The Exeter Township School District celebrated the achievements of students and alumni as 46 juniors and seniors were inducted into the Claude W. Dundore chapter of the National Honor Society and three notable alumni or community members were inducted into the Exeter Alumni Association’s Academic Hall of Fame on Saturday, November 15, 2025.
This year’s Academic Hall of Fame honorees were Jennifer Hauseman (‘90), a globally-focused technology and digital strategy leader, and Karen (’75) and Jack Williams, longtime community volunteers and founders of the Exeter Area Food Pantry. Inductees are selected for their contributions to society and the impact and credit they have brought to the Exeter Township School District through their achievements, volunteerism and service.
Jennifer Hauseman built an international career as a technologist and digital strategy leader across philanthropic, humanitarian, development and public-sector organizations. She currently oversees digital platforms and content for the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, collaborating with global partners to highlight the Center’s impact in advancing economic inclusion. Before joining Mastercard, Hauseman led digital engagement and data-driven initiatives at the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) at the UN Foundation in Washington, D.C., working to ensure that all people have access to the trusted digital tools needed to participate fully in society.
She previously served as the Global Director of Communication and Information Management at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), overseeing IT, communications, archives and project management across more than 80 countries. Her modernization efforts helped digitize the organization’s communications and guided the adoption of human-centered design and minimum viable product development. Prior to the ICRC, Hauseman was the deputy director of communications at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she authored the foundation’s digital strategy and oversaw the exponential growth of its digital channels. She began her career as a developer at Amazon, working on international sites.
Hauseman is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and earned an executive master’s degree in change leadership from HEC Paris and Oxford in 2025. She lives outside Washington, D.C., with her wife and child.
Karen and Jack Williams have made a transformative impact on the Exeter community through more than a decade of service to families facing food insecurity. Along with a group of community members, they helped found and continue to lead the Exeter Area Food Pantry, which has grown into one of the largest and most essential community resources serving the 19606 and 19508 ZIP codes. The couple helped launch the pantry in 2011 after Jack learned from the Berks Food Bank (now Helping Harvest) that 19606 was the most underserved ZIP code in Berks County. After reaching out to area churches, Reformation Lutheran Church became the pantry’s first home, serving just 10 families during its first month.
For the next eight years, the demand for the pantry continued to grow, serving nearly 200 families monthly by the end of 2019. The start of the COVID pandemic in 2020, however, suddenly tripled the demand of families seeking food assistance. Karen and Jack and other members of the pantry quickly shifted their operations to outdoors, organizing drive-through distributions at the former Giant supermarket site. There, they served more than 600 families monthly—ensuring safe and reliable access to food during a critical time. When the Giant site was demolished, the Exeter Township School District provided space at the Lausch Administration building, where the pantry continues today. It now serves 325–350 families monthly as a unique, choice-based shopping pantry supported by more than 150 volunteers.
Karen served the Exeter Township School District for nearly four decades as a first-grade, pre-first and kindergarten teacher at Lorane Elementary. After retiring from teaching in 2017, she became the pantry’s coordinator, managing food ordering, volunteer coordination, registration and distribution. She is also a member of Healthy Harvest’s Healthy Pantry Initiative and the Pantry Council.
Jack spent 30 years as a business owner before entering nonprofit leadership, serving first with Berks County’s Habitat for Humanity and now as the Executive Director of the Berks Coalition to End Homelessness. He also serves on the board of Refresh Berks and is a Paul Harris Fellow through the Rotary Club. He continues to serve the food pantry on its steering committee.
Both Karen and Jack are graduates of Millersville University; Karen also holds a master’s degree and Reading Specialist certification. The Williamses raised three sons—Chris, Kevan and Kyle—all of whom are Exeter graduates, with three out of their five grandchildren currently attending Exeter schools.
Founded in 2005 as a project of the Exeter Community Education Foundation, the Academic Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have brought distinction to the Exeter Township School District through academic excellence, professional achievement and service. With this year’s class, the Hall of Fame now honors 84 inductees. Each honoree receives a plaque, and their names are permanently displayed in the Senior High School.
During the second part of the ceremony, the current members of the National Honor Society presented and inducted 46 new members from the Class of 2026 and 2027 into its chapter through its candle-lighting ceremony that represents the Society’s four pillars: character, leadership, scholarship and service. To be considered for membership, students must be sophomores or juniors with a weighted cumulative GPA of at least 92.000, involvement in at least one school activity or club and completion of at least five community service hours. This year’s inductees are:
Julieanna Albu, Haven Bessemer, Grace Campling, Leoni Choy, Adam Crotty, Jillian Crotty, Fatoumata Diallo, Mairead Dolan, Josette Dolena, Salina Dominguez, Hannah Franey, Sophia Frias, Steele Gatto, Avery Gibbons, Adeline Glidewell, Karli Grove, Kinley Guziak, Abigail Hellwig, Bryan Henry, Claire Isselmann, Gavin Isselmann, Morgan Kauffman, Alexandra (Sasha) Kononov, Paige Lichtley, Taylor Mack, Madeline McAuliffe, Bryson Otero, Hailey Owens, Sarah Patterson, Ellery Pinkerton, Kadence Putt, Chelsea Rechieru, Jadee Ruiz-Ravelo, Jack Schlegel, Andrew Schwenk, Sophie Seamans, Samantha Shipley, Kendall Spinka, Ashlyn Szweda, Sophia Tao, Ryen Turner, Jillian Warner, Giulia Weisser, Logan Willauer, Lucas Willauer, Gianna Wunsch.
