Dickson Named Assistant Head for Student Life

Doug Dickson, currently Upper School Head at St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, will become Episcopal's next Assistant Head for Student Life effective summer 2017.
The following is a letter to the Episcopal High School community from Head of School Charley Stillwell:

Dear All,

It is a great pleasure to announce that Doug Dickson has been selected to serve as our next Assistant Head for Student Life. Doug has served as Head of the Upper School at St. Stephen’s, an Episcopal day/boarding school in Austin, Texas, since 2008. Prior to his time at St. Stephen’s, Doug had an impressive 26-year tenure at St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., where he taught math, coached football, lacrosse, girls squash, and track, served as Athletic Director and then as Dean of Students and Vice Rector for Students for many years.

Throughout his career, Doug has cared deeply about student life issues and the importance of developing close relationships among students and faculty. At St. Paul’s he helped develop a new residential education program that focused on character development. At St. Stephen’s he helped the school take a close look at its Episcopal identity and how it supported the mission in critical ways. He developed new dorm and faculty housing facilities. He also worked to enhance access for students from diverse backgrounds at St. Stephen’s and other independent schools in Austin as well as to expand college graduation rates for first-generation college students by helping to develop and expand a program known as Breakthrough Austin.

Doug earned his B.A. from Middlebury College and his M.Ed. from Notre Dame College. He has been a regular presenter at workshops and conferences for over a decade. Doug has also worked for many years to support the initiatives of The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS). Serving on the TABS Board, Doug was asked to help create a course to mentor faculty from across the country who are new to boarding schools. He has helped to guide this week-long course since 2003.

Doug will join the EHS community this coming summer with his wife. Dr. Laurie Dickson currently serves as chair of the nursing department at Austin Community College. Doug and Laurie have two grown sons, one of whom, Bowman, currently teaches at St. Andrew’s in Delaware.

I want to thank all who participated in the search process. The school had an impressive group of candidates, and the Search Committee consisting of Mary Fielder, Ashley McDowell, Nate Ebel, Mimi Schwanda, Joel Sohn, and Eleanor Moore played a particularly helpful role in the process.

Please join me in welcoming Doug and Laurie to our Episcopal High School family this summer.

Sincerely,
Charley
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