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Artist, World Languages Expert, Librarian Receive 2021 Perry Awards The Webb Schools honored art teacher Jackie Leishman, world languages teacher Joseph Vincent and assistant librarian Melissa Mani with Perry Awards on October 8, 2021 for their dedicated service to students. The awards are named for longtime Webb teacher Les Perry and his wife, Barbara. The duo served Webb from 1946 to 1976 in an array of roles. Les served as athletic director, head football coach, head basketball coach, head baseball coach, advisor to the Block W Club, math teacher and assistant headmaster under Steve Longley and Fred Hooper. Barbara was a committed dorm parent, providing students with much needed support. “For 100 years, The Webb schools have remained steadfast to the standards of distinguished academic and athletic achievement, complemented by a dedication to principles of unwavering ethical behavior and personal responsibility,” Head of Schools Taylor B. Stockdale said. “These are the ideals upon which the school has been founded, ideals which have been embodied by Les and Barbara Perry.” Perry Awards can be used for a variety of purposes: sabbatical support, study abroad, conference attendance, research, continuing education and more.
Jackie Leishman For Jackie Leishman, art is life and life is art. She approaches art as a way of seeing, interpreting and living in the world. For her, art is a way of asking and answering serious questions – as demonstrated by her recent personal work addressing climate change. Leishman teaches that creativity is a skill we cultivate, practice and enjoy daily, and that success and failure are both legitimate aspects of the creative process. In summer 2022, Leishman will continue her education through an art residency in Italy, studying such artists as Michelangelo, Bernini, Raphael and Caravaggio and creating a new body of work inspired by the history of Rome. This contextual understanding of the development of western art will inform her class discussions and aid her in cultivating student voices, vision and studio practice – as well as her own skills.
Joseph Vincent Joseph Vincent dives into the study of world languages – personally and as a teacher. Not satisfied with written and verbal fluency in Chinese and Spanish, he spent summer 2021 at Middlebury College’s prestigious graduate program in French studies as a recipient of the Davis Fellowship for Peace. He approaches his classes the same way, making the student experience his priority. In his classes, don’t expect to just learn vocabulary and conjugations. Expect to fully experience the language through highly deliberative and detailed class blocks.
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