6/19/2014 - West Side Leader

Alumni from celebrating classes of 1964 (50 years), 1969 (45 years), 1994 (20 years) and 2004 (10 years) attended the event.

Awards were presented to two alumni, as well as one of the schools long-time science instructors.

Amy Freitag, Class of 1981, received the Lincoln Gries Distinguished Alumni Award that is presented to an alumnus who has made an important contribution or given extraordinary service to others in some field, as a professional or volunteer.

Freitag was recently appointed executive director of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based charitable foundation, after serving as executive director of the New York Restoration Project from 2010 to 2014, where she led a staff of landscape managers, designers and community engagement professionals to improve green spaces in New York Citys highest-need communities. Major projects included the successful execution of the Million Trees NYC program, renovation of seven community gardens and the $6 million campaign to complete the restoration of Sherman Creek Park.

Prior to her work at NYRP, Freitag served as U.S. program director for the World Monuments Fund. Her professional background also includes serving as deputy commissioner for capital projects in the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and several positions in Philadelphias Fairmont Park. She serves on the board of the New York Preservation Archive Project and the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation. She lectures nationally on the history of women in conservation and is researching a book on the founding of the Garden Club of America. She has a bachelors degree from Smith College and masters degrees in landscape architecture and historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Jackie Rohrer, class of 1994, received the Peter G. Wilson Rising Star Award presented to an OTS alumnus who has graduated from OTS within the past 20 years who has shown professional and community leadership and exhibited appreciation for OTS. This award is named in honor of a former OTS headmaster.

A family physician who practices obstetrics, Rohrer delivers babies, treats children from infants to teenagers and manages the care for adults of all ages. According to OTS officials, her passion lies in caring for people through lifes transitions, as well as working with under-served populations.

After attending Walsh Jesuit High School, Boston College and medical school at McGill University in Montreal, she completed her family medicine residency in Lancaster, Pa. She practices at Foothill Family Clinic in Salt Lake City. Her skill set recently expanded to include C-sections after she completed a one-year surgical obstetrics fellowship at the University of Utah.

Prior to attending medical school, Rohrer conducted research at Massachusetts General Hospital and volunteered for six months at a rural hospital in Cameroon. During her time in Boston, she met a Hudson native, Jason Stevenson, and they married at Hale Farm and Village in Bath in 2008. Jason works in health care reform, and they have a 3-year old son, Calvin.

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