Meet Our Trustees
Sam Osterhout
PresidentRamona Rosenberg
Vice PresidentEve Fox
SecretaryBill Bullitt
TreasurerSusy Bardel Donna Ford Grover Jon Gordon Dariel Vasquez
Sam Osterhout, President (Trustee Committee, Finance Committee, Executive Committee)
Sam Osterhout is a former WDS parent and has been on the WDS Board since 2019, and board president since June 2020. He is a writer and television producer specializing in content related to social issues, science, history, and climate change. He has produced for Discovery, History Channel, Animal Planet, Nat Geo, and others. He lives in Kingston with his wife, Massoumeh and their daughters, Ruby and Hazel.
Ramona Rosenberg, Vice President (Trustee Committee, Executive Committee)
Ramona Rosenberg has been on the WDS Board since 2020 and is mother of a student in the WDS class of 2027 who started in Kindergarten. Ramona is Director of External Affairs at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) and the Hessel Museum of Art, where she has been since 2008. Prior to that, Ramona worked in the television industry – specifically as a production manager for criminal biographies. She lives in Kingston, with her husband, their son, and two cats.
Eve Fox, Secretary (Development Committee, Executive Committee)
Eve attended the Woodstock Children Center from Kindergarten through Second Grade in the early 1980s — three fantastic, formative years of her early education for which she is forever grateful. The mom of two boys who’ve been at WDS since nursery school, she joined the WDS board in 2018 as Secretary. Prior to that she had served as a volunteer member of the Annual Fund committee and a class parent for several years – both roles that she continues to play.
Eve is the Digital Director for Beyond Plastics, a nonprofit campaign that aims to end plastic pollution that is based at Bennington College in Vermont. She served as a Vice President of M+R Strategic Services’ digital team – of which she was a founding member – for 12 years. She lives in Woodstock, NY with her husband, their two sons, two cats, and a big garden. Eve is the Secretary of the Woodstock Farm Festival committee and a former trustee of the Woodstock Land Conservancy board.
Bill Bullitt, Treasurer (Finance Committee, Development Committee, Executive Committee)
Bill retired in 2016 after practicing law in Philadelphia for 45 years with Drinker Biddle & Reath. LLP. For most of those years, his practice centered around representation of individuals, families, and nonprofit entities. He has served on the boards of numerous charitable corporations and foundations, as well as advising operating charities on fiduciary and tax matters. As a director or trustee, he often found himself on the Finance and Development committees of those entities, and he brings that experience to his service to Woodstock Day School as Treasurer, chair of the Finance Committee, and member of the Development Committee. Bill still lives outside Philadelphia, but was drawn to the WDS board by his family connection to the school.
Susy Bardel (COVID Team, Development Committee)
Susan Bardel has been on the WDS Board since 2013 and is the mother of a student in the class of 2028. She has been on the Development Committee and ran the WDS annual fund campaign for six years. During her tenure on the board she has been actively involved with many committees including the Buildings and Grounds Committee, the Playground Committee, the Book Fair Committee, and the Auction Committee. In the fall of 2020, Susy joined the COVID Team to help lead the school through the pandemic. Prior to moving to the area, Susy was the owner and manager of an equine breeding and boarding operation in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She continues to maintain a private farm in Greene County, NY.
Donna Ford Grover (Finance Committee)
Donna is the mom of a Woodstock Day School Alumnus, class of 2019. She joined the WDS Board in 2020 and serves on the Finance Committee. Donna is a Research Associate Professor of Literature and American Studies at Bard College where she has taught since 1999. Donna has a Ph.D. from The Graduate Center at City University of New York and specializes in American literature, including African-American literature and Asian-American literature, as well as Caribbean literature, and women’s and feminist literature. She lives in Kingston with her husband.
Jon Gordon
Jon joined the WDS Board in December 2021. He lives in Woodstock with his wife and children who attend WDS. Jon is Managing General Partner at HC9 Ventures, a venture fund that provides deep healthcare expertise to emerging healthcare companies. Jon previously served as Senior Vice President for Innovation at Commonwealth Care Alliance, a non-profit health plan focused on caring for vulnerable populations. Prior to CCA, Jon spent a decade at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, first in their Office of Strategy and then as founder and head of their corporate venture investment program. Jon has held other positions in finance, non-profit fundraising and healthcare. Jon is an adjunct faculty member for the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and serves as a board member of Costs of Care. He is a competitive cyclist and an avid hiker; he is also a guide for the Catskill 3500 Club. Jon holds a BA cum laude from Princeton University and an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School.
Dariel Vasquez
Dariel Vasquez joined the WDS Board in the summer of 2021. He is the Executive Director of the Brothers@ Organization, and a first-generation college graduate from Harlem, NY. Dariel graduated from Bard College (Class of 2017) with a joint degree in History and Sociology, and a concentration in Africana-Studies. Youth development and mentorship is Dariel’s passion, and he’s been designing programming and facilitating youth engagement workshops since he was 16 years old. Growing up in public housing projects and being raised by immigrant parents, Dariel considered the possibilities a proper education could provide to be the only viable way for him to help his family out of poverty. Dariel’s passion is fueled by his desire to become the kind of mentor his peers never had. His first year at Bard, Dariel created the Brothers At Bard (BAB) support group with the help of his peers—laying the foundation for the work the organization does today. Dariel received a grant from the New York State My Brothers Keeper Initiative upon graduating at 21, allowing him to continue building the organization full-time as the Executive Director. Since then, Dariel has raised over half a million dollars as the co-founder of Brothers@ to expand the work and impact of the organization.