Springside School
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| Springside School | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | |
| Information | |
| Religion | None |
| Headmistress | Priscilla G. Sands |
| Enrollment |
640 |
| Average class size | 16 |
| Student:teacher ratio | 8:1 |
| Type | Private |
| Campus | Urban/Suburban |
| Athletics | Inter-ac |
| Motto | For Excellence. For Girls. |
| Mascot | Lioness |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Established | 1879 |
| Homepage | Springside School |
Springside School is a private, all-girls school (pre-K through 12th grade) in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood, in the Northwest section of Philadelphia in the United States. Founded in 1879, the school recently celebrated its 125th birthday.
Springside competes in the Inter-Academic (inter-ac) League. Teams include cross-country, field hockey, soccer, tennis, basketball, squash, volleyball, track and field, lacrosse, and golf. This year, the school hopes to add a swim team.
The school mascot is a Lioness.
Springside is attached to Chestnut Hill Academy (CHA) with whom it shares classes and resources. The two schools also share a performing arts program called Players. In the 2006-2007 the Players performed James Thurber's A Thurber Carnival and High Society.
Springside's a capella group, the Laurelei, has won numerous awards in national competitions with CHA's group, the Hilltones.
[edit] Notable alumnae
- Joanna Sigmund (1994), who was killed in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. She was an accomplished student academically, athletically, and artistically.
- Melissa Fitzgerald was featured on several seasons of The West Wing as CJ's assistant, Carol Fitzpatrick.
- Diana Chapman Walsh, class of 1962, Wellesley College's twelfth president.
- Amy Banse, class of 1977, President of Comcast Interactive Media.
- Victoria Chapman, class of 1980, producer/writer for the BET network.
- Emily Lloyd, class of 1962, executive vice president of Columbia University.
- Leah Smith, class of 1984, director of communications/external affairs at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Phoebe Wetzel Griswol, class of 1958, wife of the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and the 2002 Humanitarian of the Year.
- Elizabeth Brode, class of 1991, second all-time scorer at Lehigh University with 222 points scored and third in all-time goals scored with 166. Now the Lehigh women's lacrosse coach she was the 2006 Patriot League Coach of the Year.
- Sally Deaver Murray, class of 1951, between 1952 and 1959, Sally skied her way on to the US Women's ski team by winning the Alta Cup, Roch Cup and Harriman Cup, the country's top three invitational meets and she won the 1956 and 1957 national Women's Giant Slalom Championships and the 1956 national Women's Slalom Championship. In the 1958 Word Championships in Badgastein, Austria, Sally came in second place in the Giant Slalom.
