b'LETTER FROM THE ALUMNI DIRECTOR ALUMNI BOARD MEMBER NOMINATIONS ARE NOW What a Year! Unprecedented on many levels. From welcoming our first female Head of School to celebratingBEING ACCEPTED. our 50th year to moving operations and learning online in response to COVID-19, it has been a year of firsts for Greensboro Day School.Do you want to help strengthen the GDS Alumni Association? Do Support for our alma mater continues to roar. Personally,you want to help make important I am in awe of the leadership of our school. The time anddecisions that decide the direction our energy invested by the schools leadership have carried mealumni association is going? Maybe to a new level of appreciation for Greensboro Day School.you want to help plan alumni events GDS future is in good hands!or recruit alumni volunteers among other things? We are now accepting As alumni, each of you has a teacher of whom you arenominations for new Alumni Board particularly fond; one or more teachers that helped youMembers. This board is open to all through school and that you will never forget. Our current teachers deserve an enormousGDS alumni. Please email Michael amount of recognition and gratitude for the jobs they did this year in smoothlySumner 04 at michaelsumner@transitioning from on-campus learning to distance learning. Our teachers remain ourgreensboroday.org with your name most valuable asset and we all should be proud of the teachers the school currentlyand interest in participating on the employs.board. If you know someone who you believe would be an asset to our board, Our students were resilient, leaving campus before spring break for some downtime, notplease email their name to us and knowing they would not return to campus for the rest of this year. Many lost so much,tell us why you think they would be a from performances, athletic games, socialization with friends, and each has proven theygood addition to our board. have the foundation to overcome adversity. greensboroday.org | 336.288.8590 As we welcome 76 graduates into our Alumni Association, we offer our praise to them for their perseverance over the last four months. We hope to continue to provide Age 2 - Grade 12 guidance to them as they start their next journey. They are now graduates of GDS and we welcome them with open arms into our tight-knit family of just under 2,900 graduates. While the future is still a bit uncertain, we do know that our community is strong. Together, we will continue to move forward and I hope that you will find ways to stay connected to Greensboro Day School. And though our main event, Studio 50, and Alumni Weekend are postponed until the spring of 2021, it was an amazing year. Please join us this next spring as we not only celebrate our past but more importantly, the future of Greensboro Day School!Are you receiving The Alumni Update Monthly Once A Bengal, Always A Bengal! e-Newsletter?It includes alumni news and announcements as well as event reminders. If you are not Michael Sumner 04receiving the e-newsletter, email Director of Alumni Programs us at alumni@greensboroday.org with your name and preferred email address to ensure you receive the next update!GDS Magazine | 59'