Episcopal Academy
Amanda Turner ’18: Although Reverend Squire, current Head Chaplain, has been part of the Episcopal community for decades, he recently announced his retirement and his successor, Tim Gavin. As former Lower School Chaplain, Gavin will have new responsibilities as Head Chaplain, extending to all three units rather than one. Scholium spoke with Gavin about his … Read More “A new era for EA: Head Chaplain Tim Gavin” »
Amanda Turner ’18: Although Reverend Squire, current Head Chaplain, has been part of the Episcopal community for decades, he recently announced his retirement and his successor, Tim Gavin. As former Lower School Chaplain, Gavin will have new responsibilities as Head Chaplain, extending to all three units rather than one. Scholium spoke with Gavin about his … Read More “A new era for EA: Head Chaplain Tim Gavin” »
Jessica Hao ’19: Four EA musicians will show off their skills and audition for States at the Regional Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Competition (PMEA) from March 17th to March 19th. PMEA hosts music festivals for bands, choruses, and orchestras of students in tenth through twelfth grade across the United States. Students audition within their district first. … Read More “Four EA students promoted to PMEA regionals” »
Sonam Saxena ’17: The EA community already loves the seeing-eye dogs on campus, so we will love the goats joining us as well? Recent plans have been discussed to bring goats onto campus, in order to unify the three units of the school. The goat conversation began when a group of students and faculty traveled to … Read More “The new “kids” in school: bringing goats to EA” »
Jessica Bai ’16: The “Ben Read Scholar” Award is annually awarded to a junior who is an outstanding scholar in history courses, and, upon sending a project proposal, the student can receive a grant to pursue this endeavor nationally or internationally. Chuck Bryant, a critical member of the Ben Read scholarship selection process and History Department … Read More “Ben Read Scholar connecting Honduras and EA” »
Maddie Hughes ’16: Music: As the weather finally gets warmer, and spring infects us with that necessary jolt of joy, we definitely need some new music to blast in the car with the windows down (finally)! Thankfully, spring is also bringing us some great new hits to sing loudly. The 1975, a British band that … Read More “Maddie’s monthly music & movies: March” »
Amy Chen ’19: Seven schools in Delaware were recently evacuated after they received computer-generated phone calls issuing bomb threats and a possible mass shooting, on January 11, 2016. Eleven schools in New Jersey received similar computer-generated threats eight days later on January 19 and acted similarly. Although these threats were traced back to Bakersfield, California … Read More “Schools in neighboring states receive bomb threats” »
Abby Baggini ’18: With the school year advancing into its sixth month, Governor, Tom Wolf, and his Republican controlled legislature still have yet to resolve the state budget impasse that has left Pennsylvania schools without the funds for textbooks and other much needed school supplies. While the budget impacts everything from roads, to hospitals, and … Read More “Taking a closer look into the state textbook budget” »
James Tang ’18: President Barack Obama declared the city of Flint Michigan to be in a federal state of emergency on January 5th, 2016. Since April of 2014, when the city changed its water supply from the Detroit Water and Sewage Department system to the Flint River, roughly one hundred thousand people, including six to … Read More “How Flint water crisis applies to EA” »
Brooke Kelly ’18: Faculty have long considered financial aid on their children’s tuition at Episcopal an important part of their compensation package. A recent announcement, however, indicated that this financial aid system has changed. In an email sent out to faculty on February 10th, 2016, Dr. Cathy Hall, Assistant Head of School, wrote, “For all … Read More “Faculty financial aid system changes” »
Nina Stavropoulos ’17: Snow days may seem like relaxing days off from the stresses of the school week and a few more hours of sleep, but for the administration and maintenance crew, they are anything but that. The night before any indication of snowfall, T.J .Locke, The Greville Haslam Head of School, and the maintenance crew … Read More “Snow day sleepovers for maintenance crew” »
Amanda Turner ’19: For the last thirty-eight years, the name “Episcopal” has almost been synonymous with Reverend Squire, Head Chaplain. After the announced retirement of Squire, a new Head Chaplain has been named: Tim Gavin, previous Lower School Chaplain. As new Chaplain, Gavin will assume the responsibilities of Squire next year, a seemingly big role … Read More “Reverend Gavin named next Head Chaplain” »