Welcome home, Alumni!

Welcome to the Friends Academy Alumni Association.  The Alumni Association and its board serve as a resource- by connecting alumni in the US and abroad, by providing networking opportunities, by offering continuing education and much more. 

President

Lauren Russo '09

Immediate Past President

Peter Stein '79, P '17, '20, '23

Alumni Board Members

Alana Teutonico Brock '94, P '26
Carole Ingrassia Bates '01, P '32, '34, '36
Pamela Bebry '05
Emily Brown '06
Katie Koufakis DeSvastich '07
Laura Dilimetin '83 
Garrett Dooley '05
Elisabeth Dillof Dreizen '78, P '03, '05, '09
Ariel Fish '00, P '32, '34
Liz Gambino '18
Jessica Granger '11
Ellen Field Greene '82, P '16, '18
Thomas Hawkins '78, P '10, '11, '13
Brett Hochberg '09
Caroline Johansen '10
Alexandra Kelly '06
Cristen Koufakis '09
John Koufakis '10
Alek Kucich '13
Hayley Kucich '03
Alexandra Wasp Loveless '01, P '33, '35
Eddie McNelis '11
Lauren Putter Menzin '81, P '13, '16
Hadley Mongell '01
Danielle Farrell O’Kane '06
Rebecca Pacchiano '07
Shayna Farrell Rafter '05
Heather Tilton Rubinstein '01
Keyonne Session '13
Salwa Touma '01

Would you like to learn more about the Alumni Board? Please contact Director of Alumni Relations, Jodie Sperico at Jodie_Sperico@fa.org for more information.

Distinguished Alumni Award

At Friends we prepare our students to be citizens with strong minds and kind hearts, people who lead by example. Each year Friends Academy presents the Distinguished Alumni Award to someone who has let his/her life speak. It is our hope that others will find the recipient’s life inspirational and will be motivated to devote themselves to a life of service. 

Distinguished Alumni Award Winners

2024     Lois Juliber '67
2023     David Seeler '59
2022     Aisha K. Mix '91
2021     Andrew Menzin '81
2020     Peter Stein '79
2019     Michele Pistone '82
2018     William M. Wicker '67
2017     Todd Jacobson '93 
2016     Laurence Corash '61 
2015     Paul Hand '68 
2014     Sharon McGee Crary '89 
2013     Marja Brandon '79 
2012     Barbara Boyle Weaner '73 
2011     Peter Galbraith '56 
2010     Susan Stein Danoff '60 
2009     John Gambling '69 
2008     Thomas Carter '59 
2007     James Greene '74 
2006     Peter Darbee '71 
2005     Warren Titus* '44
2004     Elizabeth Keefer '66
2003     Kathleen Catapano '95 
2002     Diana Dickson Wittmer '67
2001     Donald Smith* '44 
2000     Stephen Mills '77 
1999     Elisabeth Salzhauer Axel '83 
1998     Angela Van Rynbach '65
1997     Evette Beckett-Tuggle '74 
1996     Victoria Baum Bjorklund '70 
1995     Leon Rushmore* '27 
1994     Esther Hicks Emory* '19 
1992     Saidie Scudder* '24 
1991     Frederick Willits* '30 
1990     Robert Albertson* '45

*deceased

Would you like to nominate someone for the Distinguished Alumni Award?

Please fill out this form with your nomination. 

Alumni Association Award

For the past several years, the Friends Academy Alumni Association has presented its Alumni Association Award to a graduate of distinction. The board has continued a theme that this award be presented to a member of the 50^th reunion Class, and it is the highest honor given by the Alumni Association each year. Members of the 50^th reunion class are invited to nominate classmates by sharing unselfish acts of kindness or special accomplishments; note that criteria is left purposefully non-specific to allow for the myriad of ways that “distinction” can be defined. 

Alumni Association Award Winners

2019     Margaret Whitney Shiels '52
2018     Lesley Graham* '68 
2017     Diana Dickson-Witmer '67 
2016     Nancy Rauch Douzinas '66 
2015     Angela Van Rynbach '65 
2014     Lesley Birkett Jacobs '64 
2013     William Sugden '63 
2012     Vincent Van Brunt '62 
2011     Craig White '61 
2010     Ward Burian '54 
2009     Donald Pollitt* '34 

*deceased