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2024 Alumni Weekend Recap
Bringing Together Our Community of LearnersD-E’s 2024 Reunion Weekend, our annual celebration of D-E alumni and beloved faculty, kicked off with a memorable Annual Legacy Family Breakfast on Friday, October 18. The next morning, the campus was abuzz with students,...
Backstage Perspective: D-E’s Adaptation of Antigone Aims to Be Timeless
Selecting Antigone, the Greek tragedy written by Sophocles around 441 BC, as D-E’s Upper School Fall Play was a collaborative effort. History Teacher Ben Fleisher, who teaches the text from Antigone to his Upper School classes, had approached the former director of...
D-E Today Class Trips Recap
As part of a welcome tradition at D-E, the Middle School and Upper School embarked on class trips in September to kick off the school year, engage in the School’s sense of community, and broaden their horizons. Brian Merry, Grade 12 Dean, chaperoned seniors on a trip...
Upper School Students Get Election Ready
The 2024 Presidential Election is nearly upon us—and in preparation, D-E Upper School students attended the first of a series of assemblies on election literacy in Schenck Auditorium. Grade 11 (Class of 2026) Dean Emily Sclafani began the inaugural program on...
Our Annual All-School Assembly Hit the High Notes
Let’s hear it for our D-E community! Leggett Field was awash in sunshine, music, laughter, and excitement during our annual All-School Assembly, held on September 12, 2024. After welcome remarks from Interim Head of School Preeti Fibiger, we heard energizing...
MS Science Olympiad Finds Success at Regionals and More!
Congratulations to our young Science Olympians! Exciting news from our Science Olympiad teams! In December, all 19 of our Science Olympians competed in the Rustin Invitational, which drew teams from the Northeastern US. That competition was held remotely, and the 24...
Recent News
Thanksgiving Drive
D-E’s Thanksgiving Drive 2024 was a huge success! Thanks to the D-E community’s...
Announcing Our Next Head of School
With tremendous excitement and confidence, we are thrilled to announce that the...
MS Robotics Teams Prepare for Competition!
D-E’s three Middle School Robotics Teams have officially kicked-off their 2024-2025...
Recapping D-E 360’s Discovery Day at Newark Museum
On Friday, Nov. 15, our lifelong learners in the Lower School had a fun-filled, hands-on...
Jazz Brunch D-Elivers Great Live Jazz Performance
CHEERS to our Stage Band and Jazz Workshop, and of course Director Rob DeBellis, who...
D-E Thanksgiving Drive 2024 Reminder
It’s the time of year for giving! The D-E community is reminded of our annual...
Way to Grow, D-E! Garden Work Party Highlights
Way to ‘grow’, D-E! Thanks to the parents and students who participated in our recent...
Jazz Rocks at D-E!
The D-E community delivered an excellent Jazz Brunch Concert in Hajjar Auditorium on...
Write Night Highlights
An annual D-E tradition that’s “write-on”, Write Night was recently held in the...
Arts
Recapping D-E 360’s Discovery Day at Newark Museum
On Friday, Nov. 15, our lifelong learners in the Lower School had a fun-filled, hands-on...
Jazz Brunch D-Elivers Great Live Jazz Performance
CHEERS to our Stage Band and Jazz Workshop, and of course Director Rob DeBellis, who...
Jazz Rocks at D-E!
The D-E community delivered an excellent Jazz Brunch Concert in Hajjar Auditorium on...
Athletics
Varsity Baseball
Varsity Baseball achieved an incredibly strong, 18-6-1 season this year. The Bulldogs...
JV Boys Tennis
“The Boys JV Tennis program welcomed their return to having practices and matches on our...
Boys Lacrosse
“This 2024 Season for Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse was riddled with individual...
School Life
Gratitude Strikes the Right Chord at the Thanksgiving Assembly
A rainy morning on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, didn’t dampen the spirits inside the Myrna B....
Book Fair Highlights
Lower and Middle School students, faculty / staff and families have been having a ball...
Thanksgiving Drive
D-E’s Thanksgiving Drive 2024 was a huge success! Thanks to the D-E community’s...
DEIB
Middle School Diversity Day & Holi Recognition
In March, the Middle School celebrated Diversity Day, an all-day program hosted by the...
DEIB Highlights
Our Department of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB), often in partnership with our Parent & Caregiver Affinity Groups (PCAGs), brought so many distinctive, valued communities of D-E into the spotlight this spring. From hosting insightful speakers to remembering important historical events and recognizing holidays, here’s to the efforts of so many to follow-through on our D-E mission statement in tangible, meaningful ways!
Happy Black History Month!
For Black History Month (February), our Black Student Affinity Group hosted a fashion...
A Message from D-E Development, on behalf of Bulldog Bash 2024
June 2024
A Letter to our D-E Community from Special Events & Development…
Annual Fund
While we all can appreciate that a D-E education is a worthy investment, tuition alone covers only 88% of the true operating costs of our community.