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Join us for the

Thursday, October 23, 20146:30 p.m. at The Hockaday School

Fall Alumnae Dinner

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A CELEBRATION OF FRIENDSHIP

featuring guest speakerBeth Wortley

Performing Arts Chair, The Hockaday School

honoringOur Beloved Current and Retired Faculty

With More Than 20 Years of Service to the School

celebratingKatherine E. Bliss ’86

Ela Hockaday Distinguished Alumna Award Recipient

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Reception 6:30 p.m.

Hockaday’s New Science Center

Fall Alumnae Dinner7:30 p.m.

Biggs Dining Hall

Talley Dunn ’86Tucker Ford Enthoven ’79

Courtney Newman Flanagan ’91Kathryn Walker Francis ’94

Amanda Ginsberg ’88Rosalind Redfern Grover ’59

Ariana Viroslav Held ’87Rajani Kapu ’90

Charlene Cline Marsh ’62

Peggy Black Meyer ’81Maryann Sarris Mihalopoulos ’78Maria Martineau Plankinton ’83

Betty Simmons Regard ’55Barbara Glazer Rosenblatt ’75Allison Campfield Taten ’89Jacquelin Sewell Taylor ’99

Shannon Saalfield Thompson ’89

Kim WargoEugene McDermott Headmistress

Carrie Moore Becker ’89Chair

Host Committee

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Ela Hockaday Distinguished Alumna Award

Inaugurated in 2010 in anticipation of the School’s Centennial, the Ela Hockaday Distinguished Alumna Award recognizes those alumnae who – by virtue of their vocations, visions, and passions – have a transformative effect on their communities, professions, and families. Presented by the Alumnae Trustees at the Fall Dinner, the award complements the Alumnae Association’s highest honor, the Hockaday Medal. The Ela Hockaday Distinguished Alumna Award honors women who have come into their own in the 21st century and who can be expected to lead Hockaday girls and women well into the School’s second century.

Katherine E. Bliss ’86Senior Associate, CSIS Global Health Policy CenterDallas, TX

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Katherine E. Bliss ’86 is Senior Associate with the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. For more than six years at CSIS, she has launched research regarding the role of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and other emerging economies in shaping a new global health agenda; edited volumes on emerging practices in global health diplomacy; led expert delegations to sub-Saharan Africa to examine U.S. bilateral global health programs in the region; and testified before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the right to water and sanitation in international context.

Prior to joining CSIS, Katherine was a senior civil servant at the U.S. Department of State. Katherine served as a member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff before leading the Department’s effort to develop foreign policy approaches to environmental health challenges. Her work in more than 15 countries in Latin America, Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Middle East involved participating in multilateral negotiations and strengthening U.S. engagement in public-private partnerships focused on global health. In 2006, she received the Superior Honor Award from the Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and Science for her diplomatic outreach on environmental health, as well as avian and pandemic influenza.

Katherine began her career as a historian of modern Latin America. Her book, Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City, was published by Penn State Press in 2001. She is also the co-editor, with William E. French, of Gender and Sexuality in Latin America since Independence (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). Katherine has received research support from the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. Department of Education, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine D. MacAr-thur Foundation. She has taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Georgetown University. Katherine completed her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1996 and was a David E. Bell Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2000-2001. She completed her A.M. and A.B., magna cum laude, at Harvard University in 1990 and studied at the Colegio de México. Katherine lives in Dallas with her husband, Mark, and daughter, Isabel.

Beth WortleyPerforming Arts ChairThe Hockaday School

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Beth Wortley is beginning her 26th year at Hockaday where she is Director of the Dance Department and Chair of Performing Arts. She teaches Middle and Upper School dance and choreographs two musicals each year. She has choreographed 50 musicals at Hockaday and 53 for the Rotunda Theater at First United Methodist Church.

Growing up in Dallas, Beth began dancing at age five with Nikita Talin, a former principal dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. While Mr. Talin was head of the ballet division of the Meadows School of the Arts dance department, she served as his graduate assistant and taught as part of her MFA program. Beth was a charter member of the Dallas Dance Council (now Dance Council of North Texas). During high school, she received the Rebecca Harkness Scholarship for study with artists from the Harkness Ballet in New York. She earned a BFA from University of Texas at Austin in acting and directing and a MFA from Southern Methodist University in dance performance and choreography. She was the artistic director of Ballet of Dallas before moving to Boston and turning her career to teaching ballet at Tufts University and Boston University. She also served as the choreographer for the State Fair of Texas annual musical fashion revue that performed two to three times daily from 1971-1994.

In 1993, Beth choreographed a 10-minute “Welcome to Dallas” production for the Opening Session of the International Convention of Jewish Temples and Synagogues. Over 5,000 people attended, and she used her Hockaday student dancers and produced a multimedia performance. She included film, professional singers, instrumentalists, Hockaday dancers, and the Temple Emanuel Choir.

In 2009, Beth was awarded the Rogers Award for Teaching Excellence at Hockaday. On August 31, she received the 2014 Larry White Dance Educator Award from the Dance Council of North Texas. She has two children, Kevin Wortley and Erin Oxford (Hockaday third grade teacher), and four grandchildren.