CA News
CARE Program Dinner on Thursday, September 5, at 6:00 p.m.
CARE families are invited to join us for a dinner on Thursday, September 5, at 6:00 p.m. in the Ransome Room (MAC). This is an opportunity for CARE families and students to connect/reconnect, share contact information and eat together!
read moreCA Parents Welcome Gatherings on September 10 and 11
CA Parents will host welcome gatherings for all parents on Tuesday, September 10, from 6:00 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. in the Smith Room (prior to the Lynn Lyons speaker program), and Wednesday, September 11, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. in the Ransome Room (Math and Arts Center). This is an opportunity to mingle and get to know fellow CA parents. RSVP here. All parents are welcome to attend!
read moreNew Mailing & Shipping Address
We ask that you update/change your shipping address for all package deliveries (other than regular mail) to 126 Main Street to help ensure packages will be delivered to this new location. The mailing address for all US Postal Service mail will remain 166 Main Street. As a part of this move, we ask that all students please pick up their packages at the operations barn.
read moreParent Tour Guides Needed
Looking for motivated parents to be parent tour guides for CA! You'll share the CA story and your own personal CA impressions with prospective parents. The Admissions Office is seeking parent tour guide volunteers for the upcoming school year. Tours are one hour in length and guides can arrange to tour on either a weekly or biweekly rotation. Tours are scheduled daily at 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., or 1:15 p.m. (Tuesdays are 9:00 a.m. only). If you are interested, please contact Kristen Bjork ’81, P’20 ’22 or Shari Marquis P’18 ’21. Please save the date for the upcoming Parent Tour Guide orientation meeting, which is scheduled for Thursday, September 12, 2019, 8:30-11:30 a.m. in the Ransom Room. If you have a conflict with the orientation date, Kristen and Shari are happy to provide information and additional/alternate training.
read moreAcademic Office: Leadership Changes at CA
The 2019–20 school year brings some familiar CA faces into new roles. Sarah Yeh has taken on the Assistant Head position alongside her Dean of Faculty role, and former Assistant Dean for Community and Equity Laura Twichell ’01 is now Concord Academy’s Interim Academic Dean. While Laura serves as Academic Dean, visual arts
faculty Peter Boskey ‘08 will be serving as Interim Director of Community and Equity. Alyse Ruiz-Selsky ‘05 has moved from Student Life to the Academic Office as the new Director of Studies, while Brett Kelly has moved from Admissions to Student Life to take on the role of Student Activities Coordinator. The team looks forward to working with you and your children!
read moreBoardingware
As many of you know, we are excited about launching Boardingware, the new online management tool that CA will use in order to improve communication between parents/guardians, boarders, hosts of our boarders, and house faculty. This system will replace our paper-based white and blue slips and is designed to both ease and improve the collection of information, providing a clear picture of a boarder’s whereabouts throughout the school year. As a part of this, we will be offering training to boarders on Tuesday, September 3, while faculty, staff and students will learn about the new system during an all-school class meeting on Friday, September 6. Stay tuned for more!
read moreQuick References for Boarding Parents
If as a boarding parent you need to get in touch with the adult on duty within your child’s house, please refer to the phone number below for your child’s campus house. For all urgent matters or if you can not reach the house faculty on duty (many people coach or teach), please call the Administrator on Duty at (978) 402-2388. Please remember that your child’s advisor is a great resource as well.
This year, each house has a Lead House Faculty member who is in charge of overseeing the house as a whole over the course of the year. Since they are not on duty every day though, you should still call the house phone number for time-sensitive matters (numbers are listed below). Lead House Faculty check their house account every weekday.
read more- ADMINISTRATOR ON DUTY: (978) 402-2388
- ADMADJAJA House Faculty Cell: (978) 831-3889, admadjajahouse@concordacademy.org (for non-urgent matters)
- BRADFORD House Faculty Cell: (978) 505-3875, bradfordhouse@concordacademy.org (for non-urgent matters)
- HAINES House Faculty Cell: (978) 831-3887, haineshouse@concordacademy.org (for non-urgent matters)
- HOBSON House Faculty Cell: (978) 831-3886, hobsonhouse@concordacademy.org (for non-urgent matters)
- PHELPS House Faculty Cell: (978) 831-3884, phelpshouse@concordacademy.org (for non-urgent matters)
- WHEELER House Faculty Cell: (978) 505-3890, wheelerhouse@concordacademy.org (for non-urgent matters)
Concord Academy Honors Kate Morse Erwin’ 69 with the 2019 Joan Shaw Herman Award
Kate Morse Erwin ’69 was awarded the 2019 recipient of the Joan Shaw Herman Award for Distinguished Service for a rare and unparalleled passion for improving mental health for the incarcerated.
read moreReunion 2019: Members of the CA Alumnae/i Community Reflect on Women and Power
During the 2019 reunion, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Preston ’69 moderated a panel discussion, “Women and Power: What Do We Want Now?” featuring Kate Radtke Guedj ’84 of the Boston Foundation, Meisha Thoimpson Newman ’94, a business owner and developer at Sapient Consulting, and Liz Mygatt ’99 of McKinsey & Company. Their conversation considered how personal, societal, and gender-based definitions of power are shifting, and what kinds of power women want, and need, today.
read moreFirst-Ever Annual Alumnae/i Assembly Welcomes All CA Alumnae/i
On June 7, the Friday of Reunion Weekend, Concord Academy welcomed more than those expected at their class reunions. All CA alumnae/i from every generation were invited to campus to begin a new tradition — the Annual Alumnae/i Assembly. Keep the date in mind for next year: June 5, 2020!
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