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Lead the Way

Alumni volunteers play an important role in fostering an active, lifelong connection to the Head-Royce community. By serving on the Alumni Council or as a Class Agent, you can help strengthen relationships among fellow alumni, encourage engagement, and support a vibrant alumni community. Whether you’re helping shape school-wide alumni initiatives or keeping your classmates connected, these volunteer roles offer meaningful ways to stay involved and make a difference.

The Alumni Council:

  • Inspires and facilitates all alumni to keep a lifelong and fond connection to the School’s community and fellow alumni
  • Acts as a liaison for the alumni body
  • Plays an integral role in informing, engaging, and inspiring alumni to support the School by participating and volunteering in the School’s alumni strategic initiatives and through philanthropic giving

In 2025, the Council drafted a 3-Year Strategic Plan that you can review here.

The Council is currently composed of 11 Alumni members:

  • Danielle Adams ’03
  • Caroline Altman ’87
  • Jonathan Barnes ’99, Class Agents Chair
  • Ariane Chee ’08, Governance Committee Chair
  • Ryan Diew ’13
  • Heather Erickson ’95, President
  • Justin Manus ’99
  • Michelle Tajirian Shoffner ’96, Membership Officer
  • Lindsey Streeter ’08
  • Laura Terry-Green ’06, Vice President
  • Julie Whorton ’03

Ex-Officio Members:

  • Mark Schneider ’00, Director of Alumni Relations
  • Johnny Avots-Smith, Director of Advancement

Get Involved

We invite you to get involved with the Head-Royce School Alumni Council as an elected term member of the Alumni Council or by working on one of the Council’s many initiatives.

For more information about the Head-Royce Alumni Council, please email Heather Erickson ’95, President.

Council Membership

Alumni Council members serve a term for two school years (July 1 – June 30), supporting the school in many ways:

  • Voice your views as an opinion leader for the Alumni Community. Help shape alumni initiatives and realize goals set by the Council and Alumni Relations Office. Provide feedback on communications, events, and fundraising.
  • Support Alumni events and activities through participation, planning, and promotion.
  • Create opportunities to engage in education, communication, and service with current students in the spirit of the School’s mission and tradition.
  • Encourage Alumni to give to the Annual Fund or other fundraising initiatives such as Heads Up, the auction, endowment campaign, capital campaign, and special programs.
  • Promote communication between Alumni and the School by sharing address updates, contact information, and Alumni news with the Alumni Relations Office. Help to locate alumni with whom the School has lost contact.

Class Agents

Being a class agent is not very time-consuming and revolves around these few suggested annual tasks:

  • Alumni Notes: Twice a year, Head-Royce publishes a community-wide magazine with a robust alumni section. When the call for content occurs, the Alumni Relations Office will ask you to reach out to your classmates to request content for the magazines—alumni notes, photos or updates on their lives. Or if you are aware of classmates with more story-worthy items (personal or professional achievements), let us know so that we can contact them to write a feature-length article.
  • Reunion: During your reunion year, reach out to classmates and encourage them to attend. Optional: help organize a class-only event during Alumni Weekend (Head-Royce offers a small stipend to help with the cost!)
  • Contact Information: If you hear of a change of address or email, please inform the Alumni Office so that we have the most current contact information. If we are looking for a ‘lost alumni’, we would love your help in contacting other classmates who might know where they are.
  • Be a resource for the Alumni Office: As your class agent, you will be well ‘in-the-know’ about the goings on and happenings in your classmates’ lives. The Alumni Office would love to reach out to you when looking for specific alumni, for example, if we are looking for an alumnus/a in a specific field of work to come speak to our students, or someone living in a particular area of the world or if we are planning an alumni event in your region, we would love to contact you to get your advice about possible venues and timing.
  • Facebook Group: If your class does not already have a Facebook group, please consider creating one. Posting information, news, updates and event information will make it much easier to inform your classmates.

Get Involved

 

There is no set maximum or minimum number of years as a class agent, but we would prefer a commitment of at least two years.

 

For more information about the Head-Royce Alumni Class Agents, please email Mark Schneider ’00, Director of Alumni Relations, or call him at (510) 531-1300 x2191.

Current Class Agents:

You can find contact information for your class agent via the Head-Royce Alumni Directory.

2026 – Sam Gulaid ’26, Abigail Kim ’26, and Emmy Mitchell ’26

2025 – Dillon Hong ’25

2024 – Matthew Wong ’24

2023 – Jasmine Khalil ’23

2022 – Madison Harvey ’22

2021 – Jena Thorne ’21, Kaylyn Beckford ’21

2020 – Remy Sirimongkolvit ’20, Katie McCabe ’20

2019 – Simi Gill ’19

2018 – Oona Julien ’18

2017 – Bea Rose ’17

2016 – Gavin Lituchy ’16, Rohanna Sarkar ’16

2015 – Jessica Xu ’15

2014 – Kristi Fujimoto ’14

2013 – OPEN

2012 – Kirstin Louie ’12, Annie Wanless ’12

2011 – Nicole Sue ’11

2010 – Bradley Chee ’10

2009 – Adam Freed ’09, Celeste Wong '09

2008 – Ariane Chee ’08, Camden Louie ’08

2007 – Jake Bauch ’07, Laura Zeidan ’07

2006 – Justin Chen ’06, Krista Marie Yu ’06, Laura Terry-Green ’06

2005 – Tyler Infelise ’05

2004 – Danny Stein ’04

2003 – Julie Whorton ’03, Sarah Louie ’03

2002 – Ana Guardado ’02

2001 – Alicia Danztker ’01, Justin Counts ’01

2000 – Suzy Klein ’00, Mark Schneider ’00, Vicki Calef ’00

1999 – Sarah Boolani-Paroo ’99

1998 – Harris Brody ’98, Stephen Baird ’98

1997 – Laurel DeMaria Dobbin ’97

1996 – Michelle Tajirian Shoffner ’96, Ilana Peterson ’96, Carla Lo Coco ’96

1995 – Heather Erickson ’95

1994 – OPEN

1993 – OPEN

1992 – Ann Hertelendy ’92

1991 – Ingrid Mandel Chiavacci ’91

1990 – Julie Veit ’90

1989 – Jenny Collins ’89

1988 – Sara Buckelew ’88, Kristin Clark Dwelley ’88

1987 – OPEN

1986 – Michelle Gildersleeve ’86

1986 – Lourdes Nicholls ’85

1984 – OPEN

1983 – Yen Yen Wong ’83

1982 – Carolyn McNiven ’82

1981 – Harley Rosnow ’81, John Long ’81, Terry Nelidov ’81

1980 – Anne Bruner Nash ’80

1979 – OPEN

1978 – Wayne Killen ’78

1977 – Amy Beernink ’77

1976 – Ross Deaner ’76

1975 – Betsy Armour ’75, Cheryl Harrison ’75, Brett Holliday ’75, Jan McElroy ’75

1974 – Tracy Logan ’74

1973 – Laura Getman ’73

1972 – Lori-Ann Lightner Black ’72

1971 – Kate Johnson Spector ’71

1970 – OPEN

1969 – Hatti Saunders ’69

1968 – Joyce Boykin ’68

1967 – OPEN

1966 – OPEN

1965 – OPEN

1964 – Diane Seaborn Brown ’64

1963 – Susan Hill ’63

1962 – Maryly Snow ’62

1961 – OPEN

1960 – Nan Horton Warren ’60

1959 – Diana Wilde ’59

1958 – OPEN

1957 – Molly Harris ’57

1956 – Alexandra "Sandy" James ’56

1955 – OPEN

1954 – OPEN

1953 – Jeannine Hull Herron ’53

1952 – Martha Jones ’52

1951 – OPEN

1950 – Joan Davidson Denzler ’50

1949 – OPEN

1948 – Sue Morrison Ahlf ’48

1947 – OPEN

1946 – OPEN

1945 – OPEN

1944 – Joyanne Elkinton-Walker ’44

1943 – Bebe Moorhead Heggie ’43

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