Class Notes

January 2020

• Mario R. Rossero, GSE ’04, was appointed as the new Executive Director of the National Art Education Association.
• Stephanie Kandel, GSE ’02, was named Teacher of the Year 2020 at Moss School in Metuchen, NJ. She teaches Kindergarten.

December 2019

• Maimuna Mohammed, GSE ’19, Equity Specialist, Center on Culture, Race & Equity, led a workshop at All Our Kin’s 14^th annual Family Child Care Conference, “D is for Development: How Our Work Helps Children Grow.”
• Sara Badler, GSE ’94, has been named Chief Compliance Officer at New York Life.
• The Springfield Museum of Art has named Jessimi Jones, GSE ’12, as its new executive director.

November 2019

• Princess Francois, GSE ’15, was presented with a Milken Educator Award  by the Milken Family Foundation.

October 2019

• Jack Etter, GSE ’13, was named the new superintendent (pdf) at Gilboa-Conesville Central School.

September 2019

• Lauren Kibbe, GSE ’15,  has joined Friends Select as a lower school assistant teacher.
• Stacy Fowle, GSE ’97, has been named Westport’s Teacher of the Year for 2020.
• Ann Fortescue, GSE ’89, is the new executive director of the International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen, TX.

August 2019

• Lauren Haggerty, GSE ’11, has joined New Canaan Schools as a Preschool Long Term Substitute.
• Tim Jones, GSE ’13, has joined Germantown Friends School as a 4th grade lead teacher.
• Alice Messinger, GSE ’94, is teaching a Linoleum Block Printing class in September at the Boulder Jewish Community Center in Colorado.
• Francesca Shin Davia, GSE ’14, has joined Rye Country Day School as a Kindergarten Lead Teacher.
• Jeffrey Nichols, GSE ’03, was selected as the new Executive Director at Georgetown Heritage.
• William Horning, GSE ’80, known for his geometric paintings and collages, will have his work featured at the Creative 360 Exhibit.
• Miriam (Cohen) Glickman, GSE ’69, authored “Teaching the Movement,” a paper on a social studies curriculum that she wrote as a graduate student at Bank Street College in 1967.
• Stacie E. Brennan, GSE ’12, joined Lehigh University Art Galleries as the inaugural curator of education.
• Alisa Martin, GSE ’95, has started her doctoral studies in the Educational Technology Leadership Program at New Jersey City University (NJCU). Alisa works as a therapist in Early Intervention in the Hudson County region in New Jersey. She is also as an Educational Specialist in New York City.

July 2019

• The White Plains School District appointed Jessica Torres, GSE ’07, as new school principal.

June 2019

• The Westport Country Playhouse elected Paige S. Couture, GSE ’07, to its Board of Trustees.
• IMAS names Ann Fortescue, GSE ’89, as its new President and CEO of the museum

May 2019

• Jennifer Shouffler, GSE ’00, is hired as a new Superintendent for the Tewksbury K-8 school district
• Aliza (Riemer) Strassman, GSE ’11, received the 2019 Northern New Jersey Grinspoon Award in Jewish Education

April 2019

• Dr. Heidi Paisner-Roffman, GSE ’00, became the new principal of Wellington Elementary in Belmont, Massachussetts
• Stony Brook University appointed Nicole Rossol, GSE ’05, as Chief Patient Experience Officer
• Andrew Goldin, GSE ’06, was named Executive Director of TLP Education

December 2018

• Emily Overlock Curry, GSE ’08, is a new board member for Greenwich Land Trust
• Araina Jewell, GSE ’01, has been appointed Academy at the Lakes’ Lower Division Director

October 2018

• Nicole Mangiere, GSE ’10, is the new Assistant Principal of Seven Bridges Middle School in the Chappaqua Central School District
• Edward Hopper House named Janine B. Napierkowski, GSE ‘17, as its new Director of Operations
• Preschool Advantage welcomed Bernardsville resident Lauren G. Diemar, GSE ‘17, to its Board of Directors
• Kindergarten teacher Jeffrey Dacales, GSE ’93, was recognized for his hard work by the University of Vermont

September 2018

• Rochester’s Museum & Science Center named Hillary Olson, GSE ’07, an Ogden native, as its new president
• New Canaan Country School in Connecticut welcomed Andrew Bevan, GSE ’14, as a grade 5 teacher in the Middle School.
• The American Campus Communities appointed Mary C. Egan, GSE ’94, to its Board of Directors

August 2018

• The Worchester Art Museum (WAM) appointed Marnie P. Weir, GSE ’05, as its new Director of Education and Experience

July 2018

• Alex Levine, GSE ’09, is the new principal of a k-8 school in Garrison, New York
• The Library of Congress has selected Shari Rosenstein Werb, GSE 00, as its Director of the Center for Learning, Literacy and Engagement.

May 2018

• Alice Miller, GSE ’65, will retire from her role as a Shaftsbury, Vermont representative after her 11th house term
• Hoboken Charter School named Joanna Weintraub, GSE ’98, as its new principal
• The Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts named Dawn E. Salerno, GSE ’05, as its executive director

January 2018

• At its January meeting, the Eastern Property Owners’ Association (EPOA) introduced Michael Cassaro, GSE ’13, as the East’s candidate for the position of School Board Trustee, who will serve a three-year term on the Board of Education beginning in July 2018.
• Moorestown Friends School in Moorestown, New Jersey named Jenel Giles, GSE ’07, as its new Lower School Director