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46-673: The Episcopal Academy was founded in 1785 by the Rt. Rev. William White at Old Christ Church in Philadelphia as an all-boys school, focusing on classical education in Greek, Latin, religion, mathematics, and business. It was also a pre-missionary school. Trustees included two signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as bankers, merchants, and ministers. It was founded two years after American Revolutionary War ended. The faculty

92-467: A 25-meter, eight-lane pool with two dive wells, four international-size squash courts, three regulation-sized basketball courts, a three-mat wrestling room with panoramic windows, an athletic training center, and an advanced fitness center. Outdoor facilities include three turf fields, one grass field, a four-lane track, an outdoor basketball court, and four tennis courts. The school also owns a boathouse in nearby Conshohocken . Before its 2015 construction,

138-475: A Second Classical Academy, and a free school again in 1828. During some years, the Academy did not operate as an educational entity. In 1846 the school was reconstituted, this time as a Third Classical Academy; it has operated continuously since. In 1850, the school moved to a building at Juniper and Locust streets. It operated there until 1921, when it moved to a new campus in suburban Merion, Pennsylvania , on

184-433: A decade between 2006 and 2016, the longest streak between either school. A newer, friendly rivalry exists between Haverford and Garnet Valley High School 's lacrosse teams. When Kip Taviano, a Concord Township -native and Haverford School lacrosse and football player, was killed in a 2013 car accident, the two schools came together to establish the #10ve Foundation in his memory. Haverford School and Garnet Valley compete in

230-523: A trustee of the University of Pennsylvania from 1774 until his death. During his tenure as trustee, he also served as Treasurer (1775–1778) and President (1790–1791) of the board of trustees. White was married to Mary Harrison (1750–1797). Mary's father, Henry Harrison , had also been the Mayor of Philadelphia from 1762 to 1763. The Whites had eight children, only three of whom survived to adulthood. As

276-428: A week and community service two days a week. There is also a theatre offering (both on the stage and in technical theatre) in the spring (a musical) and the fall. This counts as a "Fitness" option as well. Seniors are permitted to take a "Senior Cut", that is they do not have to participate in any athletics for one season so long as they never received an "unsatisfactory" effort grade in any sport during their four years in

322-474: A widower, White supported seven of his grandchildren. In 1813, the bishop's widowed daughter Elizabeth brought her two daughters to live in the house. Elizabeth, called "Betsy" by the family, managed the household for nearly twenty years until her death in 1831. After the death of the Whites' son-in-law and daughter Mary, White and Betsy brought his five grandchildren (through Mary) into his home where they lived for

368-579: A year, which can be earned through participation on an inter-scholastic athletics team or extracurricular activities, such as mock trial or jazz band. Additionally, this requirement can be satisfied by any role in one school theatrical production. Recent graduates are known to attend prestigious post-secondary institutions, including the Pennsylvania State University , University of Pennsylvania , Villanova University , Boston College , and Harvard University . The Haverford School

414-505: Is a private , non-sectarian, all-boys college preparatory day school , junior kindergarten through grade twelve. Founded in 1884 as The Haverford College Grammar School, it is located in Haverford, Pennsylvania . The school was founded in 1884 at the request of Alexander and Lois Cassatt, niece of President James Buchanan , as The Haverford College Grammar School. Affiliated initially with neighboring Haverford College until 1903,

460-669: Is a member of the Inter-Academic League , the country's oldest inter-scholastic athletic conference. With eighteen interscholastic sports, Haverford ranks among the top 20% of private high schools in Pennsylvania for amount of sports offered. The Haverford School lacrosse team gained national fame when the Fords won national championships in 2011 and 2015 after undefeated seasons. The 2015 team won USA Today 's All-USA Boys' Lacrosse Team honors. The Fords lacrosse team

506-598: Is the most awarded team in the Inter-Ac League, having won two national championships, ten state championships, and eighteen Inter-Ac titles. The Haverford School squash team won the U.S. high school national championship in 2017. In 2018–19, Haverford captured the Inter-Ac's Heyward Cup for overall excellence in athletic competition. The Fords have won the Heyward Cup 18 times, more than any other school in

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552-615: The Baldwin School , the Agnes Irwin School , and Springside School . The sports requirement requires all students to participate in athletics during each of the three seasons. Freshman and sophomores are required to participate in at least two inter-scholastic sports with the option of participating in the "Fitness" option for one season. Juniors may elect to participate in the "Fitness" option for two seasons. "Fitness" consists of organized athletic activities three days

598-545: The Episcopal Academy , to educate the sons of Philadelphia's Episcopalians and others. In 1795, White raised funds to create a school (built on Race Street between 4th and 5th) for black and Native American children. He also helped to create a Magdalen Society in Philadelphia in 1800 for "unhappy females who have been seduced from the paths of virtue and are desirous of returning to a life of rectitude." This

644-815: The Episcopal Church of the United States . Samuel Seabury of Connecticut had been first, consecrated in 1784 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Rector of St. Peter's and of Christ Church for 57 years, White also served as Chaplain of the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1789, and subsequently as Chaplain of the Senate . Though an Anglican (Episcopalian) cleric who was sworn to the king in his ordination ceremony, White, like all but one of his fellow Anglican clerics in Philadelphia, sided with

690-644: The House of Deputies was composed of both lay and clergy members. After his consecration in England, White helped create an American episcopate, participating in the consecration of Thomas John Clagett as Bishop of Maryland at the General Convention in 1792, as well as serving as the Episcopal Church's first and fourth Presiding Bishop (the latter time as the most senior of bishops, as became

736-485: The University of North Carolina . 40°00′22″N 75°25′30″W  /  40.006°N 75.425°W  / 40.006; -75.425 William White (Bishop of Pennsylvania) William White (April 4, 1748 N.S.  – July 17, 1836) was the first and fourth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States (1789; 1795–1836), the first bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania (1787–1836), and

782-682: The chancel of Christ Church. His home at 309 Walnut Street in Philadelphia is today part of Independence National Historical Park . It is notable, in part, as one of the first houses to have an indoor "necessary," at a time when most privies were built outside of houses. The prominent physician Benjamin Rush lived next door. A second Bishop White House is located on Old Mill Lane, in the Historic District in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania . White sent his family to this house in 1793, during

828-616: The #10ve Cup, an annual lacrosse event to benefit the Kip Taviano '13 Scholarship Fund. All of the Haverford School's academic buildings and athletic fields are located at its original 30-acre campus. There are five significant buildings: the Upper School, Middle School, Lower School, Field House, and Dining Hall. In addition, there is a small building home to the school store and cafe. The athletic facilities include

874-479: The Academy's on-site program manager throughout each phase of the campus development project. The architecture firms, including Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates , Gund Partnership, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson , and RMJM Hillier , "coordinated the materials used as well as the landscape layout of the campus, with its pastoral central quadrangle and collegiate-village scale". The Academy is accredited by

920-559: The American revolutionary cause. After the war, White wrote The Case of The Episcopal Churches in the United States Considered , a pamphlet that laid out the foundational thinking for the emerging Episcopal Church. Among the innovations he proposed (and which were eventually adopted) was including lay people in the church's decision making bodies. Thus, at the founding General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 1785,

966-467: The Main Line of the commuter railroad. Female students attended the Academy between 1789 and 1818. It was not until 1974 that the academy implemented a gradual plan for permanent co-education at the school. In 1974, girls were admitted to kindergarten, and then to one higher grade each year thereafter. The class of 1984 was the first co-educational class to graduate from the Academy. Episcopal Academy

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1012-1249: The Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C.); William Meade , who traveled extensively throughout Virginia and ultimately became its bishop, White participating in his consecration; and Jackson Kemper , first in Philadelphia for 2 decades, founded the Society for the Advancement of Christianity and became the Episcopal Church's first missionary bishop. The elderly White made only one trip to the western parts of his diocese. In 1825 he traveled with Kemper to western Pennsylvania confirming 212 and consecrating buildings in Pittsburgh , Brownsville and Greensburg . On that trip, with permission of Richard Channing Moore , Bishop of Virginia , he also visited Wheeling, West Virginia in what much later became West Virginia to confirm parishioners and consecrate St. Matthew's Church. White also took an active role in creating several charitable and educational institutions, usually by organizing Presbyterians, Methodists and other Protestants in those philanthropic enterprises. In 1785, White founded

1058-681: The Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools. The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools' "Accreditation for Growth" protocol governed accreditation until the current accreditation cycle. The Episcopal Academy is a member of the Inter-Academic League (Inter-Ac). For boys, the Inter-Ac league includes the Haverford School , Malvern Preparatory School , Chestnut Hill Academy , Penn Charter , and Germantown Academy . For girls, this league includes Penn Charter , Germantown Academy , Notre Dame Academy ,

1104-536: The Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Though his family lived there and he visited the house, White generally remained in Philadelphia. White is honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) and the Anglican Church in North American on July 17. In White's response of August 15, 1835 to Colonel Mercer of Fredericksburg, Virginia , he writes: In regard to

1150-787: The custom for the next century). White participated in the consecration of most American Episcopal bishops during the country's first two decades. He also ordained two African-Americans as deacons and then priests, Absalom Jones of Philadelphia (in 1795 and 1804, respectively), and William Levington of New York (who became missionary to free and enslaved African Americans in the South and established St.James Episcopal Church in Baltimore circa 1824). Although White did not travel extensively through his diocese, he did support missionary priests, including: Simon Wilmer, who traveled through Pennsylvania and New Jersey and ultimately settled down in what became

1196-586: The diocesan convention ended in a deadlock. At the next Convention, Wilson took himself out of contention, as did Meade, and the divided delegates eventually selected Henry Onderdonk (of Brooklyn, New York ; who preferred High Church practices but had also revitalized that congregation). White was a member of the American Philosophical Society , along with many other prominent Philadelphians, including Benjamin Franklin , as well as

1242-481: The few prominent citizens who remained to tend the ill when many other wealthy inhabitants fled to the countryside. As White aged, arranging for his successor became divisive in the diocese. Benjamin Allen arrived from Virginia to lead the diocese's most evangelical congregation, St. Paul's and also founded another congregation, St. Andrew's, without White's permission. White questioned certain aspects of lay leadership at

1288-582: The first president of the Philadelphia Society for the Alleviation of Miseries of Public Prisons, which attracted the participation of numerous Quakers . Not known for his oratory (but for quiet sardonic wit), White earned Philadelphians' esteem for his erudition and ongoing charitable works, especially during the multiple outbreaks of yellow fever in that city throughout the 1790s. White and his friend and neighbor Benjamin Rush were among

1334-637: The humanities and sciences. Among the humanities, some well-liked electives are European Dictators, Modern Black Lives: 1964- Present, Latin Poetry & Prose, and Music Production & Recording. Common science electives are Advanced Topics in Chemistry, Macro- and Micro-economics, Environmental Science, and Theoretical Physics. Summer study programs are in place with laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania and its hospital system . Furthermore, Upper School students are required to gain two sports credits

1380-461: The incumbent champion. Each year's winner earns the "Sweater". The Sweater is made from parts of uniform sweaters from each school, cut in half and sewn down the middle. Each school has a side, indicated by its colors, onto which years of victory are embroidered. Since the inception of the Sweater in 1987, Haverford has led Episcopal Academy with 18 Haverford/EA Day wins. Haverford held the Sweater for

1426-404: The league. Haverford is known for its long-running rivalry with fellow Inter-Academic League member Episcopal Academy . The two schools have competed annually since 1889 on Haverford-EA Day, a day of competition occurring each November. The winner is determined by who wins more of the day's five events: cross-country, water polo, soccer, golf, and football. In the event of a tie, victory goes to

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1472-490: The official colors were changed to maroon and gold out of national pride since the colors of the Spanish flag were the same red and yellow. All Upper School students must take four years of English, three years of history, mathematics, and science, and two consecutive years of foreign language and fine arts. Many students elect to take four years of history, foreign language, and fine arts. Dozens of electives are offered in

1518-471: The revival meetings. Allen and the evangelical party selected George Boyd to replace White's assistant James Abercrombie, and Allen in place of Kemper at the diocesan council. When they tried to elect Meade as White's coadjutor (assistant bishop with right of succession) over White's preferred candidate (Bird Wilson, a professor at General Theological Seminary but canonically resident in Pennsylvania),

1564-469: The school became independent, changed its name to The Haverford School, and moved to its current location across Railroad Avenue from the college. The school was Quaker during its affiliation with the college but is now non-sectarian. Haverford's original school colors were red and yellow for the first decade of the school's existence. However, after the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898,

1610-455: The second United States Senate Chaplain (appointed December 9, 1790). He also served as the first and fourth President of the House of Deputies for the General Convention of the Episcopal Church (1785, 1789). Born in Philadelphia , White began his education at College of Philadelphia (which was later known as the University of Pennsylvania ), taking his B.A. in 1765 and his A.M. about three years later. In 1770, he sailed for England on

1656-490: The several important relations in which he stood to society were performed with undeviating correctness and suavity; he possessed the rare merit of winning the respect and love of an entire community to which he was an ornament and a blessing. His piety was deep and unfeigned; his walking humble yet dignified; his acquirements profound; in his mind the welfare of the Christian church was always the prominent consideration ... He

1702-541: The ship Britannia , for his ordination as a deacon by Philip Yonge , Bishop of Norwich (but with the authorisation of Richard Terrick , Bishop of London ), which took place in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace on December 23, 1770. He subsequently returned to England on two occasions: once in 1772, to be ordained priest (again at the Chapel Royal, by Terrick on April 17), and again in 1787, when he

1748-627: The subject of your inquiry, truth requires me to say that General Washington never received the communion in the churches of which I am the parochial minister. Mrs. Washington was an habitual communicant ... I have been written to by many on that point, and have been obliged to answer them as I now do you. This letter is one piece of evidence among many which are frequently cited in support of Washington's deist or even atheist beliefs. Although Washington never received communion there, he attended services at Christ Church regularly for about 25 years. The Haverford School The Haverford School

1794-541: The ten years leading up to his death. White's younger sister Mary was married to Robert Morris , who was known as the "Financier of the Revolution" for securing funding for the colonial cause. White's household included a free African American coachman, named John, but no slaves. A lengthy obituary devoted to White in the National Gazette and Literary Register described him thus: ... [T]he duties of

1840-816: The upper school. As a co-founder of the oldest High School sport's league in America, the Inter-Academic League, and in the second oldest school rivalry in the nation, (against the Haverford School , later adding Agnes Irwin School ) Episcopal Academy athletic teams have gained a national reputation. The boys basketball team, coached by Daniel Dougherty, gained national attention in 2005 and 2006, with full team effort including players Gerald Henderson '06 and Wayne Ellington '06. Both were nationally ranked high school basketball players. Henderson signed to play for Duke University while Ellington signed to play for

1886-655: Was completed in 2008 and opened for the 2008–2009 school year. The new campus has academic, arts, athletic, and spiritual facilities. It features keepsakes from the Merion and Devon campuses: the original stained glass windows from the Class of 1944 Chapel, a clock (which was installed on the Clark Campus Green), and several artifacts in the Crawford Campus Center. Brailsford & Dunlavey served as

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1932-496: Was composed of notable figures such as Noah Webster Jr. , who developed the Webster Dictionaries. Its first campus was located on the east side of Fourth Street and was directed by Rev. John Andrews , D.D., the Academy's first headmaster. When Dr. Andrews and several of faculty members left in 1798 to teach at the University of Pennsylvania , The Episcopal Academy was reconstituted as a free school. In 1816 it became

1978-482: Was consecrated bishop on February 4 at Lambeth Palace Chapel by John Moore , Archbishop of Canterbury ; William Markham , Archbishop of York ; Charles Moss , Bishop of Bath and Wells ; and John Hinchliffe , Bishop of Peterborough . In 1781, after further theological studies, he received a Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Pennsylvania. William White was the second bishop consecrated for

2024-754: Was located in Merion, Pennsylvania , from 1921 until 2008, when it moved to Newtown Square, Pennsylvania . In June 1998, the Episcopal Academy Board of Trustees directed the "active pursuit of a large tract of land in the western suburbs to serve as a long-term asset and a means of preserving future options." After receiving a $ 20 million donation, the Board purchased a 123-acre (0.50 km) tract of land in Newtown Square on Darby-Paoli Road ( Pennsylvania Route 252 ). The $ 212.5 million project

2070-453: Was one of those examples of steady virtue sent upon earth by Divine providence , as if to prove how near the great pattern of perfection it is permitted to approach. White died at his home after a lingering illness, retaining his full mental faculties until the end. He was buried in the family vault at Christ Church Burial Ground on July 20, 1836, next to his brother-in-law, Robert Morris. On December 23, 1870, his remains were re-interred in

2116-642: Was the first institution of this kind in the United States. In 1820, White joined prominent Philadelphia philanthropists who, in 1820, convinced the Pennsylvania legislature to fund the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, founded by rabbi David G. Seixas, now known as the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf . White served as the school's president for the next 16 years. He also ministered to Philadelphia's prisoners, becoming

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