| Garden Gala |  On Friday, March 12, 2010 parents, teachers, and alumns gathered together to celebrate the life and accomplishments of two members of our “Garden Family”, James Pigman and Mark Kupferberg. The Garden Gala was held at Bruno’s on the Boulevard and approximtely 350 people were in attendance including nearly 100 alumns from as far back as the class of 1958! A former faculty member, Charles Millevoi, from the English and Foreign Language Departments, also came to honor a fellow academic and professional friend.The Gala was a huge success, raising in excess of $100,000 for the Garden School, including donations and five Smart Boards donated by the Kupferberg family, as well as several laptops donated by other Garden parents and friends.
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| Nathaly Spilotros (’03) addresses Key Club |  Nathaly Spilotros is a graduate of Garden’s class of 2003 and went on to Tufts University and earned a B.A. in International Relations and French. She is a native New Yorker and currently lives in Queens. She is now the Executive Assistant to the Executive Director of the Women’s Refugee Commission. She came and spoke with our Key Club members about the work being done by the WRC, the Women’s Refugee Commission. This work focuses on the international plight of women who have been thrown into refugee status by political or military activities. |
| James Cohen (’91) addresses Class of 2009 |  James Cohen, a Garden graduate of the class of 1991, is the Assistant Secretary responsible for Africa and the Middle East.
Prior to his appointment at Yale, Jim spent nearly ten years as a career diplomat with the United States Department of State’s Foreign Service, with postings on three continents and on the staffs of Secretaries of State Colin Powell and doleezza Rice. Jim received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Emory University and a Master’s in the History of International Relations from the London School of Economics.He came to speak to our newest alumni about the importance of service to the microcosm which is their Garden community as well as the macrocosm of the global community. He stressed the importance of sympathizing with the plight of men, women, and children around the world. It is very easy, he continued, to live with blinders on and ignore their plight, yet it is our duty to make this a better place. |
| Grusky Roast | Mr. Richard Grusky is currently the Chairman of the History and Social Studies Department of Garden School and has served Garden School since 1969. He was honored and roasted in October 2009. Faculty and alumnae gathered to pay tribute to a beloved Garden fixture. |
