Trinity School Grades 5-12 Admissions Newsletter - December Edition

FOR APPLICANT FAMILIES GRADES 5-12

Admissions Newsletter FEATURED PROGRAM

Office of Public Service Trinity School’s Office of Public Service finds its focus in the diversity of the Upper West Side, the community immediately surrounding our campus, as we provide weekly opportunities for our students, Grades K-12, to begin to know themselves in the world by connecting meaningfully with our community inside and outside of school.

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Catherine Price ’97 This podcast features alumna author Catherine Price, class of 1997. Catherine is a science journalist, founder of ScreenLifeBalance.com, and the author of several books including: How to Break Up With Your Phone and Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food.

Our programs with seventeen Community Circle Partners, all of which are within five blocks of our campus, allow our students to connect hands-on experiential work to larger, systemic global issues such as hunger and homelessness, educational access and equity, the challenges faced by older adults, persons with disabilities, and the environment.

Her work has appeared in the Best American Science Writing, the New York Times, Popular Science, O, The Oprah Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post Magazine, Parade, Salon, Slate, Men’s Journal, Self, Medium, Health Magazine, and Outside, among others.

She is the author of The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again.

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Community Circle Partners The Community Garden at 120 West 94th Street Advent Lutheran Church Ballet & Beyond NYC Bingo and Thanksgiving Bounty: Trinity School’s Food Donation Program DeHostos Community Center (LACASA @ the Commons) Goddard Riverside Early Childhood (formerly Head Start) Goddard Riverside Senior Center

Green Team Lafayette Academy Manhattan Children’s Center Manhattan School for Children (PS 333) Language and Music Ambassador Programs P.S. 84 Sondra Thomas Apartments West Side Campaign Against Hunger West Side Community Garden

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Peter Frelinghuysen III ’18 Alumni Focus profile of alumnus Peter Frelinghuysen III ’18 and Earth Cups, the net-zero, plant-based products with sustainability superpowers company, that he cofounded with Misha Medvedev.

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Admissions Newsletter Upper School Community Time speakers Corinne Symietz, founder of Askanya Chocolate, Haiti’s first bean-to-bar chocolate company, whose mission is to help local farmers while making high-quality Haitian chocolate. Corinne was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and since the age of fourteen has been determined to give back to her home country and help people struggling to support their families. Corinne graduated from high school at sixteen years old and moved to the United States to attend the University of Michigan, where she received a BS in industrial and operations engineering. She earned her MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Every week speakers come to Upper School Community Time to talk with students about their work and lives. Inspiring, thoughtful, informative, and compelling, the Upper School Community Time speakers program provides Trinity students with the opportunity to hear from important and influential voices in a variety of disciplines, fields, and industries. Recent speakers include: Fab 5 Freddy, (Fred Brathwaite), hip-hop pioneer, author, filmmaker, and visual artist. Born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Fab was instrumental in connecting the New York uptown worlds of graffiti, rap, and breakdance, with the downtown art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was a producer, actor, and soundtrack composer of Wild Style, the cult classic and first film on hip-hop culture in the late 1980s and he was the first hip-hop host of Yo! MTV Raps, a groundbreaking hip-hop music video show. Fab’s writings include a dictionary of contemporary hip-hop terminology entitled Fresh Fly Flavor: Words and Phrases of the Hip-Hop Generation and articles in Vibe, XXL, and the New York Times Magazine. He continues to create visual art, direct, produce, and appear in television and film productions. His visual art was featured in Art in The Streets, the first major US museum survey of graffiti and street art, at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and his work is in the current exhibition Wild Style 40 at Jeffrey Deitch in New York.

From the Archives 1980 - First kindergarten in Trinity’s history. Trinity admitted boys and girls from its founding in 1709 until 1838 when, in its transition from a school for the poor to a college preparatory school, it became a school for boys only. When colleges for women were established in the nineteenth century, Trinity formed a “sister” school, St. Agatha School for Girls, in 1898. In 1971 girls returned to Trinity’s Upper School and then joined the Lower School in 1980 in the first kindergarten in the School’s history. In 1988 Trinity once again became a school for boys and girls throughout all grades.

David D. Kirkpatrick, a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East. He worked for twenty-two years as a reporter for the New York Times, in New York, Washington, Cairo, and London.

While at the Times, he shared Pulitzer Prizes for public service, international reporting, and national reporting.

Rabbi Benjamin Spratt, the eleventh senior rabbi in Congregation Rodeph Sholom’s (CRS) distinguished 180-year history. He previously served as CRS’s senior associate rabbi and the rabbi in residence of Rodeph Sholom School. He helped found CRS’s Shireinu, an inclusion initiative for Jewish families with special needs that currently serves as a spiritual model for synagogues and churches around the world. Rabbi Spratt serves as cochair of Inclusion and Disability Awareness for the Central Conference of American Rabbis, where he was coeditor of a special symposium edition of the Reform Jewish Quarterly journal on millennial engagement and inspired the New Day Fellowship to foster connection between Muslim and Jewish millennials. He is coauthor of the book Awakenings, American Jewish Transformation in Identity, Leadership, and Belonging.

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