List of Episcopal Academy people

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.

Main article: Episcopal Academy

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
• R.W.B. Lewis - long-time professor of English at Yale, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography[4]
• Robert A. Masciantonio - writer and director of cult films Cold Hearts, Neighbor
• Maury Henry Biddle Paul - gossip columnist known as "Cholly Knickerbocker"[5]
• Benjamin Pearcy, 1989 - lighting designer; 2015 Drama Desk nomination and Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in a Musical (for American in Paris);[6] designed projections and lighting for War Horse and the 2012 London Olympic Games[7]
• M. Night Shyamalan - film producer and director,The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Village; multiple Academy Award nominee[1][8]
• Sarah Steele, 2006 - actress, performing in Spanglish; has appeared on Law & Order, 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[10]
• Brian Dougherty - professional lacrosse player[11]
• Kyle Eckel - football player with US Naval Academy, New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans Saints[12][13]
• Wayne Ellington - professional basketball player with the New York Knicks[14]
• James "Bruiser" Flint - assistant coach of the Indiana University basketball team and former head coach of the Drexel University basketball team and the University of Massachusetts basketball team. [15]
• Gerald Henderson, Jr. - former professional basketball player with the Philadelphia 76ers[16]
• Greg Isdaner - football player, West Virginia University, Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles[17]
• George Munger - Former head coach of the University of Pennsylvania football team;[2] selected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976

Business and technology

• George David - Chairman and CEO of United Technologies Corporation[2]
• Morris Duane - former chairman of Duane, Morris & Heckscher[2]
• John Haas - former Chairman of Rohm and Haas Company[2]
• Mark Hoplamazian CBE - President and CEO of Hyatt Hotels Corporation[18]
• Gayle Laakman McDowell - founder, consultant, coder, speaker and author of Cracking the Coding Interview[19][20]
• Spencer Penrose - mining magnate, hotelier, philanthropist [2]
• Peter York Solmssen - former General Counsel and Managing Board Member of Siemans AG
• Ed Stanley - former president and CEO of Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company[2]
• Brian Tierney - Republican strategist; CEO of Philadelphia Media Holdings[2][21]
• Charles L. Tutt, Sr. - real estate and mining magnate [2]
• Robert Venturi - architect and winner of the Pritzker Prize;[22] designed the Episcopal's Chapel in Newtown Square
• Edward Vick - retired Chairman and CEO of Young and Rubicam[2]

Government

• John C. Bell, Jr. - former Governor of Pennsylvania; Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court[2]
• Alan Lukens - former United States ambassador to the Republic of the Congo[2]
• Boies Penrose - senator, political boss [2]
• Benjamin Read - former Under Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter[2]
• Robert Montgomery Scott - philanthropist[2]
• Nathaniel Stinnett - founder and executive director, Environmental Voter Project [23]
• John Yoo - professor of law at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley; former deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice during the first term of the George W. Bush presidential administration; principal author of the "Torture Memo"[24][25][26]

Faculty

• John Andrews, D.D., the Academy's first headmaster.
• Gina Buggy - first woman to serve as Athletic Director (since 1992); member of the U.S. field hockey team, 1981-1984; played on the 1982 World Cup team and earned a bronze medal in the 1984 Olympics; played for the U.S. women’s team in 1980 and 1981[27]
• Susan Gelber Cannon - author and activist, creator of www.teachforpeace.org[28]
• Lee T. Pearcy - classicist, educator, and author; chair of classics (1986-2001, 2005-2008), director of curriculum (2001-2005); author of Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America (2005)[29] co-author Standards for Latin Teacher Preparation (2010),[30] and other books and articles; taught at Episcopal 1985-2013
• 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[31]

Others

• Garry Davis - founder of the World Service Authority and creator of the first World Passport

Stephen Decatur as depicted on an 1886 Silver Certificate

• Stephen Decatur - naval Commander during the First Barbary War, Second Barbary War, and War of 1812,[32] 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,[33] no documentary evidence links him to the school.
• William Chauncey Emhardt - Episcopal priest and ecumenist
• Lindley Miller Garrison
• John Charles Groome[34]
• 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

References

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4. "R.W.B. Lewis: Pulitzer Prize-winning literary scholar and critic". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. 2002-06-08. Archived from the original on 2009-04-18. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
5. "Maury Paul, Noted Society Editor, 52, Dies". The Miami News. July 17, 1942. p. 1B. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
6. http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/
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9. "Sarah Steele". Retrieved 2007-12-19.
10. . Retrieved on April 16, 2010.
11. Santoliquito, Joseph (2007-07-25). "Barrage's Dougherty Still Saving the Day". Philadelphia, PA: The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
12. "Kyle Eckel - Official New England Patriots Biography". The New England Patriots. Archived from the original on 2009-04-22. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
13. "Episcopal Academy star Eckel signs with Eagles". The Philadelphia Daily News. 2008-10-22. Archived from the original on October 25, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
14. "Wayne Ellington Profile". Retrieved 2007-12-19.
15. http://www.drexeldragons.com/coaches.aspx?rc=185&path=mbball. Retrieved on November 19, 2017
16. "Gerald Henderson Profile". Retrieved 2007-12-19.
17. "Greg Isdaner ESPN page". ESPN. 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
18. "Read the Thanksgiving Chapel Address". The Episcopal Academy. 2007-11-20. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
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20. McDowell, Gayle Laakmann (2015). Cracking the coding interview : 189 programming questions and solutions (6th ed.). Palo Alto, CA. ISBN 978-0-9847828-5-7. OCLC 913477191.
21. "Fitting Philly Pigs for Wings". Columbia Journalism Review. 2007-07-19. Archived from the original (Reprint) on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
22. "Venturi's Venture". The Wall Street Journal. 2006-08-09. Archived from the original (Reprint) on 2008-04-02. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
23. "Environmentalists Turned Into Voters". New York Times. 2018-05-27.
24. "John Yoo Interviewed about the Torture Memo". Esquire. 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
25. Slevin, Peter (2005-12-26). "Scholar Stands by Post-9/11 Writing on Torture, Domestic Eavesdropping". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
26. "John Yoo Comments on Suit Filed Against Him by Convicted Terrorist Jose Padilla" (PDF). The Philadelphia Inquirer. 2008-01-15. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
27. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-08. Retrieved 2015-05-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
28. http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-16/news/30632229_1_peace-education-middle-school-conferences
29. Pearcy, Lee T. (2005). The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America. ISBN 9781932792164.
30. http://www.aclclassics.org/uploads/assets/files/Standards_for_Latin_Teacher_Preparation.pdf
31. Skeel, Emily Ellsworth Ford (1912). "Notes on the life of Noah Webster".
32. "Stephen Decatur Biography". Retrieved 2007-12-19.
33. http://instagram.com/p/vWeB-8zQNq/?modal=true
34. "John C. Groome". Pennsylvania State Police. Retrieved 2010-08-23. He was privately tutored growing up and graduated from the Protestant Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia in 1878. ...