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Annual Report on Giving

Ad Lumen Society

Ad Lumen Society members demonstrate their commitment to Newark Academy at the highest levels of giving. The exceptional generosity of these leading donors fuels virtually every element of the school’s success.
Head of School's Circle
$25,000 or more
Anonymous (1)
Marika Alzadon '89 and Samuel Cole
Ken and Debra Caplan
David Castelblanco and Laura Castelblanco Engelhardt
Lawrence G. Cetrulo '67
The Coraci Family
Lara Coraci-Basile '88 and Vincent Basile '88
Samuel W. Croll III '68
F&P DeRosa Memorial Fund
Ajay and Nidhi Dhankhar
Cuong Do and Lori Rickles
Dumbarton Foundation
Suzanne Paragano Kane '93 and Jimmi Kane
Andrew '90 and Nina Kogan
David J. MacNaughton '69
M. Brian '65 and Sandra Maher
Robert and Wendy Marcus
Ajay Nagpal and Deborah Mitchell-Nagpal
The Paragano Family Foundation
Anthony '72 and Cynthia Petrello
The Petrello Family Foundation
Valerie Radwaner and Steven Virany
Michael '87 and Chi Rockoff 
Florette Schoen*
Bruce and Lynn Schonbraun
William T. Wachenfeld '44
Jane and Mark Wilf and the Wilf Family

Farrand’s Circle
$10,000 - $24,999
Anonymous (1) 
Sanjeev and Marie Charmaine Agarwal
Salvatore and Stephanie Badalamenti
Nino Badridze
Ragavan and Kala Bala
John H. '69 and Joan Bess
Patricia Budziak and William Beecher
The Anne L. and George H. Clapp Charitable Trust
Christian Correa and Laura Abrams
David and Hilary Crall
Adam and Laura Epstein
Robert and Anne Essner
Robert and Rachel Fink
Darren and Jennifer Glatt
Cassandra Hardman
Milwood and Kimberly Hobbs
Jeffrey and Karen Horowitz
Steven and Tracy Horowitz
Robert and Brenda Kunzweiler
Andrew and Wendy Lacey
William and Victoria Lorenz
Richard and Lianne Mandelbaum
David D. '77 and Elizabeth McGraw
Lisa and John Powers
Joseph Rubin and Corinne Winston
Marko Ruso and Ann Schwarz
Alejandro and Laura San Miguel
David and Erin Schonbraun
Evan Sotiriou and Lorraine Dias-Sotiriou
Joshua and Jill Tarnow
Melissa and Daniel Tassé
Val Wagner and Megan Watt
Adam Wang and Jade An
Stephen Weeks
Taylor Weeks '23
Ira and Robin Weidhorn
Larry and Gayle Wieseneck
Roger and Suzanne Witt
Fei Zhou and Belinda Lu
Vyacheslav Zhukov and Julia Minina

Cornerstone Circle
$5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous (1)
Christian Abboud and Josefina Tranfa-Abboud
Nikhil '96 and Nitika Barai
Brett and Karen Baris
Lisa Lautenberg Birer '83
Mark and Meredith Blake
Christopher and Elizabeth Burn
Kabir and Arti Caprihan
Christopher Carroll
Andrew J. Carter '09
Daniel and Isabella Chernin
Stanley Chiu and Kathryn Stallings
Fabrice and Sylvaine Chouraqui
Ronald and Karen Cleeve
Andrew and Mary Dakos
Michael and Kimberly DeVirgilio
David Doobin '07
Michael Doobin '10
Stanley K. Doobin '77
Morgan Elwyn
Scott and Betsy Fishbone
Jacob and Stephanie Grossman
Karen Guy-Smith and James Smith
William F. Haynes '44
Shannon H. Hedvat '03
Ellen Lautenberg Hendel '75
Bruce and Ilene Jacobs and Family
Patricia A. Jacoby
Basel and Andrea Kayyali
Wayne D. '85 and Patti Kent and Family
Jefferson W. Kirby '80
Jeffrey Kotzen and Danielle Voogt
The Lautenberg Foundation
Joshua Lautenberg '86
Karl and Gigi Loh
Paul and Renee Marchand
The Marcus Family Foundation
Nan Lautenberg Morgart '77
Rakesh and Amnisha Parameshwar
Tom and Winnie Polen
Aneesh Prabhu and Noor Shaikh
Anish and Priya Rajparia
Dino Robusto
Janet Robusto
Michael and Joanne Rosenberg
Michael and Jordan Rosner
Maria Coraci Sabando '86 and Otto Sabando
Somnath and Neena Sarkar
Jeffrey Seymour '75
Anish and Dhwani Shah
William and Su Shen
Kunal Singh
James Solomon '02
Richard Tillyer and Sandra Morris
Bruno J. Tomaino
Warren A. Usatine and Shoshana Schiff
Kimberley '85 and William Wachtel
Patrick Wang and Vickie H. Yin
Jeffrey and Allison Wise
Shaw Wu and Yu Chen
Scott Yu and Vivian Li
Evan H. '83 and Meghan Zucker

First Street Circle
$2,500 - $4,999 
Anonymous (1)
Archit '83 and Monal Amin
Donald Austin and Karolyn Ide
Rohit '93 and Vini Bawa
Mark '64 and Randy Belnick
Sandeep and Sonal Bordia
Joseph and Carolyn Borlo
Swapan and Ginger Chaddha
Pramod Chakravarthy and Vandana Venkatesh
Brett and Heidi Cohen
Brian Croshaw and Brian Saluzzo
Albert A. Del Negro '61 and Patrisha Creevy
Louis and Shani Drogin
Ian and Alisa Eagle
Robin and Joel Eichler
Jeffrey '65 and Elaine Garrod 
Justin '93 and Jacqueline Garrod
Jonathan and Melissa Goidel
Barbara Green
William D. Green '69
Peter S. '81 and Karen Gruenberg
Fengrui Gu and Shiyao Xu
Sebastian and Julie Guth
Chad Ho and Kelly Ye
Lauren G. Hedvat '01
Erwin Hermans and Rupa Basu
Kim S. Hirsh '80
Yuan Hu and Jennifer Shen
Eric and Samantha Kanter
Jason and Michele Kaplan
Neerav and Hetal Kothari
Andres Lederman and Lourdes Blanco
Allen Lindstrom and Bari Waxman
Juan Lorenzo
Zhijian Lu and Yan Ji
Jonathan and Jamie Mach
Alessandro Maselli and Anna Rita Gregorini
Joseph P. '81 and Christine McGrath
Gary and Karen Rose
Michael and Emily Schonbraun
Adam Siegel and April Wazeka
The Silver Family Foundation
Kenneth and Carrie Somberg
Lawrence D. Taylor '50
Mikhail and Janna Teytel
Stephen '94 and Allison Tolpa
Sundar Varadarajan and Jyoti Ananth

Founder's Circle
$1,000 - $2,499
Anonymous (3)
Robert G. Abrams '64
Baki and Yesim Acikel
Marc and Heather Adelman
David and Leila Alland
Zachary Alpern '02 and Pria Talwar Alpern '02
Ruth Antwi '10
Nathan Arnell and Heidi Hellring
Danielle '01 and Jon Auerbach 
Maneesh Awasthi and Aparna Misra
Lara Coraci-Basile '88 and Vincent Basile '88
Mark Becker and Elizabeth Skoler
Jeffrey and Emily Berkowitz
Jocelyn Bigay
William D. Bloom and Ruth Redmond Bloom '80
Kevin and Deborah Bollinger
Simon and Deirdre Bradstock
Andrew Breckman and Beth Landau
Emma Brown '13
Erwin and Jeanine Bulan
Christopher and Katy Burns
Robert E. Butler '59
John* and Judith Carlson
Eric Carniol '04
Michael and Patricia Cetrulo
Robert Chang and Fang Zhou
Hong Cheng and Yue Bian
Sumit Chhabra and Kanika Chhabra
Michele Chiles-Hickman '86
Patrick E.  '62 and Beverlee Ciccone
Asha Talwar Coco '99
Jeffrey Cohen '81 and Christine Paul Cohen '89
Daniel D. Cronheim '72
Robert '46 and Marion Cronheim
Robert and Ewa Czyzewski
David Dai and Ji Qin
Aditya Damodaran and Nita Harwani
Jiangbo Dang and Xianqin Wang
Jacob M. Dunn '02
Omari and Kerry-Ann Edwards
Christopher T. Errico '03
Thomas and Catherine Errico
Bruno Fang and Aylin Simsir
The Lynne Federman Charitable Fund
Paulino Flores
Jerome and Diane Forman
Paul and Susan Francis
Michael B. Frankel '54
Nicole Shafman Frankel '90
Rebecca Moll Freed '94 and Gregory Freed
Amy Krupnick Freeman '91 and Hank Freeman
Douglas and Dana Friedman
Michael Gallagher and Catherine Kyriakatos
Juan and Sandra Garcia
Gerry and Durga Gaviola
Alexandre and Dita Gerber
Jack and Myra Gibson
Jordan and Suzanne Glatt
Stewart and Sarah Glickman
Jayme and Natalie Goldstein
Vladimir and Marianna Gorbaty
Jason S. Granet '96
Lisa Grider and Mitch Lawrence
Norman Grossblatt '52
Scott Gunther '06
Jian Guo and Jie Wu
Peng Ha and Hong Liu
Mae and Alexander Hacking
Rasheea Williams Hall '95
Peter Hardin '75 and Jaimie Hardin
William D. Hardin, Jr. '71
Nancy Baird Harwood '75 and William Harwood
Khoo and Emily Hew
Ying Huang and Liping Wang
Scott Hunt '61
Jeaan Hwang and Meehyung Cho
Michael and Catherine Hynes
Carl H. Ill '62
Lauren Jacobs-Lazer '98
Ezra and Alexandra Jennings
Leslie Johnson, Jr. '48
Philip D. Kaltenbacher '55
Vineet and Varianny Kapur
Alexandra Katz '14
Jason Katz '17
Robert and Valerie Katz
Thomas and Rhonda Kean
Jeffrey and Ki Keys
Andy Kim and Kelly Hwang
Frank King and Flora Bai
Arthur M. Klebanoff '65
Frank Koch II '50
Roman and Irena Kramarchuk
Winston Kung and Jacquelyn Leung
Walter H. Kunisch '61*
Ming Lai and Dianne Ip
Adam Levinsohn and Christine St. Peter
Matthew and Tiffany Loncar
Alberto Lopez-Silvero and Estelle Fournier
Xiaodong Luo and Li Pang
Feng Luo and Qinyan Zhou
Brent MacGregor and Kimberly Burgoyne
Fernando Maddock '92
Michael '90 and Katherine Markowitz
John A. McCoubrey '69
Michael T. Melneck, Jr. '80
Michiteru Mishima and Katherine Novak
Kash and Rasika Mishra
Inkai Mu and Ying Li
Lisa and William Mulligan
Michael and Brooke Murphy
Stephen and Debra Murphy
Rajesh and Archana Nuni
James Orsini '97
Ernie and Wendy Ou
Jeffrey and Holly Palker
Ashish and Smruti Parikh
Marvin and Rosa Peart
Peter and Betsy Peña
Richard Perl '71
Francesco and Francesca Pinelli
Virginia Puder Goldfarb
Daniel Pyo and Helen Cha-Pyo
Michael L. Recce and Hui Zao
Christopher and Pamela Reed
Michael Reid and Sofina Mirza-Reid
Elizabeth (Penney) Riegelman
Jennifer Rodriguez '02
Stuart Rogers '79 and Brooke Nichols Rogers '79
Alexander '96 and Lauren Rose
Clayton and Julianne Rose
John '64 and Alice Rubinstein
Lena Hill Ryals '94
Sam and Angela Samaro
Tobias Schraven and Tracy Gottschalk-Schraven
Howard and Betty Schwartz
Jenna Smith Schwerdt '98
Michael '70 and Rosemary Scoppetuolo
Niraj and Mona Shah
Nikesh and Pinki Shah
Laurence and Susan Shiff
Robert Sikellis and Georgia Giannakopoulou
Jeffrey J. '82 and Nancy Silverman
Douglas B. Slade '59
Stephen Socolof and Cristina Corona
Peter A. Solomon '00
Nishant Soni '03
Jared Stadlin '94
Denise Dreitlein Steiner '96
Vincent Strully, Jr. '65
Alexandra Swanson '09
Edmund and Julie Tai
Mark and Christina Thomases
Vikas Tipnis and Nancy Shalvatis-Tipnis
Louis Todd III '79
Sally and James Toffey
Dhiren and Shilpa Toolsidas
Allan Tsai and Kate Chang
Ram and Kalpana Tumu
William Van Winkle '52
Moti Vyas
Yanhui Wang and Xun Chen
Eleby R. Washington III '69
Stephen and Ruth Waxman
Joshua and Roberta Weinreich
Richard and Lauren Weiss
Andrew Wiener '91
Greg and Maryl Wilensky
Stephen and Melissa Wong
Steven Xu and Maggie Wang
An Yan and Yi Zhu
Kjell and Sonya Youngren
Steven Zhang and Sherry Deng
Daniel Zheng and Wendy Han
Lei Zhou and Yuan Xu
Brian K. '84 and Deborah Zucker

Thank You To Our Donors

Board of Trustees’ Day of Giving Match Challenge

During Newark Academy’s eighth annual Day of Giving on March 3, 2021, the Board of Trustees challenged the NA community with a match pledge. The Board of Trustees pledged to match every $1 up to $150,000 donated to the Annual Fund, with those matching dollars going towards the school’s COVID-19 mitigation and relief efforts. The matched dollars also aided families financially affected by the pandemic. The Board of Trustees generously went above and beyond their pledge, matching a total of $169,350, which raised the Day of Giving donation total to $411,912.70 for the Newark Academy Annual Fund.

The members of the 2020-21 Board of Trustees:
 
Samuel W. Croll III ’68, Chairman
Donald M. Austin 
Marika Alzadon ’89 
John H. Bess ’69
Patricia Budziak
David Castelblanco 
Lawrence G. Cetrulo ’67
Lara Coraci-Basile ’88 
Ajay Dhankhar 
Cuong Do
Robin Eichler 
Robert Fink 
Anjali Gupta 
Karen Guy-Smith
Lauren Hedvat ’01
Millwood Hobbs, Jr.
Wayne D. Kent ’85 
Andrew Kogan ’90
Robert Marcus 
Lisa Powers
Valerie Radwaner Virany 
Michael Rockoff ’87 
Melissa Tassé
Glenn A. Waldorf ’90 
Larry Wiesneck
Elizabeth Christou Woodall
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