PFA Awards April Falcon Wings

FWCD’s Parent Faculty Association awarded Cindy Allen, Executive Assistant to the Head of School, with the April 2026 Falcon Wings honor. Falcon Wings recognize PFA volunteers, FWCD teachers or staff who soar above and beyond the call of duty to enhance PFA programs or events or have improved the greater FWCD community by their dedication and enthusiasm. The PFA will donated a book to the library in her honor. 

Allison Cobb, Falcon Wings Chair, read the following at the April 13 PFA Board meeting:

Some Falcon Wings decisions qualify as no-brainers. This recipient qualifies as a no-brainer. Some of the recipient’s qualifications have to do with where she sits. If you are the person who sits at the desk that welcomes dozens of people to the campus and is literally the first impression of Fort Worth Country Day time and time again, you have to be amazing. You have to be able to talk to all sorts of people under all sorts of circumstances. You have to respect confidentiality as much as anyone on the campus. You have to make every single visitor to your office and caller of your phone feel like they are the most important person you have ever imagined, let alone met. 

If you sit in an office next to an “old, crotchety” Evan Peterson H’15 and then a similarly “old, getting more crotchety” Eric Lombardi, you have to be special.

If you have been at FWCD for 40 years … and, in that time, you have always brought amazing energy, a very ready laugh, an enormous amount of gratitude and joy to the campus every day, you are further earning your wings. 

So many FWCD community members think this nominee/recipient is their best friend. Only Butch is her real best friend, but the rest of us are so lucky to know her and to have her being the one who sets the tone day. We are all so lucky to share the FWCD community with Cindy Allen. 

Lombardi shared, “Cindy is the type of person who inspires you to be a better version of yourself, but ironically you rely upon her help to make that happen!  She works quietly in the seams of so many people’s lives, stitching up all of their loose ends. She is smart, detail-oriented and loyal with an incredible work ethic.  She’s a caretaker, but will never take credit for all the care she gives to so many It’s just all in a day’s work. She quietly guards sanity and helps shoulder the load of the many people doing the heavy lifting in the school’s leadership arena:

Helen Todora, Board of Trustees member, said, “FWCD would be different without her. She has committed years of service to making our school and Board of Trustees the best possible version of itself, while improving the lives of everyone in it. Congratulations, Cindy. Thank you for all you do!”