In Memoriam
Marilyn Antos, April 3, 2024, mother of Jacki Knauss, grandmother of Catherine L. Knauss '08 and Olivia M. Knauss '11
Patricia Rich Barber '47, February 2025
Nancy Belfer, November 17, 2024, mother of Lauren Belfer '71
Rev. Nancy Hester Bloomer '57, April 3, 2024
Linda Ann Clark, August 20, 2024, mother of Laura Clark Payet '85
Lucy Coburn, November 11, 2024, daughter of Lucy Butterbaugh Coburn '73
Donna Dauria, March 22, 2025, mother-in-law of Kacie Mills
Virginia Amram Ellis '52, October 9, 2024, mother of Pamela Ellis Meltzer '73, cousin of Ellen Brock Narins '57, Catherine Brock Johnson '65, and Lauren Brock '91
Helene Holzworth Gephardt '47, October 15, 2024, mother of the late Yvonne Gephardt Popielski '78*
Marsha Kelly Gray '62, February 27, 2025, sister of Genevieve Kelly Todd '66, Aunt of Amy Kelly '85 and Caitlin Crowell '86, Great-Aunt of Caitlin Lawton '99 and Kira Yerofeev '16
Donald "Don" Allen Hamilton, Jr., April 25, 2024, brother of Katharine Hamilton Steinwedell '53
Mary Rose Hennessy-Hays '44, April 4, 2025, former Trustee, mother of Maureen Hays-Mitchell '74 and Judy Hays Benedict '79
Robert T. Hays, November 17, 2024, son of former Trustee Mary Rose Hennessy Hays '44*, brother of Maureen Hays-Mitchell '74 and Judy Hays Benedict '79
Monte Hoffman, May 25, 2024, father of Mara Hoffman '95 and Alicia Hoffman Michielli '90; partner of Niscah Koessler '62
Brian Hogle, March 6, 2025, father of Brooke Hogle '21
Allison "Honey" Regan Hopkins '53, July 4, 2024, sister of the late Ann Hopkins Nolan '50* and Caroline Regan Lassoe '49*, sister-in-law of former trustee Susan G. Regan, sister-in-law of Pinky Leahy Regan '53, aunt of trustee Doug Hopkins, great-aunt of Eliza Hopkins '13 and Abby Hopkins '16
L. Nelson "Nick" Hopkins III, October 5, 2024, husband of Ann "Bonnie" Adam Hopkins '61, brother of Jane Hopkins Carey '75 and the late Robin Hopkins Amper '65, father of Betsy Hopkins '89
Suzanne Weal Jaeger '45, June 22, 2024
Helen C. Jones '53, November 17, 2024, mother of Abigail Brown '79 and Rachel Brown Peckar '77, sister of Carolyn Jones Gurney '61 and Ann Jones Davidson '63
Mary Jean Kushner, August 20, 2024, mother of Laya Kushner '87
William J. Magavern II, April 15, 2025, Honorary SEM Trustee, husband of the late Linda Robertson Magavern '73* and the late Louise Morris Magavern '63*, former husband of Susan J. Clark '58, father of Priscilla "Polly" Magavern Wolfe '88, brother of Jane Magavern Beebe '64, Margaret Magavern Hargraves '53, Mary Magavern Worrell '60 and the late Honorary SEM Trustee James Magavern, brother-in-law of the late Robin Simon Magavern '52* and Jane Morris '66, uncle of Kate Bowen Smith '92, great-uncle of Emma Magavern '03 and Anna Magavern '15, cousin of Sarah Magavern Ambrus '79
Louise House McClive '49, March 11, 2024, sister of Marjorie House Keller '54, cousin of Evelyn Lipp Harman '61 and Anne Lipp Frank '63
Jacqueline Travis McNally '49, May 1, 2024
Wendy Whiteside Meilinger '58, October 20, 2024
Patricia Merrell, October 6, 2024, mother of Denise Merrell
F. Curtis Miles '72, March 14, 2025
Jane Krueger Montgomery '69, January 1, 2025
David O'Connell, September 12, 2024, father of Gillian O'Connell Bobrowski '99, Kirsten O'Connell Conklin '86, and Jennifer O'Connell '84
Daniel O'Connor, Jr., August 31, 2024, son of Ann Danahy O'Connor '71, brother of Emily O'Connor Wyckoff '87, Molly O'Connor Greene '98, and Grace O'Connor '02, uncle of Jane Wyckoff '18
Joan Sweet Osborne '46, December 10, 2024, mother of Amy Bitskay Swarts '75 and Molly Bitskay Merlo '79
Stephanie Phillips '69, August 15, 2024
Donald Platts, February 19, 2025, father of Sarah Platts '00
Penny Price, June 17, 2024, mother of trustee Mary Kelkenberg, grandmother of Penny Joseph '21 and Nellie Joseph '23
Anne Lapey Rogers '54, September 12, 2024, sister of Clare Lapey Holtan '62
James Norman Schmit, June 30, 2024, father of Amy Schmit '88
Dorothy Graham Slater '54, August 4, 2024
Adele Petrillo Smart '53, January 28, 2025
Barbara Kellogg Stowe '59, May 24, 2024, sister-in-law of Carolyn Karcher Kellogg '58, aunt of Virginia Kellogg '70 and Alice Kellogg Sadusky '73, and Whitney Kellogg McDonnell '89, great-aunt of M. Rose McDonnell '18, and Madeline McDonnell '13, cousin of Molly Larkin Bohanan '77, Melissa Larkin Crowell '72, Klee L. Van Schoonhoven '95, Larkin E. Stevens '71, Anne Kryder Almy-Webber '78, Stosie Sanderson, Victoria Sanderson Sieglaff '89, Robin Symons Alibozek, and Natalie Symons Sorensen '88
Janet Taylor, March 14, 2025, aunt of Nancy Moden-Lambert '81, Linda Moden Andrews '82, and Karen Moden '83, great-aunt of Abigail Smith '24 and Olivia Smith '24
Thelma-Jeanne "T.J." Friedman Taylor '50, September 6, 2024
Jane Turner, April 8, 2024, former SEM math faculty
Jean Vaughan Varney '48, January 11, 2025
Adele Viger, March 29, 2025, grandmother of Annie Viger-Cutting '25
Joan Goldstein Wagner '53, July 4, 2024
Sandra Drew Warner, April 20, 2024, daughter of Janet "Wendy" Wendt Warner '44
Sidonie Triepel Williams '51, October 25, 2024
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