Lincoln Gries Distinguished Alumni Award
The Lincoln Gries Distinguished Alumni Award is presented to an Old Trail School alumnus who has made an important contribution or given extraordinary service to others in some field, as a professional or volunteer. The award will be presented on June 1, 2013 as part of Alumni Reunion Weekend.
Katherine Klippert Merseth '63
2013 Recipient
Katherine is a Senior Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Her research and writing concentrate on teacher education, case-method instruction, charter schools and mathematics education. She was the founding executive director of the Harvard Children’s Initiative, a University-wide program focusing on the needs of children. At HGSE, Katherine is the founding director of the School Leadership Program and the Teacher Education Program. She also led a doctoral research group that studied the practices of high poverty/high performing charter schools in Massachusetts. This group published their findings in an award-winning book, Inside Urban Charter Schools in 2008.
Katherine has received several awards for her teaching and contributions to the mathematics profession including the prestigious Morningstar Award awarded each year to the outstanding teaching faculty by HGSE students and the Massachusetts Mathematics Educators Hall of Fame. She is a frequent workshop speaker and consults with national and international school districts and organizations. In addition
to her two Harvard degrees, Katherine holds a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University and an M.A. in mathematics from Boston College. She spends free time on her tractor at her Maine farmhouse, hiking, or rowing on the Charles River.
Award Recipients
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1980 Betty Looker Jaycox '30
1981 Dorothy Seiberling Steinberg '39
1982 Dorothy Hoyt Mollin '32
1983 Christine Dietrich Freitag '52
1984 Bonnie Stewart Mikkelsen '50
1985 Suzanne McCormick Rickards '50
1987 Judy Bear Isroff '54
1988 Betsy Frost '34
1989 Mary Laub Babcox '45
1990 Barbara Brooks Smoyer '33
1991 Peggy Jett Pittenger '40
1992 Susan Akers George '52
1993 Sarah Mabry Born '58
1994 Frances Seiberling Buchholzer '52
1995 Susan Bruggemeier Kruder '49
& Jeanne Schulman Leventhal '38
1996 Rachel Ober Burrell '46
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1997 Cheryl Gates McFadden '66
1999 Mary Catherine "Kitty" Guinther Brown '42
& Rebecca Knight '79
2000 Virginia Brown Sperry '43
& Anne Alexander Sperry '45
2001 Lucretia Leonard Romey '51
2002 Jane Johnston '52
2003 Karin Lewald Clumpner '53 & James Figetakis '79
2004 Marilyn Buckey '64 & Marjory Wheeler '39
2005 Deborah Wince Smith '68 & Sonya Haddad '54
(posthumously)
2006 Esther Sans Takeuchi ’71
2007 Suzanne Rogers '49
2008 Leland P. Smith ‘77
2009 Kim Paradis Coryat '75
2012 Coralie Munro '68
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