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Harley’s Approach to College Counseling is highly individualized and student-centered. Students have direct access to college counselors throughout their Upper School experience, but really, each student is part of a team including faculty, administration, and staff. It’s our job to support each student and we want nothing more than to send students on to the next step of their journey at a right fit school for them. The student centered and driven process is wrapped in care, expertise, and professionalism.
We host college reps during times students are available (no need to miss a class) so they can make connections and learn more about potential schools. We also arrange campus visits for classes as field trips, host an alumni college day (where recent Upper School graduates return to share advice and answer questions), and help connect students with our international alumni network. In fact, representatives from schools all over the world actively seek opportunities to come to Harley and meet with our students!
Our college counselors are accredited and are part of national/global conversations on admission trends. They also attend and present at conferences across the country.
Beginning with our Grade 11 parent night, we offer informational sessions for parents, including one devoted just to financial aid. Our partnership with families is critical, as the college admissions world changes very quickly and having an expert to guide students and families through the process is essential.
“Club Rush” is an afternoon every fall in the Upper School when students have the chance to sign up for clubs for the year, and each year it is very different because new clubs are created based on student initiative and enthusiasm.
A few of this year’s choices: Sports Media, Social Action Club, Journalism Club, Feminism Club, Student of Color & Allies (SOCA), Gay-Straight Alliance, Tri M (music honor society), E-Sports Club, Euchre, Key Club (service), Animation Club, Dungeons & Dragons, Sustainability Club, Jewish Cultural Club, Astronomy Club, Biomimicry, and Beyond Soup (social justice/service).
Each and every year, students at The Harley School participate in HAC Athletics, and their success continues to be impressive, both as students and athletes. Our athletic program is an integral part of Harley, teaching student-athletes invaluable lessons about teamwork, time management, persistence, and competition. Our program allows them to develop physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally as they represent their school on and off the field. They grow, mature, and work hard to be the best teammate they can, while creating lifelong memories with teammates who often remain friends for life.
Helping our athletes to reach their potential are some of HAC’s best assets: our coaches. More often than not, they are drawn from the ranks of our faculty and have a deep understanding of the personalities and abilities of the student-athletes on their teams.
We strive to find the right balance of academics, exercise, and personal growth for everyone. By offering a variety of sports at many different levels, all student-athletes find a sport they can be successful in. It is with great pride and pleasure that my team and I work to enrich the athletic lives of all our HAC student-athletes. Go Wolves!
To learn more check out our athletics page.
Our Upper School is filled with formal and informal opportunities for students to take on leadership roles. Whether following passions or learning new skills, student-driven opportunities take many shapes.
– Independent study: one trimester, full year, and multi-year projects have included automating our solar chimneys, coding handmade musical instruments, or developing a class on financial literacy for underserved high school students.
– Serving on student council
– STEM: Climate curriculum program, biomimicry program, NASA Hunch program
“Club Rush” is an afternoon every fall in the Upper School when students have the chance to sign up for clubs for the year, and each year it is very different because new clubs are created based on student initiative and enthusiasm.
A few of this year’s choices: Sports Media, Social Action Club, Journalism Club, Feminism Club, Student of Color & Allies (SOCA), Gay-Straight Alliance, Tri M (music honor society), E-Sports Club, Euchre, Key Club (service), Animation Club, Dungeons & Dragons, Sustainability Club, Jewish Cultural Club, Astronomy Club, Biomimicry, and Beyond Soup (social justice/service).
Unlike this class, death is not an elective. Although it is one of two universal human experiences, our culture often ignores, denies, or misconstrues the true nature of death and dying. What happens when we bear witness to this natural process in the cycle of life and develop our ability to be fully present with others when they need us more than ever? It has the potential to change us deeply and fundamentally while shining a brilliant light on the path of our own lives.
With the support of their classmates, teacher, and comfort care home communities, senior students are offered the chance to care for others who truly need their purposeful, non-judgmental attention. In the home-like setting of a comfort care home, opportunities for learning extend beyond a traditional classroom rubric and conventional methods of evaluation. In this course, students will certainly find tangible “learning outcomes” by studying the medical/physical processes associated with dying and the basic nursing assistant skills of comfort care. The ultimate goal, however, will always be rooted in true relationships and connection, which occurs only through empathy and compassion.
Learn more about the Hospice Program at Harley HERE.
This program utilizes environmentally-focused approaches to education and hands-on learning in order to foster the next generation of leaders through a lens of sustainability and problem-solving.
Food & Farm: These year-long and trimester-long classes are held outside as much as possible, allowing students to become leaders in our various growing spaces. They cover environmental justice issues as well as hands-on work such as planning and overseeing planting, harvesting, and preparation of the gardens.
Past year-long focus projects have included: Creating a native plant shade garden in the Wild Wood area, redesigning our hydroponic system, overhauling Harley’s high tunnel, and improving the irrigation system for the MicroFarm.
Culinary Arts: These classes have a two-fold purpose: to give students practical skills in cooking and the science behind different techniques in the kitchen, learning about food justice, food sourcing, labor topics, and sustainability.
Past topics have included: Examining a plant-based diet, looking at the carbon footprint of different meals and food preparation methods, proposing a low carbon footprint menu to the dining hall, links between food labeling and environmental issues of food production.
Beekeeping: This one trimester class provides hands-on training in beekeeping, how to be a beekeeper, and safety and other techniques for working with bees. Once trained students help with all aspects of Harley beekeeping such as hive inspections, honey collection and extraction, and teaching students in Lower School about our hives.
Students pick a research topic addressing honeybee health and the larger environmental picture.
At Harley, our students learn how to evaluate social systems in order to identify complex problems in society through a lens of social justice. They take a hands-on approach to working for a fair, equitable society by researching, exploring and evaluating different perspectives, and offering solutions—both theoretical and practical.
Our faculty integrate social justice into our broader curriculum to assist students in gaining a foundational knowledge about what makes a democracy function. By gaining skills in ideating supportive pathways they become more exposed and experienced to how communities can undergo healing and restorative actions.
Students may create independent studies with supervising teachers throughout their Upper School experience or, during Grade 12, they can design Capstone projects—intensive collaborations with Harley faculty and off-campus mentors—involving rigorous academic study and culminating in public presentations. They are empowered to create their own curriculum, set goals, and work on time management skills in order to accomplish their objectives.
Independent Studies run the gamut from The Psychology of Sports to Furniture Design to The Neuroimaging of Alzheimer’s Disease. Capstones, meanwhile, are as diverse as the students who pursue them: Fictional Rochester, Autobiographical Art, Biomimicry Education, Organic Fuel, and Rochester Refugees.
Indicative of Upper School curiosity and creativity, pursuits such as these distinguish our graduates in college. Through deep dives of this sort, Harley students master more than speaking, writing, and computing: they learn to communicate, advocate, collaborate, organize, listen, and empathize.
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Four generations of the D’Amanda family have attended Harley. As alumni, current grandparents, alumni parents, and former Trustees the impact of our school has shaped and inspired this family for over 50 years.
They appreciate the continuity offered by Harley and reflect on their ability to “be their best selves” at our school
Enjoy this truly multi-generational snapshot of one of our oldest families.
Dr. Deborah A. Abowitz '77
Jeffrey Alexis and Christine Hay
Mr. Laurent Alpert and Ms. Johanna Fend Alpert '64
James '74 and Cecilia Alsina
Mr. and Mrs. Chad Anderson
Ms. Emily Andrews '10
Ms. Sarah Andrews '12
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Ms. Beth Bailey and Ms. Melissa McHenry
Ms. Christine Baker
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund
Jim and Carol Barclay
Mr. Chris Becker
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Beer
Dr. Eric L. Bell
Charlene Berry
Dr. and Mrs. Heath Boice-Pardee
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Bowley
Mr. Christopher Brand
Ms. Whitney Brice
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Briggs
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Briggs
Ms. Valerie R. Bronte '99
Mr. Ryan Brush and Mrs. Melissa Fujimoto-Brooks
Paul J. Burgo '97
Ms. Susan Bush and Dr. Marianne Taylor
Ms. Patricia Butler
Mr. Seth Button '97
Martha Cameron '81
Ms. Sarah E. Chambers
Drs. Mitchell A. Chess and Patricia R. Chess
Kerry C. Cho '88
Mr. James Chung '89
Mr. John Clark and Dr. Nancy Shafer-Clark
Patricia Corcoran
Mr. Samuel Crabb and Dr. Glynis Scott
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Dagen '51
Mr and Mrs. William Dalton
John D'Amanda '75 and Kathy Durfee D'Amanda '76
Ms. MaryLynn Dandrea and Mr. Stephen Kupferschmid
Stewart D. Davis
The DeNatale Family
Sarah Dengler '75
Beth DeWeese '75
Mr. and Mrs. Trevor DiMarco
Mr. Michael Discenza and Dr. Jacque Trama-Discenza
Dr. Gregory Dobson
Dr. Zhiyao Duan and Ms. Yunping Shao
Mr. Nathaniel G. Duckles '04
Robert and Lisa Duerr
Mr. Rashid Duroseau '05
Jo Eaton and Richard Babin
Ms. Christine Edge
Dr. Charles D. Fallon '60
Mr. Thomas E. Feldman '76 and Ms. Andrea J. Michie
Marilyn Fain Fenster
Mr. George Ferguson and Ms. Pia Cseri-Briones
Drs. Paulo Fernandes and Lucelene Lopes
Mr. David Fetterman and Ms. Adrienne McHargue
Ms. Selena Fleming
Mr. Andrew Flinders '89
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Dr. Rich Fonda
Scott Frame '73 and Katherine Kearns Frame '73
Drs. Jonathan Friedberg and Laura Calvi
Mr. Lawrence Damrad Frye and Ms. Robin Damrad Frye
James and Marjorie Fulmer
Christopher Gabel '92
Brian and Julie Gambill
John '70 and Karen Gardner
Mr. Hugh Germanetti
Mr. Ward J. Ghory and Ms. Anne Ghory-Goodman
Richard and Joyce Gilbert
John L. Goldman '52
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Goldman '86
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Mr. Robert Gray '92 and Ms. Alison Carling
Anthony L. and Earlene C. Gugino
Gregory and Priscilla Gumina
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Haldeman
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Cynthia Hallenbeck '75
Ned Hallick '68
Mr. Gregory Halpern and Ms. Ahndraya Parlato
Mr. and Mrs. Henry NG Hanson '60
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hartman
Barbara Hays '47
Betsy Hecker '73
Mr. and Mrs. Shaun Heckman
Dr. and Mrs. Wade C. Hedegard
Mr. William Hosley
Chris and Kristy Houston
Drs. Fred M. Howard and Cynthia R. Howard
Mr. Steven R. Jackson '06
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Dr. Roy Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Joslyn
Ms. Elizabeth Kabes
Ms. Anna Kennedy '13
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Kennedy
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Paul Kingsley and Kathleen McGrath
Ms. Naomi Kinsler
Robert Kopfman and Sharon Humiston
Dr. Harlan Kosson
Ms. Sonja B. Kreckel
Mrs. Susan Weil Kunz '52
Ms. Marcia Layton Turner
Dr. Hochang Lee and Mrs. Christine Chung
Ms. Cynthia Lees
Ms. Hillary M. Levitt '04
Mr. Mark Goldstein and Dr. Dena Levy
Dr. Kenneth Lindahl and Mrs. Kathy Lindahl
Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Loeb
Ms. Victoria A. Lomaglio '06
Dr. Alan Lorenz and Ms. Nancy Sands
Dr. Frederick S. Cohn and Ms. Janice Loss
Staffan '66 and Lee Craig Lundback '66
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Mr. and Mrs. Madhava Marri
Mrs. Kenneth Maxwell
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew McAlpin
Kurt and Lisa McConnell
Mr. and Mrs. David McCoy
Lee S. McDermott (Lee Sherwood Allen '64)
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. McGraw, III
Robert McLear '88 and Claire McLear '87
Jon and Susan Parkes McNally
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mendolia
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Mike '78 and Betsy Merin
Jeannette C. Mitchell
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Mr. Roderick Mortimer
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Mr. and Mrs. Steve Neumaier
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Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Nice
Carl Nielsen and Patricia Corcoran
Robert and Milena Novy-Marx
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Ms. Jean M. Oswald
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Mrs. Julie Walker Parker '79
Walter Parkes
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Terry Platt and Dianne Edgar
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Plonsky
Mr. Douglas Pratt
Mr. and Mrs. David Publow
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Mr. Gabriel Racz '90 and Ms. Melanie Walker
Drs. Amit Ray and Jessica Lieberman
James and Nancy Rinehart
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Neal Roden
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Miss Izabella Sander
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Alicia Morgenberger Schober '85
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Mr. Russell Scott and Dr. Christine Scott
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Chip and Marit Sheffield
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Jackie Smith
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Alan and Helen Soanes
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Dr. Hannah Solky
Mr. Paul Sparacino '72
Mrs. Suzy Spencer
Dr. Eric Spitzer
Ms. Virginia Smythe Spofford '74
Dr. Douglas Stockman and Ms. Marietta Cutrone
Charles Stuard '82
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sullivan
Brenda Fuhrman Swain '77
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Andrea Taylor
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Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Wallace
Mr. Andrew Washburn and Dr. Elizabeth Santos
Drs. Joseph Wedekind and Clara Kielkopf
Mr. and Mrs. William T. West
Mr. Peter V. Whitbeck '71
Dr. Julie L. Whitbeck '81
Bill '58 and Bobbi Whiting
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wilcox
Miss Winifred S. Wilcox-Fox
Helen Wiley and Marian Payson
Mr. Alan Winchester and Dr. Larissa Temple
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Winslow
Karen Yeoman '98
Mr. Daniel P. Yeoman '00 and Ms. Beth Bafford
Ms. Margot Townsend Young '64
Dr. Xulong Zhang and Mrs. Xiaobei Qiu
Ms. Jianping Zhu
Fati Ziai '82
Jane Hopfinger and Robert Zogas