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Editorial Team
Nancy-Rose Netchi, Editor
Alaina Ferry ’10, Assistant Editor
Jane Schilling, Class Notes Editor
Contributors
Kathleen Bishop
Michelle Wion Chitty
Jason Cohn
Monica Manes Gay
Amiena Mahsoob
Alex Neal
Shay Park
Shanda Snyder
Michelle Zaffary
Winchester Thurston School
555 Morewood Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Telephone: (412) 578-7500
Mission
Winchester Thurston School actively engages each student in a challenging and inspiring learning process that develops the mind, motivates the passion to achieve, and cultivates the character to serve.
Equity and Inclusion Statement
As a means to fulfill our credo, “Think also of the comfort and the rights of others,” Winchester Thurston will be an inclusive community and will pursue the social and pedagogical benefits that diversity brings. We will place the highest value on enabling students to understand their own cultural identity and those of others. It is our moral imperative to be courageous and intentional in promoting understanding, addressing bias, identifying and honoring qualities of justice, respecting multiple perspectives and contributions, and valuing the dignity of all.
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Winchester Thurston School is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and is accredited by the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools.
Winchester Thurston School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, or disability in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, financial aid programs, and athletics or other school-administered programs.
Winchester Thurston School
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
2022-2023
Paul Rosenblatt
President
Kristen A. Burns
Vice President
Susan Hunter ’72
Vice President
Abigail Robinson Foster ’03
Vice President
Jessica Bemer
Treasurer
Henry S. Beukema
Secretary
Scott D. Fech
Head of School
Kerry Bron ’84
Manny Cahouet-Rotondi
Rosalind Chow
Phyllis Coontz
Brandilyn Y. Dumas ’99
Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56, Emeritus
Brea M. Heidelberg ’02
Elizabeth S. Hurtt ’74, Emeritus
James Isler
David Kamin
Kristi Kerins A’67
Natasha Lawrence
Marsha Lovett
Carole Oswald Markus ’57, Emeritus
Jennifer Gonzalez McComb ’89
Jennifer Staley McCrady ’91
Savita Mullapudi Narasimhan
Brandon Nicholson
Illah Nourbakhsh
Edward Perrin
Henry Posner III, Emeritus
Andrew Santelli ’00
Tiffany Sizemore ’95
Andrew N. Stewart
Jane Arensberg Thompson ’57, Emeritus
Joy Titus-Young ’92
Jian-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu