Santa Fe Prep Alumni

Helen Desmond '25 was recently featured as the cover photo in a Smithsonian Magazine article about Ski Mountaineering, a new Olympic sport making its debut at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. Helen is one of the top skimo competitors in the country, and was also featured this week in a segment about the sport on KOB4. Watch the segment here: https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/skimo-makes-olympic-debut-teenage-new-mexican-shows-how-the-sport-is-growing/

Go, Helen!!

What Is Skimo? The Newest Olympic Sport Has a Long History in Europe With roots in military training, high-endurance ski mountaineering is finally catching on in the United States

On this Giving Tuesday, and in this season of thanks, we hope you will recognize Santa Fe Prep with a donation to our 2025-26 Annual Fund. This critical fund supports the Prep community by providing tuition assistance to 37% of our families and strengthening our athletics and performing arts programming, as well as opportunities for faculty & staff professional development.

Your gift is meaningful, thank you in advance for your support of our school. You can make a donation — of any amount! — here: https://sfprep.networkforgood.com/

For further information, or to share an alumni class note for our upcoming annual magazine, feel free to reach out Jillian Tomlinson ([email protected]), or call the Advancement office at 505-795-7526.

Wishing all our alumni a happy and healthy holiday season!

We hope you'll join us on Friday, December 19 from 5-8pm for our annual alumni holiday party in the Prep library. At this year's party, we'll celebrate former Head of School Jim Leonard!

Come festively dressed and enjoy margaritas, beer & wine, and delicious enchiladas. Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/BKbZgRj8d1VMFush7

We can't wait to toast the season with you on the 19th!

On Friday, December 5, W***y Richardson '92 will open his new show at the Nüart Gallery (670 Canyon Road). The solo exhibition — titled "Time Dissolves Here" — will feature W***y's luminous chromatic paintings, exploring the emotional and psychological resonance of color. Nüart will host an opening reception from 5-7pm on December 5, and the show will run through December 21. Congratulations, W***y!

Through Saturday, December 6, former Prep art teacher and Art Department Chair Bette Yozell is presenting her new exhibition at the El Zaguán gallery (545 Canyon Road), titled "Refuge: Precise Papercuts for Chaotic Times." The gallery will host a free, public artist talk on Saturday, November 22. Congratulations, Bette!

Beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, September 17, and running through Sunday, September 28, Prep alum Eliot Fisher '01 is directing the 103rd annual Melodrama at Santa Fe Playhouse. This marks Eliot's eighth time directing the local tradition since 2006. Karles McQuade ’01 is conducting the production and will play violin. More information and tickets here: https://santafeplayhouse.org/events/the_melodrama_santa_fe/

Interested in learning more about the history of Santa Fe's Melodrama? Eliot researched and co-wrote an historical deep-dive into its origins for the Old Santa Fe Association's El Boletin, available to read at this link: www.oldsantafe.org/uploads/9/4/7/4/94746554/osfa_newsletter_springsummer_2025.pdf

Break a leg, Eliot and Karles!

THE MELODRAMA - Santa Fe Playhouse The tradition of the Melodrama lives on in the 103rd Annual MELODRAMA, which will continue evolving and honoring Santa Fe with fresh, locally-rooted satire.

Join Prep alumna Liza Hale Doyle '17 and other artists at El Zaguán Gallery for "In Situ - Being in Place." Each artist in this group exhibition responds to the idea of being rooted within a specific place and explores what it means to feel and create a sense of belonging within communities, homes, studios, and the larger world around us. Expect to see work across a wide range of mediums including ceramics, sculpture, fibers, photography, and painting.

Opening Friday, April 25th from 5-7pm at El Zaguán (545 Canyon Road); the show will run through May 24th. Congratulations, Liza!

All alumni and former faculty and staff are invited to join us on Friday, December 20, 2024, from 5-8pm, for our annual alumni holiday party in the Prep library. We are excited to announce that this event will honor Marie White! Catering will be provided by La Choza. Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/nhBtYREy1yaVuysk8

We can't wait to see you on the 20th!

Attention Santa Fe Prep Class of 2003!

Please join us for some delicious chile and drinks on Dec. 30th at 4:30 PM to celebrate our 20 years of wild freedom from high school. Spouses and children are welcome but please RSVP to Ayla ([email protected]) so we can give Antoinette at La Choza all of the details to make this chill and fun.

Please bring your cool stories, travels adventures, and life tales to this grand event!!

Go Griffin Seniors (and soon-to-be newest alumni of Prep!)