Our Wildwood, Summer 2021, Volume 46

Our Wildwood is published twice a year by Wildwood School’s Office of Advancement.

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Amy Abrams Director of College Counseling and Alumni Relations

Hunter Hackett Director of Marketing and Communications

Kristin Hampton Director of Institutional Advancement

Seth Kao Advancement Services Manager

Danielle Kraten Marketing and Communications Associate

Danielle Lesner Director of Annual Giving Julie Potts Advancement Coordinator

Chay Thaopaset Director of Digital Communications and Media

Paige Verdun ‘13 Advancement Assistant for Events and Alumni Relations

Editorial Consultant: Bonnie Powers Editor-in-Chief: Hunter Hackett Editor: Chay Thaopaset Copy Editor: Jeannine Santiago Designer: Elizabeth Burrill

1998: Board of Trustees and staff who voted to approve K-12 expansion (photo from page 8)

Special thanks to the following contributors: Students Joseph B. ‘21 for his interviews on pages 10-11 and Marika V. ‘22 for her article on page 46; faculty Michelle Meena for coordinating the Lasting Leadership quotes on pages 32-37 and Alberto Duarte, Jennifer Collins and Claudia Gonzalez for their contributions to the Timeline on pages 26-31 and historical staff research for Lasting Leadership on pages 32-35; former faculty Bonnie Powers for serving as editorial consultant for this issue, Colleen Pundyk for her contributions to Looking Back on the Founding of Wildwood on pages 4-9 and the Timeline on pages 26-31, and Jeanne Fauci for her contributions to Looking Back on the Founding of Wildwood on pages 4-9; and to Doreen Leddy, alumni parent of Owen ‘11 and Charlotte ‘18, for her research and development of the 50th Anniversary Timeline on pages 26-31.

Back row (L to R): Phil Boesch, Denise McLeod, Tom Schulman, Chris Dorr, Sandi Mineo, Lyle Poncher, Erin Mulcahy Stein, Colleen Pundyk, Jan Minium, and John Friedman; middle row (L to R): Peter Hursh, Andrea Dembrowski, Larry Jacobson, Robin Swicord, Luellen Lucid, Jeanne Fauci, Miguel Sandoval, and Hope Boyd; front row (L to R): Marcia Capparela, Patty Dorsey, and Eric Nadel

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11811 Olympic Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90064 310.806.4517 oww@wildwood.org

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