As the 2018-2019 school year gets underway, leadership is the word at The Storm King School. On Saturday, September 1, a very special event designed to support our student leaders will take place on campus – a Leading Your Peers Workshop for student council members, Resident Assistants (RAs), and sports team captains.

The workshop is the first of its kind at SKS and the first event in a new initiative called the Roy Leadership Series. The series will include visitors, workshops, discussions, presentations, and trips, and will run throughout the school year. Michael Hauser, Storm King’s History and Social Sciences Department Chair, explains that the initiative was created to help SKS students develop a strong value for leadership and service in their daily lives – a value that will serve them not only at Storm King but well after graduation.

 

 

The series is named for Patrick Roy ‘99, a Storm King alumnus who was killed while serving in the Navy during a terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen less than a year and a half after graduating. He was only 19 years old at the time of his death. A natural born leader, Storm King commemorates the life of Roy each year on October 12 – the day of his passing.

According to Mr. Hauser, Saturday’s kick-off event will feature Mr. Tony Burgess, CEO of the Cornwall Leadership Institute, as its guest speaker. Tony graduated from West Point in 1990 and served as an Army officer for 24 years. While serving, he helped create a peer-to-peer learning network for junior officers and took part in a number of cutting-edge leadership development programs. As the co-founder and director of a leadership center at West Point, he has taught leadership to special operations leaders and coached Harvard MBA students in the Authentic Leadership Development elective at the Harvard Business School.