Greenwich residents chair Alzheimer’s gala
The Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter is announcing the 11th annual Celebrating Hope gala on April 26 at the Delamar Greenwich Harbor.
Co-chairing the gala are Greenwich residents Tim and Kelly Helstein. Tim Helstein’s mom Sue battled dementia and his dad Dick was her primary caregiver who then became a tireless advocate for the Alzheimer’s Association. Sue died in 2019 and Dick was honored with the Courage and Hope award at the Alzheimer’s Association 2021 gala in Connecticut.
“Our job is to take up this torch to honor my mom,” Tim Helstein said in a release. “This is also about tomorrow. I don’t want my children to have to experience what I saw with my mom. We are in a great position to raise awareness and hope.”
Tim Helstein is the director of athletics at Greenwich Country Day School. Kelly Helstein is a real estate agent at Compass.
There are 80,000 people living with Alzheimer’s disease in Connecticut, which is expected to reach 91,000 by 2025. The annual gala helps the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter educate and empower those with dementia and their caregivers, as well as fuel critical research toward additional treatments and effective ways to manage this disease.
The Helsteins are leading a committee of Fairfield County volunteers and supporters who are working to gain sponsorships and live auction items for the event. Committee members include: Lauren Bookoff, Dean Brown, Ginge Cabrera, Robyn Carpenter, Kate Clark, Jen Danzi, Wendy Day, Jaime Eisenberg, Kendra Farn, Erin Glasebrook, Emma Habeck, Victoria Hanes, Kim Haney, Eleni Henkel, Pat Kenny, Allison Leigh, Viosa Lukaj, Cristin Marandino, Cindy Milazzo, Courtney Montgomery, Ed Mortimer, Heather O’Connell, Maria Puntereri, Julianne Ramia, Jennifer Shannon, Jason Shott, Kristin Welton and Amy Zolin.
For more information, to make a donation or to sponsor the event, contact Sadie Caccimelio at srcaccimelio@alz.org. To find out more, go to celebratinghope.givesmart.com.
Teachers nominated as outstanding educators
Greenwich High School English teachers Laura Burdick and Mary Beth Smith were nominated by former students Alec Iaconis and Gillian Gordon respectively, as University of Chicago Outstanding Educators.
As nominees, the teachers were invited to the UChicago campus for two days for an “Educator FlyIn.” The Office of College Admissions honored them by hosting studentled campus tours and a symposium on freedom of expression, academic inquiry and academic discourse led by professors and other campus figures.
Incoming freshmen at UChicago have the opportunity to nominate a teacher from their high school. UChicago has also offered the two GHS teachers special opportunities including taking virtual classes.
Local students named to dean’s lists
Emerson College student Alexa Back from Greenwich is named to the College’s Dean’s List for the fall 2023 semester. The requirement to make dean’s list is a grade point average of 3.7 or higher for that semester.
Back is majoring in media arts production and is a member of the Class of 2025.
More than 1,600 students were named to the dean’s list at College of the Holy Cross in Worchester, Mass., for outstanding academic achievement during the fall semester of the 2023-24 academic year. The following local students made the list: Avery Byrne, Madeleine Driscoll and Christina Marciano, of Greenwich; Lydia Fullerton, of Old Greenwich, and Brendan O’Brien, of Cos Cob.
To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must pass four or more lettergraded courses with no failing grades during the semester and earn a GPA of 3.5 or higher.
The following local residents were named to the dean’s list at Hamilton College for the 2023 fall semester: Alexandra Bailey, of Riverside; Margot Delany and John Jee, of Cos Cob; Emerson Robinson and Edward Rosenbaum, of Greenwich; and Marcella Winget, of Old Greenwich.
To be named to the dean’s list, a student must have carried a course load of four or more graded credits throughout the semester and earned an average of 3.5 or above on a 4.0 scale.