Posts by Meg Sacks

Once a year, 10,000 high school thespians descend upon Tampa to celebrate the art of theatre. Florida has the biggest State Theatre Festival in the country. Twenty-two sophomores, juniors, and seniors from Acting 2, Directing 1, and Honors Theatre 3 and 4 joined Upper School Theatre Director Taylor Lee Horne ’00 for an incredible five…

Students in the Honors Science Seminar just spent two days in California, touring research laboratories at Stanford University and UC Berkeley, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The students met with researchers who are investigating cosmic evolution, the properties of dark matter, heavy elements and electron interactions in space; and they…

Track & Field will host its annual invitational meet tomorrow. This annual track meet was recently named in honor of Prince and Sibil Zachariah, parents of three Episcopal alumni track athletes. The Zachariah children, Josh ’99, Jenny ’96, and Jason ’94, named the meet in their parents’ honor as a way to say thank you for…

Episcopal Celebrated Founders’ Day Tuesday with a special Chapel and Board of Trustees luncheon. Former Board of Trustees Chairman Robert M. Clements was named Honorary Trustee as part of the Founder’s Day celebration. Rob served on the Board of Trustees for 12 years, from 2004 until 2016. He served as the Board’s chairman for five…

Associate Director of College Counseling Andrea Rizzi was invited to participate in a counselor tour of New York University’s campus in Abu Dhabi last week. The Abu Dhabi campus is one of three degree-granting campuses of NYU. The other two are in New York City and Shanghai. In addition, as part of their larger global…

Middle School visual artists currently have works on display in the Berg Gallery, and the Bryan Library Gallery space now displays new Draw, Paint, Print 1 charcoal drawings. Students are learning techniques in different types of charcoal and the instructed emphasis for the works was on seeing proportions and value shapes. Imagery was student choice. In addition, selected artworks…

Last year, the Visual Arts Department received a Parents’ Association Angel Award to purchase a four-color press and flash curer, as well as other tools so that screen printing could be incorporated in all curriculum. This technique, utilized significantly in printmaking, also crosses all of Fine Arts disciplines, from Middle to Upper School. Last week, Chris Sellen, an artist…

Parker Joyce ’18 recently earned the coveted Eagle Scout rank from Boy Scouts of America. Parker joined scouting in first grade with Pack 477 at San Jose Episcopal Day School. He crossed over to Troop 136 at All Saints Episcopal Church in 2011 where he advanced through seven ranks of scouting, earning 31 merit badges…

Theatre Honors 3 and 4 had the privilege of participating in a workshop by renowned actors Karen Malina White and Gilbert Glenn Brown recently. White is best known for her role as Charmaine Brown on both the “The Cosby Show” and “A Different World.” Brown is best known from CBS’s “The Inspectors.” White and Brown were touring Jacksonville with…