Mary Louise Leipheimer, whose visionary ideas and uncanny leadership skills have guided Foxcroft School through transitional times to a position of strength and leadership among the nation’s top independent schools, was presented with the School’s highest honor, the Anne Kane McGuire Distinguished Service Award. Pam Mars Wright '78, chair of the Foxcroft School Board of Trustees’ Committee on Trustees, made the surprise presentation at a luncheon at Foxcroft celebrating Leipheimer’s 20th year as the Head of School. Click here to view the full citation.

Anne Legendre Armstrong '45, one of Foxcroft's most accomplished alumnae and an honorary member of the Board of Trustees, died peacefully in Houston, Texas, on July 30, 2008. She was 80. 

The first female to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Armstrong was an advisor to four U.S. Presidents, Chairman of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a regent of the Texas A&M University system and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  
 
Armstrong was an inspiration for generations of women who followed in the trail she blazed. She served as Co-Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1971 to 1973, the first woman to hold such a position for either national political party. In 1972 she was the first woman to deliver a keynote address at a national political convention.  President Richard M. Nixon appointed her to serve as Counsellor to the President with cabinet rank, a position she continued to hold under President Gerald R. Ford, who later appointed her Ambassador to the Court of St. James.