EHS Pillars - Fall 2017

# KNIGHTS STAND OUT
EHS Partners
with Baylor
Sports Medicine
SEED Program
Grows Strong
Communities
Student
Photographers Gain
National Exposure
Episcopal High School has partnered
with Baylor College of Medicine to
provide sports medicine services for
the Athletic Department. One of the
many perks of this new relationship is
making all of Baylor's medical services
available to EHS faculty and staff as well
as student‐athletes.
The comprehensive Sports Medicine
team specializes in treating surgical
and non‐surgical injuries, ankles, knees,
wrists, broken bones, as well as offering
preventative care, joint reconstruction,
physical therapy, and trauma.
"I could not be happier with our new
health partnership with the Baylor
College of Medicine," says Athletic
Director Jason Grove. "Our students,
faculty, and staff are receiving the
very best in orthopedic and general
healthcare, and our athletic trainers are
supported by the most qualified sports
medicine professionals in Houston."
Dr. Jason Ahuero, an orthopedic
surgeon, serves as the EHS team
doctor, attending football games,
conducting clinics at EHS every other
week in the afternoons, and visiting
the EHS athletic teams as his schedule
permits.
This year, EHS launches the SEED
Project, a peer‐led professional
development program that creates
conversational communities to drive
personal, organizational, and societal
change toward greater equity and
diversity. The program trains individuals
to facilitate ongoing seminars within
their own institutions and communities.
SEED leaders design their seminars
to include personal reflection and
testimony, listening to others' voices,
and learning experientially and
collectively. Through this methodology,
SEED equips participants to connect
their lives to one another and to society
at large by acknowledging systems of
oppression, power, and privilege.
Wayne Jones, 11th grade dean, varsity
basketball coach, and history teacher
has been named facilitator of the EHS
initiative.
Jones reports that the fall SEED
seminars have met great success.
"Over time," he says, "this program
will enhance relationships, ignite
conversations, and build an even
stronger, more inclusive culture
throughout the School."
The Media Arts department is proud to
announce that 13 EHS students and
one faculty member earned a total of 18
awards in the 2017 Association of Texas
Photography Instructors Fall Contest.
Sophomore Rohan Asthana won a
total of four awards: a second and
third place in the Beginning Landscape
category, an honorable mention
in Beginning Nature, and another
second place award in Beginning Time
Exposure. Junior Sydney Bosarge
took home two awards: one first place
and one honorable mention, both in the
Advanced Animal category. Visual Arts
Chair Kate Philbrick earned first place
in the Faculty Portfolio category.
ATPI sponsors an annual fall
photography competition for students
and teachers that includes a variety
of categories. This year, the ATPI
Fall Contest had 6,863 entries from
87 schools with 507 winners from
around Texas, California, Kansas, and
Oklahoma.
Students who earned awards from
this fall's contest include Robert
Mason and Cullen Stewart in
Advanced Landscape; Cara Kennedy
in Advanced Sports Action; Stockton
Shaffer in Advanced Sports Reaction;
Elliott Jones in Advanced Time
Exposure; Spencer Donley in
Advanced Travel; Shelby Thierry in
Beginning Fashion; Haley Simmons in
Beginning Informal Portrait; and Gwen
Rippeto in Beginning Travel. Miranda
Greenwalt and Holt Johnson won
awards in the Digitally Constructed
Single Image category. Entries in this
category have photographic elements
but have been constructed through the
use of computer software.
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