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Stage Crew Prep for US Winter Musical: “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”
D-E’s Stage Crew members are hard at work, preparing for “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” - the Upper School Winter Musical! From designing lighting to painting portals, the crew is readying Schenck Auditorium’s stage for another great live performance...
LS LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
Our final celebration of Lunar New Year ends with the Lower School! Thanks to our Korean and Chinese Parent Affinity Groups, Lower School students arrived at the Lower School gym to find traditional games, activities, and crafts ready for them! Students had the chance...
LUNAR NEW YEAR
In celebration of Lunar New Year, the Chinese Parent Affinity Group hosted a dumpling-making (and eating!) event for the Upper School last week. Students learned how to fill and crimp vegetable and chicken dumplings as our Cater to You staff boiled them and brought...
D-E 360° Chess Tournament Highlights
CHEERS to Chess Tournaments @ D-E! The most recent D-E 360° Chess Tournament was a huge success, with nearly 40 participants from 5 schools coming to the D-E campus to share their love of the game! In the Grades 4-5 division, D-E 4th grader Mack G., took 1st place!...
DEW (D-E WRITERS CLUB) EKPHRASTIC EVENT
Our Upper School DEW (D-E Writers) Club hosted their first Ekphrastic Writing event! With the AP Art Gallery Wall currently on display, students wrote written work that was directly inspired by their peers’ visual artworks and shared with a small audience. Those who...
HOPE Fashion Show Highlights
The HOPE Fashion Show was a roaring success! After adult guests enjoyed the “Oyster Party”, students, families, and guests enjoyed an amazing showcase of fashion, music, and more! It was incredible to see student-made designs from the new Wearable Art course worn by...
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A Look Back at Reunion 2023
Reunion 2023 Welcomes & Celebrates Alumni!
Retiring Faculty Honored with Room Dedication Ceremony & Classroom Ribbon Cutting Events
Awards Ceremony Recognizes Distinguished Alumni and Athletic Hall of Fame Honorees
Meet Our Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA) Honorees
Arts Highlights
Annie JR.
D-E’s Performing Arts presented Annie JR. for this year’s Middle School spring musical. It was a joy to hear the iconic tune, “It’s the Hard-Knock Life!” live from Schenck Auditorium. Directed by theater teacher, Stephanie Anderson, with musical direction by Lower...
AP Art Gallery Wall Exhibit
Within the Visual Arts & Design department, the opening of the AP Art Gallery Wall is a culmination of students’ breadth of work over the past school year. Led by Arts & Design chair, Marisol Diaz, students prepare over fifteen works to submit to the College...
5th Grade Opera 2022
5th Grade Opera This year’s 5th Grade Opera was one for the books— a set of three operettas, marked Mary Heveran’s last production in her career as Lower School Music Teacher. Since 1980, Mary has guided generations of classes of students to make joyful noise and...
Scholastic Award Writing Winners
Lower School Science teachers, Julie Pugkhem and Yi Li, are If the Scholastic Art Awards is one side of a coin, the Scholastic Writing Awards represents the flipside. Since 1923, the Scholastic Writing Awards has offered the opportunity for young writers, poets, and...
Pippin The Upper School Winter Musical
This past winter, D-E’s Performing Arts produced the critically acclaimed musical, Pippin. Created by Stephen Schwartz and directed by D-E’s Robert Murphy, the cast and crew worked tirelessly to bring a fabulous show. Although based on two historical characters from...
Athletics Highlights
Varsity Girls Lacrosse
Senior defender Jackie Spinnell ’23, junior midfielder Nora Mager ’24 and junior attacker Alexa Kobre ’24 all helped to lead the team to one of their best seasons in recent memory, winning five more games than they did last year. Alexa and sophomore star Dani Weis ’25...
Varsity Boys Lacrosse
Despite carrying a low number of players this season, Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse continued to impress with an 8-5 record (including 6-2 in league play). Sophomores Achille Pompidou ’25 and Gabriel Feldman ’25 led the team in goals (30) and assists (29) respectively....
Varsity Baseball
The Bulldogs ended the season with a championship title thanks to their 9-1 league record. Junior Rhys Bowie ’23 led the team in pitching with 62 strikeouts and in batting with 32 and 33 runs. Fellow junior Everett Garber ’24 also contributed on the batting end,...
Athletics Highlights
Fall 2022 Sports Teams Overview Bulldogs fans had plenty to cheer about this Fall 2022 sports season. Starting their scrimmages, games and meets in the sweltering heat of early September and finishing in the chillier temperatures of late November, our student athletes...
Spring Athletes Shout-Outs: All-Conference, League & County Honorees
“Cheers” to the following Spring 2022 individual student athletes recognized for All-Conference, All-League, and/or All-County honors. Go Bulldogs! Baseball Rhys Bowie ’24 - NJIC All-League 1st Team (Outfielder) and 3rd Team All-County Daniel Russell ’24 - NJIC...
Bulldog Bash 2024
Saturday, April 27, 2024
A Special Fundraiser Event to benefit Financial Aid, on D-E’s Leggett Field!
Featuring The Rubiks Cube Band!
Reunion Weekend 2024
For all alumni with major milestone celebrations for class years ending with 4 and 9
Save the Date:
Friday, October 18 through
Sunday, October 20 – 2023
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.