Nichols School
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| Nichols School | |
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| Buffalo, NY, USA | |
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| Type | Private, Day, Grades 5-12 |
| Religious affiliation | none |
| Established | 1892 |
| Headmaster | Richard C. Bryan, Jr. |
| Faculty | 71 |
| Enrollment | 580 day |
| Average class size | 14 students |
| Student:teacher ratio | 8:1 |
| Campus | Urban, 30 acres |
| Color(s) | Green & White |
| Athletics | N/A |
| Mascot | Viking |
| Website | http://www.nicholsschool.org/ |
Nichols School is a private, co-educational college-preparatory school located in Buffalo, New York, USA.
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[edit] History
Nichols School was founded in 1892 by William Nichols.
Our aim is to train minds, bodies and hearts for the work of life, and to carry into all we do the highest ideals of character and service. - Joseph D. Allen, 1909 (Second Headmaster)
[edit] Faculty
Faculty, chosen for their expertise, regularly publish in their academic field: 75% have master's degrees; 10% have doctoral degrees. Fourteen percent of the faculty are Nichols graduates. According to the school, they are committed to the school's educational mission and they have an average of 19.5 years of service. Teachers are involved in student life beyond their classrooms, serving as student advisors, coaches, club advisors and mentors. They recently hired a new Athletic Director.
[edit] Campus
Nichols School is located on 25 acres (100,000 m2) in North Buffalo, within walking distance of the Buffalo Zoo, Delaware Park, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The Nichols campus includes six separate buildings linked by tree-lined sidewalks and an indoor passageway. The campus consolidation project, completed in August 2001, joined the Middle and Upper school divisions. Each division has its own separate academic buildings, and shares dining, athletic, and performing arts facilities.
The Nichols campus currently includes "Regan Hall", Donaldson Hall (the Middle School), "The Glenn and Awdry Flickinger Performing Arts Center", "Mitchell Hall", "Albright Hall", "Moot Hall", "Scully Athletic Center and Laettner Gymnasium", "Dann Memorial Ice Rink". Other athletic facilities include five tennis and three international squash courts.
In 2006, the Nichols School Board of Trustees voted to proceed with a $21.3 Million "Nichols Future" capital campaign . This campaign consists of three major strategies which will alter the appearance of the campus. Strategy #1 calls for the construction of a new LEED gold accredited, 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m2), $10.3 million math/science/technology center. Construction is expected to begin in September 2008 with the hope that the building will be completed for the 2009-2010 school year. Strategy #2 is a commitment to increase the school's endowment fund by an expected $5 million. Under Strategy #3, Nichols will reconfigure and increase its current athletic fields, as well as create an outer-ring traffic/parking system. During the Summer of 2008 Strategy #3 will near completion as in October 2007, Nichols completed the construction of two new synthetic turf playing fields. In early April 2008, construction crews began altering the parking/traffic flow of the campus to create the new outer-ring system. This construction is expected to be finished in time for the 2008-2009 school year.
The new Traffic Pattern: http://nicholsschool.org/ftpimages/44/misc/misc_56065.pdf
[edit] Notable alumni
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[edit] Academics
- Rick Halpern 1977, Bissell-Heyd Chair of American Studies, University of Toronto[citation needed]
- Brendan Hassett 1988, Professor of Mathematics, Rice University[citation needed]
[edit] Artists and personalities
- Laylah Ali, artist, Williams College[citation needed]
- Michael Angelakos 2005, musician, Passion Pit
- Cory Arcangel 1996, artist
- Nick Bakay 1977, television actor, writer, and producer
- Colin Brady, Chief Operating Officer of (PRODUCT) Red[citation needed]
- Nanette Burstein, producer
- Christen Clifford, authoress and actress[citation needed]
- Daniel Colt Collins 2006, Notre Dame Fighting Irish Leprechaun
- Steve DeMarchi, guitarist and music producer[citation needed]
- Robert Payne Gatewood, author[citation needed]
- A. R. Gurney, playwright
- Billy Hopkins, casting director
- Brigid Hughes, magazine editor, A Public Space[citation needed]
- E. Howard Hunt, author and Watergate burglar
- Karl Koch 1987, recording artist and Weezer webmaster
- Adam Lippes, clothing designer of ADAM
- Mark Mandrake, editor of The New York Yankees: One Hundred Years, The Official Retrospective[citation needed]
- Peter McGennis, filmmaker
- David Milch 1962, Emmy-nominated television writer and producer
- William L. Morris, Emmy-nominated television writer[citation needed]
- Eyal Press 1988, journalist
- Ed Park, Author and former Village Voice contributor[citation needed]
- Jonathan Quint, actor
- Jeff Saltzman, Industrial Light and Magic Technical Lead
- Nandita Shenoy 1990, actor/choreographer
- David Shire 1955, composer
- John Wray (John Henderson) 1989, author[citation needed]
- Suzi Yoonessi, filmmaker
[edit] Athletes
- Peter Ciavaglia 1987, NHL player
- Jeff Farkas 1996, NHL player
- Les Kuntar 1987, NHL player
- Christian Laettner 1988, basketball player
- David Seitz 1992, professional hockey player
- Bobby Shuttleworth 2005, professional soccer player
- Ryan Sittler 1992, professional hockey player
- Scott Thomas 1989, NHL player
- Ward Wettlaufer 1954, amateur golfer
- Jason Zent 1990, NHL player
- Brooks Orpik 1998, NHL player
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