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The Hockaday School – A Girls’ College-Prep Day & Boarding School in Dallas Login About arrow Head of School The Hockaday Difference Board Leadership Leadership Team Employment arrow Career Opportunities Tenets of Staff Excellence Tenets of Faculty Excellence Tenets of Coaching Excellence Faculty and Staff Directory History arrow Centennial Celebration arrow Hockaday by Decade arrow The Hockaday Timeline 1913 1913 - 1919 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Centennial Exhibit Campus History Publications School Profile Academics arrow Lower School Middle School Upper School College Counseling arrow College Admission Reps Learning Support arrow Counseling Libraries Admission arrow Visiting Applying arrow PK-K Grades 1-4 Grades 5-11 Affording arrow Tuition and Fees Tuition Assistance Why All Girls? 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FAQ Meet Our Staff Athletics Schedules, Scores & Team Pages Athletics and Wellness Project Livestream Meet Our Staff Championships Alumnae Athletes Arts Performing Arts Visual Arts Private Lessons Debate Mass Communications Inclusion & Community Institute for Social Impact Lower School Middle School Upper School Co-Curriculars On Campus Summer at Hockaday Summer 2024 General Information Meet Our Summer 2024 Staff Summer 2024 (Age 3, PreK, & Kindergarten) Summer 2024 Lower School (Grades 1-2) Summer 2024 Lower School (Grades 3-4) Summer 2024 Middle School Programs Counselor-in-Training Program Athletic Camps Summer Courses for Upper School Credit Dining Residence Life Giving Ways to Give Annual Fund Endowment Planned Giving Gifts of Stock Matching Gifts Make A Gift Annual Fund Parent Annual Fund Campaign Alumnae Annual Fund Campaign Hockaday Parents’ Association The Heritage Society The 1913 Society Named Endowment Funds Meet Our Staff Endowed Distinguished Teachers Alumnae Alumnae Leadership Alumnae Weekend 2024Summer at Hockaday Institute for Social Impact Welcome New Families Hockaday News Rosalind Redfern Grover ’59 Elected Life Trustee The Hockaday School Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that Rosalind Roz” Redfern Grover ’59 has been elected Life Trustee. Rosalind has been a devoted member of the Hockaday community and has served Hockaday loyally, making significant contributions to the School as an alumna, grandparent, and Trustee. Read More Read More Eleven Seniors to Continue Athletics in College Eleven members of the Class of 2024 will continue their athletic careers in college, adding to the 76 collegiate student-athletes who have graduated from Hockaday in the past seven years. Congratulations to our college athletic signees! Alyssa Anderson Yale University, Track and Field Evie Fox Bates College, Rowing Taylor Hua Amherst College, Lacrosse Avery Jackson Stanford University, Beach Volleyball Maya Malik University of Washington, Rowing Abby Grace McGowan University of Virginia, Rowing Caroline Stevens Georgetown University, Rowing Zoe Stone Georgetown University, Rowing Ashna Tambe University of Pennsylvania, Basketball Jaden Thomas Stanford University, Soccer Margaret Thompson Princeton University, Cross Country and Track and Field Read More Shanda H. Blackmon ’87 MD, MPH, FACS Announced as the 2024 Commencement Speaker The Hockaday School is pleased to announce Shanda H. Blackmon ’87 MD, MPH, FACS , as the 2024 Commencement Speaker. Dr. Blackmon is a minimally invasive thoracic surgeon and the Executive Director of the Baylor College of Medicine Lung Institute and Olga Keith Weiss Endowed Professor in Surgery for Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She was the 2023 recipient of the Ela Hockaday Distinguished Alumna Award. Dr. Blackmon completed Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency at Baylor College of Medicine and was awarded the Clinical Instructorship position in thoracic surgical oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center until she was recruited to build and lead the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital, where she was Chief of Thoracic Surgery and served as the Director of the Thoracic Tumor Board and Founder/Director of the Lung Cancer Screening Program. She was then recruited to become Professor of Thoracic Surgery within the Department of Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. A trailblazer and champion for women in her field, Dr. Blackmon became the first female trainee in the history of the Baylor College of Medicine’s 50-year-old program and also the first cardiothoracic surgery resident to give birth while in the program. She was the first woman on staff in her field at the Mayo Clinic, is the Past-President of Women in Thoracic Surgery, and an awardee of the Extraordinary Woman in Cardiothoracic Surgery. She is also committed to allyship among colleagues and patients and recently authored The Support Group,” a book that shares stories of the patients Dr. Blackmon has treated over the years and the healthcare professionals with whom she has worked. After she saw the difference a committed ally could make in a patient’s long-term survivorship, Dr. Blackmon sought to extend the principles of support to her colleagues. She takes a candid look at the role of support in our healthcare practices and offers a workable model for patients, caregivers, and providers alike. Dr. Blackmon led the development of Mayo Clinic’s first completely virtual longitudinal disease-specific integrated survivorship program. She holds several patents including a novel esophageal anastomotic device. She was the founder/Director of the Mayo Clinic Esophageal Tumor Board, Lung Ablation Tumor Board and developed the UDD App, a patient management platform for foregut surgery and post-esophageal reconstruction patients. Dr. Blackmon is married to Matt Blackmon. Their twin sons are Jake and Sam, who are college freshmen, and their daughter is Grace, who is in Fifth Grade. Eugene McDermott Head of School Dr. Laura Leathers remarked, I am thrilled to welcome Shanda back to Hockaday as our 2024 Commencement speaker. Her passion for patient care, supporting women in a male-dominated field, and her desire to innovate inspire us all. She truly exemplifies Hockaday’s commitment to educating girls to lead lives of purpose and impact.” Read More Latin students...