Join Us in Our Historic Campus Transformation
Thanks to the generosity of the Perkiomen School community, we surpassed our $30-million goal for the comprehensive campaign, Our Moment to Lead, two years ahead of our six-year timeline. We are therefore raising our goal to $45 million!
With two years remaining in Our Moment to Lead, the full scope of strategic priorities are within reach. They include: • New Student Center • New Athletic Facilities • New Performance Spaces • New School Entrance
• Historic Building Renovations • Endowment Growth • Stronger Annual Fund
This campaign is all about caring for what has been provided in the past, advancing the strategic priorities of the present, and securing a strong future. Please help us cross the finish line and make a gift to support Perkiomen’s most ambitious fundraising effort ever!
PHIL LLOYD ’65 AND KARLEE FAIN ’00 Campaign Co-Chairs
Risk Becoming the Best While we gratefully celebrate the early success of our historic fundraising initiative, we know more can be done for Perkiomen to risk becoming its best possible self — to serve students and families, to attract and retain outstanding faculty, and to lead the next generation of innovation in education. Perkiomen is remarkable, and that starts with our students, who are intellectually curious and generous of spirit. They work hard to learn and grow — but not for the sake of achievement alone. Rather, they study with a purpose — having both the will and the passion to put their knowledge to use. The remaking of our campus is an opportunity that comes but once in a lifetime and is essential to Perkiomen’s success. At this moment, we can position the school with facilities to match the quality of our programming and the purposefulness of our students and faculty. In the competitive world of independent school admissions, we must be bold to create an enduring foundation for innovative, exceptional education.
Phase I
Creating Competitive Advantage
Reimaging and Reshaping the Entire Campus It is time for Perkiomen School to benefit from planned growth. Phase I of the school’s comprehensive campaign will support the long-awaited, high-value capital projects that will expand and modernize our campus.
Student Spaces Reimagined
The Student Center will be a hub in the center of campus, providing space for a range of activities, including: • • • • • •
engaging with the Student Life Offices; planning senior events with the Student Senate; meeting friends to share food at Lloyd’s; E-gaming with peers; shopping at our campus bookstore; preparing food for the Cultural Festival in the Teaching Kitchen; • reflecting in quiet and meditative spaces; and • leaning into capstone projects or portfolios in the new art studios and Design Institute spaces. Housed in the Student Center, the Perkiomen Institutes will be able to centralize their leadership and activities. The space will introduce fresh dynamics that encourage new intersections of ideas and people, bringing exciting, unexpected opportunities. The Campus Green, along with the Outdoor Living and Recreation Space, will create exterior places for reflection and restoration. By extending areas for meeting, engaging, sharing, and learning, we will better foster connections. Overall, the addition of this space in the heart of campus will enhance the student experience, balancing moments of joy and academic rigor within the day.
“ Innovation happens at the intersection of academic and social environments. That’s why higher education focuses on spaces that combine both. The new Student Center is the most important space we can possibly add to campus — for students and for our future.” MARCIA MOLL BARONE ’79, P’14, ’17
Board of Trustees Director, National Development, Lehigh University
Expanding the Arts
We will elevate the presence of the visual and performing arts on our campus by expanding their facilities into inviting places that are meant to be seen as a part of our daily campus culture. Our resources will mirror the strength of our programs, faculty, and student talent. Visual arts, currently on the third floor of Kehs Hall, will be relocated to the Student Center, with purpose-built studios, a gallery, a design lab, and a prototyping room. Robbie’s, our current school store, will become a chorus and band ensemble room with three adjoining music practice rooms. Three new practice rooms for individuals and groups will also be located in the new Student Center. Students will be able to fill the atrium of the Student Center for indoor concert events, while a new outdoor performance venue, Finnegan’s on the Green, will be located just outside Kehs Hall, facing the heart of campus.
Enhancing elements of Kehs Hall, along with complementary programming in the Student Center, will provide the space and place for musicians to both practice and perform as part of the curriculum, as an after-school activity, or simply for the love of music.
Phase II
Evolving and Leading
First Impressions and Athletics In Phase II of the comprehensive campaign, we will continue remaking the campus through an array of value-added projects.
New Athletic Facilities
Unafraid to evolve, Perkiomen has grown to meet students’ needs in today’s secondary school athletic landscape. Our new Athletic Complex will enhance our coaches’ ability to support our student athletes — those looking for an individual or team high school athletic experience as well as those seeking to play at the next level. Perkiomen excels at meeting students where they are and elevating them to their best. Building facilities to match will raise Perkiomen’s level of expectation and competition. The new facilities will reflect the caliber of our programs, promote safety, increase competition areas available early and late in the seasons, as well as return the use of indoor space to other teams and individuals during inclement weather. Our new outdoor athletic facilities will include: • an all-weather track and turf field; • three grass playing fields; • a softball/baseball infield practice space; • spectator seating; and • support buildings for storage, restrooms, and team gatherings.
“ I am most excited for the enhancements to our athletic facilities. Every student at Perkiomen participates in our after-school activity program, so these upgrades will positively impact the entire Perkiomen community. The opportunity to bring this vision to life is what drew me to work on the campaign.” MIKE KRUGER
Director of Athletics and Director of Lacrosse Operations OMTL Campaign Committee Member
The track and field facility will include a running track and straightaway, as well as areas for pole vault, high jump, discus, shot put, and javelin, increasing the number of events we can offer. Elevating athletics is a strategic priority because it will strengthen the pipeline for talented student-athletes, bring increased energy and excitement to the community, widen the pathway to highly selective colleges and universities, and build Perkiomen’s reputation among independent schools in the Philadelphia area. Our state-of-the-art practice and playing facilities will build Perk pride among students and coaches, develop lifelong wellness habits, and empower athletes to reach their goals at Perkiomen and beyond.
First Impressions
We will construct an entry road from Schoolhouse Road to extend to the new campus arrival circle, make the best first impression on all visitors, and further position Perkiomen as a destination school.
“ You only have one chance to make a lasting first impression. Winding down the green landscape, passing through the athletic fields, and ending at the arrival circle, this scenic entryway will showcase Perkiomen’s beautiful grounds and historic architecture to all who make their way to campus.” MARK A. DEVEY P ’21, ’24
Head of School OMTL Campaign Committee Member
The new entry road, Ahlborn Way, will be a first contact point for visitors to Perkiomen, including prospective students and their families, university admissions officers, and athletic competitors. For alumni returning to campus, this view will blend the familiar with the new and welcome them home.
Phase III
Endowment, Annual Fund
Investing in Our Strengths Perkiomen School is far more than a collection of buildings, labs, and classrooms. We are a community of learners, makers, performers, and athletes, striving to become the best we can be.
Securing the Future
Growing the endowment by $7 million will secure Perkiomen’s future by: • bringing an extraordinary education within the reach of more students; • recruiting and retaining dedicated faculty members and supporting their on-going growth through professional development; • fostering curricular innovation and evolving programs; • maintaining and upgrading facilities; • renewing equipment, technology, and uniforms; and • enabling Perkiomen leaders to be nimble in their decision-making and to capitalize on opportunities.
Anchoring the Present
A six-year, $4.5-million boost to the Perkiomen Fund will impact curricula, programs, facilities, faculty, and all students. It will also set a high bar for continued growth of our annual fund and the strategic priorities of the present.
“ Your investment in Perkiomen empowers students like me because it shows that people believe in us. In knowing that someone else believes in us, we can’t help but believe in ourselves as well. It shows how much that whole community cares, not just about tangible things like buildings and classroom supplies, but also opportunities for student life and relationships to thrive.” NAOMI KNIGHT ’21
Student, Widener University
It’s Your Moment to Lead Our vision is to remake our physical footprint in a way that will give students new opportunities and room to grow. An extraordinary new Student Center will be at the center of this reimagined campus, designed to play a pivotal role in the lives of all students — deepening our inclusive, supportive culture; establishing a hub of innovation, exploration, and discovery; and sustaining and evolving our signature Perkiomen Institutes. The ultimate outcome is a transformational Perkiomen education — one that is relevant for today and adaptable for the future. We challenge each other to work and rework in pursuit of excellence each day. Transformation is at the heart of who we are as an institution and a community. Our moment is now. This is a call to action for all of us. Clear direction is a definitive quality of leadership. Our Moment to Lead provides just that at a most important time. Please join us in embracing this historic opportunity to transform Perkiomen and enrich the lives of generations of students through your generous support.
To learn more about Our Moment to Lead and additional naming opportunities, contact: Karl Welsh, Director of Development, at 267-644-6812 or kwelsh@perkiomen.org Diana Weir-Smith ’85, P’19, Alumni Director, at 610-506-1927 or dweirsmith@perkiomen.org Shauna Betof P’24, ’27, Major Gifts Officer, at 267-277-2962 or sbetof@perkiomen.org
To give online: omtl.perkiomen.org/donate or scan the code
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