Before coming to D-E, History Department Chair, Arika “Ari” Easley-Houser taught at Rutgers Prep and several colleges and universities, including Montclair State University and New York University. A socio-cultural historian focused on United States history, she received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University and a certificate in school management from the Harvard Business School. She was recently selected for a National Association of Independent Schools Fellowship for Aspiring School Heads. Now in her third year of heading the department, Easley-Houser speaks to the importance of historical inquiry for students and how the history curriculum must reflect and respond to the diversity of students. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
D-E ’01
Alicia Menendez is one of the correspondents in the new public affairs PBS program, Amanpour and Company, that launched its late night program this past September. Check it out!!!
D-E ’76
Northeastern University Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Miriam Leeser '76 was selected for a Fulbright award at Maynooth University and the CONNECT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland to study wireless and networking technology with...
D-E ’74
A note from former faculty member and coach , Vince Delalla, “Lunch with Bart "Major League" Purcell in Stonington, Connecticut - October 1, 2018 Bart Purchell was the senior captain of the varsity baseball team I coached at Dwight Englewood School in 1974, my first...
ESB ’68
Laurin Herr’s update, “Born and raised in New Jersey, I began my martial arts training in 1971 at Cornell University by taking up Judo to fulfill my compulsory physical education requirements for graduation. After a few months learning Judo basics, a visiting Japanese...
DWIGHT ’62
Marcia Tondel Davis and Adrienne Milton Ferrell sent this reflection in from their mini-reunion in Nantucket, MA. We are each just home after a 20th informal class reunion, held by and for the Dwight School Class of ’62, one of us in San Diego, and the other in Brill,...
DWIGHT ’55
We are saddened to report the passing of Clare Russell Gregorian on 4/28/208. Below is the obituary that was published in The Providence Journal on Apr. 30, 2018 “Carnegie Corporation of New York, its board of trustees and staff, mourn the death of Clare Russell...
ESB ’48
We are saddened to report the passing Of Donald Anderson on August 8, 2018. Donald Alfred Anderson’s obituary from the Legacy website is listed below. Don was the father of Chris Anderson ’81, father-in-law of Adrienne Buda Anderson ’85 and grandfather of Katie ’17 ...
D-E ’99
Chad Mekles visited Jordana Kirsh Berger in Memphis, TN, where she now resides with her family. After a delicious BBQ lunch and a tour of the Graceland museum dedicated to Elvis, they attended the Memphis Grizzlies vs. Chicago Bulls NBA game. They are pictured with...
D-E ’16
Recently, one of Lucy Plowe’s art pieces was accepted to the IPCNY (International Print Center New York) summer exhibition, “Multilayered,” which is a juried show selected by artist Juan Sánchez. The piece is called “Fear No Fate,” and it’s a large lithography-based...
D-E ’14
Hanna Jerome, David Urbont, and Josue Velazquez ’13 graduated from Hamilton College this past May.