Our Wildwood, Volume 48

DONOR PROFILE Thanks to our generous supporters Legacy and Leadership Two Wildwood School Alumni Families Make Landmark Named Gifts to Benefit Future Students

A Family Affair

TWO ALUMNI FAMILIES HAVE SHARED THEIR appreciation of Wildwood School with funding that will greatly benefit future students. Both families, the Cotsen-Rosenbaums and the Kramers, were excited to honor the work of Wildwood School employees and the entire Wildwood community through their generosity. In turn, the Board of Trustees and Head of School Landis Green were universally in favor of recognizing these extraordinary gifts by having them bear the names of these families in perpetuity. “While named gifts are not entirely new to Wildwood, these two new gifts represent an evolution of our community’s understanding of just how transformative they can be,” said Andrew Solmssen, Board of Trustees chair. “It’s been said that gifts like these are not only generous—they’re generative*—and by making these milestone gifts, each family hopes to inspire and raise the ambitions of others to follow in their footsteps.”

Corinna Cotsen and Lee Rosenbaum have been familiar faces around Wildwood for decades. Lee has served on the Board of Trustees for nearly 20 years, while Corinna was a long-time WWPO volunteer while their children attended Wildwood. The couple made a landmark gift to the school’s recent Foundation for the Future capital campaign, which helped to cement it as the most successful campaign in Wildwood’s history. Their profound generosity prompted the Board of Trustees to honor them with a naming opportunity. “Given the immense impact Wildwood has had on our children and the trajectory of their lives, the decision to give back to Wildwood was an easy one,” Lee said. “It was much, much more difficult to pinpoint one singular aspect of the Wildwood experience to recognize with our gift.” For that, Lee and Corinna turned to their three children—all Wildwood School alumni—for advice. Having conferred with Dr. Chiara Rosenbaum ’11, Emmett Rosenbaum ’13, and Anthea Rosenbaum ’16, the family chose to assign their family names to one of the many functions of the school for which they have the fondest of memories: college counseling. “Wildwood’s college counseling process played an integral role in bringing our childrens’ K-12 Wildwood education to a close and successfully launching their journeys into higher education and the world beyond,” Corinna said. “With this gift, we hope to honor our children’s college-preparatory education and the extraordinary individuals who guided them.” The Cotsen-Rosenbaum College Counseling Center not only pays homage to Wildwood’s thorough and much celebrated college counseling process, but touches on a core aspect of Wildwood experience, ensuring every Wildwood student will feel the impact of their gift as they near graduation.

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