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The Carroll Alumni Connect

The Carroll School Alumni Connect Magazine

A newsletter for alumni and their families, designed to keep you connected with Carroll and its dynamic alumni community.

Welcome to the first edition of the Carroll Alumni Connect.

Our goal is to provide interesting content, inspiration, opportunities for connection, with a bit of nostalgia and fun. If you have ideas on how to help us achieve this, or are interested in contributing an article, please email Mary McNulty.

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Carroll Alumni - Share your updates and help us keep in touch, send you invites to future Carroll events, and keep you informed on all things Carroll!

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Alumni Awards

Carroll alumni are out in the world doing incredible things. To recognize this, we’re thrilled to announce the creation of Carroll’s Alumni Awards program. This year’s inaugural awards will be presented at the Legacy Breakfast on June 9. Award recipients will be notified prior to the event.

Be an inspiration to our current students by filling out the very brief form below!

  Service to School Award

Recognizes an alum for their dedicated and enthusiastic support of Carroll School.

  Alumni Achievement Award

Recognizes an alum who has achieved distinction in a particular field or endeavor, through work, volunteer activities, or commitment to an issue, project, or cause.

 Thinking Differently Award

Recognizes an alum who has leveraged their dyslexic advantage to achieve their personal and professional goals.

Nominate!

Nominate a classmate, friend or yourself. Nominations are due May 15, 2024.

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Carroll School Bomb Shelter: Facts, Myths and Legends

 

The Bomb Shelter: Facts, Myths, and Legends

Yes, it’s true, nestled in the idyllic woods on Carroll’s Middle School campus sits a bomb shelter. Depending on when you were at Carroll, as alums you’ll have varying degrees of bomb shelter access and stories. Let’s test your bomb shelter knowledge.

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Bill Faulkner, Carroll School Alumni Story

 

Staying Connected: Alumni Stories

Beyond the campus of the Lower, Middle and Upper School are 3,500+ Carroll alumni.They often tell us that their lives have been informed and transformed by their Carroll experience. These alums have given back to Carroll in many ways, through their time, energy and generosity. These alums all expressed their deep commitment to give back to Carroll, a school that gave them so much. To learn just how much Carroll continues to play a role in their lives, we asked four active alumni to share how their time here influenced their identity and path after graduation and why they stay connected.

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Carroll Middle School gymnasium

 

What's Missing?

The Middle School gym just got a fresh coat of paint and a new floor. There are 2 things missing from this wall - Can you name them?

If so, please share a story about what was there and what you liked about it. Send your answer/story to Mary McNulty.

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Targeted Cognitive Intervention: A Decade of Results

In this replay of a live webinar, you will learn how Targeted Cognitive Intervention (TCI) helps students make faster progress in reading. Jen Brock, Head of Product & Cognitive Research, Louisa French, Lead Educational Analyst, and Ben Shepard, TCI Curriculum Coordinator will present the results of our 10 year study showing how cognitive intervention helps students become more efficient learners.

Do you remember participating in Targeted Cognitive Intervention (TCI) at Carroll and wonder what it all meant? Many students find it challenging, and we all know a big challenge can lead to great outcomes. Now’s your chance to really understand that your time in TCI was time well spent! Watch this video recording to learn more.

Sponsor A Graduation Chair!

For 56 years, Carroll students have reveled in a graduation ceremony like no other. Those who came to Carroll wobbly, walked confidently across the stage, excited for what is to come. And for 56 years, alumni have become self-advocates, embracing their dyslexic advantages.

Share Your Chair 2024

We invite you to sponsor a graduation chair for a member of the class of 2024.

Your gift of any size includes a message of encouragement, which will be affixed to a chair for graduation day. Help us achieve our goal of sponsoring all 100 graduate chairs! Your support will welcome our newest graduates into an alumni network nearly 4,000 strong, and increase opportunities for students to thrive at Carroll and beyond.

Sponsor a Chair

In Her Own Words: Samantha Pfeffer '16

Samantha Pfeffer Carroll School Alumna

Samantha was recently selected to participate in a fellowship with Eye to Eye National, an organization devoted to advocating for students with learning differences, which she first learned about as a student at Carroll.

As part of the fellowship, she had a final project to produce.

Read more about Samatha, and her compelling research topic

Head of School Blog

Head of School Dr. Renée Greenfield  shares her thoughts on a variety of topics in the Carroll Head of School blog. Here are a few we thought might be of interest.

Renee Greenfield Head of Carroll School
Carroll School Alumnus Bryan Perla '14
Bryan Perla '14: A Path from Carroll School to Successful Entrepreneur

Bryan Perla ‘14 attended Carroll School from 5th to 9th grade. Recently, he sat down with Head of School Renée Greenfield to discuss his journey from a student with dyslexia to a successful entrepreneur and dyslexic thinker.

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Carroll Students Speak: Jay and Stella Share about Belonging, Multis, and Wobbly Chairs
Carroll Students Speak: Jay and Stella Share about Belonging, Multis, and Wobbly Chairs

Recently, Stella Grossman, a sixth grader, and Jay Rubenstein, a fourth grader, sat down with Renée to share their thoughts on a range of Carroll topics. Not only do their insights affirm Carroll’s mission, they remind us of the very lives and families we have the privilege of touching—even transforming. 

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