Alumni Awards and Celebrations

This award honors an alumnus who has consistently provided exemplary service to Westminster, enhancing the mission, success, stature, and well-being of the School.

Susan Ayres Watson ’83 has exemplified exceptional leadership and service within Westminster’s alumni community for decades. Susan has been a Westminster Fund division chair, a PAWS volunteer, and a repeat class agent and reunion committee member. As a former member and past president of the Alumni Governing Board, Susan played a key role in planning signature alumni events such as Beyond the Gates, Back To School Night, CatTalks, and more. 

A 1987 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Susan worked on Capitol Hill briefly before becoming part of the team that helped bring the 1996 Olympic Games to Atlanta. She later partnered with the International Olympic Committee to manage their global sponsorship program. In addition to sports marketing, her career path has included commercial and residential real estate, and she remains a partner in Legacy Ventures, an award-winning real estate development group whose work surrounding Centennial Olympic Park has helped transform downtown Atlanta into a vibrant live-work community. In 2012, she launched the Atlanta chapter of Ellevate, a global professional women’s network, and in 2017, she co-founded the nonprofit Daughters Against Alzheimer’s, which has raised more than $5 million for the Emory University Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Susan and her husband, David Watson ’82, have three sons, two of whom graduated from Westminster. 

Westminster recognizes and honors outstanding personal, business, or professional achievements by alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award.

As the CEO of Castellucci Hospitality Group, Federico “Fred” Castellucci III ’03 has made an outsize impact on Atlanta’s restaurant scene and won national acclaim. 

Upon graduation from Cornell University in 2007, Fred assumed the reins of Sugo restaurant, located in Johns Creek, and since then has changed the direction of the company from a single restaurant to a multi-unit, multi-state restaurant group, which includes: Mujō, recently awarded one MICHELIN star and one of Esquire’s Best New Restaurants of 2023; Cooks & Soldiers, 2024 James Beard Foundation Award semifinalist for Outstanding Hospitality; three locations of The Iberian Pig; Double Zero; and Sugo. As CEO, Fred is responsible for leading and directing the vision of Castellucci Hospitality Group, including the company’s growth decisions, concept ideation, high-level operations, and leadership development. 

In addition to his roles within the company, Fred has served on the board of directors of the Georgia Restaurant Association and is actively involved as a mentor, advisor and investor in early-stage hospitality technology companies. He has been named to Atlanta Magazine’s Atlanta 500—a list of our city’s most powerful leaders—every year since 2021. Earlier this year, Fred was named to the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta list of iconic mentors. Fred has remained involved with Westminster in numerous ways over the years, providing meals for alumni programs and hosting events.

Westminster recognizes and honors outstanding personal, business, or professional achievements by alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award.

Lisa Cooter Consiglio ’87 is co-founder and CEO of Narrative 4, a global organization created by artists, shaped by educators, and led by students. N4 is focused on building empathy in classrooms through creative tools, storytelling, and engagement projects. Its key tool is the story exchange, built on an old acting technique of sharing stories—literally telling another’s stories by adopting their voice in the first person—which develops one’s ability to see the world from a new perspective. 

N4’s programs and methodology are designed to help students understand that their voices, stories, actions, and lives matter, and that they have the power to change, rebuild, or revolutionize systems. N4 recently received a $25 million donation from the Bezos Family Foundation and was recognized with the 2024 James W. Foley Humanitarian Award from the James L. Foley Legacy Foundation. 

For nearly 35 years, Lisa has dedicated her career to developing influential organizations that transform the lives of their clients and constituencies. Deeply committed to her belief in the power of stories, Lisa led a program of the Aspen Institute for nine years with a focus on provoking thought, broadening perspectives, fostering global connections, and inspiring creativity through literature. Her professional experience spans the arts, education, civic engagement, technology, cancer research, public policy, and honoring World War II veterans.