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 milestonesgreat
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.
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.
Mission Statement STAND OUT
DONORS’ GENEROSITY HAS LED TO
a rich and balanced curriculum.
Students reach their full potential when they learn and grow across all Four Pillars.
Academics
Arts
"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
Outstanding College Counseling to guide students and families from freshman year until college decision
Extra-Curricular Opportunities such as Quiz Bowl, Debate, and Math Club
Visual and Performing Arts
50+ Award-Winning Classes in Six Disciplines
Scholastic regional competition awarded 15 gold key and 19 silver key with a total of 71 awards across all competitions
Exceptional Performances
Over 5,000 attendees across 22 performances
THE Visual & Performing Arts Center
THE Visual & Performing Arts Center
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
SOUTH ENTRY VIEW
SOUTH ENTRY Episcopal High School –Visual & Performing Arts Center
NORTH ENTRY Episcopal High School –Visual & Performing Arts Center
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
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
THE 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.
RENDERING: PRELIMINARY DESIGN
Episcopal High School –Benitez Chapel
RENDERING: PRELIMINARY DESIGN
Episcopal High School –Benitez Chapel
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
RENDERING: PRELIMINARY DESIGN Episcopal High School –Wellness Clinic
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OVERALL PLAN RENDERING: PRELIMINARY DESIGN
THE 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
Chairman
The Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle
Executive Chair
Richard A. Howell ’01
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
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
Leadership
Head of School
Ned Smith
Associate Head of School for Finance & Operations
Evelyn Cambria
Associate Head of School for Academics & Student Life
The Rev. Tyler Montgomery
Principal
Dr. Antonio Avalos
Director of Athletics
Jason Grove
Dean of Spiritual Life
The Rev. Beth Holden
Director of Diversity, Community, and Inclusion
Wayne Jones
Director of Communications
Jessica Morales
Dean of Faculty
Nguyet Xuan Pham
Dean of Arts
Paul Revaz
Chief Development Officer
Margaret Young
Development Team
Chief Development Officer
Margaret Young
Director of Annual Giving
Lauren Turner
Auction Coordinator
Mandy (Malone) Loper ’98
Director of Alumni Affairs
Colleen Kearns
Database and Information Systems Manager
Jodie Thorne
Stewardship Coordinator
Debbie Kelley
Auction Assistant
Kate (McCarroll) DeWitt ’07
