ACAT was incorporated on April 14, 1964 in New York City by Barbara Callen, Deborah Caplan, Judith Leibowitz, Frank Ottiwell, and Joyce Ringdahl Suskind—the initial Board of Directors.



DIRECTORS OF THE TEACHER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM

  • Judith Leibowitz 1967–1981

  • Barbara Kent 1982–1987

  • Pamela Anderson 1987–1991

  • Kim Jessor 1991–1994

  • Joan Frost 1994–1995

  • Barbara Kent 1995–2001

  • Joan Frost 2001–2008

  • Brooke Lieb 2008–2018

GRADUATES BY CLASS

Class #1—June 1969

  • Aileen Crow

  • Joan Schirle

  • Rachel Zahn

  • Inez Zeller

Class #2—June 1971

  • Barbara Kent

  • Josephine Nichols

  • Paula Ross

Certified upon review—June 1971

  • Sarnell Ogus

Class #3—February 1972

  • Maya Clemes

  • Judith Isaacs

  • Lydia Yohay

Class #4—June 1975

  • Pearl Ausubel

  • Michelline Charron

  • Jason Elias

  • Lorna Faraldi

  • Ivy Green

  • Joel Kendall

  • Ann Sickels Mathews

  • Troup Mathews

  • Roland Racko

  • Eleanor Rosenthal

  • Missy Vineyard

Class #5—December 1977

  • Pamela Anderson

  • Linda Babits

  • Saura Bartner

  • Marsha Bate

  • Charlotte Wyman Coe

  • Karen Fraley

  • Ethel Hamilton

  • Andrea Hanson

  • Susanna Wachtel

  • Jessica Wolf

Class #6—December 1979

  • Elizabeth Adamson

  • Rupa Cousins

  • Remy Charlip

  • Peter Daw

  • Ronald Dennis

  • June Ekman

  • Elizabeth Garren

  • Ilse Geibisch

  • Steven Glassman

  • Joel Handorff

  • Susan Kramer Loeb

  • Babette Markus

  • Hillary Mayers

  • Anne Morris

  • Alan Nyysola

  • Idelle Packer

  • Amy Pell

  • Jane Vogel Reiley

  • Nancy Wechter

  • Regina Wray

Class #7—June 1981

  • Beret Arcaya

  • Hope Gillerman

  • Janice Rous

  • R. Allen Spanjer

Class #8—December 1981

  • James Cook

  • Amy Fleetman

  • Barbara Lachman Grant

  • Kim Jessor

  • Cynthia Knapp

  • Raphael Morey

  • Mollie Schnoll

  • Daniel Singer

Class #9—March 1982

  • Leslie Manes

  • Edward Mattutat

  • Lisa Rope

  • Anne Marie Roth

  • Jeanne D. Sedgwick

  • Esther Seligmann

  • Deborah Pratt Tacon

Class #10—March 1983

  • Lillian Concordia

  • Joan Frost

  • Helen Higa

  • Amy Kitahata-Sporn

  • Richard Levine

  • Elizabeth Molle

  • Charles Noble

  • Lori Scheiderman DeWan

  • Janet Titus

Class #11—March 1984

  • Amadea Bailey

  • Maneco Bueno

  • Karen Coe

  • Bill Connington

  • Joanne Howell

  • Ofer Kamron

  • Eva Karczag

  • Dennis Kocjan

  • Nancy Wanich

Class #12—June 1984

  • Schellie Archbold

  • Kathleen Lawrence

  • Judith Lakin

  • Julia MacKenzie

  • Anne Holmes Waxman

Class #13—June 1985

  • Jane Kosminsky

Class #14—December 1985

  • Suzanne Berger

Class #15—March 1987

  • Marta Friedland

  • Posie Green

  • Sarah Kampelman

  • Eugene King

  • Carolyn Kitahata

  • Barbara Maloney

  • Melissa Matson

  • Melanie Nevis

  • Judith Trobe Stern

Class #16—June 1987

  • Claire Christe Cunneen

  • Tom Koch

  • Hope Martin

  • Charlotte Okie

  • Carolyn Monka Serota

  • Diane Young

Class #17—December 1987

  • Michelle Arsenault

  • Ruth Belding Nardini

  • Rebecca Flannery

  • Judith Grodowitz

  • Maria Parker

  • Cynthia Reynolds

  • Jennifer Scanlon

  • Lori Schiff

  • Annette Werhahn

  • Andy Zavada

Class #18—December 1988

  • Joan Arnold

  • Dirk Keysser

  • Jaye Miller

  • Stan Tucker

Class #19—December 1989

  • Debby Jay

  • Elizabeth Gaw

  • N. Brooke Lieb

  • Constance L. Serchuk

  • Charles Turyn

Class #20—June 1990

  • Karla Sue Booth

  • Kathryn Moeller Miranda

  • Samuel Reiser

  • Jane Tomkiewicz

  • Class #21—December 1990

  • Alison Courtney

  • Jean McClelland

  • Elizabeth Pierik

  • Robin Schiff

Class #22—June 1991

  • Sheldon Berkowitz

  • Robert Cohen

  • Sarah H. Doran

  • Rosalind Glatter Rosenberg

  • Joel Simkin

Class #23—December 1991

  • Ingrid Lorch Bacci

  • Henry Blumenkranz - 12/92

  • Alina Holder

  • Joy Jacobson

  • Sao Nunes

Class #24—June 1992

  • Fernando Eschiletti

  • MaryJane Findley

  • Deborah Gladstein

  • Jean Rashkind

  • Charles Stein (aka Ethan Kind)

Class #25—December 1992

  • Susan Arthur – 12/93

  • Victoria Hyatt

  • Lauren Jones

  • Frances Robertson

  • Lynn Shapiro

  • Laura Smith

Class #26—June 1993

  • Sandra Bernard

  • Elizabeth Buonomo

  • Laurie Currie

  • Cathy Hazeltine

  • Fern Kushner

Class #27—December 1993

  • Nina Aledort

  • Jacque Bell

  • Sandra Colozzi

  • Marybeth Hraniotis

  • Patricia McGinnis

  • Lisa Trank

Class #28—June 1994

  • Judith Barkow

  • Elizabeth Reese

  • Karen Langevin

  • Ellen Melamed

  • Thomas Vasiliades

  • Valerie Van Hooven

Class #29—December 1994

  • Urs Sauer

  • Shelley Senter

  • Sally Sullivan

  • Kaori Yoshino

Class #30—June 1995

  • Teva Bjerken

  • Sara Lynn Grindle

  • Elizabeth Hulton

  • Michael Willis

Class #31—December 1995

  • Roberto Mainetti

  • Nanette Walsh

  • Claudia Payton

Class #32—June 1996

  • Roxolana Podpirka

  • Class # 33—June 1997

  • Linda DeLeon – 9/97

  • Allison Foley – 12/97

  • Colleen Higgins – 9/97

  • Gwynne Marshal – 12/97 or 3/98

  • Barbara McCrane – 12/97

  • Arthur Tobias – 9/97

Class #34—June 1998

  • Bob Bradley – 10/98

  • Ed Malave – 12/98

  • Henry Lee – 12/98

Class #35—December 1998

  • Anke Froehlich

  • Tara Sullivan

  • Kecia Chin

  • Class #36—June 1999

  • Hyun Sook Baek

  • Naina Dewan - 11/99

  • Emily Fraenkel - 11/99

  • Beate Mathois 8/16/00

  • Loren Shlaes

  • Ralph Zito

Class #37—June 2000

  • Patricia Benstock

  • Alicia Briceland

  • Katherine Constable

  • Clare Maxwell

  • Akiko Nishijima

  • Denise Rathbun

  • Chris Zatamei

AmSAT Requirements completed at ACAT

  • Jeanne Barrett – 12/90

  • Sarah Gamble – 6/92

Class #38—June 2001

  • Sabine Heubusch

  • Kathe Jarke – 9/28/02

  • Anne Rene Lawton

  • Yorgos Matskaris – 9/28/02

  • Gary Ramsay

  • Beth Ziba – 9/28/02

Class #39—June 2002

  • Sigal Bergman – 11/02

  • Kate Kobak

  • Julia Langham

  • Susan Pfeffer

  • Gwen Roe

  • Christine Suhr

Class #40—December 2002

  • Hee Sook Baek

  • Patty De Llosa

  • Michael Hanko

  • Naomi Josepher

  • Michelle Makarski

  • Lee Shapley

Class #41—December 19, 2003

  • Bette Chamberlin

  • Ruth Diamond

  • Mark Josefsberg

  • Stephanie Kalka

  • Naoko Matsumoto

Class #42—June 2004

  • Hsin-I Chen

  • Susie Perkins

  • Victoria Roth

  • Rebecca Tuffey

Class #43—June 2005

  • Christopher Beckstrom

  • David Coben

  • Amira Glaser

  • Susannah Keebler

  • Phyllis Kubey

  • Sofia Radu

  • Jenna Zabala

Class #44—June 2006

  • Klare Potter

  • Donna Reid

Class #45—December 2006

  • Joan Hurley (3/18/07)

Class #46—June 2007

  • Miho Nozawa

  • Tom Weiser

Class #47—December 2007

  • Alan Bowers

  • Yuki Komiyama (12/1/2008)

  • Lisa Lutton

Class #48—March 2008

  • Masumi Kishimoto (9/17/08)

  • Elizabeth Reid (5/8/08)

Class #49—June 2008

  • Rachel Bernsen

  • Helen Hansen

  • Mark Karwan

  • Alejandra Martorell

Class #50—March 2009

  • Satoko Kajita

  • Inavys Paris Cabello (6/26/09)

Class #51—June 2009

  • Barbara Adrienne Curialle

  • Alexis Z. Martin (9/25/2009)

  • Victoria Moore

  • Naoko Saito (9/24/2009)

Class #52—December 2009

  • Janice Boles

  • Luke Mess (3/18/10)

  • Takako Shimizu (12/27/09)

Class #53—June 2010

  • Karina Lombrozo (December 7, 2010)

Class #54—December 2010

  • Karen Krueger

  • Doris May

  • Fernanda Meyer (2/14/12)

Class #55—June 2011

  • Carly Miriam Green (12/31/11)

Class #56—December 2011

  • Morgan Rysdon-Moulitsas (1/6/12)

Class #57—June 2012

  • Daniel Cayer

  • Kimiko Kitano (12/3/12)

Class #58—December 2012

  • Anastasia Pridlides

Class #59—June 2013

  • Jeffrey Reuben Glazer

  • Claudia K. Wald

Class #60—December 2013

  • Witold Fitz-Simon

  • Fabio A. Tavares da Silva – 3/14/14

Class #61—March 2014

  • Eve Silver – 5/2/14

Class #62—June 2014

  • John Austin - 12/14/14

  • Lolita Brinkley

  • Ian Phillip Jorgensen

  • Jessica Suzette Santascoy

  • Sara Allesandra Vasiliou

Class #63—December 2014

  • Holly Caracappa - 1/23/15

  • Class #64—March 2015

  • Aik Hooi Lee 3/20/15

  • Tuuli Nillson 3/20/15

Class #65—December 2015

  • Helen Farmer 3/18/16

  • Mona Al-Kazemi - through AmSAT credential review

Class #66—March 2016

  • Melissa Brown

  • Tai-Hsuan Aimee Liu 10/17/16

Class #67—June 2016

  • Timothy Tucker

  • Cate McNider - 10/24/16

  • Faisal Al-Matrouk - through AmSAT credential review

Class #68—December 2016

  • Aurelia Nolin

Class #69—June 2017

  • Jules Helm - 12/28/18

  • Aviv Nisinzweig - 09/11/17

Class #70—June 2018

  • Ezra Bershatsky - 9/20/18

  • Timothy J. (Thea) Garlid - 9/14/18

Class #71—September 2018

  • James J. Blumer