Inside this issue - Episcopal Academy

Seven hundred and forty-seven days after work
crews first began moving dirt in Newtown
Square, wide-eyed Upper School students made
their way to Episcopal’s new home for the very
first time on September 3, 2008. Middle and Lower School
students followed the next day.
In one of the boldest and most enterprising endeavors
ever taken on by an independent school, a month of
celebration marked the completion of Episcopal’s move
to Newtown Square and the beginning of a new era for
the institution. Thousands of students, faculty members,
alumni, friends, and neighbors helped celebrate a
remarkable decade-long march to the new campus, while
students and teachers alike marveled at the new freedom
the 360,000-square-foot campus provides.
All-school convocation
“When some 200 alumni, parents,
faculty, and students came together
in 1998 for a two-year planning process
to position Episcopal for the new
millennium, their first thoughts were
about our children — how can we
better serve them?,” remarked Ham
Clark during the Ever Episcopal Campaign
donor celebration on September
26th. “How can we better prepare
them for life? How can Episcopal
more fully live up to its motto — Esse
Quam Videri — to be rather than to
seem to be?
“That conversation marked the beginning
of this journey we have been
on these last 10 years — from Strategic
Plan to Land Plan to Master Plan
to Development Plan to Architectural
Plan to Landscape Plan to our Chapel
consecration and building dedications.
Our new campus represents the culmination
of countless hours of time and
thought and planning so generously
given by so many of you. It represents
the faith and courage so impressively
demonstrated by our board, our
alumni, and our parents to ensure this
great school’s strength and mission for
generations to come. We are here in
this beautiful new space thanks to all
of you.”
While administrators and faculty
members officially began working
on the new campus on July 28th,
last-minute details that included final
construction work, technology
installations, move completions, and
countless other loose ends made the
final weeks of summer one of the busiest
in recent memory. But despite
the challenges — and the occasional
doubts — construction and occupancy
was completed in almost exactly
two years, just as projected. And the
results are magnificent.
“It is, quite simply, one of the finest
day school campuses in the coun-
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