March of Oscar the Penguin

"Oscar" the penguin recently made the move from Head of School Mike Schafer's office to his newly-completed permanent display in the E.E. Just Environmental Center. Brought back by Admiral Richard E. Byrd from his 1932 Antarctica expedition, Oscar was one of several penguins who unfortunately succumbed to pneumonia before arriving in the states. The taxidermy Oscar was a gift to Byrd's physician Dr.  Benjamin Ragle, step-grandfather to KUA's current Alumnus in Residence Ed Cronick ’71 who donated Oscar to KUA, and father of Jack Ragle, long-time KUA faculty emeritus and former headmaster of the Governor Dummer Academy. Ed has brought state-of-the-art hydroponic food production to the E.E. Just greenhouse and is helping spearhead KUA’s sustainability initiatives.