Admissions Newsletter Grades 5-12 - January edition

FOR APPLICANT FAMILIES GRADES 5-12

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Office of Chaplaincy The Episcopal school tradition, whose mission is to honor the dignity of every human being, provides the framework for Trinity’s chapel service that often engages with other world religions and cultures.

Trinity’s Chapel program is a place where we can reflect upon our interior lives as well as express ourselves to the wider community and the world.

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Cyrus R. K. Patell ’79 This podcast features alumnus author Cyrus R. K. Patell, class of 1979. Cyrus is professor of English at New York University in New York. He received his AB, AM, and PhD in English and American literature and language from Harvard University. His scholarship and teaching centers on the theory and practice of world literature; cosmopolitanism; Global Shakespeare; Star Wars; minority discourse theory; literary historiography; and US literary history.

The lighting of candles and the bowl tone, markers of a sacred time, begin and conclude each chapel service, and each service has a message conveyed through readings of literature, reflections, musical offerings, meditations, and prayers, considering the cares and needs of the school community, the city, and the world.

In Grades Five through Twelve, students play a significant role imagining and crafting the weekly Chapel services, offering their own personal contributions with the support of the Chaplains and Chapel Team’s faculty and staff. Students have the opportunity to share with the community their unique voices and stories that touch on a universal, common good. While weekly divisional services take place in Trinity’s Hawley Chapel, chapels are expansive in their capacity and extend beyond the chapel walls. The Office of Chaplaincy is committed to cultivating good will and gratitude, inspiring students to do the same and shine their light.

His most recent book is Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe.

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Déa Julien ’08 Chaplaincy services: Weekly Lower School Chapel Middle School Chapel Upper School Chapel Unity Prayer Circle Episcopal Morning Prayer Service and Eucharist

Monthly Parent Listening Circle Faculty/ Staff Listening Circle

Alumni Focus profile of alumna Déa Julien ’08. Déa made her Broadway debut in The Kite Runner and was one of the first women to understudy a male lead on Broadway.

All-School Chapels Opening All-School Chapel Thanksgiving All-School Chapel Christmas All-School Chapel Closing All-School Chapel

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Admissions Newsletter Upper School Community Time speakers From the Archives

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:

2017 - Trinity opens a 65,000 square foot addition to the campus, adding new science labs, classrooms, and a performing arts center.

Debi Cornwall, a documentary artist, researcher, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer. Debi’s first book, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay, was shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture First Book Prize, les Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Award, and the Alice Award, nominated for an ICP Infinity Award, and named one of the year’s top-ten photo books in the New York Times Magazine.

Her latest book, Necessary Fictions, was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and shortlisted for les Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award. Debi studied photography at Rhode Island School of Design while completing a degree in modern culture and media at Brown University and attended Harvard Law School. After a twelve-year career as a civil rights lawyer, she returned to visual expression in 2014. She is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography.

Imam Khalid Latif, executive director and chaplain of the Islamic Center at New York University (NYU). Under his leadership, the Islamic Center at NYU became the first established Muslim student center at an institution of higher education in the United States.

Prior to NYU, Imam Latif was the second Muslim and youngest person to serve as chaplain in the NYPD. He is the cofounder and board president of Pillars of Peace, a non-profit established to address a gap in services for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. His work has brought him to share stages with the likes of Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, and many grassroot movements and diverse communities throughout the world.

Additionally, Imam Latif is the cofounder of Honest Chops, the first-ever all-natural and organic halal butcher in New York City, its spinoff restaurant Burgers by Honest Chops, and other ventures.

Scott Smith, owner and CEO of Biscuits and Bath, a dog care organization dedicated to the total wellness of dogs and their owners with services including dog daycare, dog walking, twenty-four-hour care, dog grooming, dog training, veterinary care, and transportation throughout Manhattan. Scott started Biscuits and Bath twenty years ago and is also the founder of the companies Frolic and Escape Entertainment.

Sara Softness ’05, inaugural curator of special projects at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, where she curated the current exhibition, Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark.

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