Founder's Day

Looking Forward to Founder’s Day 2025 (tentative details to be updated)

5 PM — Appetizers & Social Hour

6 PM — Catered Dinner

6:30 PM — Program

8 PM — Silent Auction ends

8 PM — Alumni/Families informal gathering

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Looking Back at Founder’s Day 2024

We honored and celebrated Profesor Alassanne Mbaye’s years of dedicated
service to GFA with an informal potluck supper. Student performances
included a unique fashion show of apparel crafted from Spanish textbooks,
recitations, and African drums!

Looking Back at Founder’s Day 2023

In honor of our school’s 40th anniversary year, we celebrated our school’s
founder and first Headmaster with an informal potluck supper complete
with a nostalgic (albeit silent and online) auction.
We had Paeltz, Performances, Presentations, a Potluck, and Prizes!

It was “Gobs of Fun!”

Looking Back at Founder’s Day 2022

We were back on campus this year!

THANK YOU to our generous donors and supporters!

Looking Back at Founder’s Day 2021

Watch the Stream | Special Thanks to Our Supporters | Some Memories of Mr. Paeltz

Watch the Stream

We celebrated Founder’s Day on November 13, 2021 through two virtual streams. You can watch both in a combined video available here:

In this video, you can:

Enjoy recorded performances from GFA students from all over the school
Hear from GFA alumni sharing how this special school helped to prepare them for their careers
Test your knowledge with GFA trivia, animated by a Form III student
Listen to two live talks from Mr. Philip Paeltz, the school’s founder and first headmaster, as he shares some thoughts for our GFA extended family (and interviews his own bobblehead)!