2009 Summer Program

This summer, Mooreland Hill School will again offer a program for any student interested in fun and excitement. Faculty members will be on campus to facilitate activities that include cooking, stained glass, golf, summer reading, as well as a week of ecletic offerings. For three weeks, there will be a weekly full or half-day schedule from June 9 through June 26. Lunch and snacks are included. This program is open to both MHS students and children from other schools. Join us for a wonderful summer experience! Call (860) 223-6428 for further information.

Outdoor Adventure

MHS Honors Faculty, Past and Present

Scores of Mooreland Hill School alumni, parents and friends gathered on the school’s Kensington campus on October 27 to honor faculty, past and present. The reception, also a reunion for alumni and faculty, brought participants back to the campus from Illinois, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and throughout Connecticut.Announcement was made by Gail A. Byeff, President, Board of Trustees, and alumnus Headmaster Michael D. Dooman’78, that the Trustees were honoring nine retired faculty and administrators with emeriti status. Those selected include Frances R. Brautigam, Teacher Emerita; Roderick H. Brown, Teacher, Administrator Emeritus, Cheryl C. Carlson, Teacher, Administrator Emerita; Elaine V. Colagiovanni, Business Manager Emerita; Nancy F. Judd, Administrator Emerita; Joan M. McLean, Coach, Librarian Emerita; James V. Parsons, Master Teacher Emeritus; Joanne M. Pigott, Master Teacher Emerita; and the late Oscar A. Steege, Headmaster Emeritus. Pigott was also recognized for the longest tenure in the school’s history, 32 years. She was presented with a crystal decanter engraved with the school’s seal.

In addition to the emeriti members, other former faculty recognized were Stephen Kates, Sheila Lavey, David Nelson, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Carol Schiller, Mark Snyder, Eric Steinfeld and alumni Lara Anderson ’83 and John DeNicola ’82. DeNicola, a former music and drama teacher, is a playwright, composer and director whose musical “Megillah” opened to rave reviews at Goodspeed Opera House in 2006, said Dooman.

Present faculty introduced were Lisa Amodio, Alice Crosby, Aaron Jackson, Nora Johnson ’70, John King III ’99, Paul Majeski, Susan Nalewajk, Gary Salonia, Pamela Whitman ’61 and Elizabeth Williams. The event, co-chaired by Carol Pritchard Conry ’73 and Nancy F. Judd, was co-sponsored by the school’s Parents’ Association. Remarks were given on behalf of the alumni by State Rep. John C. Geragosian ’77 and by Pigott who said of the honorees, “Each of them gave unstintingly of their knowledge and also maintained an environment in which laughter and learning and growing were constants.”

Alumna Elizabeth Porter ’97, whose professional, vocal music career is centered in Boston, entertained with selections from her new CD “after the rain…” a recording of her own compositions.

Mooreland Hill is an independent, day school for girls and boys in grades five through nine