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Alumni Community, Inclusion, & Leadership

Alumni Leadership Council

Purpose: Ambassador. Asker. Advocate. Members of Cate’s Alumni Leadership Council (ALC) exemplify these characteristics while acting as governing body of Cate’s Alumni Association (currently 3,600+ alumni worldwide). The overall purpose of the Alumni Leadership Council is four-fold:

To serve as the leadership forum for the expression and exchange of alumni ideas
To assist in guiding the direction and nature of the Alumni Association and its activities
To increase relationships between alumni and the School
To increase support by alumni to the School through the Cate Fund

The Alumni Leadership Council (ALC) shall make recommendations to the Alumni Association, or to the Board of Trustees, through the Alumni Leadership Council President; and the Alumni Leadership Council may recommend the formation of additional committees as it deems necessary.

Structure

ALUMNI LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

President: Lauren Craig Albrecht ’89 (Pasadena, CA)
Vice President: Dinah Moore Calderon ’90 (Carpinteria, CA)
Chair: Vinette Brown ’93 (Washington, D.C.)
Chair: Micah Carr ’99 (Chicago, IL)
Chair: John Kearney ’00 (Ventura, CA)
Chair: Kel Mitchel ’12 (Bakersfield, CA)
Chair: Jiwon Choi Song ’00 (Los Angeles, CA)

ALUMNI VOLUNTEERS

Class Agents & Reunion Chairs: A group of over 275 volunteers who help classmates stay connected by attending events and supporting the School through the Cate Fund.
Regional Representatives: Volunteers who assist in planning events specific to a given region.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

3,600+ members (all those who attended Cate for one full year are recognized as an alumnus of the School, and therefore part of the Alumni Association).

Current Term (Alumni Leadership Council President & Vice President)

Year 1: 2020-2021 (begins July 1, 2020)

Year 2: 2021-2022

Year 3: 2023-2024 (ends June 30, 2024)

Alumni Council Meetings 2020-2021

Typically, the Alumni Leadership Council hosts multiple open meetings prior to regional receptions around the world. These meetings act as opportunities to update any members of Cate’s Alumni Association who would like to attend. This year, the ALC will host a virtual end-of-year meeting in June. All alumni are welcome to attend this meeting.

Meeting #1: Camp Cate Reunion and/or virtual (June, 2021)

Board of Trustee Meetings 2020-2021

The Alumni Council President serves on the Board of Trustees. S/he attends the following Board of Trustee meetings at Cate. The Alumni Council President provides an update to Trustees on recent and upcoming alumni events and activities.

January 2021 (virtual)

April 2021 (Cate)

Distinguished Alumni

Distinguished Alumni of Cate School

In 1972, Cate’s Alumni Leadership Council honored its first Distinguished Alumnus/a. Incidentally, he happened to be Cate’s very first graduate, Dohrmann K. Pischel ’14. Since then, the Alumni Council has honored 35 alumni for distinguished service to the School, a distinguished career in business, or exemplary public service. Recipients of the award include a senator, a noted scientist, several long-time trustees, entrepreneurs, a computer scientist, artists, and philanthropists.

Though the award has not been given every year, the Alumni Leadership Council recently voted to make it an annual award. The first few awards were displayed in the McBean Library, but soon they became too numerous to fit into one location. The two most recent recipients are now displayed at the entrance to the Johnson Library, with the previous citations contained in a leather-bound book found inside the Johnson Library. In these more prominent locations, it is hoped that current Cate students will develop a better appreciation of the School’s past and, more importantly, an appreciation of how a Cate education can be put to good use.

Nominations for the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award can be submitted until December 31, 2021. Please email all nominations to Alumni Director, Andrew MacDonnell.

Below is a list of the Distinguished Alumni recipients.

YEAR	NAME
2020	Eric C. Taylor ’80
2018	Hal Burroughs ’68
2016	Christian Strachwitz ’51
2015	Tim Bliss ’70
2014	Terry Sanders ’49
2013	Walter Douglas ’73
2012	Brad Roberts ’72
2010	Greg Kubicek ’74
2009	Mona Khalil ’84
2008	Burton Smith ’58
2007	William E. Steinberg ’68
2005	Richard D. Baum ’64
2004	Sir John Bond ’60
2003	David Pun Chan ’68
2002	Eugene Thayer Bigelow, Jr. ’59
2001	Dayton O. Hyde ’43
2000	Conrad L. Hall ’45
1999	John D. Caldwell ’59
1998	Peter Frederick King ’80
1997	Donald Hastings Harcourt ’50
1995	George Barker Barrett III ’45
1992	James Sloss Ackerman ’37
1991	William Matson Roth ’35
1990	John Morse Luce ’59
1989	William New, Jr. ’59
1988	Paul Moore Denison ’52
1987	William Stevens Prince ’42
1986	Michael Alan Morphy ’50
1984	Francis S. M. Hodsoll ’55
1983	Nelson Dorrington Jones ’48
1981	G. Ledyard Stebbins ’24
1981	John Rodman Hooker ’21
1980	Malcolm Wallop ’50
1980	Peter McBean ’30
1972	Dohrmann K. Pischel ’14

Regional Representatives

Regional Representatives

Austin: Grace Gates ’11, Holly Lawson ’90

Chicago: Monique Parsons ’84

Dallas: Tim Annick ’12, Barron Fletcher ’85

District of Columbia: Abigail Baum ’04, Amanda Ebling ’15, Lydia McMahon ’16, Walter Douglas ’73

Hong Kong: Mimi Brown ’92, Sebastian Man ’76

London: Doug Lytle ’82, Lauren Suding ’98, Sarah Wilder Blank ’89

Los Angeles: Lauren Craig Albrecht ’89

New York: Maurice Blanks ’83

Orange County: Emily Horowitz ’02, Lisa Stanson ’92

Palo Alto: John Tarlton ’87

Portland: Fritz Hummelt ’90, Greg Kubicek ’74

San Diego: Chris Maloney ’80

San Francisco: Blair Elliott Paige ’86

Santa Barbara: Dinah Moore Calderon ’90, Ashley Woods Hollister ’03

Seattle: Anne Warjone Bridgeland ’86, Chris Breunig ’82, Jim Crutcher ’48

Seoul: Jeffrey Kim ’19

Singapore: Kenny Li ’94

Taiwan: Patrick Ko ’97

Tokyo: Luke Caffey ’99

Class Agents and Reunion Chairs are automatically considered members of the Alumni Council.

Cate Alumnae Network

History

The first female students were admitted to Cate in 1981, and since then women have come to represent half the student body and more than a third of all alumni. In order to engage this growing population, Cate Alumnae Network (CAN) was founded in 2012 to provide opportunities for alumnae to connect with each other, current students, and the School.

The purpose of CAN is twofold: first, to establish connections among the many constituent groups of Cate women in order to provide professional and social opportunities; second, to enhance the ways in which women can interact with the Mesa by supporting the School in kind and in deed.

Created with a desire to honor the female Cate community, the Cate Alumnae Network (CAN) provides support to the women of Cate’s extended family. CAN is open to all Cate graduates committed to supporting the alumnae and female students of Cate. Discussion and context is about women and for women.

With nearly 600 members and counting, CAN events have been hosted in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, Portland, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Washington, D.C. There have been CAN-sponsored Servons events in Chicago and Palo Alto, and CAN presentations and panels, from public speaking to perceptions of beauty, have been held on the Mesa.

Get Involved

Mentorships: Connect with a current female student or recent Cate graduate. Students may live in the same city you, be interested in or attending the same college, or beginning a similar career track.
Electronic Communication: Help keep a lively stream of activity on the Facebook CAN group page. In addition, encourage your classmates to be involved.
Local Community Service: Organize Servons events in your city.
Host a CAN Event: Determine the structure, organize, and recruit for an activity that brings together alumnae and female students.
Giving: Envision and enact ways to encourage support of Cate through service and/or philanthropy.