The Suffield Academy Alumni Association created the Alumni Leadership awards to honor Suffield Academy graduates who have displayed notable leadership in their professional careers or in a humanitarian endeavor. The award selection committee is comprised of alumni, students, and members of the faculty.
David R. Holdridge '62 served in the Vietnam War as an infantry platoon leader outside of Chu Lai. He was wounded and spent 18 months at various hospitals in the United States until being freed from his trauma at Connecticut’s Hartford Hospital...
May Chow '03 became immensely successful and widely renowned in Hong Kong after opening her own restaurant in 2013, Little Bao...
David “Rocky” Rockwell ’58 will retire this June after 54 years on the Suffield Academy faculty. He has taught nearly 20 different courses including sociology, archaeology, anthropology, and philosophy. He chaired the history department for 25 years and has been Director of the Leadership Program since 2005...
David R. Holmes ’60, an accomplished educator, and nonprofit leader, was Head of School at Suffield Academy from 1991 to 2004. After graduating from Suffield, he attended Middlebury College where he earned a degree in political science with honors and captained the football team...
Janice H. Lee ’99 is an intellectual property lawyer at Morgan Lewis in Washington, DC. Janice was born in Seoul, Korea, and attended Cornell University after graduating from Suffield...
David D. Celentano ’69 is the Charles Armstrong Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a noted epidemiologist and professor...
Ben Diep ’85 is the founder and owner of Color Space Imaging, New York. Ben is a master photographic printer who collaborates with fine art photographers and artists...
Michelle L. Kaminsky ’84 is the Chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau in the Brooklyn, New York District Attorney’s Office. Her bureau annually investigates and prosecutes over 10,000 cases of intimate partner violence...
Gerard J. Hall ’77 is the founder and CEO of SMT, the award winning purveyor of high-tech solutions that integrate real-time sports data and 3-D visualizations into live television broadcasts...
Joseph G. Tompkins ’58 is owner and president of Saga Investment Company Incorporated, a money management, venture capital investment firm that offers financial advice to small private and not-for-profit organizations..
Michael F. Sheridan ’58 attended Amherst College after four years at Suffield and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Geology...
Thomas C. Greene '87 is a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, and earned his bachelor’s degree in English from Hobart College and his master’s degree in writing from the former Vermont College...
Kristin Hostetter Pasndit '86 is an avid outdoors enthusiast and has always been fascinated by gear that helps make outdoor adventures possible. She began reading Backpacker magazine and decided that one day she would work for them...
Tor Peterson '82 began his career with a six-year stint as a commodities marketer at Phibro-Salomon. In 1992, he joined Swiss commodities trading giant Glencore, and in 2002 became the director of the Coal and Coke Commodity Department...
Gretchen Schwabe Wilcox ’77 is the president, CEO, and founder of G.S. Wilcox & Company, the first female-established commercial real estate mortgage banking company in the United States...
Dr. Paul Sullivan ’58 is a retired Endocrinologist physician at Hartford Hospital. He graduated from Trinity College in 1962 and Tufts University School of Medicine in 1966...
Dr. Richard A. Wahle ’73 is a research professor at the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences. He established “The Wahle Lab,” a program that performs extensive research on the American lobster...
Jeff White '65 has served the Boston Red Sox as the financial advisor to the Chief Executive Officer, treasurer of The Red Sox Foundation, and a vice president of the parent company’s real estate operations since 1972...
Peter Kinnear '65 attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, earning a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering...
Saudia Davis '96 was born in Jamaica and moved to the United States as a child. Through hard work and an uncanny self-awareness, she took advantage of an opportunity to attend Suffield Academy...
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