Annual Report - Kodai Friends International

Kodai Friends
International
November 1,2010
Gene Hennig
President
Dear Alumni and Friends of Kodai School:
Once again it is our pleasure to provide you with this Annual Report of the activities of
Kodai Friends International, Inc. ("KFI").
This past year was indeed a time of transition, both for Kodaikanal International School
("KlS") and for KFI. As of July 1, Adrian Moody assumed the reins as the new principal ofKlS,
and, on the same date, Anil Henry took over the leadership of the KlS Council. At the same
time, we welcomed both Adrian and Anil as new members of our KFI Board of Directors. Other
new additions we were pleased to have join our Board included Chris Granner ('75), Roxanna
Khan ('82) and Lynda Nyce ('87).
We were also able to get KFI organized to a greater extent than had been the case
previously. Much of the credit for this goes to our Executive Director, Jerry Nichol, whose
steadfast attention to detail was commendable. Our books and records are now up-to-date, an
audit of KFI's financial statements for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2010 has been completed,
and we have recently filed our Annual Report on Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service.
In all of these ways and more KFI became a more established organization since the time it was
created in 2006.
The primary work of KFI, as we have mentioned before, continues to be the management
of a significant endowment fund for the benefit of Kodai School. It is also in a position, as a taxexempt organization under Section 50I(c)(3) of the U.S. tax laws, to receive tax deductible
contributions from Kodai School alumni and friends located in the United States. Beyond the
fmancial functions just mentioned, KFI assists both the School and the Kodaikanal International
School Alumni Association ("KlSAA") in other ways. These ways include approving staff
resettlement grants, supplemental funding for the principal's salary, special grants for particular
projects in need of support, and the funding of scholarships.
Through your donations and KFI's additional funds from investments, the following
requests from KIS were granted in 2009-2010:
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Archives Projects (Class of 1961 Project)
Ashok Kamte Award (Class of 1982 Project)
Endowment Fund (Class of 1958 Project)
Principal's Discretionary Fund
Principal's Support
Russell DeValois Scholarship Fund (Class of 1943
Project)
Staff Overseas Hire
Student Scholarship Fund
Total:
US $50,000
2,700
8,200
570
48,000
100,000
75,000
4,300
$288,770
We are most thankful for the support shown by those listed on the attached Donor Contribution
Summary during this time of transition and growth at Kodai School. Our School has indeed
meant much to many of us, and with your continued support it can continue to exist as one of the
premier international schools in India and beyond.
As we conclude this Annual Report, we encourage you to contribute generously to the
2010-2011 KIS Annual Fund, which is working towards establishing the KIS Excellence in
Education Scholarship. All of you should by now have received correspondence from the
School that describes this worthy project in further detail. With your help, this scholarship will
help fund the full education costs for a student entering Grade 9 through their graduation in
Grade 12. We urge you to give, and to give generously, as you are able.
Thank you very much.
Most sincerely,
The KFI Board of Directors
Gene Hennig ('65) - President
Chris Granner ('75) - Treasurer
Sandra Schoeninger (FS) - Secretary
Gerald Nichol (FS) - Executive Director
Anil Henry ('84) - KlS Council Chair
Adrian Moody - KlS Principal
Roxanna Khan ('82)
John MacKay ('52)
Niladri Mukhopadhyay ('97)
Lynda Nyce ('87)
Kodai Friends International
252 Dogwood Drive
PO Box 190
Honey Brook, PA 19344-0190
USA
1-484-722-8022
KFLEx.Dir@gmail.com
Donor Contribution
$1000 and up
Bruce '53 & Louise Cummings 'FS
Robert Dudley '43
James & Evelyn 'FS Estes, Parents
Katherine Adams Fagan '58
Gene '65 & Kristin 'FS Hennig
John MacKay 1/'52
Miriam Naumann McCreary '51
Daryl Miller 71
Glenn Rogers 74 & Domonique Harre
Hansjoerg Stern '42
Norman Thoms '51
Ronald Walker '56
Eric Watt, Friend
Martha Thompson Wilcox '61
$500-$999
Class of 1959
Karl E. Anderson '58
Mary Jane Ness lincoln '57
Ian Oliver 'FS
Sandra Schoeninger 'FS
John Scudder '85
$250-$499
Jacquelyn Brooks 'FS
Mary Carruthers '57
Frank '56 & Mary Emerson
Euxine Dolbeer Faix '54
Barbara Kapenga 72
Ronald '66 & Marilyn Koepke
Carol Zigler '55 & Ralph Kusserow
David '69 & Laurie Otten, Parents
David '63 Piet & Nancy Piet-Pelon
August '43 & Alice Schmitthenner
David Swan '55
Richard Updegraff '46
KFI Donors 2009-2010
Summary, 2009-2010
$100-$249
George & Anne Althouse 'FS
Wayne & Kathy Beckwith 'FS
Gordon '64 & Mary Bell
Eugene Betts '60
Leonard Betz 71
Robert' 48 & Lucile 'FS Carman
John Jr. '59 & Elizabeth Chatfield
Fred '53 & Ann 'FS Clothey
Dorothy Conlon, Parent
Susan Hollinshead Dalton '58
Garrett '54 & Mary Dejong
Keith' 46 & Marcine Dejong 'FS
David '55 & Lois Thoms '55 Dickason
Ralph Doermann '48
Winston Dudley '40
Elizabeth Updegraff Dyson '48
David Evans' 48
Thomas '76 & Kim Fergin
Robert '48 & Carol Frykenberg
Robert Gipson '63
John '41 & Margaret Goodenberger
Charles Gosselink '53
Elizabeth S. Swavely' 44 Granner 'FS
Victoria Gray 70
Margaret E. Green 79
Valerie Newsom Guarnieri '84
Terry & Alice Hallaran 'FS
Timothy' 43 & Eliza Harrison
Norbert '49 & Ruth Hattendorf 'FS
Harriet Varney' 48 & Marc Hays
John' 49 & Dorothea Helms
Michael '51 & Elizabeth Jackets
Peter & Peggy Jenks 'FS
Emily Grumm Jeske '63
Anne Moore Johansson '48
Alfred Johnson '43
Benjamin '47 & Mary Johnson 'FS
Barbara Jones 77
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Kunal'93 & Monica Kapoor
Marion Johnson Karl '45
John '53 & Jean King
Gary & Lois Hiebert '67 Knapp 'FS
April Dennis Lyon '63
Basil Manns '63
Marjory Marker, Parent
Edwin Martin '59
Nolawi Mengesha '86
Mary Essebaggers Morris '62
Gerald & Roxanna Nichol 'FS
Elinor Potee Nichols '44
John & Dorothy Yoder Nyce 'FS
Lynda Nyce '87
Ruth Prange Oatman '58
Gale Potee '42
Ruth Stevens Ralston '36
Jean Towle Reed '55
Linell Roccaforte '87
Abigail Lindesmith Rombalski 'FS
Constance Dudley Rumely '42
Nell Kincaid Semel '54
Edwin '56 & Margaret Carman '55
Tegenfeldt 'FS
Alan Thompson' 49
George Thompson '52
Debra VanderAarde Vanderploeg '80
Kathleen VandiVer '67
May Korteling Votaw '48
Barbara Donaldson Walker '68
David '56 & Lorma 'FS Wiebe
Robert Zorn '51
Theodore Zwemer '41
Under $100
Lisa Durkee Abbott 'FS
Keith Capen Allen '56
Edith Andersen '38
Bruce Baxter '56
Nancy Thoms Fisher Block '48
Adrian & Diana Bohl'FS
Michael Bonhage'89
Feler Bose '91
Kenneth '86 & Rachel Brannon
KFI Donors 2009-2010
Wendy 'FS & Jeff Brown, Parents
Maxine Patterson Bruner '36
Patricia Moore Burlee '51
Elmer Burrall 'FS
Margaret Caldwell-Ott '75
Beth Gesler Caldwell '56
John '41 & Lillian Camp
David & Margaret Camp 'FS
Gerald Carner '60
Carol HaherCasey'70
Janet Chandler 'FS
Joan Ramer Chrastek '76 'FS
Lawrence Collins '65
Allison Gray Daley '71
Michele Ivy Davis '63
Robert DeVries '58
Barbara Ruzicka Doody '53
John & Martha Easter 'FS
Esther Vail Falk '39
Lesley McBride Freerks '35
James Funk '68
Eric '52 & Patricia Gass, Parents
Robert Gass '81
Warren & Barbara Geissinger 'FS
Wilbert '58 & Margaret Gesler
Tom & Margaret H. Greene, Parents
Martin & Janet Hahn 'FS
Candace Hill, Parent
Beverly Hofer '54
Virginia Vail Hood '36
Paul & Lois Howe 'FS
Andrew Hume '39
Lynn & Marilyn Hunwick, Parents
Harlan & Lou Ann Johnson 'FS
Susan Schneck Kean '69
Judith Kessler 'FS
Muriel Nichols King '53
Sara Gesler Klemmer '63
Sarah Jane Moore Lambert '60
Erik '84 & Victoria Leuschner
Mary Jean Linn '77
Michael '51 & Ruth Lockwood, Parents
Timothy Lomperis '64
Roberta Barth Longest '70
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Sheila Seamands Lovell '63
Eleanor Carman Macfarlane '53
Alan Mattamana '96
William McClelland '40
Ruth Meinzen-Dick 77
Roland & Mary Helen Miller, Parents
Harrison Moyer '44
Clara Rittmann Mueller '57
Niladri Mukhopadhyay '97
Prantik Kumar Nag '86
David Nykerk '61
Elaine Lomperis Olson '67
Joel Otten 77
Robert '51 & Alita L. Phelps
Samuel & Florence Pickens, Parents
Julia Coleman Pohl '36
Nehal Rahim '93
Ruth Manley Rowland '39
John & Ruth Ruggiero 'FS
Antoinette Tingley Schleyer 'FS
Christine Schmitthenner '72
David Scott, Friend
Steven Scruggs '80
Anne Douglas Stanek '69
Jill Stempel '90
John D. Stempel, Parent
Lynn Nastrom Stoltz '82
Marjory Stormo-Gipson '74
Anupama Surendran '93
Charlotte Beals Tasker '28
Kate Hennig Teece '98
Stanley & Darlene VanderAarde, Parents
Lydia Rittmann Volz '50
Cynthia Warner, Friend
Richard Wechter 'FS
Andrew Wilch, Jr. '47
Donald Wilder '49
Beverly England Williams '55
Gail Whitaker Wynne '57
Allen Zimmerman '53
Herbert & Dorothy Zorn, Parents
KFI Donors 2009-2010
In Honor of:
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Beth Gesler (Class of 1956) & David
Caldwell
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Baron Collins-Hill (Class of 2007)
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Norman Habel (Former Principal)
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Bertha Lange (Former Staff)
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Nancy J. Piet-Pelon (Spouse)
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Joseph Rittmann (Class of 1966)
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Jill Stempel (Class of 1990) on her 1st
Wedding Anniversary
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Julie Nichol Stengele (Class of 1980)
In Memory of:
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Paul Carman (Class of 1983)
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Robert Cunningham (Class of 1943)
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Russell DeValois (Class of 1943)Two gifts in his memory
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Harold Dueck (Class of 1956)
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Lester Finley (Former Staff)- Two
gifts in his memory
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David Friesen (Former Staff)
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Alice Towle Jesse (Class of 1957)
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Mrs. Lorene Koepke (Parent)
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Malcolm H. Macfarlane
(Spouse/Parent)
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Luther Meinzen (Class of 1940)
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John Naumann (Parent-Served
India from 1929-1964)
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Jeevan Paul (Class of 1986)
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Carol Potee Salmonson (Class of
in
1940)
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Mary Martin Stern (Class of 1942)
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Alan C. Swan (Class of 1951)
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Dr. W. Wells Thoms (Class of 1929)
& Ethel Scudder Thoms (Class of
1929)
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Dr. Charles E Vail (Parent-Served
Miraj)
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Jessie Woelfle (Former Staff)
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Sara Zwemer (Former StaffKennedy Dormparent in 1932)
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