RHODE ISLAND
Providence Journal
Callen holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brown University and a master’s degree and doctorate from Harvard University. She has been head of the upper school at Lakeside School in Seattle, Wash., since 2013.
By Karen Lee Ziner
Journal Staff Writer
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. – Alexandra “Alixe” Callen will become the first female to lead the 120-year-old St. George’s School when she begins her tenure on July 1, 2017. The school’s Board of Trustees announced Callen’s appointment Friday at the 12th head of school.
Callen holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brown University and a master’s degree and doctorate from Harvard University. She has been head of the upper school at Lakeside School in Seattle, Wash., since 2013.
The elite Episcopal boarding school – embroiled in a sex-abuse scandal this year – launched a search after current Headmaster Eric F. Peterson announced in June that he would not seek to extend his contract after it ends in June 2017. Peterson had served as headmaster for 12 years.
Watch an interview with Callen.
Controversy had embroiled the school since allegations of systemic sexual abuse at the school in the 1970s and ’80s became public a year ago.
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