Lakeside School
| Lakeside School | |
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| Location | |
| Seattle, Washington, United States | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private/Independent |
| Established | 1914 |
| Locale | Suburban |
| Head of School | Bernie Noe |
| Faculty | 111 |
| Grades | 5-12 |
| Number of students | 776 |
| School Color(s) | Maroon, Gold |
| Mascot | Lion |
| Endowment | $163 million[1] |
| Religious Affiliation | None |
| Website | www.lakesideschool.org |
Lakeside School is a private/independent school located in the Haller Lake neighborhood at the north city limits of Seattle, Washington, USA, for grades 5–12.
Lakeside sends 100% of its graduating class to four-year colleges.[1] Its most famous alumni are Bill Gates and Paul Allen, founders of Microsoft, who got their start programming tic-tac-toe on a time-shared computer provided by the Lakeside Mothers' Association and the Lakeside Mathematics Department. Other famous alumni include the McCaw brothers, who built a family business into the McCaw Cellular telephone empire which they eventually sold to AT&T Wireless; actor Adam West; bestselling author Po Bronson; and former Washington State Governor Booth Gardner.
[edit] History
Lakeside was founded in 1914 by Frank Moran as the Moran School on Bainbridge Island. In 1919, it moved to the waterfront Denny-Blaine neighborhood of Seattle and became the Moran-Lakeside School. In 1923 it moved to the present site of The Bush School in Washington Park and changed its name to the Lakeside Day School for Younger Boys soon thereafter. A few years later, Lakeside moved to its present location. It became coeducational upon merger with St. Nicholas, a Capitol Hill girls' school, in 1971.[2]
[edit] Global Service Learning
Established in the summer of 2005, the school's Global Service Learning Program aims at helping students gain a broader view of the world while helping the underprivileged around the world. In 2005, students visited India, Peru, and China; in the summer of 2006 students travelled to Peru, China, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic. In the summer of 2007, 86 Upper School students traveled to Peru, China, Morocco, India, and the Dominican Republic. This list grew to include Senegal as an option for the 2009 summer trips. The Middle School opened its first Global Service Learning Program for seventh graders with trips to the Makah Indian Reservation on Neah Bay in the summer of 2006, and has sent an eighth grade trip to Costa Rica every summer since 2007.[3]
The Global Service Learning Program is one piece of a broad change in curriculum and administrative policies aimed at increasing diversity . The school has focused on, in recent years, its role as an elite prep school and its desire for diverse viewpoints and backgrounds of its curriculum, faculty, and students.
Lakeside students have the opportunity to study abroad during their junior year of high school through schools called School Year Abroad, the Mountain School, the Rocky Mountain Semester, the Maine Coast Semester, and CityTerm. Students may apply in the winter of their sophomore year to spend part of their junior year at one of these schools.
Lakeside has a long tradition in engaging students in global affairs. In 1984, Lakeside students competed against students at Moscow School #20 in a chess match relayed by Telex. The event was one of the first of its kind. A yearly exchange program with Moscow School #20 was begun in 1986, the first such regular American-Soviet school exchange in the country. Since 1984, the schools have been sister schools.
[edit] Student Clubs and Programs
Lakeside has many different student clubs and programs including:[4]
- AcaFellas (all-male a cappella group)
- Amnesty International
- BELLAS (all-female a cappella group)
- Blue Suede Shoes (Swing dancing)
- Bluegrass Jam
- BSU (Black Student Union)
- Chess Team
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Diacritical Political
- Fencing
- GLOW (Gay, Lesbian, or Whatever)
- HOLF (History of Literature in Film)
- Knitting
- Imago
- Information Technology Assistants
- Knowledge Bowl
- LAPS (Lakeside Asian Pacific Students)
- Lakeside Outside
- Math Teams
- Meditation
- MIXED (Multicultural Initiators eXperiencing and Encouraging Diversity)
- Model United Nations (MUN)
- Programming and Robotics
- Philosophy
- SSASF
- Science Olympiad
- Student Government
- Squash
- Student Newspaper: "Tatler"
- Youth in Government
[edit] Notable alumni
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- Wilber B. Huston '29, winner of the 1929 Edison scholarship contest and NASA mission director
- Charles Pigott '47, Chairman and CEO of PACCAR 1967-1996 [5]
- Booth Gardner '54, Governor of Washington 1985-1993, ambassador to GATT
- Craig McCaw '68, cellular phone pioneer
- Paul Allen '71, co-founder of Microsoft, owner of the Seattle Seahawks
- Bill Gates '73, co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Frederic Moll '73, co-founder of Intuitive Surgical, Hansen Medical and Mako Surgical[6]
- Jabe Blumenthal '78, designer of Microsoft Excel[7][8]
- Ned Skinner, '38, an original owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks
- Adam West, TV's Batman, voice of Mayor Adam West on Family Guy
- Po Bronson, author
- Doug Merlino, author
- Annie Leonard, activist, filmmaker
- Freddie Wong '04, Guitar Hero 2 World Series Winner, popular internet filmaker
- Tor Seidler, author of "A Rat's Tale", "Mean Margaret" and "Gully's Travels"[9]
- Ben Bishop, winner of $115,800 over five days of competition on Jeopardy!, the most of any contestant in 2008 [10]
- Howard Phillips, Various game designer positions at Nintendo, Lucasfilm, and Microsoft
- Emily Lockhart, author
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Lakeside at a Glance". Lakeside School. http://www.lakesideschool.org/podium/default.aspx?t=122165. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
- ^ http://www.lakesideschool.org/podium/default.aspx?t=122170
- ^ http://www.lakesideschool.org/podium/default.aspx?t=122233
- ^ "Student Clubs". Lakeside School. http://www.lakesideschool.org/podium/default.aspx?t=122424. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
- ^ http://www.fulcrumfoundation.org/page.php?id=14&news_id=6
- ^ Feder, Barnaby J. (2008-05-04). "Prepping Robots to Perform Surgery". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/business/04moll.html?pagewanted=all.
- ^ "High-tech investment helps wildlife". USA Today. 2001-01-24. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-01-24-wildlife.htm. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ^ Lim, Paul J. (1995-08-15). "Microsoft Alums Just Starting To Make Their Mark". The Seattle Times. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950815&slug=2136534.
- ^ The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/16/reviews/971116.16dunleat.html.
- ^ Gaudette, Karen (2008-12-09). "Local "Jeopardy!" winner heads to Tournament of Champions". The Seattle Times. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/television/2008484788_jeopardy09.html.
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Coordinates: 47°43′56″N 122°19′39″W / 47.73214°N 122.32753°W
