Our Wildwood, Summer 2021, Volume 46

LASTING LEADERSHIP Current Faculty and Staff

Celebrating Decades of Dedication

I had never encountered a math teacher quite like the one that led our class last year. He tossed us right in, telling us to do what we could and not to worry when we ran into trouble. That’s how I learned that the best part of math is not knowing what to do. It’s not about being competent and levelheaded in every situation. When you’re unsure, how do you react? How do you get creative? What is the first step you normally take, and what would it feel like to try something new? That class allowed me to reach for the outer limits of my comprehension. That’s how I fell in love with math.

10 YEARS Annie Barnes Michelle Meena

17 YEARS Pilar Cuervo Herach Danlyan BillyDuMone Stephanie Fybel Hagai Izraeli 18 YEARS Paula Gabriel Phil McFarland Chris McKenna Jody Poulos Leslie Troy

23 YEARS Sandi Crozier

24 YEARS Roxanne Bergmans

11 YEARS Francesca Bill Julisa Miles Hasan Muhammad Tahnee Muñoz Angie Oropeza Carolyn Peralta 13 YEARS Jennifer DuBois Kendra Elstad Vanessa Stotland 14 YEARS Steve Barrett Seth Gordon Landis Green Manfredo Grellert Ruth Gutierrez Claudio Hernández Randy LaStrapes Timothy Sekula 15 YEARS Beto Juan Orlando Portillo 16 YEARS Maria Beistegui Will Schaer Michelle Simon

25 YEARS Monique Marshall Darren Pasco Katie Rios

26 YEARS Patti Baez

19 YEARS Melissa Bales Laura Forsythe Claudia Jaime Hatter

30 YEARS Gerald Rios

33 YEARS Doug Meyer

20 YEARS Deb Christenson Itai Disraeli Chay Thaopaset Tyler Williams 21 YEARS Melanie Benefiel Anna Boucher Alberto Duarte

34 YEARS Shahrzad Khonsari

— NOAH GOLDMAN ’15

Adriana Gonzalez Claudia Gonzalez Becca Hedgepath Sarah Simon Meredith Stephenson

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