Buxton School - Williamstown, Massachusetts

Preserving the Past~Ensuring the Future

April 2010 Update 

With the generous support of alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff, and other friends of Buxton, we have finished our capital campaign by raising over $4.1 million! Launched with the auction in July of 2003, the campaign, Preserving the Past—Ensuring the Future, grew out of a very real need to upgrade the school’s facilities and provide it with some financial security, making sure that this unique school can continue to thrive, grow, and serve smart, creative, and complicated teenagers well into the future. We had three primary goals: to build a new classroom/science building, to build a new fine-arts complex, and to increase the school’s endowment.  As most of you know, the new classroom building has been up and running for several years now, becoming a hub of the campus and a symbol of the school’s ongoing strength and growth.  The fine-arts complex has been many years in the planning, and construction is just beginning, and we continue to strengthen our endowment funds, including The Benjamin G. C. and Magdalene J. Fincke Scholarship Fund and The C. William Bennett Scholarship Fund for Diversity. We thank all everyone for the generous financial and moral support, and the enthusiasm that made this first-ever campaign a resounding success! 

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1896 House/Richmore Ventures
Evelyn Absher ’86
Andy Adams ’69
Adelson, Moynihan & Kowalczyk PC
Cathy Ambrose ’81
Anonymous (2)
Sinclair Armstrong ’89
Dorothy Warren ArnoldAlex Azima ’67
Barbara Bader ’72
Ollie Bass and Linda Koch
Margo Bauer
Stephanie Goldstein Begen ’72
C. William Bennett
Berkshire Museum
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Inc.
Jerry and Nancy Bidlack
Tom and Kathy Bishop
Black Tongue Investments, LLC
Mark Boyer and Barbara Millen Boyer
Markley H. Boyer & Barbara Millen Boyer Charitable Lead Annuity Trust
Claudia Boynton
Michael and Mary Brandt
Elizabeth Breeze
Irene Brody and Ron Rubio
The Brooke-McCarragher Foundation
Paul Brooke ’63 & Kathleen McCauragher
Sally Brooke
Anthony Brown
Heather Brown
Sally Brown
Jeanne and Frank Brownlow
Hetty Jo Brumbach ’60
Judith Englander Burt ’70
Edwin and Crystal Campbell
Roger and Joan Cannon
Tobe and Margaret Carey
The Centennial Continuity Funds
Ross Chamberlain ’55
John Churchill ’79
Clark Art Institute
Clifford Allen Associates, LTD
The Community Foundation for the Capital Region
Richard and Barbara Corkey
David Costello ’68
David and Letty Criscoe
Cynthia Croatti
Andrea Currier ’74
Christopher (C.J.) Dallet ’82
Anne Dallett Brady ’51
Amy Dalsimer ’87
Arianne Dar
Christian ’83 and Catherine Dauer
The Davis Family
Andy and Roberta Denenberg
Byron and Judy Denenberg
Denenberg Family Foundation
The Arthur Dubow Foundation
Charles Dubow ’82
Alan and Suzanne Dworsky
Paul Edwards
Byron ’81 and Karen Elliott
Adam Emmerich ’78
Fidelity Charitable Fund
B. Graeme Fincke ‘61 and Heidi Urich
Benjamin and Magdalene Fincke
Catharine Fincke ’68
Harriet Fincke
Katharine E. Fleming
Henry and Mary Flynt
Robert Flynt ’74
Chloë Foglia ’96
Castle and Alice Freeman
Gerald and Sheree Friedman
Friedman Family Foundation
Dan and Bobby Geer
Ronald and Sheila Geraty
The J. Paul Getty Trust
Mary Gilbert
Nicholas Glass ’83
Nancy E. Glowa ’73
Owen Goldfarb and Priscilla Fairbank
Doug Green ’73
Jane Greenberg ’77
Jessica Grindstaff ’96
Historic Deerfield, Inc.
Linda Hoffman
Susan Hoyt
Miles Hyman ’80
Antonio Ibañez ’75
Images Cinema
Cynthia Jackson ’68
Jacob’s Pillow
Eric James
James & Elizabeth Pickman Foundation, Inc.
Jewish Communal Fund
Rachel Jones ’91
Karen Jones Clark and Stephen Clark
Kenneth & Bernice Newberger Family Fund
Emelie and Stephen Kenney
Jennie Campbell Kristel ’80
Jeffrey Ladd ’73
Christa Lancaster
Maggie Laurie ’94
Becky Lax ’79
Judith and Philip Lescarbeau
Margaret C. Lescher
Joan Levy Hepburn ’72
John and Natasha Lisman
Alice Mackler ’50
Evelyne and Nestor Madalengoitia ’82
Ronald and Patricia Malvin
William and Teresa Manning
Ed Martin ’72
MASS MoCA
Alexander Matisse ’03
Harry Maurer ’70
Preston and Cynthia McAdoo
Lessie Jane Melvin
Mark and Susan Merrett
Jennifer Merriam ’88
Ronald Miller
Smokey Minot ’62
Hibiki Miyazaki ’93
Frosty Puestow Montgomery ’59
Michael and Hannah Moore
Peter Morgan ’68
Morgan Worcester, Inc.
Zhana Morris ’90
Melanie Mowinski
Judy Nagler
Julie Neisser ’74
Nancy Newberger
The Newman’s Own Foundation
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
Nicholson Family Fund
Norman Rockwell Museum
From the Directors Fund of The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Inc.
Cynthia Farnsworth Olden ’62
The Orentreich Family Foundation
Catherine Orentreich
Norman and Roslyn Orentreich
Penzance Foundation
Nancy Perkins ’74
Sarah Perlis ’96
The Jacob Perlow Memorial Fund
Max Petersen ’88
Siiri Lane Peterson ’86
Elizabeth Pickard ’69
Elizabeth and James Pickman
Diana Hitt Potter ’51
Horatio ’82 and Elizabeth ’82 Potter
Lindsay Potts ’73
Gregory Prestopino ’65
Pro-Tile
Quest Diagnostics
r.k. Miles
Rubin and Rene Rabinowitz
Rene S. & Rubin  Rabinowitz  Family Foundation
Marlene Reshall
Philip Rickey ’78
Janet Rilance ’65
The Joseph H. & Florence A. Roblee Foundation
Dirck Roosevelt ’73
Hannah Hewat Rose ’60
Bruce and Lori Rosenblum
Julius Rosenwald and Margo Cardner
Tony Rousmaniere ’91
David Rubin ’70
Dorianne Hutton Samuels ’71
Fred Savard ’79
The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving
John Sears ’59
Maggy Fincke Sears ’63
Emily Seaton ’96
Jackie Sedlock
Shakespeare & Company
Ellen Shershow Peña ’90
Clyde and Joan Shorey
Frances and Timothy Shuker-Haines
Jeffrey Shumlin ’78
Peter Shumlin ’74
Betsy Andrus Silver ’38
Nora Simon ’69
Teru Simon ’67
Alvin and Laura Sinderbrand
David Skutch ’78
Alison Bidlack Smith ’76
Fred and Edye Smith
Lawrence Smith and Linda Burlak
Leslie and Elisabeth Smith
Peter ’74 and Jane Smith
Virginia Hall Smith
Howard Sollins and Barbara Resnick
The Howard L. Sollins & Barbara M. Resnick Family Fund
Spring Water Express, Inc.
Michael and Christine St. Pierre
Larry Grunberger and Arlene Stang
Elaine Stangland
Stangland Family Trust
Ginny Stillman-Kirschner ’67 and Buddy Kirschner
Stillpoint Fund
Cleveland Storrs ’68
Bente Strong ’75
Katherine Sweet ’79
Mark Sylbert ’77
Cynthia and Skip Thomayer
Isabel Tifft ’84
Jim and Cindy Tuite
Bruce and Caron Ulmer
The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust
The Vidor Foundation, Inc.
Quentin Vidor
Erika Vesely Visnevskaia
Paul ’64 and Helga Maurer ’64 Wagner
Patricia B. Wallace
Joyce Ware
Ahsie Warner ’78
The Virginia S. Warner Foundation
Frank Weddell ’62
Beth Wees
Paul Weinhold
Christopher Werler ’88
Gavin White ’96
Ann Wiener
The Ann F. & Lawrence A. Wiener Educational Foundation
June Henrich Williams ’61
Marco Williams ’75
Williamstown Art Conservation Center
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Frank Wood ’79
Shirley Wright
Wrinkle In Time Foundation, Inc.
Charles ’72 and Shelly Yedlin
Richard and Lauri Zarin
Yi-Bing Zhang ‘02