Below, Marc provides some highlights from his presentation. When we think about diversity, we often consider this in regard to sexual, gender, cultural and/or race identity - and the challenges, prejudices and discrimination that it can bring. However, another...
Gene Batiste arrives at D-E after serving as the Executive Director at Independent Education at the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington (AISGW), Vice President for Professional Development and School Field Services & Equity and Justice and...
This fall, Head of School Dr. Rodney De Jarnett hosted a special Zoom assembly presentation for Middle and Upper School students with the best-selling author Ozan Varol (Think Like a Rocket Scientist). All parents/guardians of D-E students were also invited and...
"You have read or heard me describe that the ‘why’ we are together as a community is our Mission. Our Mission lies at the foundation of ‘why’ we are all here. The ‘what’ we do at school (the program, content, skills, activities) continues to change as we help prepare...
Harumi Rhodes ’97 of the Takacs Quartet and Garrick Ohlsson ELGAR &BEACH PIANO QUINTETS Hyperion Records, May 2020 Pairing pieces by American composer Amy Beach and English master Edward Elgar, this recording, which features violinist Harumi Rhodes ’97, has received...
Katherine L. McKenna ’74 THE PALEONTOLOGIST’S DAUGHTER Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild April, 2020 Katharine L. McKenna is the only daughter of the renowned paleontologist Malcolm Carnegie McKenna and his wife, Priscilla, his co-explorer. Did she inherit their sense of...
Michael Kazin ESB ’66 WAR AGAINST WAR Simon & Schuster January, 2018 The untold story of the movement that came close to keeping the United States out of the First World War. This book is about the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in one of...
Michael Kazin ESB ’66 THE POPULIST PERSUASION Cornell University Press, November 2017 In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "the people" that have run...