Remarks on Anne Michele Lyons Kuhns ’87 Winner of Anne Kane McGuire ’52 杰出的服务 Award

用她的“能做”, “我会做”的态度, 注重细节, 以及对学校不可思议的热爱, she has served Foxcroft with distinction since she became a part of our community as a freshman in 1983. 

From the very start, Anne Michele contributed in important ways to the community of Foxcroft. 的 统计何! 列出了她的许多活动和荣誉:曲棍球, 考古俱乐部, 帽, 法国俱乐部, 南方俱乐部, 以及优等生社团. 她是班级干部、狐狸经理和“黄金老者”.“她显然喜欢马、骑马和马术文化. She won the Math Award and earned High Honors for her senior year. 她在班上的最高分是“学习最多”,这证明了她天生的学习能力, 理解, 掌握过去(和现在)在她面前的一切.

在99499威尼斯信誉, 她就读于纳什维尔的范德比尔99499威尼斯信誉大学, TN, earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering and Math in 1991. 在她的职业生涯中, 她开始从事市政固定收益银行业务, and within several years moved into trading municipal derivatives. Anne Michele retired in 2005, having served as Managing Director and Principal, at Bear, Stearns, & Co. 公司.

除了她的职业, 库恩斯曾担任过许多志愿者和社区职位, including as a Trustee of the Boys and Girls 俱乐部 of Delaware; Board Member of the Rehoboth Beach chapter of the Boys and Girls 俱乐部 of Delaware; Board Member and Treasurer, Rehoboth Beach Historical Society for 12 years; Co-Chair of the Rehoboth Beach Historical Society and Museum annual fundraiser for twelve years; and President of her neighborhood 首页owners’ Association. Anne Michele has volunteered at the Rehoboth Beach chapter of the Boys and Girls 俱乐部 of Delaware as a homework helper and currently serves at the Rehoboth Community Resource Center, 无家可归者的日间中心, 协助食品储藏室工作，并提供行政支持. 

Her service to Foxcroft continues to go above and beyond and demonstrates her devotion and dedication to the success of the School. 

库恩斯在董事会工作了10年, 在投资委员会和财政委员会任职, 2012年至2014年担任投资委员会主席. Her expertise on Wall Street helped Foxcroft grow the endowment and exercise fiscal responsibility to position the School in a place of long-term strength. She was elected Vice Chair of the Board in 2014 and was a member of the 搜索 Committee that appointed Cathy McGehee as Foxcroft’s 10th Head of School. 她后来担任了麦吉过渡委员会主席, laying the foundation for Foxcroft’s Second Century by setting goals and priorities for new School leadership. 

From 2016-2019, Kuhns served as Chair of the Board of Trustees. 在此期间 she was key in drafting a history of Foxcroft’s endowment to help educate the community, 修改投资政策, 监督露丝·T. 贝德福德3200万美元的遗赠. She and other Board officers were central in the Board’s decision to put the majority of those funds in the endowment, 很大程度上不受限制的, which has transformed Foxcroft and is the reason we had a strong foundation to weather the economic downturn due to the global pandemic. 除了, 在她任职期间, 威尼斯彩票游戏完成了百年战役, which raised funds for the Residential Initiative and the endowment, 提前了两年，比目标高出了近500万美元. 在此期间, the Board of Trustees approved the installation of two synthetic turf fields and the construction of two new faculty houses, 大大提升我们的校园. Her steady leadership and integrity also guided the School during a historic misconduct investigation, 帮助加强现行政策和做法, 并治愈了校友群体.

当董事会需要她的时候, she agreed to extend her term as Chairperson one additional year in 2019-20 to provide stability on the Board during a time of trustee leadership transition. 它应该, 因此, come as no surprise that several years after she completed her Board service, Kuhns answered Foxcroft’s call and agreed to Co-Chair the $65 million Building for Our Future campaign, 筹集资金建造新的蒸汽翼, expand our visual and performing arts spaces with a new performing arts center, and renovate Music Building and our beloved Schoolhouse to serve current and future Foxcroft girls. 

除了她在学校的正式领导角色, Anne Michele makes a point to attend as many Foxcroft 事件 as possible, 包括团圆周末, 区域活动, 百周年, 以及校园庆祝活动, and she models stewardship by supporting 威尼斯彩票游戏圈子 and capital campaigns at a leadership level. Former Board of Trustees Chair Reggie Groves ’76 said of Kuhns: “Elegant in thought as well as style, Anne Michele embodies what we want in ourselves and our students. 她是一个真正善良的人，是学校的财富.”

在她的毕业照页面上, Anne Michele listed a quote: “Just as much as you need a sense of reality / To be truly happy you need dreams, 甚至是不可能的.” It is safe to say that Anne Michele has helped Foxcroft realize our dreams, and in looking ahead to the Building for Our Future campaign efforts, 毫无疑问，她会继续这样做.

感谢她对学校不可思议的爱和忠诚, 她始终如一的志愿者精神, 以及她多年来的奉献服务, the Board of Trustees and Head of School Cathy McGehee honor Anne Michele Kuhns ’87 with Foxcroft’s highest award, 安妮·凯恩·麦奎尔1952年杰出服务奖.