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Crawford Campus Center
The Crawford Campus Center is home to the arts, administrative offices, The Roger
Annenberg Library, the Ridgway Blackbox and main stage theaters, the Tierney and Lower
School Dining Halls, and a host of meeting spaces and classrooms for student and faculty
use — in short, it is the hub of school life. Occupying one entire side of the campus green
and covered in grey Pennsylvania fieldstone, the imposing facility, designed by Graham Gund,
provides the resources and services essential to quality of life on campus.
Whether they seek nourishment of the mind at the Roger Annenberg Library, of the
body in the Tierney Dining Hall, or of the soul in the Rugart Fine Arts Wing, students
and faculty can find it all here. The Roger Annenberg Library affords students and faculty
a double-height, wood-paneled, and light-filled space in which to grow the mind. Here
students and their teachers find the latest in research technology, 15,000 videos and DVDs,
8,000 reference works, 33,500 other volumes, and 36 computer stations. Tierney Hall
provides a comfortable and spacious dining room for the Middle and Upper Schools,
utilizing walls of windows and round tables to provide ambience and create community.
A smaller dining room is located next door and accommodates the Lower School students
and teachers.
The Rugart Fine Arts Wing of the Crawford Campus Center houses the
visual arts. Specific and appropriate spaces are dedicated to drawing, painting, and
ceramics. Photography laboratories, studios, and galleries complete the wing. The
music area claims ample practice space for both choral and instrumental music.
All of these venues are outfitted with state-of-the-art technology, appropriate
lighting, and excellent acoustics. The Ridgway Blackbox Theater is located
near the 600-seat main stage theater and provides a 100-seat intimate venue for
smaller, student-written, or one-act performances, lectures, and movie screenings.
Seating is located just steps from the stage, enhancing the relationship between
cast and audience. All of these facilities are surrounded by communal space,
including student lounges, faculty commons, and small meeting rooms, serving
the needs of every community group.
The Campus Center is named in honor of Jay ’57 and Rosemary Crawford,
beloved members of the Episcopal community. Jay was the 9th Headmaster at
Episcopal, serving from 1973 until 2002. While Headmaster he led Episcopal
through its transition to coeducation, strengthened the arts program, increased
diversity, and oversaw the strategic plan of 2000. His leadership brought the
community to the decision to purchase the Newtown Square site. It is especially
fitting to attach the Crawford name to the Campus Center because it houses the
offices of Admission, College Guidance, and the Head of School, all of which Jay
occupied and grew during his long tenure as a teacher, coach, administrator, and
Headmaster at Episcopal.
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