Dorothy Jefferson 

James Kane & Nancy 

O’Brien-Kane (P) 

Robin Aura Kanegis ’92 

Michael & Tami Lang 

Colin & Shirleen Lanham (P) (E) 

David M. Shelton ’91 

Nancy Tucker 

iN hONOr OF . . . 

muSTu BArmA ’98 & 

SArAh BArmA 

Kimberly Ma 

BriAN BAVA ’91 

Jason Patrick Morgan ’91 

ChArLOTTE BENiShEK ’11 

& mADELEiNE BENiShEK 

rCNuWC ’09 

Robert & Mary Benishek (P) 

BiLL BrANDENBurg 

Harald Tuckermann ’92 & 

Bertha R. Camacho ’93 

STEphANiE BrOCKmAN AC ’04 

Ron Brockman & Ellen 

Feldman (P) 

JOSE CABALLErO CiCiOLLi ’11 

Derlis Caballero Ruiz & Carmen 

Ciciolli Arce (P) 

TOm CALLANAN 

Leng Leroy Lim ’84 

KiTTi ChAimAiTri 

Amporn Chaimaitri ’92 

WyATT CLOSS & 

rOShiN mAThEW ’00 

Anonymous Donors to JustGive 

TOm & LiNDA CurTiS 

Tarra Hassin ’91 


gErT DANiELSEN ’96 


hizir CEm ErEz ’08 

Martin S. Krastev ’08 

miguEL FiDALgO ’98 


gLOriA FiEDLEr 

Curt Fiedler (P) 

JOhN gEFFrOy 

Lukasz W. Niparko ’09 

phiLip O. gEiEr iii & 

Amy yEAgEr gEiEr 

Henry & Mary Flynt 

Elisa and Ted Geier 

BEN giLLOCK 

Peter Smith ’10 

SOFiA gOmEz-DOyLE WK ’12 

Gerald Doyle & Christina 

Gomez (P) 

grEAT uWC TEAChErS 

Daniela Emmerich Lopez ’00 

ghuLAm hANiFF 

Jehanzeb Noor ’00 

miChAEL hATLEE 

Chike C. Leigh ’08 

KirSTEN hEALEy ’88 

Theresa Page 

DAViD hiLDEN ’03 

John & Carolyn Hilden (P) 

JESSiCA hOrN ’97 


JENNiFEr KEiTh ’85 

Thomas & Berthe Keith (P) 

KEruNNE KETLOgETSWE ’97 


iLyANNA KrESKE ’91 

Eileen Lau ’92 

KiLLiAN & KELSEy LADD 

Brittany Ladd ’96 

TOm LAmBErTh 


Michael Dewson & Ann Atkey 

Maria Tatiana Jimenez Liebana ’94 



Katherine D. Waite ’96 

James Wisener ’95 

JuDy LAND 


Luis Fernando Sandoval 

Jimenez ’10 


ShirLEEN LANhAm 


COLiN E LAX 

Brian Lax ’92 

rON mALTAiS 


Daniel Tan Ooi Peng ’03 

ALEyDA mCKiErNAN 



ChriSTiNE mOrriS 

Harry Morris 

phiLipp mOSimANN 

Mikkel Conradi AD ’94 

iVAN muSTAiN 

Margaret I. Drent ’86 

LANA NASSEr ’96 


NANDiThA Ni guSTi Ayu ’10 


LArA NOrgAArD ’13 

Ron Brockman & Ellen Feldman (P) 

rOBiN NOrriS 


Muriel L. Rambeloarison ’07 

SAm OpiTz ’91 

Shea Writer ’91 

rAViNDrA pArAShAr 

Basiel Bogaerts ’08 


Akinsola Fafunso ’99 

Mbumbijazo U. Katjivena ’08 

Chao Lu ’04 



Jenny Thapa ’08 

rETiriNg uWC-uSA 

FACuLTy & STAFF 

Bob & Pat Amai 

giANLuCA & CATEriNA 

ripAmONTi 

Sergio Ripamonti ’86 

mAiDA SALKANOViC ’09 

Merisa Muharemovic ’11 

SAmuEL 

Teresa Bernheimer ’96 

JOE SAViNO & JErry 

FrEEDmAN 

Richard Lamson & Joan 

Freedman (P) 

KAThryN (hOLmgAArD) 

ShAFFNEr ’95 

Janice Lee Stanfield (P) 

NANCy SuLLiVAN 


LENA LiNS SuTTEr ’12 

Lawrence Sutter & Patricia Lins (P) 

JAmES & SArAh TAyLOr 

Donald W. Hagen 

Peter Hiller & Celeste Williams 

hANNAh TySON 


Lana Nasser ’96 


Monica A. Trujillo ’91 

uWC iNDiA NATiONAL COmmiTTEE 

Ajay Totlani ’92 

uWC-uSA CLASS OF 2011 

Courtney Quinn ’11 

Alexander Van Wyhe ’11 

uWC-uSA CLASS OF 2012 

Hannah Rose Freedman ’12 

| (P) identifies UWC parents | (E) identifies UWC employees | 

uWC-uSA LgBT STuDENTS 


uWC-uSA SECuriTy 

DEpArTmENT 

Ursel Albers 

ELizABETh WELLiVEr pC ’12 

Paul & Powel Welliver (P) 

KAThEriNE WiEBKE ’10 

Mark & Amy Wiebke (P) 

EriN KENNEDy WOODS ’89 

L. James & Gail Kennedy (P) 

iN mEmOry OF . . . 

AArON ANDErSON ’00 

Anonymous 

Brandon Anderson ’00 

Yngvild N. Blaker ’00 

Kate (Saldin) Hunter ’00 

Emmanuel S. Kirunda ’00 

Magdalena Preciado-Lopez ’00 

FErDiNAND BiLCiK 

Vladimir Bilcik ’93 

AmADOu CiSSE ’97 


Khadidjatou Kane ’96 

Amjad Tuffaha ’98 

imOgEN CurNEW ’04 

Christina Dragon ’05 


EmEKA DiLLiBE ’93 


Simbai Mudzamba ’93 

mAriJA DOKmANOViC- 

ChOuiNArD ’95 

Anonymous 


Surbhi Sharma Martin ’96 

KyLE FAAS ’95 

Carmen Balber ’95 


Hendrickson ’94 

Carolyn Hunt ’96 

Aly Kassam-Remtulla ’94 

Martin Laird ’94 


Sarah (Sellers) Mayle ’95 

Hakon ’95 & Ana (Fonseca) 

Nordang ’95 

Preeta Samarasan ’94 

Pilar Maria Weiss ’94 

miLLE grANT 


JAmES griTTEr ’88 

Benjamin D. Fishman ’88 

FrANK hiNES 

Kamil M. Adamczewski ’07 

Tomasz Zajaczkowski ’02 

rOgEr KENNA ’85 

Bjorn Bjerke ’85 

Dorrie Brooks ’85 

Christopher A. Price ’85 


JOhN KruLiTz 

Tracy Melton & Pamela Krulitz (P) 

FAWAz LuKmAN ’11 


Tsz Loi Gloria Chow ’11 


Magalhaes ’11 

Holly McDonald ’10 


pir mALEKi 

Anonymous 

Saruhan Hatipoglu ’91 

LizA mALKOuN ’91 

Tracey L. Carter ’91 

Anneke Swinehart ’91 

JErEmy mCgAFFEy ’01 

(rAhuLA TODAy) 

Milos Jovanovic ’03 

Ukachi Okoronkwo ’02 

pEDrO mEDiNA 

Anne Marie Jensen ’07 


Stephan & Karen Spitzer 

Annelise Sprenger ’94 

Sonia Verjovsky ’90 

| (P) identifies UWC parents | (E) identifies UWC employees | 

NOrmAN & DOrOThy 

mErEDiTh 


Jorge I. Oria ’91 

grANDpArENTS OF SArA 

miSSAghiAN-SChirAzi ’13 

Danesch & Kathryn Missaghian (P) 

ChriS pANCOAST ’95 


KAuShALyA “mummy” 

pArAShAr 

Alfredo N. Achecar ’99 

Naa Aku Addo ’00 

Joanne S. Armstrong (P) 

Jorida Banda ’96 

Arlita Bascome-McCook ’94 & 

Michael McCook 

Kristina Blazanovic ’08 

Elizabeth Bohlke 

Dimitar A. Bounov ’05 

Jerome Axle Brown ’05 

James Byrne ’03 

Gareth Carter ’01 

Maria A. Coca Ramos ’07 


David & Alice Elliott 

Laro Escalada Navamuel ’04 

Atang Gilika ’06 

Kathy Gould & Alexandra Walter 

Karianne Gundersen ’08 

Paulo Gusmao ’03 

Dafna Herzberg ’02 

David H. Hogue ’03 

A. Shafee Jones-Wilson ’98 

Sarah Krasny ’04 

Smriti Lakhey ’99 

Javier López Arangüena ’00 

Michael & Beverly Lupa 

Ravi Parashar (E) 

Robin Pedroza Weschle ’07 


Nick Smith ’05 

Emma Tilquin ’02 

K. Gretchen Trethewey 

Jacqueline Vargas Arellanes ’86 


KriShAN pArAShAr 

Ravi Parashar (E) 

rEmEDiOS pErAL 

Nuria Pastor-Soler ’86 

Luigi pizziNELLi 

Carlo Pizzinelli ’08 

rON priESKOrN 

Dorothy Gillespie 

JOrgE riCCi ’84 

Dorota I. Ratusinska ’84 

iAN SAyLOr 

Robert & Deborah Saylor (P) 

hELmuT SChmiDT 

Ursel Albers 

ANN SChrOEDEr-AryEh ’86 

Mohamed A. Amer ’85 

John McKiernan ’86 

Teresa Ordorika ’86 

Swati Patankar ’86 

Sebastien Ramseyer ’87 

Manuel Salazar Diez Canseco ’86 

Fernando Skerl ’86 

Nanette van der Laan ’86 

CArL D. ShEppArD 

S. Peter Poullada & Nancy A. 

Sheppard 

CESAr SimOSA ’97 

Simone (Hickey) Clark ’98 

mArThA TErrAzAS 

Oscar & Sandra Gonzalez (P) 

DAN TySON 

Michael Cope ’96 & Catherine 

Cronin ’96 

Anthony Spearman-Leach ’86 

JANiCE VOSS 


phiLLipE WAmBA ’89 

Ivan F. Mustain & Marisa Isabel 

Leon ’87 



ONWARD 

Nine longtime faculty and staff head off for new adventures 

The conclusion of the 2012 school year saw the bit‑ 

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

nior community members as they retired to follow 

new paths. Many had been on campus almost since 

the day the doors opened and had shared fond—and 

often funny—memories of those early days when 

the school had its own small stable of horses and the 

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

Linda and Tom Curtis, dean of students and Span‑ 

ish teacher, respectively, raised their family at 

UWC‑USA. They also brought up several genera‑ 

tions of extended family through their warm rela‑ 

tionships with students. In addition to teaching, 

Tom touched the lives of hundreds of Las Vegas kids 

through his leadership of the Children’s Chorus. 

Tom and Linda spent 25 years at UWC‑USA. 

Social and cultural anthropologist John Geffroy prid‑ 

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

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

the understanding that cultures change,” he once 

said. “I have learned the importance of understand‑ 

ing various cultural perspectives and how to listen 

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

Tom Lamberth first taught basic first aid for the 

UWC‑USA Wilderness Program; he retired serv‑ 

ing as the program director. During his 21 years on 

campus, Tom changed his perspective from seeing 

nature as a place of recreation and escape to being 

a place of profound growth. He took special pride in 

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

ing students discover their homes.” 

Aleyda McKiernan served as a Spanish teacher for 

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

ing students toward a passion for language, reading, 

and communication. She loved her students and the 

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

Like all UWC‑USA faculty members, French teacher 

Robin Norris wore many hats during his 24‑year 

tenure. Being involved in so many activities allowed 

him to “interact with students in a different set‑ 

ting”—something he truly relished. Originally from 

Barbados, Robin provided a second home for Carib‑ 

bean students and French speakers. 

Ted Reineke’s UWC‑USA career lasted nearly three 

decades and included everything from lab technician 

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

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

what he expected when he first arrived on campus 

with a science degree, but he quickly adapted and 

took on whatever needed to be done. 

Compared to their retiring colleagues, Nina Mar‑ 

quez‑Johns and Carl Sanchez were relative newcom‑ 

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

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

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

and she became an expert at juggling demands of 

200 students every year. Carl worked for the security 

department, and his friendly greetings were always 

welcomed and appreciated. 

We wish our retirees much joy as they discover new 

paths and tackle new projects! 

pLANNED giFTS 

Planned gifts create opportunities for our support‑ 

ers and UWC‑USA. There are many ways to make 

a planned gift. The best one will balance what you 

wish to accomplish for yourself, your family, and 

your charitable interests in your overall estate and 

financial plans. 

BEQUESTS. The simplest way to make a planned 

gift is to name UWC‑USA in your will. You can 

make a bequest of a certain dollar amount, a par‑ 

ticular piece of property, a percentage of your estate, 

or a “residual” (what is left after making specific 

provisions for loved ones). 

GIFTS FROM RETIREMENT PLANS. Retirement 

funds are often taxable—whether to you or your 

heirs—when withdrawn. If you make a gift directly 

from your retirement fund to UWC‑USA, you can 

WAyS TO giVE 

Your gifts to UWC‑USA help students from around 

the world obtain a unique education that prepares 

them to become leaders for positive change—in the 

world and in their own communities. UWC‑USA 

offers many opportunities to support the school: 

CREDIT CARD: (including automatically recur‑ 

ring monthly gifts): Use your American Express, 

Discover, MasterCard, or Visa to make an online gift 

at www.uwc‑usa.org/give or phone in your gift by 

calling (505) 454‑4265. 

CHECK: Make your check payable to the United World 

College‑USA and mail it to the following address: 

UWC‑USA Advancement Office 

Post Office Box 248 

Montezuma, NM 87731‑0248 

USA 

GIFT OF STOCK: You can contribute the fair 

market value of appreciated securities and avoid cap‑ 

ital gains tax on the appreciated value of the stock. 

Planned Gifts and Ways to 

Give 

often avoid these taxes by taking an offsetting 

deduction for your charitable gift. 

GIFTS THAT RETURN FINANCIAL BENEFITS. 

Gifts that pay income are often favored by donors 

with appreciated assets such as a business, stocks, 

or real estate. These gifts can be structured to 

provide you and/or others with income, tax savings, 

and other benefits while leaving a lasting legacy 

for UWC‑USA. 

To learn more about tax benefits related to planned 

giving, please speak to your financial advisor. If 

you would like to have a confidential dialogue 

about supporting UWC‑USA with a planned gift, 

please contact Vice President for Advancement Tim 

Dougherty at (505) 750‑1227 or 

tim.dougherty@UWC‑USA.org. 

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

broker information. 

GRANT: You can designate UWC‑USA as a recipi‑ 

ent of a grant from a family foundation, charitable 

gift, or donor‑advised gift fund. 

MATCHING GIFT: Many organizations match chari‑ 

table gifts of employees, spouses, directors, or retirees. 

Please request a matching gift form from your per‑ 

sonnel office and send it with your gift to UWC‑USA. 

To see whether your employer has a matching gift 

program, use our search tool on the upper right of the 

online‑giving page, www.uwc‑usa.org/give. 

FOR DONORS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 

AND EUROPE: Gifts may be sent via bank transfer 

to the UWC International Office in London. See 

www.uwc‑usa.org/waystogive for details for the 

pound, euro, and U.S. dollar accounts, as well as in‑ 

formation on how to register for Gift Aid (a scheme 

for U.K. taxpayers, allowing donations to be worth 

28 percent more at no additional cost). 

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

the American West. 

For more information on how you can support UWC‑USA, please contact Vice President for Advancement 

Tim Dougherty at (505) 750‑1227 or tim.dougherty@uwc‑usa.org. 


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EpOrT OF ThE prESiDENT: 2012 

The Armand Hammer UWC of the American West 

Post Office Box 248 

Montezuma, NM 87731‑0248 USA 

www.uwc‑usa.org 

RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED 

UWC makes education 

a force to unite people, 

nations, and cultures 

for peace and a 

sustainable future. 

NON-PROFIT 

ORGANIZATION 

US POSTAGE

Report of the President: 2012 - UWC-USA

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