Worcester Academy

Worcester Academy
Έφικνού τών Καλών (Achieve the Honorable)
Location
Worcester, MA, United States
Information
Type	Independent, day and boarding
Religious affiliation(s)	None
Established	1834
Head of School	Dexter P. Morse
Faculty	80
Enrollment	491 upper school 154 middle school
Average class size	14
Student to teacher ratio	8:1
Campus	Urban, 67 acres (270,000 m2)
Color(s)	Maroon
Athletics	24 Interscholastic sports 54 Interscholastic teams
Athletics conference	NEPSAC
Mascot	Hilltoppers (rams)
Average SAT scores	600 Verbal 629 Math 611 Writing  (2006)
Website	worcesteracademy.org

Worcester Academy is an independent coeducational preparatory school spread over 67 acres (270,000 m²) in Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States. The school is divided into a middle school, serving approximately 150 students in grades six to eight, and an upper school, serving approximately 500 students in grades nine to twelve, including some postgraduates. Approximately one-third of students in the upper school participate in the school's five- and seven-day boarding programs. Currently there are approximately 80 international students enrolled from 14 different nations.

Worcester Academy is a member of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council.

Its motto is the Greek phrase "Έφικνού τών Καλών," which translates to "Achieve the Honorable."

History

Founded in 1834 as the Worcester County Manual Labor High School, the name was changed to Worcester Academy in 1847. The school moved to its current location on Worcester's Union Hill in 1869. The academy moved into the previous Civil War hospital: "THE DALE GENERAL HOSPITAL" and was renamed Davis Hall. Worcester Academy was all-male from its founding until 1856, and again from 1890 to 1974. It has been coeducational ever since.

Campus

Warner Memorial Theater

Walker Hall, The Megaron, and Adams Hall

Dexter Hall

Kingsley Laboratories

Walker Hall

Rader Hall (library)

1898 advertisement for the school.

Worcester Academy's campus is currently spread over four main parcels: the main campus, which contains approximately 12 acres (49,000 m²); Francis A. Gaskill Field, a 12-acre (49,000 m²) parcel two blocks south of the main campus; the South Campus; and the New Balance Fields nearly four miles away on Stafford Street, comprising 28 acres (110,000 m²). In 2004, Worcester Academy relocated its alumni offices to a renovated Victorian home one block north of the main campus, at 51 Providence Street. It is now called Alumni House.

The South Campus lies between the main campus and Gaskill Field and is the major focus of the school's expansion plans. The first parcel of a former hospital campus was acquired in 2007 with the completion of the purchase and sale agreement on a 6 acres (24,000 m²)parcel. In January 2010, the Academy purchased an additional 4 acres (16,000 m²) of the former hospital. Current plans call for the installation an artificial turf field in the fall of 2011. It will be outdoors and have lighting for night games. A walking path along its perimeter will connect to the entrance via a pathway. The field will serve both as a practice facility and playing field for multiple sports.

The main campus is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places with six buildings listed as contributing properties: 81 Providence Street, Kingsley Laboratories, Walker Hall, Adams Hall, the Megaron, and Dexter Hall. 81 Providence Street is the home of the Head of School and is named "Abercrombie House" in honor of Daniel Webster Abercrombie, principal from 1882 to 1918. In 2001, the back end of the historic campus changed dramatically with the addition of Rader Hall, named for long-time faculty members Harold G. "Dutch" and Dorothy Rader. Rader Hall houses the school's library and is used for middle school classes and activities. In the past fifteen years restoration work on the historic campus buildings has been completed culminating in 2008 with the extensive renovation of the Kingsley Laboratories.

The most notable building on the campus is the Lewis J. Warner '28 Memorial Theater. Built in 1932, it was a gift from Warner Brothers Studio President Harry Warner, who donated the building to honor the memory of his only son. Lewis died within three years of graduating from the academy. Worcester Academy's middle school student assemblies are held in the 350-seat Hervey S. Ross Auditorium in Warner Theater.

Visual and performing arts

Over the 176-year history of the school, fine arts has grown from a student activity into an integral part of the curriculum. Beginning in the 1890s, glee clubs and orchestras, organized by students, performed at term dinners and in the following decade, faculty advisers oversaw these groups. In 1901, the first play was performed by students under the direction of a faculty adviser. These groups evolved into clubs, known as Etta Kappa Alpha (theater) and the Offbeats (singing) which were important contributors to extracurricular life at Worcester Academy. In early the 1980s, courses in performing and visual art were offered. By the end of the decade a Visual and Performing Arts Department was formed. Soon thereafter, theater was offered as a course and this curriculum has expanded greatly since then.

Visual art

Upper school studio art course offerings include ceramics, jewelry design, fibers craft, and architecture. In addition to drawing and painting courses, digital art is an offering. Web design and animation are also part of the art curriculum.

The Middle School offers an extensive visual arts program in conjunction with introductory courses in music and theater. A highlight of the program is the Arts Café which studies the art, and cuisine, of a goal culture each year.

Theater program

Worcester Academy has been offering an extensive curriculum in theater arts since 1988. Teachers emphasize ensemble and artistic excellence. The curricular and co-curricular programs provide both serious training for those who might want to major in theater arts in college as well as opportunities for students who may be studying theater arts for the first time and wish to explore their interests.

Theater arts courses are taught by four degreed professionals in theater arts. Three theater faculty have advanced degrees in theater. One was awarded the Olmsted Prize, a national award for teaching excellence.

Students perform in two distinct theaters:

The Andes Pit Theater is a unique, experimental, flexible space that provides an intimate, immediate experience for an audience of 100

Warner Theater, painstakingly restored in 2000 to its original beauty, is an elegant proscenium theater that seats an audience of 360.

Students perform in three fully mounted Upper School productions and a fully mounted Middle School production. One of these productions is an annual musical. Middle School students present class projects to enthusiastic friends and family.

Theater students attend professional productions at some of the great regional theaters in Boston, Cambridge, Providence, and Hartford.

Each summer, Moonstruck Theater Company [1], founded by Worcester Academy Alumna Caroline Fonseca '05, presents a fully mounted production in the Andes Pit Theater. Many company members are graduates of the Academy’s theater program, and many WA theater students gain valuable practical experience as Moonstruck Theater interns.

Upper School music academic program

• Chorus offers introductory to intermediate training in ensemble performance with a focus on developing singers’ musicianship, vocal technique and interpretive skills.
• Advanced Chorus is a performance ensemble open to qualified students by audition. The repertoire includes American, European and World music that is both challenging and rewarding to study and perform. The group regularly participates in choral festivals and has always received excellent or superior ratings.
• Wind Ensemble is open to students with a desire to play music in an ensemble setting. The repertoire is chosen to develop ensemble techniques and introduce students to varied styles.
• Orchestra includes string players, as well as auditioned woodwind, brass and percussion players. The group plays a wide variety of repertoire.
• Music Study is individual and small group lessons that are offered to members of the performance ensembles in voice, piano, woodwinds, brass, bass, and percussion.
• Music Theory meets two times weekly and is scheduled as an independent study for greater availability for students. The program is based around compositional technique of seventeenth to twentieth century tonal music and focuses on four-part writing. Courses run from Music Theory I through AP. This three-year curriculum is equivalent to three semesters of most college theory classes.
• Musical Theater in Performance is a trimester class offered every second year. Students prepare a musical review drawn from the works of one songwriter. The class was first offered in 2009 and celebrated the music of Worcester Academy alumn, Cole Porter. In 2011 students performed songs by Kurt Weill.

Extra-curricular program:

• The Academy Singers are selected from members of the choral classes. The Academy Singers perform an eclectic mix of vocal music suitable to a small ensemble, from Renaissance to modern. In addition to school performances, they often reach out to the community. Like the Advanced Chorus, the Academy Singers regularly participate in choral festivals and have always earned excellent or superior ratings.
• Jazz Combo is a small performance based jazz group (6–10 members/ rhythm section and up to 5 horns) by audition. Repertoire is based upon stylistic and historical perspectives in Jazz, with attention drawn to the innovative artists of those periods. All arrangements are original and many times created by the group during rehearsals. The combo performs at the Academy and in the community throughout the school year.
• Jazz Lab is a performance based training program for beginning to intermediate players who are interested and wish to explore jazz.
• The Hillpoppas are a student directed "collegiate" a cappella ensemble. Most of their arrangements are created by the members. The Hillpoppas fill an important spot in the choral music program, offering students opportunities as leaders and composer/arrangers working in contemporary styles.
• A full musical theater production is mounted by the upper school each year. recent productions:

2011 The Mystery of Edwin Drood

2010 Seussical

2009 Anything Goes

2008 Into the Wood

2007 The Mikado

2006 Urinetown

Middle School music

Music 6 and 7 offer general music classes. Music 8 is an ensemble class for instrumentalists and singers.

Bells, Band and Chorus: All middle school students are encouraged to take part in one of these groups meeting once a week. This program includes Beginning and Advanced Band, Chorus, and Select Chorus.

A middle school production is offered every second year. On alternate years the Upper School Musical is open to middle school students as an all-school production.

Athletics

Worcester Academy is a member of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC). Worcester Academy plays most of the larger New England prep schools, and rivalries date back much more than a century. In certain sports, NEPSAC classifies the competition for post-season play and Worcester Academy competes with teams in Class A and Class B.

The formation of the Worcester Academy Athletic Association in 1885 was the official beginning of interscholastic sport at the Academy and like many Eastern boarding schools, Worcester Academy helped pioneer the growth of athletic competition in the United States. This tradition in sports has motivated many graduates to continue their involvement by playing sports at the college or professional level, or through coaching, officiating, management, medicine, apparel, reporting, charitable giving, and the arts.

The nickname of the school teams is the Hilltoppers due to the school’s location at the top of Worcester's Union Hill and the ram is the mascot because of the hilltop location. Approximately 60% of the students participate in an interscholastic sport on one of the 54 athletic teams. There are twenty-four different sports offered including in the fall: football, soccer, cross country, field hockey; in the winter: basketball, wrestling, alpine skiing, volleyball, hockey, swimming; and in the spring: track and field, baseball, lacrosse, crew, golf, softball, and tennis.

Facilities

• Daniels Gymnasium (1915 with a 1983 addition) has two basketball courts, a wrestling room, a weight room, and a four lane swimming pool. Volleyball is played in this building in the fall. A running track is above the original basketball court.
• Gaskill Field (1910) is a located a few blocks south of the main campus and was completely renovated in 1995. This complex includes a football field with stands, a six lane quarter mile composition track, four tennis courts, and a baseball field.
• New Balance Field (2001) is located four miles from the main campus and it includes fields on three planes of different elevations. These are used for soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, and baseball based upon the season. There is also a field dedicated to softball.
• South Campus (2011) is located just a block away from the main campus, sitting on the site of the former St. Vincent Hospital. South Campus consists of a multi-purpose synthetic turf field that hosts varsity football, lacrosse, field hockey, soccer and softball. As part of the $3.2 million project, lights were installed for Friday night football games. There is also a small walking track surrounding the field.
• Off-campus facilities: The crew teams row on Lake Quinsigamond and store their shells at the Donahue Rowing Center in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. The hockey teams principally skate at the Buffone Rink in Worcester. The golf teams play at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts. The ski team competes at Wachusett Mountain Ski Area in Princeton, Massachusetts.

Recent highlights

In 2005–2006 the girls varsity basketball team had an undefeated season, winning the NEPSAC championship.^{[citation needed]}

Hockey was first an interscholastic sport in the 1930s and after a couple of lapses returned as an interscholastic sport in 2000. The team advanced to the top level of the NEPSAC Division 2 ranks and in the 2009/2010 season joined the NEPSAC Division 1. In line with its commitment to the sport, Worcester Academy plans to offer Girls Hockey in the upcoming season.

In 2008 the Worcester Academy Girls Varsity soccer team won the NEPSAC Class B Final. The final finished off their 15-0-2 undefeated season, in which the team allowed only 6 goals all season, with 11 shutouts.^{[citation needed]}. In 2009, the Girls Varsity soccer team repeated as the Class B champion, defeating the lone team that beat them during the season in a double overtime victory.

The Varsity Baseball team has consistently made post season play in the NEPSAC Class A Championship tournament which in called the Blackburn Tournament in honor of Tom Blackburn who was the long time varsity baseball coach and athletic director at Worcester Academy. The Blackburn Tournament is held each year at the Hanover Park at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. In 2011, the team won the Blackburn tournament with victories over Tabor Academy in the semi-final and Deerfield Academy in the final game. Each year the varsity team makes a week long spring training trip to Fort Pierce, Florida, practicing and playing teams from around the country.

Worcester Academy swimming had a large turnout of swimmers with 43 swimmers this past year. The team has had a tradition of swimmers earning Academic All American status.

The Varsity Football team plays at the Class A level and most of its schedule features games against other NEPSAC Class A teams. Like other Class A teams, Worcester Academy observes an unwritten rule of allowing roughly eight postgraduate players to play on its football games which allows for players who have come through its programs as undergraduates meaningful playing time. Turnout for the football team has grown from 28 players in 2008 to 52 in the fall of 2010.

On September 30, 2011 Worcester Academy officially hosted the grand opening of its $3.2 million synthetic turf facility. The Hilltoppers football team defeated Northfield Mt. Hermon 40-6 during the schools first ever night game.

On November 2, 2011, the Boys Varsity Cross Country team came in 6th place at the NEPSTA Division II championships.

On November 20, 2011, the Girls Varsity Soccer team won the Class A NEPSAC championship defeating Loomis Chaffee School by a score of 2 to 1. The Girls Varsity Soccer team moved up to Class A this year and went undefeated.

On December 3, 2011, the Girls Varsity Ice Hockey team will play its first game ever versus the Winsor School. Under Coach Tim Healey, the team will play a 19 game schedule.

Clubs

Student organizations or clubs date back to the very beginning of Worcester Academy in 1834, when the Legomathenian Society was formed. Initially, the Legomathenian Society was a literary society which published articles written by students. The Legomathenian Society is now the debate club at Worcester Academy. There are 25 organizations and just a few of them are Model UN, Habitat for Humanity, the Math Team, etc.

Recent highlights

In January 2010, the Worcester Academy team won the Brain Bee competition for the state of Massachusetts and Raji Pyda '12, won the overall competition. She represented the state in the national Brain Bee, which was held in Baltimore, Maryland in April 2010.

In May 2010, Worcester Academy's Walk and Rock for the Jimmy Fund raised $21,862 for adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer research and support at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. In 2005, two juniors, Jeffrey Rothschild '07 and Elizabeth Tripp '07 with the support of their faculty adviser, Dr. Francine Smith, founded Walk and Rock for the Jimmy Fund. The event—a walkathon and music festival—raised $221,862 over a five year period. This total includes an anonymous $100,000 donation from a Jimmy Fund supporter and parent of Worcester Academy alumni. In its first years, the event headlined the bands State Radio and ZOX. Other notable leaders of the event include Aaron Faucher '08, Stonleigh Caswell '09, and Jake Arthur '10. Although the Jimmy Fund Club still remains, the last Walk and Rock ended in 2010 due to the amount of time and effort it took to plan and organize.

In the spring of 2011, the We The People club won the Massachusetts championship and traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate in the national championship. The Worcester Academy team competed with teams from every state.

In 2011, Worcester Academy's math team won its seventh (and fourth straight) Worcester County Mathematics League championship, its seventh (and sixth straight) state championship, and its fourth New England championship (the third in six years).

Other Highlights

• In September 2006, Boston Magazine rated Worcester Academy the sixteenth best private school in the Boston Area, and the best in Worcester County. In an article entitled "The Right Private School for Your Kid," Boston Magazine rated Worcester Academy the best private school in the Boston area for students to exercise their mathematical talents.
• Worcester Academy celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2008–2009.

• On November 20, 2011, Elizabeth Butterworth, Class of 2007, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. She is a senior at Princeton. Liz is the second Worcester Academy graduate to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. The first was Troyer Steele Anderson, Class of 1918, who was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1923.

Alumni awards

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Established in 2002, this award recognizes the accomplishment of an alumnus/a who has demonstrated the Academy's mission through excellence in his or her chosen field. The award is presented annually during reunion weekend.

• 2002 Recipient: Lt. Gen. Alcide M. LaNoue, M.D. '52
• 2003 Recipient: Dr. Richard Talamo '53 (posthumously)
• 2004 Recipient: Robert E. Weissman '58
• 2005 Recipient: N. Scott Knight '65
• 2006 Recipient: Sen. Louis C. D'Allesandro '56
• 2006 Recipient: Dr. Thomas V. Healey '36 (posthumously)
• 2007 Recipient: Alan J. Bernon '72
• 2008 Recipient: Michael Puk Sun Tien '68
• 2009 Recipient: Dr. Craig R. Dufresne '69
• 2010 Recipient: Dr. Chulsu Kim '60
• 2011 Recipient: Dr. Everett F. Lang, Jr. '61

Young Alumnus Recognition Award

Established in 2003, this award is given to an alumnus/a who graduated from the Academy in the past twenty years and has demonstrated success in his or her chosen field or has contributed significantly to his or her community. The award is presented annually during reunion weekend.

• 2003 Recipient: Ira Stoll '90
• 2004 Recipient: Naomi A. Schaefer '94
• 2005 Recipient: Tanja Bernstein '90
• 2006 Recipient: Alta M. Boover '96
• 2007 Recipient: Neil S. Patel '87
• 2008 Recipient: Niels Tangherlini '88
• 2009 Recipient: Zoey L. Breslar '89
• 2010 Recipient: Jonathan Starr '94
• 2011 Recipient: Rodolfo P. Mareno '01

Worcester Academy Hall of Fame

The Worcester Academy Hall of Fame, established in 1976, recognizes individuals who through their many years of service and devotion to the Academy have had an important impact on the school and society. The Hall of Fame members include alumni, former faculty members, heads of school, coaches, faculty wives, trustees, benefactors and friends of the Academy. The Hall of Fame also includes alumni whose work has influenced the lives of people everywhere.

Recent recipients:

• 1998 – Bruce Daniels '43, Janet Macko
• 1999 – Harold Keohane '56, Duane Sargisson '51
• 2000 – James Davis '62, Robert Hall '62, Michael Mone '60
• 2001 – Earle Leeder '51
• 2002 – David Forsberg '65, Jacques LeBermuth '24
• 2005 – Ronald A. Siff '55
• 2009 – Donald Bloom '59, Elaine Willey Bloom

Notable alumni

Notable faculty and alumni of Worcester Academy include:

• William H. Bates 1936, U.S. Congressman
• John Barrett 1883, American Diplomat
• H. Jon Benjamin 1984, actor, comedian
• George Boardman the Younger, 1846, missionary
• George B. Boomer 1847, Civil War General
• Ralph A. Doc Carroll, 1909, Major League Baseball player, Philadelphia Athletics, 1916.
• Bill Cooke 1970, National Football League player
• General Norman Cota 1915, portrayed by actor Robert Mitchum in the 1962 movie classic "The Longest Day"
• Alta Dantzler 1996, DMA, Mezzo-Soprano^{[citation needed]}
• William Stearns Davis 1896, historian and educator
• Clarence Dillon 1904, co-founder of investment bank Dillon, Read & Co., father of C. Douglas Dillon
• John F. Dryden, 1857, Founder Prudential Insurance, U.S. Senator
• Arthur Duffey 1899, Olympic Sprinter, 1900 Paris
• Harry B. Ellis 1940, Correspondent, Author of books on the Middle East^{[citation needed]}
• General Hugh J. Gaffey 1916, Patton's Chief of Staff
• Harold D. "Chick" Gagnon, 1919, Major League Baseball player Detroit Tigers^{[citation needed]}
• Willis Goldbeck, 1910, movie producer and writer
• Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor 1893, founder and first editor of National Geographic magazine
• Herman Gundlach 1931, Harvard football captain, Boston Brave lineman, NFL
• Bruno Haas 1915, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher and NFL player
• Alan Haberman 1947, supermarket executive credited with popularizing the barcode
• Ned Harkness 1939, college and professional hockey coach
• Brian Herosian, 1969, former N. F. L. player with the Baltimore Cots and C.F.L. player
• Louis Jean Heydt, 1921, stage and movie actor
• Abbie Hoffman 1955, social and political activist in the 1960s
• Tom Holland 1962, film director
• John Hope 1890, educator and founder of Atlanta University
• Ernest Martin Hopkins 1896, President of Dartmouth College
• Frank Reed Horton 1914, founder Alpha Phi Omega fraternity
• Tony Hulman 1920, Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner
• Lyman Jewett 1840, Baptist missionary who translated the Bible into Telugu
• Edward Davis Jones 1873, co-founder of Dow Jones
• Arthur Kennedy 1930, stage and screen actor
• Stephen Knapp 1965, artist
• Stefan Lano 1970, conductor^{[citation needed]}
• Dick Lasse 1954, N. F. L. football player and college coach
• Armand LaMontagne 1958, sculptor of prominent athletes
• Doug Leeds 1965, advertising/media executive and Broadway benefactor
• Arnold L. Lehman 1962, Director of the Brooklyn Museum
• Lou Little 1912, college football coach
• Michael LoPresti Jr 1967, former Massachusetts State Senator
• Andrew Mamedoff, Battle of Britain pilot
• John W. Mayhew 1904, All-American football player and coach
• Roy McGillicuddy 1915, aka Roy Mack son of Connie Mack; co-owner of the Philadelphia A's
• Rep. Jim McGovern 1977, U.S. Congressman
• Charles E. Merrill 1904, co-founder of Merrill Lynch
• Alfred Henry Miller, 1923, N. F. L. football player Boston Bulldogs, 1929
• Paul Mitchell, 1968, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Jessica Phillips 1989, Broadway actor^{[citation needed]}
• Wesley Piermarini 2000, rower, mens double scull, 2008 Olympics, Beijing, China^{[citation needed]}
• Arthur Pope 1899, Persian Art Scholar and Administrator
• Cole Porter 1909, Broadway composer
• Sidney Hollis Radner, 1937 magician and expert on Houdini
• Naomi Schaefer Riley 1994, Wall Street Journal Editor
• Frank Rooney 1940, business executive
• Hervey S. Ross 1946, insurance executive, Academy benefactor^{[citation needed]}
• Donald "Dee" Rowe 1947, basketball coach
• Thomas M. Salmon 1982, Vermont State Auditor
• John Edward Sawyer 1937, President of Williams College
• Dennis Shulman 1968, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, author, rabbi, and Democratic Party nominee for the United States Congress in New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District
• Mark Slade 1957, TV actor
• Charles Starrett 1922, the "Durango Kid"
• Ira Stoll 1990 Author and Former Managing Editor of the New York Sun
• Jacob Stroyer 1872, Ex-slave, minister, and author
• Henry A. Sullivan 1917, composer^{[citation needed]}
• Prince Nandiyavat Svasti 1927, member of the Thai Royal Family and grandson to King Rama IV (1851–1868), a.k.a. Mongkut, the king of Siam depicted in the musical, The King and I
• Royal C. Taft 1872, Governor of Rhode Island
• Stanley F. Teele 1924, Fourth Dean of Harvard Business School
• Eli Thayer 1840, founder of the Oread Institute and the New England Emigrant Aid Company
• Webster Thayer 1876, Massachusetts judge, presided over the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1920.
• Michael Tien 1968, Deputy, National Peoples Congress, Hong Kong and International clothing retailer
• Willard Tibbetts 1922, bronze medalist in the 3000 meter race in the 1924 Paris Olympics
• William Toomey 1957, gold-medal winning decathlete in the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Howard Trivers 1926, Career diplomat and father of Robert Trivers.^{[citation needed]}
• Benaiah L. Whitman 1883, President of Colby College and George Washington University^{[citation needed]}
• Walt Whittaker 1913, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Lewis Wilson 1939, first Batman in the movies

In certain instances, student-athletes attend Worcester Academy solely for their senior year, or for a single postgraduate year, to increase their exposure to college coaches or to improve their academic standing. Notable student-athletes include:

• David Ball 2003, New York Jets
• Colt Brennan 2003, quarterback for the University of Hawaii, Quarterback for The Washington Redskins, voted third in 2007 Heisman Voting
• Mo Cassara 1993, Head Basketball coach, Hofstra University
• Rick Carlisle 1979, former NBA player, current coach of the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks
• Jeff Cross, 1980, former NBA player
• Patrick Downey 1993, former NFL player for the NE Patriots, San Diego Chargers, and Washington Redskins
• Obinna Ekezie 1995, former NBA player
• Mark Fidrych 1974, former Detroit Tiger
• Jarrett Jack 2002, New Orleans Hornets of the NBA
• Mark Johnson 1986, former Major League Baseball player for the LA Angels, NY Mets, and Pittsburgh Pirates
• Mike Malone 1989, Assistant coach Golden State Warriors
• Donnie Nelson 1982, former NBA and international basketball coach, current President–GM of Dallas Mavericks basketball operations
• Joe Philbin 1980, head coach for the Miami Dolphins
• Sean Ryan 1998, National Football League player, San Francisco 49ers
• Craig Smith 2002, Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA
• Tim Welsh 1980, former Providence College coach and sportscaster
• Mike Wilhelm 1986, Assistant Coach, Chicago Bulls^{[citation needed]}

Headmasters of Worcester Academy

On October 27, 2011, the Board of Trustees announced their unanimous vote to appoint Ronald M. Cino as the 31st Head of Worcester Academy. Dexter Morse remains the Head of School until the end of the 2011–2012 school year.

External links

• Official website
• Worcester Academy's official history page
• Worcester Academy history

Number	Name	Years
1st	Silas Bailey, D.D.	1834–1838
2nd	Samuel S. Greene, LL.D.	1838–1840
3rd	Nelson Wheeler, A.M.	1840–1847
4th	Eli Thayer 1840, A.M.	1847–1849
5th	Charles C. Burnett, A.M.	1849–1852
6th	Eleazer J. Avery, A.M.	1852–1854
7th	William S. Greene, A.M.	1854–1858
8th	Werden Reynolds, A.M.	1858–1860
9th	James R. Stone, D.D.	1860–1862
10th	Ambrose P. S. Stuart, A.M.	1862–1864
11th	Charles Ayer, A.B.	1865–1866
12th	Albert Prescott Marble, PhD	1866–1868
13th	William C. Poland, A.B.	1868–1870
14th	Willard T. Leonard, M.A.	1870
15th	Rev. David Weston, A.B.	1870–1871
16th	John D. Smith, A.B.	1872–1875
17th	Nathan Leavenworth, A.M.	1875–1882
18th	Daniel Abercrombie, Litt.D., LL.D.	1882–1918
19th	Samuel Foss Holmes, A.M.	1918–1933
20th	Harold H. Wade	1933–1942
21st	LeRoy A. Campbell, PhD	1942–1950
22nd	Paul K. Phillips, A.B.	1950–1954
23rd	William S. Piper, Jr., Ed.D.	1954–1968
24th	Harold G. Rader, Ed.D.	1968–1969
25th	David R. Jefferson, B.A., B.D.	1969–1970
26th	Robert A. LaBranche 1946, M.S.	1970–1974
27th	John A. Bloom, M.A.	1974–1985
28th	Ben Williams, M.A.	1985–1991
29th	John Mackenzie, M.A.	1991–1997
30th	Dexter P. Morse,* M Ed., C.A.G.S.	1997–2012
31st	Ronald M. Cino	2012–present
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