Alumni News: May 2024
Happy May –
We kicked off the month with Alumni Weekend 2024, welcoming around 300 alumni and guests back to campus. It was nice to meet so many of you and I look forward to next year’s festivities which will be the weekend of May 3, 2025 (mark your calendars 0’s and 5’s!).
There is so much happening at Friends this time of year. The Lower School hosted an Olympic themed Field Day, parading through campus representing various nations. Our Middle Schoolers went on their annual overnight field trips to Camp Tockwough, the Chesapeake Bay Education Centers, and Hershey Park. The Class of 2024 held their final day of classes and are off on their Senior Work Projects for the rest of the month. There is an event almost every day from now until graduation!
As we inch closer to the end of the school year, we also begin to wrap up our giving efforts for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. Thanks to many alumni and other donors, we have reached 89% of our $2 million goal for the year and we need your help to get us to the finish line! All gifts received by June 30, 2024 will count towards this year's Annual Fund. Gifts can be made on our online giving form. Your support impacts today's students and faculty each day in countless ways and makes all that we do possible.
If you have already made your gift to The Fund for Friends this year, THANK YOU!
If you have any questions, please feel free to send me a note.
Sophia Springer '13
Director of Alumni & Parent Engagement
Alumni Weekend
Alumni Weekend 2024 was such fun! Thank you to all of our alumni who traveled to campus to celebrate the Reunion classes ending in 4’s and 9’s. With the help of our alumni volunteers, we honored athletes and alumni award recipients, toured campus, gathered for Meeting for Worship and Collection, and mingled at both the on-campus reception and class parties. Memories were shared and new ones were created.
Photos from the weekend can be found on our Flickr account by clicking here.
Save the date for Alumni Weekend 2025, May 1-3, 2025! Classes ending in 0’s and 5’s will celebrate their Reunions.
Development News
Alumni Patio & Brick Program
We are excited to invite you to take part in a special opportunity at the cornerstone of the Friends School campus – The James L. Zamoiski '68 Alumni Center (ZAC), which last Spring received the addition of a hardscaped patio.
This enhancement offers you the opportunity to participate in creating a legacy moment through the Alumni Brick Program. Your name and class year will be engraved on a brick and installed in the patio when you make a gift of $250 or more to The Fund for Friends. Over the next few years, classes will be offered this opportunity, allowing us to celebrate decades of graduates.
For more information or to order your engraved brick please visit alumni.friendsbalt.org/alumnibrick or email legacybrick@friendsbalt.org.
Alumni Happenings and News
Robert Berman ’88 to Speak at Graduation
We’re honored to welcome Rob Berman ’88 as the keynote commencement speaker on Sunday, June 2.
Rob is an Emmy and Grammy Award-winning New York-based conductor and music director. For fifteen years, he was the music director of Encores!, New York City Center’s acclaimed series of great American musicals in concert. Here, he conducted over thirty productions, including the recent revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods, which transferred to a Broadway production, and for which he received a Grammy Award as co-producer and conductor of the cast recording. Rob credits Friends School for his success in the music industry and is a dedicated advocate for the School.
We look forward to Rob’s keynote address and having him back on campus. We invite all families, friends, and alumni to celebrate the Class of 2024’s Commencement on June 2 at 5:30 p.m. on the Middle School lawn. Tickets are not required.
Alumni Class Notes
Class Secretaries need your news – send them your stories!
Do you have news to share? Have you gathered with classmates? Have you traveled? Have you written a book or an article? Run a marathon? Gotten married? Had a baby? We know that you’re up to exciting things. Tell us your news and we’ll share it in the Friends Magazine. Send news to your class secretary or to the Alumni Office today!
We need Class Secretaries for the following classes: 2023, 2022, 2019, 2017, 2016, 1995, 1979, 1971, 1967, 1965, 1953.
If you are interested in becoming your class secretary, please email alumni@friendsbalt.org.
Long Time Teachers Tom Binford & Lisa Countess Are Retiring
Help us celebrate Lisa Countess and Tom Binford, who are retiring this year after about 40 years of service to Friends School. We invite you to submit a short video message using the link below to share your memories and gratitude for their remarkable dedication and impact on students.
Click here to submit your video: https://flip.com/0b975eaf
FSB Alumni Orioles Game Outing at Camden Yards
Mark your calendars to join the Alumni Association Board on Wednesday, September 18 to cheer on the Orioles against the San Francisco Giants. More information will be announced soon.
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