Ian
Shapira is a staff writer at The Washington Post,
but first began his career in journalism as a
student at Collegiate where he was editor of Pandemonium.
After surviving classes with
John Herzfeld, Marti Calderwood, Ron Johnson,
Cindy Brundage, Simon Stern, and Kevin Jackson,
Ian graduated and is a proud member of the Class
of 1996.
He then attended Princeton,
worked on The Daily Princetonian for four years,
majored in English, and most importantly, met
his future wife Caroline Turner Shapira, a senior
director at a Washington-based consulting firm.
After college graduation
in 2000, Ian immediately began working as a reporter
for The Post, where for the past nine years he
has specialized mostly in education and youth
issues.
Some of his stories have
included: a profile of a student’s gap year;
a feature about a rape victim finally addressing
her perpetrator after 14 years; a story about
teachers who publish crude material on their public
Facebook pages; and, a recent and controversial
piece on how blogs rip off newspapers.
In 2007, Ian was the first
Post reporter dispatched to cover the Virginia
Tech shootings and shared with other Post staffers
a Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category.
Ian is grateful for his Collegiate
education and is truly humbled by the amazing
teachers he was
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Jane
Metcalfe is perhaps best known as the co-founder
of Wired Magazine, Wired TV, Wired Books, and
the Wired Digital suite of websites, including
HotWired and the award- winning search engine
HotBot.
During her five years as
President and COO, Wired twice won the National
Magazine Award for General Excellence, the most
prestigious award in the magazine industry, and
once for Design Excellence.
Jane pioneered web media
by launching the first website with original content
and national advertisers, the first search engine
built on scalable architecture, the first blog,
and streaming music media.
As an entrepreneur, she
built a profitable, highly-motivated, and innovative
company with operations in the US, Europe, and
Japan, sales offices in a dozen cities, met a
payroll of 300, and created an enduring brand.
Jane’s latest business
adventure is TCHO, a super-premium chocolate manufacturer
in San Francisco, where she serves as managing
director. TCHO is known for its innovative focus
on the inherent flavor of chocolate, its future-forward
design, and a social mission that goes beyond
Fair Trade to work directly to improve the lives
of cacao farmers.
She is also a partner in
Força da Imaginaçao, an independent
investment concern with interests in technology,
media, and real estate.
Ms. Metcalfe serves as Vice
President of the Board of Trustees of the University
of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific
Film Archive.
She is also a trustee of
the UC Berkeley Foundation which manages the University’s
endowment.
Ms. Metcalfe is a founding
board member of the One Economy Corporation, an
international non-profit whose mission is to use
media and technology to help low income people
accumulate assets and join the economic mainstream.
She graduated cum laude
from the University of Colorado with a degree
in international relations. And she is the proud
parent, with Louis Rossetto, of two 21st century
citizens. |
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Caldwell Willig has been
a tireless supporter of Collegiate for many years.
He and his wife Hollis have three children who
are Collegiate graduates - Russell ’01,
Clayton ’05 and Ann Lawson ’09. Caldwell
hails from “a family of true and lengthy
dedication”.
His mother Mona Tate Russell
Willig served on the Board of Trustees as did
his sister Mona Tate Willig Powell. Both Monas
graduated from Collegiate as did Mona Powell’s
children.
The Willig family gave the
lead gift to Collegiate for the first ‘new’
Upper School building in the early 1980s.
Having been a devoted and
involved Collegiate parent for over twenty years
and serving on the Board of Trustees since 2001,
Caldwell has yet been unassuming in his service
to the school.“Caldwell deserves an ‘Unsung
Hero’ award as he has never sought recognition
or a moment in the limelight for his extensive
support of the school.”
Just after joining the Board
of Trustees when the early phase of the $10,000,000
Capital Campaign was underway, Caldwell took over
as chair of the Campaign when the former chair
became head of the Board of Trustees.
Caldwell’s quiet but
persistent efforts helped secure the major supporters
to make this expansion possible.
A small business executive
and owner who has designed and implemented numerous
strategic initiatives for various industries since
graduating from SMU, Caldwell is currently raising
beef cattle in a natural environment without the
use of implanted growth hormones or antibiotic
feed additives.
Caldwell has also shown his
commitment to this community by assuming various
leadership positions over the years. He is the
Past President of the Louisville Nature Center,
Actors Theatre and the Norton Hospital Foundation
and former senior warden of St. Francis in the
Fields Episcopal Church. He currently serves on
the boards of Collegiate and the Oldham County
Cattlemen’s Association. |
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