FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL

Dear EHS Family,

Remember the old saying that many hands make light work? It’s true, and the EHS community proves it to be so. Many hands work each day to ensure that EHS Stands Out, from our students and teachers in their daily life and work to our staff, trustees, parents, and Alumni in their ongoing support of that work. Senior Mya Broughton, featured within, speaks of her work as a photojournalist as “capturing the little things that are not as noticeable” at first glance but that when you look at the “bigger picture, you can notice how impactful that small thing is.” We at EHS tend the details, and they do matter.

The EHS community witnessed its first-ever ordination to the priesthood during Daily Chapel on February 8, with Bishop Doyle joining clergy from across the Diocese in the laying on of hands, a momentous event for the ordinand, School Chaplain Katie Gould, and for the entire school community. Many go a lifetime without the benefit of such an experience, a testament to the vitality of the Religion Pillar and Chapel program, essential to our identity as an Episcopal School. What a blessing for our community.

EHS Stands Out from other schools for its Mission and the many ways that our students and teachers live that Mission each day. It is teachers like Isaiah Coleman and Katherine Weigand, both featured within, who bring the Mission to life. Isaiah is a science teacher, track coach, and grade level dean; Katherine is a math teacher, producer in our theater, and director of Students of Service. They live this Mission and model it for our students. They are why the EHS story is so compelling and why word spreads as it does, as evidenced by our cover story of one NBA connection begetting many.

At the root of it all though, supporting the good work that happens every day, is our Board of Trustees, a group of 24 volunteers charged with ensuring the good health and well being of the School, the group responsible for all the blessings from which we benefit each day. As an institution of the Diocese of Texas, we bring aboard six new trustees each year as another six complete their four year term. This year concludes the three year tenure of Executive Chair Haag Sherman, also featured within. Haag has much of which to be proud. Not only did he steer us through the pandemic, but he caused us to thrive as we have. Haag will be greatly missed, but we have secured an equally capable replacement in Richard Howell ’01, who begins his term in July.

Thank you, Haag, for taking us to new heights. And welcome Richard. The future is bright, indeed!

Go Knights, Ned Smith