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MPA General Meeting
School News
Check out what we've been up to!
![Artist in Residence with Student in the Studio]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1738001221/maret/ssybaxmnjxch37nvjily/2025-Artist-in-Residence_MG_6864.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1738001221/maret/ssybaxmnjxch37nvjily/2025-Artist-in-Residence_MG_6864.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1738001221/maret/ssybaxmnjxch37nvjily/2025-Artist-in-Residence_MG_6864.jpg","width":552}])
This fall, the Visual Arts Department launched an artist-in-residency program, welcoming Avish Khebrehzadeh P ’27 into the Art, Culture, and Technology studio for six weeks.
![Viewing the baseball diamond multisport field and parking lot of new fields]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1649872537/maret/ujdlsyqtwqa9cwrxxfmo/FieldFlyoverThumbnail.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1649872537/maret/ujdlsyqtwqa9cwrxxfmo/FieldFlyoverThumbnail.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1649872537/maret/ujdlsyqtwqa9cwrxxfmo/FieldFlyoverThumbnail.png","width":796}])
WASHINGTON, DC — The Episcopal Center for Children (ECC) and Maret School have signed agreements for Maret to purchase the playing fields and building it is currently leasing, as well as the remaining three buildings at the ECC.
![Martha Raddatz at podium in the Maret Theater]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1730400553/maret/fw3ncrf1atox5uoxmyuc/Raddatz_552-369.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1730400553/maret/fw3ncrf1atox5uoxmyuc/Raddatz_552-369.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1730400553/maret/fw3ncrf1atox5uoxmyuc/Raddatz_552-369.jpg","width":552}])
This fall, Maret welcomed award-winning journalist and ABC News’ Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz P ’99, ’10 for an upper school assembly. Raddatz gave a frank, wide-ranging talk, engaging her audience with stories from her 30-plus years in journalism.
![Maret Community Members Helping with Horizons]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1727807915/maret/sghxqn6qqgzndr9k9uhq/HorizonsVolunteers_MG_9967.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1727807915/maret/sghxqn6qqgzndr9k9uhq/HorizonsVolunteers_MG_9967.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1727807915/maret/sghxqn6qqgzndr9k9uhq/HorizonsVolunteers_MG_9967.jpg","width":552}])
This summer, Horizons at Maret hosted 115 students under the experienced leadership of Site Director Marta del Cid ’11. Eight current students, five alumni, and two faculty members worked or volunteered to support students in classrooms on campus and at the pool.
![Rinad Beidas and Phoebe Aron]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1727817979/maret/rxyxk0huqshpb0yr1v8e/2024DAA.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1727817979/maret/rxyxk0huqshpb0yr1v8e/2024DAA.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1727817979/maret/rxyxk0huqshpb0yr1v8e/2024DAA.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1727817979/maret/rxyxk0huqshpb0yr1v8e/2024DAA.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1727817979/maret/rxyxk0huqshpb0yr1v8e/2024DAA.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1727817979/maret/rxyxk0huqshpb0yr1v8e/2024DAA.jpg","width":2200}])
Maret is proud to announce the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients, Dr. Phoebe Aron ’09 and Dr. Rinad Beidas ’99.
![Two students with cameras photograph a Simone Leigh sculpture]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1727817037/maret/pdqt4sighdjjezemdujq/StudentsPhotographingSimoneLeighExhibit_1.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1727817037/maret/pdqt4sighdjjezemdujq/StudentsPhotographingSimoneLeighExhibit_1.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1727817037/maret/pdqt4sighdjjezemdujq/StudentsPhotographingSimoneLeighExhibit_1.jpg","width":552}])
Simone Leigh’s exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum has created a buzz on campus this year.
![Team holding up DCSAA Championship trophy with Coach Engelberg in the background.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1701187211/maret/ycvqiain2vdtvd6mmu4i/2023FootballChamps.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1701187211/maret/ycvqiain2vdtvd6mmu4i/2023FootballChamps.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1701187211/maret/ycvqiain2vdtvd6mmu4i/2023FootballChamps.jpg","width":552}])
2016. 2019. 2021. And now 2023. Maret football edges out Coolidge High School 30-27 in a hard-fought, evenly matched contest to earn its fourth DCSAA Class A Championship banner.
![Young athlete practices tackling on pads under the guidance of four varsity football players]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1702675257/maret/gvaixjzcnxkp2klm5jg9/Tacklingonthepads_2.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1702675257/maret/gvaixjzcnxkp2klm5jg9/Tacklingonthepads_2.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1702675257/maret/gvaixjzcnxkp2klm5jg9/Tacklingonthepads_2.jpg","width":552}])
Saturday, December 9 was a perfect day to “Gear Up for Good" — an event combining a sports gear drive for Leveling the Playing Field and an all-gender flag football clinic with Maret's DCSAA championship football team.