Alumni

Alumni Awards

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  • 2023 Head of School's Award winners David Arnold '86 and Jourdan Moore Houston '62

    2023 Head of School’s Award for Distinguished Service to the School

    Chief surgeon and professor David Arnold ’86 and Everglades School for Girls founding class member Jourdan Moore Houston ’69 were named co-recipients of Ransom Everglades’ 2023 Head of School's Award for Distinguished Service to the School. Arnold received his award during an upper school awards ceremony at the Lewis Family Auditorium April 24, 2023, and Moore Houston received hers in absentia on May 23.
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David Arnold ’86

“This award is supposed to recognize some contribution that I have made to RE, but all that pales in comparison to what Ransom has done for me. The time I spent here in the 1980s prepared me for a life of significant challenge and more than my share of successes.”

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  • Head of School's Award for Distinguished Service to the School

    The Head of School’s Award recognizes alumni whose commitment and service to the school serves as an inspiration to all alumni. Recipients must have demonstrated commitment to the school’s mission by fostering a sense of “community, personal integrity and values,” and following Paul C. Ransom’s belief that people are “in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it.” Through their leadership, honor, attitude and dedication, they have made an irreplaceable mark on Ransom Everglades School and its future.

    2023 - David Arnold ’86 and Jourdan Moore Houston ’69
    2022 - Steve Sawitz ’75
    2021 - Susan Matson Lampen '71
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Each year, Ransom Everglades selects recipients for alumni awards in three categories: the Founders’ Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to the Community, the Head of School’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to the School and the Athletic Hall of Fame. 

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  • 2023 Founders' Award winner Christina Proenza-Coles '88 with Interim Head of School Rachel Rodriguez

    2023 Founders' Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to the Community

    Since her childhood years in Coconut Grove, Christina Proenza-Coles ’88 has been fascinated by how people of different backgrounds and cultures shape the history that they share. That passion led her to pursue a joint doctorate in Historical Studies and Sociology and to author the book American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World.
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  • Founders' Award for Distinguished Service to the Community

    The Founders’ Alumni Award recognizes alumni who through service and commitment to the community, have made a service impact at a national level. It is awarded to individuals who have been deeply concerned about their communities and who have demonstrated honor, courage and leadership, fulfilling the vision of the founders of Ransom and Everglades Schools.

    2023 - Christina Proenza-Coles ’88
    2022 - Meg Daly '78
    2021 - Jeffrey Miller '79
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.