Ways To Give
We cherish the individuals, the businesses, and the foundations that help us to improve continuously, serving our students and their families. That help takes several forms – donations of funds, donations of goods, and volunteering of services. Our thanks go out to you.
We are an educational public charity by the IRS code (501(c)(3)) – thus, your gifts are tax-deductible, but, more than that, we are a community of people dedicated to education – our LCA families, our faculty, our board, and our friends in the greater community. We are proud to offer you the opportunity to build something bigger than each of us.
Our federal from 990 as a non-profit organization and our financial statements are viewable.
Our finances are stable, thanks to all those who donate funds. Good in kind, of course, are equally valuable, but funds pay the bills – we can’t get our vendors to accept barter! Tuition brings in 92% of operating costs, on average; this is typical of private schools. To keep valuable programs going and to develop new programs, we ask for funds. We have an Annual Fund campaign; we run fundraiser events – including Food for Thought as a great community event; people make purchases via our business partner links that give us rebates. You can also buy our images from our travels in other countries. You can learn more about these opportunities on our pages or by contacting us personally.
Furnishings, educational equipment and supplies, cleaning supplies, … these all help us provide a great environment for our students and our teachers. We’re open to many donations of goods. Please contact us if you have items you believe we might need. We also list items we’d like to have.
Volunteers got us started, and they keep us going. When we opened in our first location on the Downtown Mall, our friends were there, painting, cleaning, building furniture. Our board member worked hard even before that, helping us incorporate, find that building, recruit students and teachers, and much more. Our LCA family members and friends work regularly at cleaning, fundraising, business planning, and more, joining our full-time volunteers Lou Ellen and Vince and IT/Web/business guru David. We offer many rewarding opportunities to join in.
Using Our Donations
Some of our notable programs and attributes are:
In All Subjects:
We maintain small class sizes (maximum 15, median 10, average 9), enabling all students to have individual attention
Classes in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish:
Our teacher is a Nanjing-born native speaker and the recipient of awards from the Chinese government for teaching Chinese to non-native speakers
Middle School:
We created a broad and deep curriculum with advanced science and technology classes and special classes in social studies, computer programming, special topics (recently, Chinese history and geography, biogeography)
Special Facilities and Equipment:
We have high-tech laboratory equipment and supplies, both from new purchases made with donated funds and from the long scientific careers of our science teachers. We have a networked weather station with extra sensors for solar radiation and sky radiative temperature.
Student Projects:
A notable one is the construction of a light-up periodic table of the chemical elements controlled by a Raspberry Pi computer and our own custom-designed and custom–made logic board
Singapore math:
We use it throughout the grades
Expert teachers:
We keep up our competitive salary rates, which are also equal across all teachers as a principle of ours. We get donations of teaching equipment and supplies, supplementing the purchases we make from donated funds.
Supporting the students’ physical, emotional, and social growth:
Playground and sports equipment: many items, such as playhouses and a tennis ball-return net, are from direct donations of goods, while others, such as tennis racquets, tumbling mats for playground safety, a climbing dome, and a teeter-totter, are from donated funds. We are looking at upgrades in the play area surfacing.
We have supported teacher training in sex education and in phonics/dyslexia remediation.
Thank You to Our Donors
Donors have reached us via pledges in our five Annual Fund campaigns to date, in an online campaign for science equipment on the GoFundMe site, in unsolicited donations, and via our applications to foundations for grants. These funds have come for 21 businesses, 3 foundations, and 195 individuals, from our beginnings in 2007. We are pleased to list them below
Donations by Businesses & Foundations
Donations By Individuals
Thank You for Becoming a Donor
All contributions make a big impact on our students and our school.
Thank You to Our Donors
Donations by 21 businesses & 3 Foundations
Above $10,000
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El Paso Electric Company
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Giles W. & Elise G. Mead Foundation
Up to $10,000
- Barnes & Noble
Up to $5,000
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Anonymous Foundation
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Toyota Dealer Match Program
Up to $2,000
- Albertsons Community Program
Up to $1,000
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Boeing Co.
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Lisa J O Willman CPA LLC
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USTA Southwest Section
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VIDCAD, LLC
Up to $500
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Beasely, Mitchell & Co.
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Great Lakes Scrip Center
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La Posta de Mesilla
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Las Cruces Surgical Associates
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LCA 2nd Annual Rummage Sale
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Positive Energy, Inc.
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Sunspot Solar Energy
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Three Charities Fundraiser
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UNO Chicago Grill
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Walt Disney Company Foundation
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Williams Design Group, Inc.
Up to $100
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Aldershot of New Mexico, Inc.
Thank You to Our Donors
Donations by 202 individuals
Above $10,000
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Kay, Lou Ellen
Up to $10,000
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Abeele, Catherine
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Beattie, Will & Virginia
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Blanchard, Cathy & David
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Reinhold, Jean-Pierre
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Vescovo, George
Up to $5,000
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Bolt, J. Crow
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Chavez, Marcus & Iris
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Deason, Paul & Davidson, Diana
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Gopalan, Amudhu
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Gutschick, Vince
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Hines, Paula
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Maxwell, Connie
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Pai, Prasanna
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Poloner, Bonnie
Up to $2,000
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Borunda, Michael
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Gandy, Heather
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Haggard, Gail
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Haubner, Ken
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Houston, Kevin and Jessica
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Meenach, Chris
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Newby, Donna
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Pate, Stephen
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Reed, Donovan
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Shrestha, Kishor
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Tatum, Michelle
Up to $1,000
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Aguilar, Yesenia
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Aldubaisi, Abdulmonem
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Andersen, Bryce
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Anonymous
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Biad, Chris
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Brasher, Elizabeth
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Bunch, Henry
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Burlbaw, Edward
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Bursum, Michael & Lori
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Camunez, Andrea and Gary
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Dixson, Michael
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Durrett, Sterling
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Hammant, Hugh and Beverly
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Hellmuth, Harry
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Holguin, Jana
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Kaczmarek, Brenda
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Leisher, Mark
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Lopez, Monica
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McDonald, Mary
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McDonald, Richard
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Michelle, Martin
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Morales, Rick
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Morenescu, Ada
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Mychaskiw, George
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Papen, Mary Kay
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Pearson, Andrew
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Pena, John
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Pena, Kelly
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Pokorny, Herb
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Richer, Mark & Snedden, Megan
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Trujillo, Jacob & Karen
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Venepally, Rammohan
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Warden, Shawn
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Wheeler, David & Tricia
Up to $500
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Aguilar, Mario
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Archibeque, Jennifer
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Barello, Julia
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Barrantes, Edgar
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Begin, Bruce
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Bowers, R. Jeffrey
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Bowman, Wanda
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Brown, C. Dale
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Brown, Joel & Peggy
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Bunch, Henry & Carolyn
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Burton, Thomas
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Chavez, Andrew
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Cota, Dave & Debbie
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Crawford, Denise
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Dai, Mei
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Davidson, Diana
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Deng, Aretha
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Denk, Joseph & Jacqueline
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Doll, Lisa
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Donato, Joshua & Sabina
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Figueroa, Mark
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Gambrell, Len
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Garcia, Anna
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Garcia, Roque
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Gutschick, David
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Handy, Carolyn
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Harding, John
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Hill, Ann
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Houston, Susan
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Howard, Daniel
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Hunter, Harry
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Jentgen, Dinah
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Kamali, Kamran & Polyanna
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Kimber, Barbara
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Kiser, Shonda
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Kuper, Allison
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Lee, Connie
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Lewis, Jennifer
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Lewis, M.
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Licht, Judy
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Lichtenfels, Howard, Dan & Jeni
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Liefeld, Martha
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Lopez, Edgar
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McNeil, Keith
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Menking, Cornell
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Muir, Sam
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Murray, Doug
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Neakrase, Jennifer & Lynn
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O’Brien, Jeffrey & Shirley
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Oxford, Grady
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Palmer, Phyllis
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Perea, Jacob
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Podila, Prasad & Jayasree
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Raymonda, John
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Roman, Kathleen & Edgar
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Schmugge, Thomas & Susan
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Schulte, Matthew
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Shiao, Sue
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Turner, Travis
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Unguez, Graciela
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White, Michael
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Whitford, Linda and Walter
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Wootten, Eleanor
Up to $100
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Andersen, Anne
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Armitage, Ellen
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Bailey, Donovan
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BassiriRad, Hormoz
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Berkson, Arthur & Rebecca
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Binkowski, Linda C.
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Bowman, Paul
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Bugbee, Fred
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Bunchman, Nancy Dodge
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Candelaria, Michael & Delia
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Carr, Bryan
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Chavez, Gilbert & Sylvia
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Cota, Matthew & Adrienne
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Dawe, Angus
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Day, Marianne
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Deng, Mi
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Donato, Dante
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Ebbs, Lisa
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Estrada, Ruby
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Fargo, Cindy
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Figueroa, Jacque
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Gandara, Jr., Gus
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Giorgi, Tiziani
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Gladstone, Jill
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Hadley, John and Claudia
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Harding, Susan
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Jiang, Shon
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Kalma, Beth
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Kissling, Albert
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Kotulak, Caryl
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Leisher, Agustin
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Li, Yi
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Liefeld, Eric
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Liefeld, Eric
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Liefeld, Marty
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Liefeld, Rigel
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Luna, Amanda
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McCarthy, Charlotte
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Meenach, Elsa
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Mercer, Ann
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Mercurio, John
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Meyer, Robert N.”Tito”
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Milane, Lara
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Murray, Parry & Bill
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Nakamura, Sandra & Masashi
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Neidig, Donald
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Newby, C.
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Oropeza, Marivel
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Pai, Ayana
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Pass, Kathe
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Pate, Louis
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Phillips, Lauren
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Poloner, M. & B.
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Post, Cecil & Joan
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Puthoff, Helen
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Ray, Sandy
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Reinhold, Dahlia
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Rhodes, Marsha
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Richer, Lilliana
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Robin, Nichole & James
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Samaniego, Aida
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Schnell, Loah
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Sesmas, Ted
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Shrivaram, Chetan & Archana
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Sotelo, Axel & Janine
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Stahmann, Charlotte
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Surova, Erica
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Surova, Indigo
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Szalay, Laura S.
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Tellez, Stephanie
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Tenorio, Jeanne
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Townsend, Daniel
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Walsh, Susan
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Webb, Sidney
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West, Trey
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Wilson, Aletta
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Wischerath, Theodore & Margot
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Wong, Ruth & Stephen