In Gratitude

 

In Gratitude

2024-25 campaign Volunteers

The campaign volunteers oversee fundraising for Doors to Discovery, the school’s most ambitious campaign in its history. Special thanks to the following people who have dedicated their time, enthusiasm, and expertise to this transformational effort.

  • Andrea Dancs, Chair
  • Chitra Brihadeeshwar
  • Dee Dee Dahlen
  • Heather Ure Dunagan
  • Milen Gala
  • Happy Hong
  • Elizabeth Huang
  • Sha Meng
  • Rasha Qamheyeh
  • Juli Rasmussen
  • Tanya Vail
  • Haiyong Wang
  • Sara Womack

2024-25 campaign Staff

  • Gretchen Warner, Head of School

  • Brisen Brady, Director of Development

  • Jenni Baldwin, Director of Alumni Engagement
  • Hailey Bungaroo, Development & Special Events Coordinator
  • Megan Schoening, Assistant Director of Development
  • Margaret Lynch, Assistant to the Head

  • Susan Messier, Director of Communications & Marketing
  • James Plourde, JP Fundraising Solutions

Previous campaign steering committee volunteers 2017-2023 

  • Randi Hedin

  • Shuang Hou

  • Rachana Mundra

  • Kaili Pelzer


Donors

Thank you so much to all our donors who have so far supported Doors to Discovery. We are deeply appreciative of your generosity and investment in the future of Overlake! Interested in permanent recognition opportunities? Learn about naming opportunities here.

Anonymous (19)

Anonymous, in honor of Overlake Middle School Teachers

Anonymous, in Memory of Annika Jane Berger

Lydia Mayfield Abbott

Elbio & Vania Abib

Majida & Muhammad Abozaed

Ali Akgun & Jenny Wang

Alex & Susie Algard

Katie ('03) & Sam Al-Khoury

Lee & David Amos, in honor of Piper ('22) & Zander ('19) Gillett

Kendall Anderegg & Dan Evans

Eric & Inessa Anderson

Steve & B.J. Anderson

Rhonda Norvell Andres

Bogdan & Cassandra ('98) Andriychenko

The Apreutesei Family

Abhisht & Pawni Arora

Tone Austin & Priscilla Paris-Austin, in memory of Gaudiosa Erazo Paris

Gigel & Marilena Avram

Amy Bahl & Viven Gupta

John & Tarrah Baker

Scott Baker & Shaun Kaneshiro

Vikram & Rituparna Bakhshi

Jenni & Ryan Baldwin

Chris (’98) & Trista Bamer

Greg Bamford (’92) & Shannon Armitage, in honor of Overlake Faculty

David Banks (’83)

Rick Barnett & Su Su

Diane & Drew Baron

Hillary & Andrew Barr

Katharine Barrett

Amy Bartlow

Stephanie Belières

Yahn Bernier, N. Elizabeth McCaw & Cameron (’25) Bernier

Ann & Arvind Bhat

Bheemarasetty Family, in memory of Anasuya Devi

Alice & Hugh Birch

George Birch (’17)

Margaret Black

Dan Bolstad & Lisa Golden

George & Leslie Bond

Chris Border

Jill Bowles

Scott & Brisen Brady

Clay & Anne Marie Brandes

Virgil & Marnie Bretz

Robert H. Bristol

Michael & Emi Brown, in honor of Kai ('23) and Liana ('26) Brown

Gerald Buhaly & Marjan Spaander

Marie Jean Buhaly

Meike Buhaly (’15)

Steve Bush & Christine Chang

Drs. Raj & Mona Butani

Maurice & Gina Carson

The Casalino Family

Shanna, John, Will ('24) & Drew ('27) Case

The Cashman Family, in honor of John & Mary Jo Cashman

Zachary Chan ('04)

The Chandrakant Family

Chai & Petcha Chaoweeraprasit

Catherine Chatalas, in memory of Jeanne Kapsi

Karen Chaudiere (’81)

Huoping Chen & Esther Li

Kevin Chen & Lian Shao

Long Chen & Yun Li

Yuhua Chen & Jie Ping

Shingo & Izumi Chihara

Sekhar Chintalapati & Suma Uppuluri

Hoon & Junehee Cho, in memory of Cheng Wei Wei

Stan & Lisa Cho

Riad Chummun & Hafsa Azaz

Sean Clark

Veronica Codrington-Cazeau

John Colleran & Michelle Kastner

Gretchen Colonius & Paul Wetherbee

Michael Coulson & Patricia Orellana

Sean & Erin Croman

Heng Cui & Siyun Li

The Cusick Family

Hui Dai & Shijing Fang

Beau & Suzanne Damon

Carolyn Davis (’24)

Doug Davis & Michelle Wilson

Elizabeth & Chasen Davis

Dave De & Ina Saha

Ke Deng & Tao Yu

Klaus & Laura Diaconu

Jessica Klein DiStefano (’95)

Charles Duba & Masayo Arakawa

John & Heather Ure Dunagan

Nathan & Jenna Edmunds

Sid Eland (’76)

Colby Emerson (’02)

James C. & Carli Emerson

Mark & Tessa Encarnación

Misook Eum & Junhyoung Ahn

Alan Everitt (’06)

Carl & Judy Everitt

Vadim Eydelman & Rimma Gorovaya

Yuan Fang & Wendy Shen

Laya Fawal

Mary Ellen Fine

Sarah Fitzpatrick

The Foster Foundation

Hod & Steff Fowler

Mariyan Fransazov & Katerina Bodurova

Diane & Walt Freytag, in honor of Barbara Fowler

Bob Fries & Dee Dee Dahlen

Ed & Kim Fujinaga, in honor of Ben ('17) & Grace ('19) Fujinaga

Tony Fung & Happy Hong

Erin Gabriel & Rich Stearns

The Gala Family

Ted & Helen Gamelin

Arif & Nausheena Ghouse, in memory of Khwaja Moinuddin Ahmed & Sajida Shaheen

Lynn & Bruce Gibson

Alicia Gold

Adam Goodman ('20)

The Goodman Family

Sunil Gottumukkala & Sirisha Pusapati

Dinesh Govindasamy & Anu Kannian

Ramesh Gowrishankar & Thenmozhi Ramar

Dr. & Mrs. Francisco J. Grijalva

Shelly Guo & Simon Asselin

Karan & Rashmi W Gupta

Luis Gutierrez & Maria Pena

Jeff & Cathi Haight

Aaron Halabe & Judy Edelstein

Laura Hamill & Keith Rettig

Fred & Sydney Hammerquist

Chris & Mags Hanaoka

Mioi Hanaoka, in honor of Noah Hanaoka ('29)

Ming Hao & Xia Li

Ying Hao & Wei Yu

Richard & Joanne Harris

Bob & Beth Hart

Cui He & Jie Bai

Jay & Chana Heath

Randi Hedin & Andy Gardner

Alexander Hehmeyer & Jaime Teevan

Carlos Hernandez & Arantxa Alonso

David Hill

Molly Hill

Adrian & Samantha (’01) Hillyer

Bob Ho & Eileen Lee

Taeok & Steven Hong, in honor of Sara (’21) and Ellie (’24) Hong

Andy & Molly Honig

Matt Horvat & Susan Fine

Kent Hu & Jennifer Reid

Rundong Hu & Haihui Sun

Felix & Elizabeth Huang

Qian Huang & Wei Zhang

Ying Huang & Li Ma

Zach Huang ('26) & family

Jason & Lauren Hubler

Maria & Vernon Hui

Moon & Lucy Hur

Brian & Amy Husted

Dave & Joanna Hutton

Edward & Jill Im

The Isenhower Family

Doris (Factory) Jackson

Prasanna Jayapal & Archana Indirala

Joanna Jiang & Haiyong Wang

Qiming Jiang & Yimen Wu

Erik Johnson & Elizabeth Kain

Karin Johnson & Chris Peterson (’85)

Andrew Johnston (’83)

Janet & Adam Jones

Krista Kang

Constantine Korovkin & Nadia Postupna

Cyndee Kraiger & Brett Burris

Jun Lai & Joy Xu

Daniel & Tamara Leeks

Anthony & Cynthia Leibovitz

Li & Julie Kang

Lakshminarasimhan Kasi & Sumahitha Parthasarathy

Yan Ke & Claire Fang

Lloyd & Melody Kee

Matthew (’75) & Bev Kelleher

Aurangzeb & Labiba Khan

Sameer & Moona Khan

Brandon Kim & Bon Koo

Dongil Kim & Ju Hee Lee, in memory of Cheng Wei Wei

Jason Kim & Elaine Chong

Jed & Sherry Kim

Dennis (’83) & Jill Kirkpatrick

Tomek (’02) & Anne Kott

Thomas & Peggy Ku

Takuya Kudo & Laura Pitarys

Rohan Kumar & Prienca Punhani

Julien Lamb & Catriona Watson, in honor of Olivier Watson-Lamb ('26)

Michael & Kirstin Larson

John Lee & Cathy Tong-Lee

Nadia & Kirill Levanidov

Boxin & Nannan Li

Chao & Peng Li, in honor of Mingdi Li ('31)

Eric Li & Sharon Liang

HongQiao Li & Tang Tang

Lei Li & Lan Wang

Naizhi Li & Yi Gao

Richard Li & Rachel Wang

Tao & Liya Li

Wujun Li & Lei Zhang

Xiaoguang Li & Bingbing Wu

Xiaojun Li & Yan Tu

Yonggang Li & Hui Guo

Yu Liang & Li An

Wanna Lieng & Charles Lai

Alex Lima & Sylvia Lin

George Lin & Donna Liu

Jack Lin & Yuki Zhang

Neil Lin & Gladys Jin

Susan Lin

Xian Liu & Carina Zhang

Zhuyuan Liu

Raveendrnathan Loganathan & Hemavathy Alaganandam

Paul Lou & Fang Liu

Qiang Lou & Qiong Wei, in honor of Eric Lou ('29)

Bo Lu & Crystal Luo

Susan & Dan Luedke, in honor of Phoebe Jacob ('27)

Deke & Annie Lundquist

Huajun Luo & Xiaoxia Ji

Angelica & Cornel Lupu

Margaret Lynch

Ana & Gustavo Mahler

Meher & Satya Malakapalli

Kevin & Annemarie Marcus

Carlos Aguilar Mares & Erika Ehrli Cabral

Margaret & Justin Marks

Kyle & Alicia Martin

Melissa Martin

Campbell & Melissa Mathewson

The Matsuno Family

Omar Mawjee & Zaheera Valani

Keith & Elaine McCall

The McDaniel Family

Catherine McDonough

Anil & Gwen Mehra

Ushma & Miten Mehta

Jon & Susan Messier

Kevin & Karen Mihata

The Miltchev Family

Rajeev & Shalini Misra

Farookh Mohammed & Rachana Mundra

Monolithic Power Systems

Malcom & Phoebe Ann Moore, in honor of Rebecca C. Moore

Wing L. Mui

Mythili Muruganathan & Ramesh Balasubramanian

Susheel & Anupa Mutyala

Vikram Nagaraj & Vandana Nandan

Vivek Narasayya & Shreevijaya Ammankallu

Ashwin Needamangala & Anu Shenoy

Buff & Lori Nelson

Mahesh Nemichand & Kavitha Manivannan

Janis Nevler & Mark Hanna

Gor Nishanov & Anzhela Nishanova

The Noble Family

Julian Odell & Julie Barker

Seyi & Ebun Onagoruwa

Andy & Theresa Ortega, in memory of Gordon & Patricia McHenry

Stephen Ott & Lindsay-Rae McIntyre

Jennifer Pan-Lopez & Enrique Lopez

Frank & Anouk Pape

Chloe & Soomin Park

Jasmine & Jea Park

Michael & Hwa Park, in memory of Cheng Wei Wei

Taral Patel & Sanjay Shah

Deepak & Hema Patil

Larry Pederson & Grace Cheong

Frank & Kaili Pelzer

Shu Peng & Dongyun Liu

Alejandro Pérez-Tenessa & Blanca Barrio-Omeñaca

The Peters Family

Kurt Phillips

The Pike Family

Vaqar & Manizeh Pirzada

James Plourde, in honor of Brisen Brady

Suraj Poozhiyil & Disha Rustogi, in honor of Punya Swamidas

Marcin & Aga Przysucha

Rasha Qamheyeh & Hatem Zeine

Peter Que & Jessica Bao

Shenghao Qin & Sha Meng

Kate Rabinowitz ('78)

Farzana Rahman & Jay Raja

The Raman Family

Beth (’99) & Joe Randall

Wasif Rasheed & Humera Ali

David & Juli Rasmussen

Sujit Ravindranath & Preethi Ramarathinam

Eric & Jacqueline Reichanadter

Monica & Matthew Reilly

Kent & Denise Renno

Matthew Roberts & Wady Milner

Michael & Susan Shin Robinson

Michael & Daphna Robon

Megan Rodrigues & Henry Ly

Ron & Heather Rosenberg

Emma Ross

Lee & Shaney Rudolph

Mohammed & Ash Samji

Karen & Bill Sample

Ernesto Sanchez & Milagros Cobian

The Sapirstein Family

Sheldon T. Schatzman ('16)

Alex & Gena ('96) Schirer

Cy & Kerri Scott

Thomas Seltz & Julia Zalba Seltz

Krishnan Seshadrinathan & Swetha Krishnan

Drew & Nicolette Sharp

Spencer & Erin Shepler

Kai Shih & Ingrid Chiang

Janelle & Eric Shuey

Ray & Jennifer Shyu

Stephanie Siegfried

Sumi Singh & Rakesh Tangirala

Daniel & Marie Slater

Alex (’81) & Ange Smith

Yumiko & Karson Snyder

Baskar Sridharan & Sambhrama Mundkur

Amitabh & Richa Srivastava

Sheldon Stearns

Drew & Carrie Steedly

Axel Steinman & Claudia Maceroni

Scott Stiles & Andrea Dancs

Paul Stolarczuk & Jacqueline Riddell Family

Soumya Subramanian & Anand Ramakrishna

Wei Sun & Bo Tian

Sumeet & Shweta Swami

Harris & Maryam Syed

Cindy Tai & Michael Bee

The Takayama Family

Zhiguo Tan & Olivia Yan

Vineet & Khushboo Taneja

Eric Temple & Garry Schermann, in honor of the Capital Campaign Committee

Jan ter Meulen & Ajoke Sobanjo-ter Meulen

Lisa & Moz Thomas

Khoa & Vandung To

David & Lynn Treadwell

Karin Treadwell

Don & Ann Tschan

Saria Tseng & Carlos Castaneda

The Tuffaha Family

Dan & Alison Turner

Doug Turner & Sonia Savelli

Sid & Ashwini Uppal

John & Tanya Vail

Srikanth & Sheena Velamoor

Sekar Velu & Nisha Bansal

Brihadeeshwar Venkataraman & Chitra Brihadeeshwar

Steve Veres (’03)

Andy Verprauskus & Michaelanne Ehrenberg

Ricardo Villarreal & Laura Gonzalez, in honor of Lucia ('26) & Emilio ('24) Villarreal

Peter Voutov & Freedom Basham

Robin & Maggi Walker

Bin Wang & Ying Yang

Brandon Weinan Wang & Jenny Jie Sheng

Wilton & Yumeka Wang

Xiong Wang & Yuqing Zhong

The Wells/Rodey Family

Danny & Lily Wei

Ed & Cecilia Whatley

Claudette & Reginald Whiting

Gregory & Michelle Whitten

John & Margaret Williams

Myk & Jodi Willis, in honor of Jack Willis (’26)

The Willson Family

Donna & Troy Wilson

Fabian Winternitz & Miriam Rosenberg

Tim & Tiffany Wissner

The Womack Family

Bob & Debbie Wood

Phyllis Woodward

Karen, Chris, Hunter (’06) & Nick (’09) Wright

Dong Wu

Bob & Lisa Wyler

Yanling Xiong & Xin Yao

Jason Xu & Rachel Ren, in honor of Isabel Xu ('27)

Tong Xu & Lei Zha

Naveen Yajaman & Deepa Mungasavalli

Chris Yang & Clare Chen, in memory of NianMo Chen

Maggie Yang & Victor Lin

Xu Yang & Jing Li

Maria & James Yarrow

Xiaowei Yin & Yaqin Tao

Shengang Yuan & Shuang Hou

Eric Yun & Jie Xie

Ellen & Gary Zarter

Chongshan & Ruoyan Zhang

Pusheng Zhang & Yinghui Wang

Ruofei Zhang & Yu He, in honor of Lishun He & Xiangli Hu

Tao Zhang & Helen Wang

Wenge Zhang & Athena Zhao

Vivian Zheng & Victor Wu

Liangxiao Zhu & Xiaohua Ma

Hugo Zhu & Jessica Shao

Updated August 15, 2024