Grade 9 “Identity” Seminar
The first semester Grade 9 Seminar at D-E is designed to help orient students to life in the Upper School. This year the seminar focused on exploring the concept of identity within a diverse community, and it relied heavily on students feeling comfortable enough to...
Students Attend National Diversity Conference
The People of Color Conference (PoCC) for faculty and staff and the Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) for students, sponsored by the National Association for Independent Schools (NAIS), brought nearly 6,000 attendees to Anaheim, CA, November 30-December...
Chess Masters at Play with D-E 360° ACE (Aftercare & Enrichment)
By Sharon Keigher, ACE Program Director Welcome to a place in the Lower School where the Queen may be the most powerful player in the land and where you can capture a King with brainpower alone. Welcome to the Chess Club offered through D-E 360° AfterCare &...
String Society Welcomes Project Trio to Summer 2018 Program
String Society, a D-E 360° Summer Connections program for “exceptional string musicians,” will partner with the critically acclaimed Project Trio in 2018. Project Trio will work with students in small ensembles and will be the featured guest performer in the Grand...
Arts Highlights Winter 2017
D-E students, faculty and staff, and alumni together have all created a rich environment of artistic expression thus far this 2017-18 academic year. Featured performances by instrumental ensembles, including Stage Band and StringJam, provided appreciative listeners...
Swartley Gallery Welcomes Artists Springer, Stein, and D-E Alumna Giancarlo ’10
D-E’s Swartley Gallery fall and winter exhibits have included works by a caricature master, a jazz singer and painter, and a multimedia artist who is a D-E graduate. Painter and caricature artist Dan Springer was featured in “Concept & Character,” an exhibit in...
Romeo and Juliet: A Shakespeare Classic Set in Hajjar STEM Center
D-E Performing Arts Department’s version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet performed in November to two sold-out audiences. The production, staged in Hajjar STEM Center for a new twist on the tragic classic, included performances by D-E student and faculty actors....
Artistic Faculty Endeavors
D-E Visual Arts Chair Marisol Diaz held her solo exhibit “On Engineering the Self & Untethering the Soul” at the Bell-ans Center of Creative Arts in Orangeburg, NY, earlier this fall, which was the culmination of a several months long artist residency program for...
Jamming in the City
D-E’s Upper School ensemble StringJam traveled to Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing for a master class/workshop in January with the acclaimed quartet Ensemble Connect. StringJam Director and D-E Music Department faculty member Annaliesa Place commented, “This was...
DWIGHT ’53
The alumni office has learned of the passing of Adrienne Mann Cohen, of Languna Beach, CA, on January 4, 2018, at the age of 82. After Dwight Adrienne earned her undergraduate degree in art history from Brandeis University in 1957 and went on to teach art in New...