Below you will find the list of students who earned the distinctions of Head of School Honor Roll, High Honor Roll, and Honor Roll. Congratulations, students!
The Reception for the Helen Figge Moss Memorial Exhibition will be March 11 at 7:00 p.m. in Carson Gallery at The Stony Brook School. Mary Jane van Zeijts is this year's HFM artist. Ms. van Zeijts' show will run until April 8, and she will also be presenting workshops at the School.
The Stony Brook School is pleased to present a theatrical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Please come and support our student actors, artists, and technicians.
The World Journalism Institute is proud to present the second edition of The Babbling Brook. Students collaborated on this publication in the second session of mini-courses, in November.
This year’s senior class has worked hard and achieved the strongest college results in many years. They have had the highest percentage accepted to what we call “ultra” schools in the last 6 years.
“What are the things that aren't negotiable for you, as you're beginning your college search?” —Christine Loo, director of college counseling at The Stony Brook School in Stony Brook, NY
A team from The Stony Brook School took first place in the 9th Annual Long Island High School Ethics Bowl, sponsored by Hofstra University and The Squire Family Foundation. Twenty-four teams from 14 high schools in Nassau and Suffolk counties participated in the February 3 competition at Hofstra, which encourages and promotes ethical awareness, critical thinking skills, civil discourse, civic engagement, and an appreciation for diverse points of view.
On Wednesday, December 27th in the lobby of the YMCA on Haynes Street, LIFT Johnstown honored its 17th Volunteer Spotlight Award recipient in a surprise presentation. Elisabeth Felix has served in numerous capacities and for various organizations as a fundraiser and a volunteer in Johnstown. She was nominated by the President, Board of Directors and Camp Director of The Cambria County Camp Cadet program for her leadership skills, work ethic, mentoring and fundraising efforts on behalf of the Camp. LIFT also received an impressive nomination for Felix from Rev. Ray Streets for her efforts at her church and her community service.
What do a physician, a competitive swimmer, and a scuba diver have in common? In a word, Casey O’Donnell ’94.
Whether at the clinic, in the pool, or fathoms below the surface, this Stony Brook alumnus has, in his every endeavor, exhibited a consistent ability to see beyond his current circumstances to the potential of what could be. With eyes fixed on a vision, Casey has stood out as a leader in his career, on his team, and in his community.
Priscilla '05 and Kimberly '08 Addison, two sisters from Ghana, were living in Geneva, Switzerland, enjoying some of the world’s finest chocolate, when an idea struck them. At first, it was only an observation: Swiss chocolate, for all its fame and glory, was made up of mostly imported ingredients, the cocoa bean from Ghana listed prominently among them. It didn’t take long for the question to finally be asked, why should Ghana export raw resources only to import a product that could be manufactured locally? Business plans and talk of relocation quickly flooded the sisters’ conversation, and in the distance, from far across the Alps, adventure was beckoning them homeward to Ghana.
My struggle with innovation began 13 years and six months ago in Gaebelein Hall. It was the first class of my first day at the Stony Brook School. By some gross error, I was in Mrs. Linzee’s ninth-grade Honors English class.
Jyles Etienne added to his remarkable legacy by becoming the first Stony Brook athlete to be featured in Sports Illustrated. Several Stony Brook alumni have graced the pages of the esteemed publication during their collegiate career, including Robin Lingle ’60, but no Brooker had earned inclusion during their high school career.
Students from the Stony Brook School had their senior prom on Thursday, May 25, 2017. A total of 106 students and 69 seniors attended this year's prom, which was held in Bayville and the Bowlmor Lanes in Melville.
On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Stony Brook High School students carried buckets of water for a mile as they tried to understand the hardships of those in Cambodia, who must carry buckets of water for their families for miles out of sheer necessity.
Sisters Emmy and Rae Specht came home to Bellport from a family trip to Cambodia determined to help address the Southeast Asian country’s rural poverty and lack of safe drinking water.
Although West African countries produce over seventy percent of world’s cocoa, I’ll bet you can’t name one African chocolate brand. Why? Because most of the Continent’s cocoa is exported to foreign countries that produce their own brands.
Brittany Merrill Underwood ’02 (No.5), founder and CEO of Akola Jewelry Underwood is a clear example of a servant leader practicing conscious capitalism to transform the lives of impoverished women and families. Through her nonprofit social business, Akola's jewelry line is the first Full-Impact Brand to be sold in the luxury space through their national launch in Neiman Marcus.
In 2014, an American evangelical missionary walked into the Foreign Ministry buildings in Tehran, at the invitation of the Iranian Foreign Minister, to facilitate understanding between those countries at the beginning of nuclear negotiations.
Dorothy Sayers once articulated that “work is not primarily a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do.” Brittany Merrill Underwood ’02 wholeheartedly embraces this vocational concept as founder and president of Akola Jewelry, a non-profit jewelry brand designed to help impoverished women achieve sustainable economic development. For Brittany, vocation denotes both a professional and spiritual journey, an unpredictable process of learning and growing communally in faith and in service. “I wouldn’t have been able to see it initially,” she says, “but through my work, God showed me who He created me to be, and that’s so much more than just surviving and going through life.”
I was only two-years-old the first time I stepped onto a basketball court. I left my perch in the bleachers and strode across the sideline in a determined pursuit for the ball. Unfortunately, it was the middle of a Stony Brook School basketball game. Read more
“He’s the engine that makes them go,” Stony Brook coach Mike Hickey said. So he took his best defensive player, 5-9 junior guard Emil Vaughn, out of the garage and assigned him to guard Anderson. Read more
I’m aware that, over the six decades since I first arrived at The Stony Brook School, faulty versions of my athletic exploits have seeped into the lore of The Brook. This is an attempt to amend the fiction with truth from 60 years ago, then 20 years, then today.
Six decades ago, the Stony Brook Assembly was in decline. So what? For most readers of these nostalgic narratives, that foregoing sentence has little meaning or relevance to their connection with The Stony Brook School.
I thank Dan Hickey for the invitation to explore my memory bank and recall from six decades ago anecdotes about athletes and coaches at The Stony Brook School. Here’s a logical sequel to the first story about the Poly Prep coach who, in 1951, gave me my first pair of track spikes.
From the steps of Old Cabell Hall, acclaimed actress Sarah Drew looked on as thousands of soon-to-be University of Virginia alumni sat earnestly amongst the backdrop of the renovated Rotunda, anticipating her words of wisdom.
I’ve been asked to reminisce in writing from time to time about athletes I’ve cheered or coached over more than three decades at The Stony Brook School, starting in the fall of 1957. But my memories actually begin more than six years earlier, in the spring of 1951—65 years ago.
Leaders of independent, Catholic and Jewish schools reacted with elation to expanded funding for nonpublic schools for the 2016-17 academic year included in the just-passed state budget.
“Not only does this funding help thousands of kids whose schools like ours face funding challenges, it also should be seen as a step toward breaking down the walls that have prevented public, private and parochial schools from working together to help all of our kids,” Joshua Crane, head of school at The Stony Brook School, said Friday.
Growing up in the East African country of Rwanda, Chester Kayonga’s favorite NBA player was Kobe Bryant. But Kayonga, a 6-4 senior, didn’t begin playing basketball until he was a ninth grader.