List of Episcopal Academy people explained
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This list of Episcopal Academy people lists important faculty and alumni of Episcopal Academy, a co-educational school for grades Pre-K through 12 located in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
Alumni
Art and media
- Anthony Apesos - painter, critic, and professor of Fine Arts at the Art Institute of Boston
- Lionel Barrymore - actor, Academy Award winner for his role in A Free Soul, and AA Nominee for Best Director for Madame X[1]
- John Carradine - actor[2]
- Richard Harding Davis - author, journalist,[3] Managing Director of Harper's Weekly
- Morrison Heckscher - art historian and long-time curator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Mark Kendall - artist and filmmaker, La Camioneta; recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pew Fellowships in the Arts
- Jennifer Lame - film editor;[4] recipient of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for her work on Oppenheimer.[5]
- R.W.B. Lewis - long-time professor of English at Yale, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography[6]
- Robert A. Masciantonio - writer and director of cult films Cold Hearts, Neighbor
- Maury Henry Biddle Paul - gossip columnist known as "Cholly Knickerbocker"[7]
- M. Night Shyamalan - film producer and director, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Village, The Lady in the Water, Signs, Split, Glass, Old, Knock at the Cabin; multiple Academy Award nominee[8]
- Sarah Steele, 2006 - actress, performing in Spanglish; has appeared on The Good Fight, The Good Wife, Law & Order and Gossip Girl[9]
- Robert Venturi, 1944 - Pritzker Prize-winning architect and postmodern theorist
Athletics
- Jerome Allen - former professional basketball player with Minnesota Timberwolves, Indiana Pacers, and Denver Nuggets and current Detroit Pistons assistant coach. He also was the head coach for Penn Quakers men's basketball and an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics.[10]
- Eddie Collins Jr.- former professional baseball player with Philadelphia Athletics and former history teacher and squash and baseball coach at Episcopal Academy.
- Brian Dougherty - professional lacrosse player, inducted into the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2012.[11]
- Kyle Eckel - football player with US Naval Academy, New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins, Denver Broncos and New Orleans Saints[12] [13]
- Wayne Ellington - professional basketball player with the Los Angeles Lakers. He also played for the New York Knicks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers, Brooklyn Nets, Detroit Pistons, Memphis Grizzlies, Dallas Mavericks and North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball.[14]
- James "Bruiser" Flint - assistant coach of the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team and former head coach of the Drexel Dragons men's basketball team and the UMass Minutemen basketball team. He was also the assistant coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team and UMass Minutemen basketball team and Coppin State Eagles men's basketball team.[15]
- Matt Freese - professional soccer player with the New York City FC
- Todd Harrity - professional squash player, highest world ranking was #34, 3-time American champion, CSA champion while with Princeton Tigers men's squash team.[16]
- Gerald Henderson, Jr. - former professional basketball player with the Philadelphia 76ers, Portland Trail Blazers, Charlotte Hornets and Duke Blue Devils men's basketball.[17]
- Greg Isdaner - football player, West Virginia Mountaineers football, Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles[18]
- AJ Marcucci - professional soccer player with the New York Red Bulls[19]
- George Munger - former head coach of the Penn Quakers football team;[2] selected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976
Business and technology
Government
Faculty
- John Andrews, D.D. - the Academy's first headmaster
- Noah Webster - lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author; the "Father of American Scholarship and Education"; taught at Episcopal Academy for six months from April 1787[28]
Others
- Stephen Decatur - naval Commander during the First Barbary War, Second Barbary War, and War of 1812,[29] youngest man to reach the rank of Navy Captain; namesake of 5 Navy ships, 46 US towns and cities, three US schools, and one school in Sigonella, Italy; the face on the 1886 Silver Certificate, equivalent to our $20 bill. Although tradition at Episcopal Academy continues to claim Decatur as an alumnus, even assigning him to the class of 1797,[30] no documentary evidence links him to the school.
- William Chauncey Emhardt - Episcopal priest and ecumenist
- Lindley Miller Garrison
- Henry George - political economist and author of Progress and Poverty
- John Charles Groome[31]
- Charles Stewart - with one ship he captured two British ships in the War of 1812, in 1836 captured a Portuguese slaver ship as it came into Havana, serving 63 years became the U.S. Navy's first flag officer.
- William White - first and fourth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.; first Bishop of Pennsylvania; Academy founder; Chaplain to the Continental Congress and the United States Senate
Notes and References
- Web site: A Quiz about Main Line Schools . The Main Line Times . 2008-09-03 . 2008-12-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090115041636/http://www.mainlinetimes.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/SingleWeekly?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_wk_article&r21.pgpath=%2FMLT%2FLife&r21.content=%2FMLT%2FLife%2FHeadlineList_Story_2429913 . January 15, 2009 .
- Web site: The Future of the Episcopal Academy . The Episcopal Academy . 2008 . 2008-12-26.
- Web site: Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis . Davis . Richard . 2007-12-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070102200601/http://worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/biography/AdventuresandLetters/Chap1.html . 2007-01-02 . dead .
- News: Rea . Steven . Jennifer Lame's hands all over 'Frances Ha' . March 11, 2024 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . May 24, 2013 . W07 . en.
- News: Ebiri . Bilge . Oscar Winner Jennifer Lame on the Hardest Scenes to Edit Into Oppenheimer . March 11, 2024 . Vulture . March 11, 2024 . en.
- News: R.W.B. Lewis: Pulitzer Prize-winning literary scholar and critic . Yale Bulletin and Calendar . 2002-06-08 . 2007-12-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090418135713/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v30.n32/story14.html . 2009-04-18 . dead .
- News: Maury Paul, Noted Society Editor, 52, Dies. July 17, 1942. The Miami News. 1B. September 16, 2014.
- Web site: The Future of Episcopal Academy: About the Move . 2007-12-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080402095054/http://www.episcopalacademy.org/newcampus/aboutthemove/pressreleases.html . 2008-04-02.
- Web site: Sarah Steele . . 2007-12-19.
- Web site: http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/89667852.html . www.philly.com . April 16, 2010.
- News: Joseph . Santoliquito . Barrage's Dougherty Still Saving the Day . . Philadelphia, PA . 2007-07-25 . 2007-12-19.
- Web site: Kyle Eckel - Official New England Patriots Biography . The New England Patriots . 2008-12-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090422222647/http://www.patriots.com/team/index.cfm?ac=playerbio&bio=30951 . 2009-04-22 .
- Web site: Episcopal Academy star Eckel signs with Eagles . The Philadelphia Daily News . 2008-10-22 . 2008-12-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081025031740/http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/20081022_Eagles_-_Episcopal_Academy_star_Eckel_signs_with_Eagles__J_R__Reed_released.html . October 25, 2008 .
- Web site: Wayne Ellington Profile . . 2021-06-09.
- Web site: James Flint - Head Men's Basketball Coach - Men's Basketball Coaches . www.drexeldragons.com . November 19, 2017.
- Web site: Todd Harrity Profile . 2020-10-09.
- Web site: Gerald Henderson Profile . 2007-12-19.
- Web site: Greg Isdaner ESPN page . ESPN. 2008 . 2008-12-26.
- Web site: Anthony Marcucci Profile . 2022-09-27.
- Web site: Read the Thanksgiving Chapel Address . The Episcopal Academy . 2007-11-20 . 2008-12-26 .
- Web site: Technology — Past, Present, Future . youtube.com. YouTube. Gayle . Laakmann McDowell. 2012.
- Book: McDowell, Gayle Laakmann. Cracking the coding interview : 189 programming questions and solutions. 2015. 978-0-9847828-5-7. 6th. Palo Alto, CA. 913477191.
- News: Fitting Philly Pigs for Wings . Reprint . Columbia Journalism Review . 2007-07-19 . 2007-12-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071013202312/http://gyroworldwide.com/hype.php?hype_entry=519 . 2007-10-13.
- News: Venturi's Venture . Reprint . . 2006-08-09 . 2007-12-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080402062345/http://www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/Eax_NewsDetail.aspx?NewsId=205 . 2008-04-02 . dead .
- Web site: John Yoo Interviewed about the Torture Memo . Esquire . 2008-05-12 . 2008-12-26.
- News: Scholar Stands by Post-9/11 Writing on Torture, Domestic Eavesdropping . The Washington Post . 2005-12-26 . 2008-12-26 . Peter . Slevin.
- Web site: John Yoo Comments on Suit Filed Against Him by Convicted Terrorist Jose Padilla . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 2008-01-15 . 2008-12-26 .
- Web site: Notes on the life of Noah Webster. Skeel. Emily Ellsworth Ford. 1912.
- Book: Stephen Decatur Biography . 2007-12-19.
- Web site: The Episcopal Academy on Instagram: "As we remember our alumni veterans, we can't forget those from centuries ago. Commodore Stephen Decatur, EA Class of 1797, is a true icon of American Naval history. The youngest man to reach the rank of captain, Decatur battled in four wars, led numerous victories against pirates, and received the Congressional Gold Medal. How is that for a #TBT?" .
- Web site: John C. Groome . 2010-08-23 . He was privately tutored growing up and graduated from the Protestant Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia in 1878. ... . .