Stuart Hall Events
Game Night Open Tailgate – Join us for a soccer game and a tailgating party!
Stuart Hall Varsity Boys Soccer v. Perry McClure
April 13 – 5:30 PM – Stuart Hall Athletic Fields (corner of Commerce and Statler Blvd) Read more
Local student voted runner-up in Post photo contest
Edited by Chris Graham
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A Stuart Hall student was voted one of two runners-up in a recent Washington Post high-school photo contest. Read more
Local student is finalist in Post photo contest
Edited by Chris Graham
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A local student is among 10 finalists in a Washington Post high-school photo contest.
Anwyn Cook’s photo “Reflection in Creek” is among the finalists for the contest open to students in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Read more
Lacrosse gaining local foothold at FMS, Stuart Hall
Story by Chris Graham
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The skies have opened, but despite the threat of more heavy rain on the way, this is lacrosse, and lacrosse players, as much if not more than football players, are nothing if not tough, so the game between Fishburne Military School and visiting Stuart Hall is on. Read more
Focus | Stuart Hall works through the recession
Plan includes sale of property, renewed fundraising efforts
Story by Chris Graham
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Rumors were swirling among students at Stuart Hall for weeks that the 165-year-old Staunton private school might not even make it to the second semester of the 2009-2010 school year due to a run of budget issues related to the ongoing economic downturn and the 2007 merger of Stuart Hall and Hunter McGuire.
Good news came Friday with the announcement that the Board of Trustees of the Church Schools in the Diocese of Virginia, the nonprofit corporate parent of Stuart Hall, had approved a plan from the Stuart Hall Board of Governors laying out how the school will make it through the tough times. Read more
Sustainability plan for Stuart Hall gets OK
Staff Report
The parent organization to Stuart Hall in Staunton has endorsed a plan for long-term sustainability developed by the private school’s Board of Governors in the face of economic challenges faced by the school in the continuing economic downturn.
“We recognize that the critical keys to our sustainability are recruitment of new students, retention of current students and fundraising,” said Mark Eastham, Head of Stuart Hall School, outlining specifics of the sustainability plan. Read more
A parent’s right to choose
Dylan Owens-Wargo wasn’t enamored, to say the least, with his mom’s plans to send him to Fishburne Military School for eighth grade.
“I told her I was going to run away if she made me go to Fishburne,” said Owens-Wargo, whose mother, Heather Owens, for her part felt she had no choice but to pull Dylan out of the Waynesboro public-school system.
“He had just stopped caring. He either wasn’t doing his homework, or he wasn’t turning it in, trying to be cool like the other kids. I didn’t give him a choice. This was our only option,” said Owens, who was rolling the dice in more ways than one. Because Heather Owens isn’t the archetype for a private-school mom. She is in fact a single mother and small-business owner who takes on extra clients at her Natural Beauty Studios in Downtown Waynesboro to help pay the $15,000 annual expenses for tuition, books and uniforms for Dylan to be able to attend Fishburne.
