The 20,000-square-foot Elizabeth B. McGraw Arts Center opens with new instrumental and choral facilities, classrooms and studios for ceramics, drawing, printmaking, painting and photography. It is also home to the Lautenberg “Black Box” Theater for acting students and the David Teiger ’47 Gallery for Studio Arts at the center of the wing, to showcase student… Read more »
Newark Academy becomes the first school in New Jersey to offer the International Baccalaureate diploma as part of the curriculum.
Allan E. Strand is named Headmaster.
The new Richard C. Hawkes Memorial Library (officially dedicated in 1982) is completed.
President Richard Nixon congratulates Newark Academy for its bicentennial celebration.