ALUMNI

 

Welcome to the Stanley Clark School’s Alumni Web Site -- your electronic link to your alma mater! Our goal is to provide you with the tools to ease interaction between you, your school, and your classmates while keeping you up to date on alumni events and the news that most interests you.

As a graduate of Stanley Clark, you are a very important part of 50 years of history and this web site will serve as one more way for you to stay connected with your school. The features here will allow you to search and/or network with fellow alumni, update your personal profile, post and view class notes, and register for events.

Please take a moment to update your biographical information in My Alumni Connection.

We hope you will visit the site often, as news and information will be frequently updated. If you have questions or need more detail, please contact Nanci Sanders at nsanders@stanleyclark.org or call 574-291-4200.

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OUR SCS GRADUATES:  AN IMMENSE SOURCE OF family, community and school PRIDE !!

"My base is Stanley Clark and to this day I reach back in my memory bank for lessons I learned there.  No, not academic lessons (while those were many and, at times, painful), but lessons about respecting authorities and peers.  "Clark is more than a school.  It's an early life journey that allowed me to grow, with handrails (faculty), while exploring my talents on the field and in the classroom.  To this day "competitive" would be on the short list to describe me.  Clark keeps score.  I'm better for it."
(www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=7993467&nav=menu5_9_1).

Nathan Gunn '85, (http://www.nathangunn.com/about.php), an internationally known baritone concert performer appears regularly at opera houses all over the world including the Lyric Opera in Chicago and Metropolitan Opera of New York.  Nathan was the recipient of the first annual Beverly Sills Artist Award and was recently awarded the Pittsburgh Opera Renaissance Award.  He is an alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Program and was the winner of the 1994 Metropolitan Opera National Council Competition. In addition, he is also an alumnus of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he still makes his home, and was recently awarded a professorship by the university.  He has many recordings and accolades noted on the website above. 

"My life's work is music.  My love of music began at Stanley Clark School under the instruction of Mrs. Thais Gates.  Though all of us (students) were required to study music she saw a special talent in me when I was in grade school that I didn't recognize until much later.  The seed she planted, though, is the cornerstone to what has become the foundation of my work.  She and the rest of the Clark faculty taught us that the path to self-respect lies in respecting our work and the work of others.  Without this I could never have achieved the things that I have achieved."

Anthony Johnson '82,
former NFL running back with the Indianapolis Colts, New York Jets, Chicago Bears, Carolina Panthers, and Jacksonville Jaguars.  Currently ministers as the chaplain to the Jaguars in Jacksonville, FL.  “AJ” was a star athlete at the University of Notre Dame in college. 

"Though there are many and varied things in my life that provide unique decor to what I do and have done, there are a few central values that define who I am . . . . I cannot speak highly enough of my educational experience at Stanley Clark because it is there that I first learned how to think.  I was shown, for instance, not just what to study but how to determine what to study; not just that the answer is correct but why it is.  I don't believe I would have rightly concluded what to think if I had not been properly trained how. . . . My Clark education is part of the foundation for what I accomplish because it helped shape an aspect of who I am."
(http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/J/JohnAn00.htm)

Ragani (aka Dr. Julie Hobing Buegel '81), award-winning producer, Milwaukee, WI.  Ragani (pronounced RAH-gah-nee) leads Milwaukee’s renowned Kirtan with Ragani, one of the largest independent and ongoing kirtan scenes in the US (http://www.RaganiWorld.com).   She is a second-generation yoga practitioner.         

"I thank goodness for all my elementary years at SCS. If it weren't for my parents, who had the wisdom to send me (and my sister) to SCS for such an incredible education, I doubt I would have succeeded and journeyed as far as I have in life. The language skills, the music training, and the interpersonal relationships that were cultivated during my early years at SCS created a lasting foundation. During my later years in higher education, I often reflected upon my time at SCS as the basis for the ease and grace that I experienced in my personal and professional development. No doubt, the quality of my elementary education at SCS not only prepared me well for the future, but also encouraged my creative inspirations and abilities and enabled me to become who I am today."
 
Rachael Sokolowski '75, President of Magnolia Technologies, LLC., Truro, MA
(http://www.magnoliatech.com). She has designed and developed software applications for over twenty years, with a concentration in XML systems, industry standardization, electronic and digital signatures, business-to-business information exchange, electronic mortgages (eMortgages), health care information and text processing, indexing and structuring.

“When I attended Stanley Clark the school’s motto was “Esse Quam Videri," which I learned in Garry Smith’s  Latin class, meant “To Be, Rather Than To Seem.”  My education and experience at SCS taught me just that.  I carry that motto with me today (and amazingly the name of my Latin teacher!) some thirty-five years since I left campus.
True to the motto, as part of my SCS experience, I learned to be, to notice my experience, to seek knowledge, to ask questions, to explore, to challenge myself both mentally and physically, rather than to seem, to give the impression of, or to appear to do these things.

"As I reflect back on my time at SCS I realize education is not only about memorizing Latin declensions and conjugations but also to learn about one’s self, to master the person that you are, and to pursue what truly interests you.  It has a lasting impact and SCS provided me with a truly well-rounded education that served me well both professionally and personally."

To add your name or nominate another graduate to the list, please write to Cyndy Searfoss, Director of Advancement at csearfoss@stanleyclark.org.