EA Unlocked

Throughout Season 3 Host Dr. T.J. Locke has been talking with Episcopal Academy alumni to hear about their EA experience and how those years impacted their lives and careers.

Mark Hoplamazian is a member of The Episcopal Academy's Class of 1981. He arrived at EA as a freshman in what he describes as, "a pretty discombobulated state." He calls the "warmth and engagement" he received from the community "remarkable."

Hoplamazian is the President and CEO of Hyatt Hotels. He received EA's Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2021.

Music and singing are an integral part of The Episcopal Academy's chapel program. Lower, Middle, and Upper School students work with Head Chaplain Tim Gavin and Middle School Chaplain Michael Palmisano to plan each service, along with the music teachers in each division. The tradition of singing in EA chapel dates back to the school's founding in 1785. Faculty, staff, and students, regardless of age, have their favorites!

Guests:

• Father Tim Gavin/Head Chaplain
• Father Michael Palmisano/Middle School Chaplain
• Jim Erwin/Music Director
• Jayne Borras/Middle School Choral Director
• Deborah Newnham/Lower School Music Teacher & Choral Director
• Kevin Landaiche '23/Vestry Accounting Warden
• Kempley Bryant/Kindergarten Teacher
• Niall Doherty/Middle School Spanish Teacher
• Kim Piersall/Middle School Health Teacher
• Girls in STEM Club Members

Dr. Eric Mazur, Harvard University's Balkanski Professor of Physics and Area Dean for Applied Sciences and Engineering, recently visited campus to work with EA faculty during a professional development day.

Dr. Mazur is an educational innovator known for his work with interactive teaching and peer instruction with the goal of better engaging students in the classroom. He shared some of his experiences and insights with EA Unlocked host Dr. T.J. Locke.

Through the generosity of the Lilley Fellowship Fund, Episcopal Academy students are offered the opportunity to pursue research and create a capstone project. Fellows are selected for their scholarly passion, academic curiosity, and intellectual rigor. This year's fellows, along with program director Lorie Harding, spoke with host Dr. T.J. Locke about this unique opportunity.

Guests:

• Lorie Harding - Director of Libraries & Lilley Fellowship program director
• Ashley Kim '23
• Caroline Sewell '23
• Elizabeth Boruff '23
• Shawn Wang '23
• Roh Tsundupalli '24

Host T.J. Locke talks with EA Grounds Supervisor Matt Kerns and the team that keeps EA's nine athletic fields in tip-top shape, along with the lush Clark Campus Green. With the spring season underway, the grounds crew is hard at work.

Guests:

• Matt Kerns - Grounds Supervisor
• Joe Marchozzi - Turf Manager
• Kelly Edwards - Varsity Softball Coach
• Tom Grandieri - Varsity Baseball Coach

Throughout this season of EA Unlocked, host Dr. T.J. Locke has been talking with alumni about their EA experience and how it helped shape their careers and adult lives.

After graduating in 2007, Meghan McCormick attended Georgetown University and launched her career in the Peace Corps in Guinea. After graduate school, Meghan founded a mobile platform that helps small business owners in Africa make data-driven decisions to promote growth and increase capital. She spoke with Dr. Locke from her office in Ghana.

Each year an Episcopal Academy junior is selected for the prestigious Benjamin H. Read '43 Scholarship. During the summer, the scholar conducts research and then presents a final project and lecture during their senior year.

Senior Riya Mukherjee shares details of her project, with Develop Africa, with EA Unlocked listeners and host Dr. T.J. Locke. Her advisor, History Department Chair Steve Schuh and Upper School History Teacher Chuck Bryant joined in on the conversation as well.

There has been a lot of excitement on campus with the arrival of EA's new Anatomage Table. This new piece of equipment is best described as a giant iPad that is a 3D visualization and virtual dissection tool that is changing the way students learn and teachers teach. They are most commonly used in medical school.

EA Unlocked host Dr. T.J. Locke talks with Upper School Science teachers Jenn Jones and Sharon Gooding-Reynolds about this incredible teaching tool, along with senior science students Ishan Bhattacharyya, Lydia Nawrocki, and Brooklynn Smith.

The sounds of the holidays filled EA's Class of 1944 Chapel and Carrafiell Family Theater as Lower, Middle, and Upper School students shared their singing and musical talents. Enjoy some of the highlights from EA's winter concerts.

It has been an incredible season for EA's record-setting Boys' Cross Country Team. The squad is now ranked #1 in Pennsylvania and for the first time in school history, the team earned a coveted spot at the Nike Cross Nationals championship race in Portland, Oregon.

Coach Jim Farrell, and members of the team, stopped by to talk about a season they will never forget.

Guests: Aidan McHugh, Dakin Ebmeyer, Connor Hanrahan, Dawson French, Michael Woolery, Eli Engleman.

Ethan Zhou and Coach Tony Herman were not able to attend the recording.