High Master’s USA visit

Over Remedy, the High Master – Sally-Anne Huang – and the Director of Development & Engagement – Ellie Sleeman – visited the USA, where they arranged meetings with Old Paulines, including a number of recent leavers at US universities, former parents and friends of the school.

They visited New York, Boston and San Francisco between 13-18 October 2022. This was the first time the High Master has been able to travel to the US to meet our largest Pauline Community outside of London. The events were hosted by Nicholas Josefowitz (1996-2001) in San Francisco; Jaime Felber (1999-2004) in New York; and Katherine, Karl and Andrew (2016-21) Spielmann in Boston. Alongside the events organised in each area, Mrs Huang and Ms Sleeman were delighted to organise meetings with colleagues at US universities.

During the course of the trip, they also met OPs who are currently studying at Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, Stanford and Yale. All spoke very positively about their experiences at US universities and of the preparation and support they received at St Paul’s during the application process. Mrs Huang and Ms Sleeman also held constructive meetings with the Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale University as well as the development team at Yale Business School in order to gain additional insight into the US universities system.

While they were in New York, the Colet Foundation held its Annual General Meeting. The meeting was held in a Nomadworks office space, kindly given by Steven Cohen (1986-88), Founder and CEO of Nomadworks. The Colet Foundation was founded in 1991 and has, for many years, played a significant part in allowing our USA taxpaying communities to support the aims and ambitions of the school generously. The USA Colet Foundation Bursary Fund provides for one of the school’s named bursary places, with a target to raise $252,000 over seven years to fund a full bursary place for one pupil. The school is grateful to our US-based OPs for their generosity in supporting the school’s commitment to widening access to St Paul’s via its bursary programme

We hope that this will be one of many opportunities for the High Master to engage directly with our Old Pauline community in America.