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As a trustee and later Board Chair, Alison Nightingale helped guide TVT through COVID and other challenges facing our school. We honor her leadership and her commitment to carrying forward the gift that earlier generations made possible for her family and for families still to come.
How did your TVT story begin?
We moved from New York with a short list: a Jewish community that valued education and matched our religious comfort level, and good pizza. (We left the bagels behind and still haven't forgiven ourselves.)
The pizza search is technically still open—East Coast loyalists never fully surrender that fight. But the community search ended the moment we found TVT. Thirty-six years later, it's still exactly what we were looking for. The pizza question remains unresolved.
What is one TVT moment, relationship, or experience that has stayed with you?
Serving on the board, and later as board chair, gave me a front-row seat to this school in ways most parents never see. I was there through COVID and through other hurdles that tested us in real time — and what I witnessed wasn't panic or shortcuts. It was a staff that stayed up at night worrying about our children, that showed up every single day with care that never wavered, even when the path forward wasn't clear.
Why do you believe it is important to invest in TVT's future?
We pay tuition, but tuition was never the whole story. When I look around our campus, I think about the people who came before my family—the ones who built this place, who gave and sacrificed so that families like mine would have a safe home to be Jewish, to learn, and to grow. That gift wasn't given to us to simply use. It was given to us to carry forward.
Investing in TVT's future isn't optional to me—it's a duty. It's how we honor everyone who made sure this place existed before we ever walked through its doors, and it's how we make sure it exists for the families who haven't arrived yet. This is a tradition worth protecting, and I intend to keep it going.
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