annua l repor t 2010

Ou r M i s s i onLake Washington Girls Middle School prepares girls to be confident young women, strong in mind, body, and voice. Our school values diversity and promotes personal and social responsibility. Students, teachers, and families are active partners in creating a challenging academic environment, fostering independent thinking, and instilling a life long love of learning.

Ou r Va l ue s LWGMS holds up the opportunity of a world in which girls are nurtured and empowered to reach their academic, social, and emotional potential. To that end, the school provides a supportive single-sex learning environment where students, teachers, staff, families, and our surrounding community are active partners in inspiring leadership, social responsibility, and self-confidence in girls.

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I n c l u s i v enes s

A sense of community in which every individual is known, feels valued, and participates actively in a small close-knit community.

A f fo rdab i l i t y

Tuition rates within reach of middle class families and financial aid offerings that eliminate financial barriers to admission.

I nd i v i dua l Ac comp l i shmen t

Guided by intellectual curiosity every girl can succeed and have the opportunity to fulfill her academic, social, and emotional potential.

Fam i l y Engagemen t

Families are a critical part of a student’s educational success and essential partners in the school’s mission and community.

Commun i t y Re sp ons i b i l i t y

A passion for social justice, political participation, and service to our community.

S ing l e - se x Educa t i on

A recognition, grounded in research, that girls are more likely to reach their academic potential in an all-girl environment that fosters self-confidence, promotes speaking up, and encourages social cohesiveness.

Guiding Principles

Inspiring FuturesAs I walk through the Hall of Inspiration – our main hallway of red lockers, each named

for an inspirational woman, such as Ida B. Wells, Rachel Carson, and Elizabeth

Blackwell – each morning, it is easy to imagine the name of a Lake Washington Girls

Middle School alumna there one day.

After twelve years of growing strong girls, we at LWGMS have the pleasure of seeing

our first group of alumnae, the Class of 2001, succeeding “in the real world." Those

full-fledged adults are doing all kinds of amazing things: traveling the world with service

organizations, teaching special education in the Washington D.C. public schools and

English to students in Spain, working for the Pride Foundation and Americorps, and

serving on the Seattle/King County Gang Prevention and Outreach Work Group and

the LWGMS Board of Directors. We are so proud that the girls of the inaugural class

have continued to cultivate their intellectual curiosity, commitment to social justice, and

self-confidence – seeds that were planted during their middle school years at LWGMS.

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Head

Our current students are able to look up to these women and feel inspired by

their leadership and by the shared experience they have of the LWGMS

curriculum and community. Even better, those alumnae return to visit and they

can’t help but note the upgraded science laboratory equipment, the well-

rounded sports programs, and the multitude of arts classes available to L-dub

girls now.These improved programs and opportunities have been made possible

by the generosity of the many wonderful people who support LWGMS. The

philanthropy of our donors in 2009-2010 enabled Lake Washington Girls Middle

School to increase available funds for students in need and make much-needed

purchases for our programs, helping us to support our girls as they grow into

confident young women who will change the world.

Patricia HearnHead of School

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2009-2010 Board of TrusteesPaola Maranan P'10PresidentDavid Carrell P'10Vice PresidentAP HurdTreasurerMark Chinen P'11Secretary

Leslie Ashbaugh P'11Sandra Robinson P'09Lisa Hoyt P'11LaKesha Kimbrough P'12Whitney Knox ’01Liezl Tomas RebugioLinsey RubensteinLeilani Saar P'10Eric Sorenson P'12

On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I am pleased to share with you in

the pages to come just a few highlights from another successful year at

Lake Washington Girls Middle School.

Success comes in the classroom…

• Our 18 outstanding graduates were admitted into 17 different

independent and public high schools.

…and in the community…

• Our service learning efforts helped provide meals – and advocacy –

for the homeless in our community.

…and through thoughtful stewardship.

• Our new five year strategic plan serves as a roadmap for the wise

investment of our time and resources.

• Our fiscal year ends with both a healthy reserve – despite a

continued economic downturn that has rippled through virtually all

institutions – as well as a demonstrated commitment to accessibility,

with a 25% increase in financial aid dollars awarded in 2009-2010.

Our mission remains as compelling and as necessary as the day we

were founded. Each year it takes a committed community – made up

of teachers, administrators, families, and volunteers – to surround our

girls with the opportunities and support they need to become strong in

mind, body, and voice.

We are profoundly grateful to all of you for serving the mission – and

our girls – and supporting our school, so well.

Paola MarananBoard President

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Measures of Success

Wh

at a

Ye

ar! Green Team receives Terry

Husseman Sustainable School Award and $300 grant in recognition of their student-led sustainability efforts to reduce waste and increase environmental curricula.

LWGMS students submitted 11 of 18 award- winning art and writing pieces entered into the the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center's 2010 Jacob Friedman Writing and Art Contest. Our students have placed in the contest each year since 2006, and have held 1st place in the writing category since 2007.

Sofia '10, wins 1st place in the King County Civil Rights Commission Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay Contest. This is LWGMS's fourth 1st place win. In the News:

Finn '11's award-winning artwork on CNN.com, Fuerza Soccer on the cover of The Seattle Times, and our She-Bot featured in Seattle Met Magazine.

In our first year participating in the Washington State and National History Day event, Maia '10 earned three awards at the Regional competition, first place in the Junior Division of the State competition, and placed in the top 15 of the same division at the National competition in Washington D.C. in June.

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A Rite of Passage is a ritual event that marks a person's progress from one status to another. At LWGMS the 7th grade humanities curriculum examines various cultures' rites of passage traditions as the the girls develop, design, and implement their own ritual event, carried out each spring. This year, the Class of 2011 embarked on the 10th annual 7th grade Rites of Passage journey – unique to LWGMS, and as unique as each member of the class – of self-discovery, community, and connection with the natural world. They are indeed strong young women.

With the generous gifts made

towards upgrading classroom

technology, we were able to

purchase six ePodiums, each

featuring:

Multimedia Carts

Tablet PCs

Digital Projectors

Document Cameras

We also purchased:

1 MacBook

1 iMac

Donor Database

Naomi '10 utilizes all of the components of the ePoduium to screen her History Day documentary.

Access to our new technology has allowed me to bring the world in "real time" into my classroom. It also nurtures students to take ownership of their learning, as they learn to confidently interact with and use technology to share their knowledge with each other.–Lindsey Mutschler, 6th grade humanities

Technology Upgrade

Technology UpgradeFueled by necessity and guided by the vision of the LWGMS faculty,

parents, and Board of Trustees, our community came together last year

to raise the funds necessary for the first phase of a sweeping overhaul

of LWGMS's classroom technology. Working with an approved

budget of $25,000, the technology team researched the power, prices,

and sustainability of available products, and

found that instead of purchasing two Smart-

boards for shared use, an equal amount could

be spent to obtain six ePodiums. True to

L-Dub form, this decision was the best fit for

the school, fiscally and culturally.

Our ePodiums arrived, housed in secure multimedia carts, each

comprising a tablet PC, digital projector, and document camera.

Recognizing that these powerful tools offer a variety of educational

opportunities that improve teaching and learning, our faculty and

students have never looked back. Whether

projecting a math problem with the document

camera, screening a student-created

powerpoint presentation with the tablet PC

and digital projector, or sharing what is

happening under the microscope with the

whole class, our new classroom technology

brings us all closer – to the lesson, to learning, and to one another.

Thank you to all who supported this exciting improvement to the

L-Dub experience.

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The Annual Fund turns individual gifts of all sizes into a collective pool of support for every aspect of an LWGMS education. Every dollar is put to immediate use to ensure that LWGMS is financially accessible to a qualified and diverse student body, recruits and retains an exceptional faculty, supports broad curricular and co-curricular programs, and provides and maintains the facilities possible to support academics, the arts, and athletics.

Janette AdamucciRollie AntupitStephen Antupit and Lucy SlomanPam AshbaughVeronica BarreraCatherine BauerKarel Bauer and Nancy HarrissKenneth BlaisdellShannon BlaisdellMason Bowles and Christine ChmielniakMark Boyar and Gretchen WeitkampHenry Boyar and Rebecca HoffEthel BoyarTom Braman and Kathryn RobinsonStephanie Bravmann, PhDJanet BrodskyAl Brower and Ann NovakowskiBrian and Conne BruceRobert and Jennifer BucherDaniel Caracciolo and Donna MackenziePaula CarmelTodd and Colleen CarrellDavid Carrell and Garnet AndersonMark Chinen and Ruby TakushiKeith Cohon and Yumi HiragaChristian and Julie ColandoJames Colando and Shirley RobertsonAnna Colando ’09

Colette DetmerColleen DouvilleRobert Drucker and Ann GenslerRichard Dunn and Laura WiddiceStuart Eivers and Darcie StellaMichael and Melanie FinkCarolyn FinneyBillie FisherEdwin and Rebecca FotheringhamJason French and Leslie AshbaughGregory Garcia and Erica PascarelliBob Geballe and Susan KaufmanWarren Gibbs and Jan FrederickDavid Gill and Karri MeleoWilliam Golding and Jacqueline JamesRonnie GreerDavid and Mary Ellen HaleyHeather HarrisWilliam and Ellen HazzardDan and Whitney HazzardPatricia Hearn and Leslie NeihartOleine HedeenAlex Higgins and Eva McGoughShyoko HiragaChristopher and Lisa HoytKarl and Sally HufbauerGretchen HughesAP Hurd

Jeff and Michelle HuseRobert Jaffe and Susan IsaacsonLeroy and Julie JenkinsHailey Jenkins ’09Judith Kaftan and Kristin MarraKarin KallanderPhil Katzen and Joan KleinbergJay Keiper and Monica LakeLaKesha KimbroughTara Kleca and Justine KreherWhitney Knox ’01Gary and Lisa KotzenAlice KresJeffrey LeeRon Lewis and Laurie ElderBarbara LindbergKarl and Dawn LumHeather MahardyYee Man LeeKen MatsudairaJohn McLaughlin and Kathryn KrikorianJohn and Christine McLaughlinBeth McNamara and Jennifer DuncanDavid McRaeSusie MostowKen Mostow and Martha StraleyLindsey MutschlerRita O'Boyle

David Oder and Stephanie CarmelKeith and Yvonne OguntuwaseJosh Parks and Julie FayJoshua and Anne PetersenCamille Pham-Lake ’08Martine Pierre LouisTerrence and Arizona ProctorJack Resneck and Ellen HufbauerFrank Retman and Rosselle PekelisMaya Riser-Kositsky ’06Shiquitta Roberts-WilliamsSandra Robinson Bill and Paula RooksBernie and Ginnie RoosLinsey RubensteinElizabeth RudolfScott Rumage and Karin JensvoldWolf and Leilani SaarJosé Sama and Julie JohnsonJon Schorr and Joanne TompkinsDan and Susan ShamesStan Shikuma and Tracy LaiTalia Shulman ’06David Shulman and Sam FriedlanderDarryl Smith and Andrea John-SmithEric SorensonMarcio and Charito Sotero de MenezesBrad Tollefson and Lisa Greenberg

Liezl Tomas RebugioDavid True and Sarah HufbauerDan and Virginia TurnerBill TurnerJonathan TweetDavid and Reba UtevskyBill Vogeley and Karen GarlandMeagan WalkerWilliam and Audrey WeitkampColleen WestLea WiddiceHunter Williams and Kirsten RooksTerry and Elsa WilliamsBen and Kimberli WilsonBill Wilson and Diane CarmelPaul Wirsing and Paola MarananMichael Witter and Lizzie ZemkeWinnie Wong and Ben NobleYe-Ting WooTodd and Nancy WyattMerrily Wyman and Karen BryantFelicia YearwoodMarla YorkDrew and Jenny Zavatsky

Annual Fund Donors

The Cary Wyatt McRae Memorial Scholarship Fund was established when we lost our beloved friend and "school mom," Cary McRae. The money raised for this scholarship enhances our financial aid budget to enable all girls admitted to attend LWGMS regardless of their family’s financial situation. This was a core value for Cary, and we are grateful to continue her legacy.

Karel Bauer and Nancy HarrissJulie BensenShannon Blaisdell and Bryan LhuillierDeborah BowlerMark Boyar and Gretchen WeitkampTom Braman and Kathryn RobinsonMark Chinen and Ruby TakushiSandy Cioffi and Tammi SimsKeith Cohon and Yumi HiragaChristian and Julie ColandoColleen DouvilleRobert Drucker and Ann GenslerStuart Eivers and Darcie StellaTom and Maura FitzMackenCarolyn FinneyEdwin and Rebecca FotheringhamJason French and Leslie AshbaughGregory Garcia and Erica PascarelliBob Geballe and Susan KaufmanWarren Gibbs and Jan FrederickDavid Gill and Karri MeleoPatricia Hearn and Leslie NeihartTeresita HeiserAlex Higgins and Eva McGoughPete and Monica Hinckley

Christopher and Lisa HoytDavid True and Sarah HufbauerRobert Jaffe and Susan IsaacsonMichelle and Jeff HuseRonald KnoxGary and Lisa KotzenAlice KresSuzy and Brian KumasakaClaire LaneRon Lewis and Laurie ElderBarbara LindbergLin LucasKarl and Dawn LumHeather MahardyScott and Janet McLeodBeth McNamara and Jennifer DuncanDavid McRaeLindsey MutschlerRita O’BoyleDavid Oder and Stephanie CarmelKieran Phelan and Pricilla WalkerMartin PowellBeanetta RobertsShiquitta Roberts-WilliamsKirsten Rooks and Hunter Williams

Rae Anne RushingLaura SilveyJane and Jim SkrivanMarcio and Charito Sotero de MenezesDavid StearnsHugh and Linda StraleyBrad Tollefson and Lisa GreenbergDan and Virginia TurnerLea WiddiceBen and Kimberli WilsonMichael Witter and Lizzie ZemkeYe-Ting WooTodd WyattFelicia Yearwood

The Annual Report is published to recognize the many generous contributors whose private gifts support LWGMS. Every effort has been made to produce an accurate, comprehensive listing of donors for the fiscal year July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010. The figures reported are unaudited.

Amgen FoundationBoeingCostcoeScripGap FoundationGates FoundationJBT CorporationMcKinstry Company Charitable FoundationMicrosoftPCC Natural Markets Reader's Digest FoundationRealNetworks FoundationStarbucks FoundationUnited Way of King County

Matching Donations, Workplace Combined Fund Drive contributions, and Partner Programs are hugely important to the success of LWGMS's Annual Fund. We are pleased to have received donations from the following corporations and foundations in 2009-2010. Thank you our to donors who intitiated these donations.

Scholarship Donors

Financial Highlightsw h e r e t h e f u n d s c o m e f r o m

w h e r e t h e f u n d s g o

Operations 32%

Facility 9%

Financial Aid 10%

Employee Benefits 11%

Instruction and Student Life 38%

Tuition 84%

Fundraising 15%

Other 1%

In a year when both annual giving revenue and participation have declined nationwide, we are grateful to our community for making support of LWGMS a priority. Though we didn't meet our entire fundraising (annual fund and auction) goal of $135,000 this year, our Annual Fund revenue increased by nearly 5%, and the average gift increased from $299 in 2008-2009 to $388 in 2009-2010. Even more significant, an impressive 92% of current families participated in annual giving, as well as 100% of board members, faculty, and staff. Every gift makes a difference, no matter the amount. Thank you all for your participation and support.

a n n u a l f u n d g i v i n g b y c o n s t i t u e n c y t o t a l $61,718

Alumnae Families 16%

Board Members 6%

Current Families 37%

Grandparents 11%

Alumnae 4% Faculty and Staff 5%

Friends 15%

Organizations 6%

0 9 – 10 b u d g e t $786,952

Volunteers Make a DifferenceOn any given day, you only have to look up and down the Hall of Inspiration to see the difference our incredible culture of volunteering makes for LWGMS students. So many in the LWGMS community—parents, grandparents, faculty, staff, and friends—gave so generously of their time and talents during 2009-2010, in so many ways. From helping with field trips long and short, to serving on the Board of Trustees, to creating sets and costumes for our theatre productions, to working on the annual auction, to organizing the library—your support of LWGMS is deeply appreciated by the entire community.

Not only are LWGMS’s many volunteers generous, but they are creative and proactive as well. And no matter what form it takes, volunteering at LWGMS offers extremely important educational benefits by showing our students that through giving they can deepen their connection to the community—and truly make a difference.

To everyone who shared their hands, hearts, and thousands of hours that enriched us all during 2009-2010, we cannot thank you enough for your precious time, your many talents, and your incredible generosity.

Thank you.A n n u a l R e p o r t / 2 0 0 9 / 2 010

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