Fostering Lifelong Learning - Episcopal Academy

Calling All Volunteers!
Make your mark on history and help build the new campus
As the Episcopal community celebrates the school’s last four months in
Merion and Devon, much of the
focus this spring will be on looking back. But
 through a wonderful opportunity with the Robert Leathers
Company and the 
Episcopal Academy Parents Association (EAPA), everyone will also have a
 chance to
make their mark on the future by helping build the new Lower
 School playground.
This past December, Episcopal hosted a “design day” for the new playground 
that included Lower School students
who were asked to share their own ideas for how the
 space should look and what it should include. Leathers also
spoke with
 parents, faculty, and staff, and by the end of the day came up with a
 fantastic design that includes a
rock wall, a spiral tube slide, and a historical playhouse.
But what makes the project particularly special, and Leathers Company 
unique, is that the Episcopal community
will be charged with building the
 playground itself. For five days at the end of the school year, from 
Wednesday,
May 28th through Sunday, June 1st, Episcopal will need 500
volunteers on the new campus to help build and
complete this fantastic new 
playground.

 It is the equivalent of an old fashioned barn-raising and there will be
plenty to do even for those who aren’t particularly good with power tools 
or heavy equipment. All of our volunteers
will be drilling, cutting, 
sanding, digging, staining, and having fun together as parents, students,
 faculty, and alumni
literally help build the future of the Episcopal
 Academy. We need everyone’s help!
To get a sense of a Leathers Company project, visit
 www.leathersassociates.com.
If you would like to help on the project, contact Cannie Shafer, Acting Assistant
 Head of School, at
610-617-2231 or cshafer@episcopalacademy.org.
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