Stand for EHS

AT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL,

we stand up.

For what we believe in and for what our students deserve. Since our founding, we have been clear-sighted about both our Mission and our values. We are broad where other institutions are narrow. We are comfortable with our faith. And we will never let our students think there are any limitations on who they can be and what they can accomplish. With the completion of our Master Plan and the finishing of the work that began with the Lead the Way campaign, we will finally be able to offer what is so core to our Mission: a truly balanced foundation. It’s time to take a stand. For the balancing of the Four Pillars, for abundant possibility, for joy.

READY FOR

our next great milestones

The Visual and Performing Arts Center and The Renewal of Benitez Chapel

The Stand for EHS campaign will build upon the guiding principles established by our School's founders.

The ongoing broad support of our community, both past and present, has built and sustained our School's extraordinary educational model of the Four Pillars and our faith-based Mission.

Gifts to the Stand for EHS campaign will complete our 2014 Master Plan by addressing major funding priorities that will balance the Four Pillars and benefit every student we serve for decades to come.

Your participation in the Stand for EHS campaign will help us realize our greatest transformation since the earliest days of the School’s history.

Mission Statement Episcopal High School, founded and guided by the Diocese of Texas, is an inclusive and joyful Christian community where students discover and develop their individual talents through the Four Pillars—academics, arts, athletics, religion— preparing for meaningful lives in service to others.

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DONORS’ GENEROSITY HAS LED TO

a rich and balanced curriculum.

Students reach their full potential when they learn and grow across all Four Pillars.

"We raise money and we build buildings on this campus, so that we may create a particular kind of space, that we may build a particular kind of community, and a particular kind of school that is significantly and intentionally different than the way the rest of the world works.”

The Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle

Academics

Arts

Athletics

Religion

170 Rigorous, MindOpening Classes—including 46 Honors and AP Classes

Visual and Performing Arts

Health/Wellness Classes

152 Chapels per Year

50+ Award-Winning Classes in Six Disciplines

Outstanding College Counseling to guide students and families from freshman year until college decision

Scholastic regional competition awarded 15 gold key and 19 silver key with a total of 71 awards across all competitions

Extra-Curricular Opportunities such as Quiz Bowl, Debate, and Math Club

Exceptional Performances Over 5,000 attendees across 22 performances

Physical Education 16 SPC Championships over the last 5 years 54 Teams and 15Sports 89% Student Participation

4-Year Religion Curriculum Pastoral Support and Guidance Community Service 240 Student Chapel Leaders

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Visual & Performing Arts Center

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Visual & Performing Arts Center

SOUTH ENTRY VIEW

Gifts to the Visual and Performing Arts Center will:

• Increase space for the arts by 52% (from 40,000 to 61,000 square feet). Demand already exceeds capacity.

More than 90% of EHS students ask for an arts experience all four years.

• Allow for cross-curricular collaboration to flourish. Instructors can capitalize on newfound proximity and facilitate classes where students actively engage in lessons depicting how art relates to academics.

• Continue to create well-rounded students who are also renowned world-class artists. The creation of a modern and

dynamic facility in the midst of campus for a wide array of arts offerings brings one of the true strengths of our School into sharper focus.

• Propel students and support best-in-class programs in addition to opening opportunities for guest artists and partnerships. EHS offers more than 50 courses in the arts, taught by 17 full-time faculty.

• Feature more than twelve performing arts mainstage dance, music, and theatre productions. The visual arts will

produce several all-school visual arts exhibitions, film festivals, broadcast journalism productions, a monthly newspaper (including online periodicals), and so much more.

• Introduce new equipment that arts students want and that top colleges expect us to offer—everything from theatrical equipment to the latest digital animation technology.

NORTH ENTRY VIEW

Episcopal High School – Visual & Performing Arts Center SOUTH ENTRY

Episcopal High School – Visual & Performing Arts Center NORTH ENTRY

VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Versatile Performance Venue • Multi-functional venue for all forms of performing arts – theatre, dance, instrumental and vocal ensembles • Adaptable to multiple configurations: proscenium, thrust, and theater in the round • Retractable seating bank for ease of transition • Built-in platforming section of the floor can lower for traditional “raked” seating to maximize audience views of the stage or raised to create an elevated performance space “in the round”

• Large lobby area for public performances, art exhibitions, and gatherings of student artists • State-of-the-art lighting and sound systems • Top-of-the-line tension grid above the seating and stage for ease of access and expanded educational opportunity • Portable orchestra shell that sits behind musicians to tune the room specifically for instrument and vocal performances • Acoustically tuned ceiling panels and wall curtains to enhance varied acoustical needs • Dressing rooms • Costume shop • Orchestra/ensemble/piano lab with separate percussion suite

VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Classrooms | Labs | Studios | Dressing Rooms • Ceramics classroom with an adjoining outdoor studio for large-scale projects and providing a new dimension to the creative process

• Glass panels for observing ceramics, mixed media, and sculpture; allowing highlighting of the artistic process, not just product

• Upgraded ETV classroom with an adjoining ETV/broadcast journalism and animation studio, including expansive green screen

• Expanded space and computer workstations for yearbook and student newspaper programs • Enhanced and upgraded photography classrooms and darkrooms • New photography workstations, digital monitors for sharing and critiquing, new ventilation system, and new film rolling stations

• Larger painting and drawing space with southern exposure for natural lighting • Upgraded dance studios, including new dance dressing rooms

Episcopal High School – Visual & Performing Arts Center LOBBY

Episcopal High School – Visual & Performing Arts Center CERAMICS STUDIO

Episcopal High School – Visual & Performing Arts Center 2D ART STUDIO

Episcopal High School – Visual & Performing Arts Center LEVEL 1 – OVERALL PLAN PRESENTATION

Episcopal High School – Visual & Performing Arts Center LEVEL 2 – OVERALL PLAN (SCHEMATIC)

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Benitez Chapel

THE RENEWAL OF BENITEZ CHAPEL

The Beating Heart of Our Community Daily Chapel is the beating heart of our community when we come together for Episcopalian worship that is welcoming to all. These moments are for every student to have the opportunity to reflect, to form their faith, and to share sacred time and space as we are all one before God.

Episcopal High School – Benitez Chapel RENDERING: PRELIMINARY DESIGN

Episcopal High School – Benitez Chapel RENDERING: PRELIMINARY DESIGN

Episcopal High School – Benitez Chapel RENDERING: PRELIMINARY DESIGN

Chapel

IS THE PLACE WHERE OUR COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER DAILY. The new design will bring students closer to the altar, providing deeper student participation and engagement.

A larger Chapel will accommodate every student and faculty member. In addition, EHS will be able to welcome parents, visitors, and guest speakers to campus, enhancing programming and fostering the ongoing growth in our community.

The balcony will provide flexible configurations for musical and vocal performances, as well as additional seating.

Mental Health & Wellness Center The new Mental Health and Wellness Center will include a new nurse’s office and will consolidate wellness, counseling, and pastoral care, allowing for more cohesive and personalized student care.

A Labyrinth Garden, easily accessible for mindful reflection and available to everyone every day.

Episcopal High School – Benitez Chapel LEVEL 1 – OVERALL PLAN RENDERING: PRELIMINARY DESIGN

Episcopal High School – Benitez Chapel LEVEL 2 – OVERALL PLAN RENDERING: PRELIMINARY DESIGN

Episcopal High School – Wellness Clinic RENDERING: PRELIMINARY DESIGN

Episcopal High School – Future Campus Map OVERALL PLAN RENDERING: PRELIMINARY DESIGN

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Endowment

THE ENDOWMENT

Lasting Impact for The Four Pillars • An investment in our endowment is an investment in a secure and sustainable future. Your support

ensures that EHS stays affordable, successfully weathers the vagaries of any economy, and maintains our extraordinarily high bar of academic quality.

• The EHS community was not a product of chance. Continuing to invest in the endowment will foster the ongoing growth of our School’s founding principles: strong sense of community, individualized instruction from teachers, increased opportunities across each of the Four Pillars, and a commitment to daily Chapel and Episcopalian worship.

Stand with us.

• For our Mission over the next 40 years.

• For campaign priorities that will benefit every EHS student.

• For our Episcopal values and teachings.

• For the future of greater Houston and beyond.

With your history-making help, EHS graduates will go out into Houston and the world to make it a better place. Please stand up for their full potential by giving generously to the campaign. Thank you.

2023-2024 | Board of Trustees

Leadership

Chairman The Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle

Head of School Ned Smith

Executive Chair Richard A. Howell ’01

Associate Head of School for Finance & Operations Evelyn Cambria

Director of Diversity, Community, and Inclusion Wayne Jones

Board of Trustees Shelley T. Barineau, Katie Barnes ’92, Edward B. Crain, Jr., Jane J. Dabney, Morrow B. Evans ’94, Carl Giesler, Jr., Curtis Hartman, Andrew B. Hawthorn ’91, Steve W. Herod, Thad Hill, Simmi Jaggi, Jenna B. Junell, George O. McDaniel III, Amy Melton, Joel Moore, Eloise (Fay) Novotny ’94, Charles H. Prioleau, Courtney (Lanier) Sarofim ’88, Ned Smith, The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill, James E. Taussig, Dr. Ramsi (Bethany) Taylor ’98, Duncan Underwood ’89, Mollie Phelan Wallace

Associate Head of School for Academics & Student Life The Rev. Tyler Montgomery

Director of Communications Jessica Morales

Principal Dr. Antonio Avalos

Dean of Faculty Nguyet Xuan Pham

Director of Athletics Jason Grove

Dean of Arts Paul Revaz

Dean of Spiritual Life The Rev. Beth Holden

Chief Development Officer Margaret Young

Life Trustees John F. Austin III, Edward C. Becker, The Rt. Rev. Maurice M. Benitez † , W. Craig Childers, Lacy Crain, The Rev. Laurens A. Hall, Victor A. Kormeier, Jr., Frederick R. McCord † , Laurence B. Neuhaus, The Rt. Rev. Claude E. Payne, Joel I. Shannon, Lynda Knapp Underwood, The Rt. Rev. Don A. Wimberly Executive Committee W. Craig Childers, Edward B. Crain, Jr., The Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle, Andrew B. Hawthorn ’91, Melinda B. Hildebrand, Richard A. Howell ’01, Joel Moore, Eloise (Fay) Novotny ’94, A. Haag Sherman, Ned Smith, Duncan Underwood ’89, Lynda Knapp Underwood, Randa Duncan Williams † deceased

Development Team Chief Development Officer Margaret Young

Database and Information Systems Manager Jodie Thorne

Director of Annual Giving Lauren Turner

Stewardship Coordinator Debbie Kelley

Auction Coordinator Mandy (Malone) Loper ’98

Auction Assistant Kate (McCarroll) DeWitt ’07

Director of Alumni Affairs Colleen Kearns

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