Hotchkiss School
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Type | Independent, Boarding |
Motto | Moniti Meliora Sequamur (After instruction, let us move on to pursue higher things) |
Established | 1891 |
Head of school | Malcom McKenzie |
Faculty | 127 |
Enrollment | 578 total 520 boarding 58 day |
Average class size | 12 students |
Student to teacher ratio | 5:1 |
Campus | Rural, 555 acres (2 km2) |
Color(s) | Blue and White |
Athletics | 17 sports |
Mascot | Bucky the Bearcat |
Endowment | $425 Million |
Website | www.hotchkiss.org |
The Hotchkiss School is an independent, American college preparatory boarding school located in Lakeville, Connecticut. Founded in 1891, the school enrolls 567 students in grades 9 through 12 and a small number of postgraduates. Students at Hotchkiss come from across the United States and 26 foreign countries. The current head of school is Mr. Malcolm McKenzie, former principal at Atlantic College in Wales. McKenzie is a former Rhodes Scholar, and holds a degree in linguistics. Hotchkiss is part of an organization known as The Ten Schools Admissions Organization. This organization was founded more than forty years ago on the basis of a number of common goals and traditions.
History
In the late 1800s, at the crossing of two country roads in Lakeville, Connecticut, sat an expanse of land known for its beauty and commanding views. On these 65 acres, which at the time comprised open fields and several houses, Maria Bissell Hotchkiss chose to found The Hotchkiss School. Today, that original gift of land anchors a 545-acre campus with academic and residential buildings, playing fields and green lawns, the deepest freshwater lake in Connecticut, and lovely vistas of the Berkshire mountains. Hotchkiss is by design a medium-sized school in a large school setting—a setting located in an area designated by The Nature Conservancy as one of 200 “Last Great Places.”
Maria Hotchkiss was the widow of Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, who founded the French arms company Hotchkiss et Cie, made famous by the use of its machine guns in World War I [1]. This led to a nickname for the school, "son of a gun" (see Wertenbaker and Basserman, The Hotchkiss School, 1966, p. 68). Maria originally had aspirations for the school to serve underprivileged students, and the original charter provided some scholarship for local farm-boys. With the guidance of then President of Yale University Timothy Dwight, Maria Bissell Hotchkiss established the School in 1891 to prepare young men for Yale. Since then, Hotchkiss has become coeducational, grown in size and scope, and established itself as one of the premier secondary schools in the country. Hotchkiss offers a classical education, finding strength in a traditional approach that has worked well and stood the test of time. Yet, over time, the Hotchkiss curriculum also has grown in size, and now includes more than 200 courses in 16 academic departments.
When The Hotchkiss School opened its doors in 1891, the first 50 boys were charged a boarding tuition of $600--more than many families could afford. But fortunately, Maria Hotchkiss had insisted on something unique in allocating the funds to establish the School: Hotchkiss would offer scholarship aid to deserving students. Thanks to her foresight, thousands of students have benefited from a policy that has remained constant for the last 116 years. Today, approximately 35 percent of the Hotchkiss student body receives financial assistance from an aid budget of more than $5.5 million.
Academic Program
The curriculum at Hotchkiss has evolved over the years from a classical, formal, and prescriptive set of courses with limited sectioning to an increasingly diverse but interwoven learning opportunity, offering a choice of 227 separate courses, some of them interdisciplinary and many offered as seminars. Classes begin in September and end in June, with time off for Thanksgiving Break, Winter Break, and Spring Break.
Seventeen courses, including 4 years of English; 3 years of mathematics; 3 years of one language; 1 year of American history; 1 year of art, including art, dance, drama, music, or photography; and 1 year of biology, chemistry, or physics, are required of four-year students for graduation. Advanced Placement courses are available in many subject areas. Incoming students are given placement exams to determine the level at which they should begin their studies.
Students carry an average of five courses per semester. The average class size is 12. The School uses a letter grading system, and reports are sent to parents four times a year, or more often if the situation warrants it. Faculty members provide extra help in and out of the classroom setting and student tutors are available to help their peers. In addition, a comprehensive study skills program supports students who find some difficulty with an intensive academic program.
Qualified upperclass students may participate in a School Year Abroad program in China, France, India, Italy, or Spain; the Maine Coast Semester program; the Rocky Mountain Semester program; or the CityTerm program at the Masters School. They may also apply through the English-Speaking Union for a postgraduate year of study at an English boarding school.[1]
Faculty
In 2007–08, the Hotchkiss faculty consisted of 127 faculty members and administrators. Of the 124 faculty members, 81 hold advanced degrees, including seven doctorates.
Hotchkiss seeks a diverse and experienced faculty dedicated not only to teaching academic courses but also to aiding the full personal growth of each student. In addition to their teaching and administrative responsibilities, they are dormitory parents, academic advisers, and coaches.[2]
Students
The enrollment for 2007–08 consisted of 578 students, 521 of whom were boarding students, (274 girls and 304 boys). Students came from forty-two states and twenty-six other countries. International students constituted 12 percent, and students who were members of minority groups accounted for 32 percent of the student body.
The day-to-day life at Hotchkiss is governed by several important principles: concern for others, respect for all members of the community, and understanding and adherence to the rules as stated in the Hotchkiss School Handbook. The actions and attitudes of each student at Hotchkiss should be governed by concern for others, with the rules serving as guidelines for expected behavior. Composed of students and faculty members, the Hotchkiss Discipline Committee reviews reports of possible infractions of School rules and in each case makes recommendations for action to the Head of School.[3]
College Admission Counseling
Hotchkiss seeks to provide each student with the advice, support, and information necessary to make appropriate choices for future education. Three advisers guide students through the selection of colleges and the application process. More than 100 college representatives visit the School each year to conduct group meetings or interviews with students. Graduates of the class of 2007 are attending the following schools: Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Georgetown, Davidson, Vanderbilt, and Yale.
Campus and facilities
Academic facilities
From classrooms equipped with SmartBoards to an 87,000-volume library, a newly renovated science building, and a world-class music and arts center, Hotchkiss provides the academic resources students need to explore their own interests, to give voice or vision to their own ideas, and to communicate in the languages of various subject areas.
Opened in 1952, the library was renovated in 1981, increasing its size to 25,000 square feet. Some of what you’ll find: 250 carrels, 30 computer workstations, 20 laptops (available for students to check out), 87,000 volumes, and a catalog with access to more than 3,000 e-book titles. The on-line public access catalog, available at workstations throughout the library, provides sophisticated, easy access to the collection. Membership in the On-line Computer Library Center (OCLC), a consortium of more than 41,000 libraries throughout the world, provides interlibrary loan access to more than 47 million items. The library also provides campus-wide access to remote databases for work in all major disciplines. Journal articles, digital images, book reviews, and abstracts are easily accessible through powerful on-line indices from any location on the campus network.
Arts Facilities
Esther Eastman Music Center 2005 saw the completion of Hotchkiss' brand new music center. Elfers Hall seats 700 and has excellent acoustics. The school has equipped the hall with a handmade Fazioli piano. There are also many practice rooms, three class teaching rooms, and a music technology studio.
The spacious, glass-walled, 640-seat music pavilion will command panoramic views of nearby Litchfield hills and lakes. The pavilion seating—configured in the round with parterre and upper-level balconies surrounding a flat-floor orchestra—takes its design cues from Boston Symphony Hall. The pavilion’s one-inch-thick glass walls open to an outdoor terrace for community concerts during the summer. The pavilion itself will have adjustable acoustics to support a wide range of musical performances as well as a variety of other school functions. When in “routine mode,” the pavilion will be furnished with lounge chairs and serve as a unique music listening room for students.
Treamine Gallery
The Tremaine Gallery is a museum-quality exhibition space located in the main building of The Hotchkiss School. With education at the heart of its mission, the gallery hosts six shows a year, encompassing a wide range of artists, media, and styles. Featured artists routinely attend the opening reception, present a gallery talk, and frequently are in-residence as visiting artists for Hotchkiss students. All shows are free and open to the public.
Athletic facilities
The athletics program is one of the School’s great strengths and a major source of its spirit. All students participate in the program every season, and they pursue an activity of their choice at a level to suit their abilities.
The School prides itself on its ability to compete equally with other New England secondary schools. Hotchkiss also regularly takes part in annual coeducational New England championship meets in cross-country, field hockey, football, swimming, squash, track, volleyball, water polo, and boys’ wrestling.
The School’s athletic facilities are superb. A 212,000-square-foot athletic and fitness center opened in 2002. The Hotchkiss community now enjoys a second indoor ice rink, a field house with three basketball/volleyball courts and an elevated track, an expanded wrestling/multipurpose room, eight international-style squash courts, and a ten-lane swimming facility with a separate diving well. Other existing athletic facilities include a nine-hole golf course, a 400-meter all-weather track, a regulation baseball field, two football fields, four field hockey fields, five soccer/lacrosse fields, two paddle tennis courts, and twenty all-weather and three indoor tennis courts as well as a lakefront with a boathouse.
Indoor Facilities
- Field House - multi-purpose playing surfaces - elevated indoor exercise track
- Natatorium - 10 lane pool with a separate diving well
- Ice Hockey Rinks (two) - Schmidt Rink (NHL) - Dwyer Rink (Olympic)
- Fowle Gymnasium (hardwood-floor basketball court)
- Wrestling/Multi-Purpose Room
- Squash Courts - eight international courts
- Ford Indoor Tennis Courts - three indoor courts
- Chandler Fitness Center
- Training Rooms
- Locker Rooms and Shower Facilities
- Boat House (sailing)
Outdoor Facilities
- Nine-hole golf course designed by Seth Raynor
- All-weather track
- Twenty outdoor tennis courts
- Two paddle tennis courts
- Climbing walls
- Field hockey, soccer, lacrosse, and softball fields
- Football stadium
- Baseball stadium
- Lake Wononscopomuc (sailing)
- Three ponds and extensive hiking trails on a 550-acre wooded campus
The athletic complex, known as the "MAC", an acronym for the Forrest E. Mars Jr. '49 Athxletic Center, even though many students still prefer to call it the "AFC", for Athletic and Fitness Center, houses an olympic-size ten lane pool, eight squash courts, two ice hockey rinks, two basketball courts, a wrestling room, a fitness center/weight room, indoor track, three indoor tennis courts and two paddle tennis courts.
Boarding and General Facilities
Hotchkiss has twelve dormitories on campus, six for boys (Tinker, Edelman, Coy, Dana, Watson, and Van Santvoord) and six for girls (Bissell, Buehler, Flinn, Memorial, Garland, and Wieler). Rooms vary in size, from singles to the occasional triple. . About three quarters of the students reside in single rooms on corridors organized by class, averaging 15 students per corridor. Faculty members and senior proctors reside on each corridor and provide extensive supervision and guidance.
The School has one dining hall, a student center with a snack bar, a bookstore that carries a full line of supplies, and a number of areas for informal gatherings. The fully equipped, recently renovated Wieler Infirmary on campus is open 24 hours a day and the Sharon Hospital is 7 miles down the road. [4]
The dining hall and snack bar provide food. Three meals a day are served buffet-style in the dining hall. A salad bar, deli bar, pasta bar, cereal bar, soup bar and dessert bar are provided in addition to the hot entrees. Meals at the dining hall are included in the tuition. Usually the snack bar is open when the dining hall is not.
Extracurricular activities
The location of the Hotchkiss School allows for many extracurricular opportunities on campus, in the local community, and in various locations beyond the town of Lakeville. Among the most active organizations are the Hotchkiss Dramatic Association, which schedules three major productions per year and presents as many as twelve student plays; the music department, which sponsors and encourages a wide range of informal musical groups; and the various student publications.
The community service club, the St. Luke’s Society, is involved in volunteer community affairs, including tutoring the handicapped, helping the aging, working in the Sharon Hospital, and working with the local volunteer ambulance service. Hotchkiss is a campus chapter member of Habitat for Humanity. Hotchkiss also has a School service program, whereby each student is expected to perform service within the School community for at least one semester each year.[5]
Athletics
Hotchkiss currently fields 17 interscholastic sports teams and the school is a member of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council and the Interscholastic Sailing Association. Historically strong athletic programs include the Girls Field Hockey team, the Girls Volleyball team, and the Boys Hockey team. Hotchkiss Field Hockey has won 9 New England championships, including six consecutive from 2002-2007. Hotchkiss Volleyball has won 7 New England Championships including the 2007 New England Volleyball Championships.
Clubs
Hotchkiss students run a number of clubs, including The Record, the student run newspaper; the Human Rights Initiative; BaHSA, the Black and Hispanic Student Alliance; the Gay/Straight Alliance; HotchkissTV; Hotchkiss Under God; The Whipping Post (Hotchkiss' satire publication); the Writing Block (a creative writing publication); the Chinese Club; the Hotchkiss Political Union; and SEA (Students for Environment Awareness). The Hotchkiss Speech and Debate Team competes at the national and international level. During Spring Break 2006, Hotchkiss hosted the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship. The Record, Hotchkiss' school newspaper, is published on a bi-monthly basis, and the Hotchkiss Dramatic Association celebrates its centennial year this winter. Clubs are student-run, though most have faculty advisors, and many of them receive a budget from the school to provide for their various needs.
Round Square
Hotchkiss is one of four US schools in Round Square, a global conference of more than 50 secondary schools. Students have the option to go on an exchange for a semester to another participating school, or they may meet other Round Square students while working together on a project at a more underprivileged school. Hotchkiss has recently hosted students from Germany, South Africa, and India.
Daily Life
Classes are held six days a week, with Wednesdays and Saturdays as half days to accommodate interscholastic athletic competitions. A typical day begins with breakfast served cafeteria style between 7 and 8:30 a.m. The first period begins at 8, with 45-minute class periods thereafter. Students eat lunch during their free noontime period. Classes end at 3:10 p.m., and sports begin at 3:30. The dining hall is open for dinner between 5:30 and 7. Evening study times are set for ninth and tenth graders between 8 and 10.
Students are permitted to take weekends away from the campus, but most choose to remain at the School and join the variety of activities taking place. The standard weekend events include sports competitions, movies, dances, concerts, and other scheduled activities. As students move from the lower classes to the senior year, they are permitted more weekends away from campus. [6]
The China Connection
A relationship between this School located in northwestern Connecticut and the wider world began almost as soon as the School was founded. As early as 1912 Hotchkiss recruited students from China. This long-standing “China connection” may or may not play a role in the unique circumstance that, over the course of its history, the School has educated a quarter of the American ambassadors to China, including current Ambassador Clark T. "Sandy" Randt Jr. ’64. In the first half of the 20th century, Hotchkiss Headmaster George Van Santvoord ’08 was instrumental in recruiting international students from all parts of the world to Hotchkiss. He also enabled Hotchkiss students to study abroad by having the School join the English-Speaking Union program and through the inception of The International Schoolboy Exchange in 1928. Today, the Hotchkiss student body includes students from 18 countries, and on average 5 to 10 students study abroad each year with the School Year Abroad program. Established by the Class of 1948, the Fund for Global Understanding provides grant support for students participating in summer community service projects throughout the world. Hotchkiss is also a member of Round Square and Global Connections, international organizations that bring together students, faculty, and school leaders from around the world.[7]
Traditions
Blue and White Society Dedicated to school spirit and led by mascot Bucky the Bearcat, Blue and White takes its name from Hotchkiss's school colors. Members of Blue and White help organize orientation, pep rallies, and Spirit Days
Bow Tie Bowl This is serious trivia in which 50 teams of three contestants (with at most one faculty member) compete in a series of rounds played over six weeks, culminating in the final round in the dining hall before the entire School. While the contest takes place in the spring, students begin jockeying for the faculty member they want on their team as early as December. Faculty member Lou Pressman founded the competition during the tenure of Headmaster Robert A. Oden Jr., who always wore a bow tie.
Contra Dance In the late 1970s, former math teacher Art Eddy brought his enthusiasm for contra dancing (think: square dancing) to campus. Since then, the first night of orientation has been host to a School-wide contra dance in the field house. With almost the entire School twirling and spinning their partners on the dance floor, students say it's one of the highlights of the year.
Cardboard Boat Regatta A competition among physics students to design and construct a cardboard boat for two using five sheets of corrugated cardboard and two rolls of masking tape. The students use physics principles to calculate the buoyant force required to keep their crafts and crew afloat in the Hixon Pool.
Class Nomenclature The terminology for the four classes -- Prep (9th grade), Lower Mid (10th), Upper Mid (11th), and Senior -- came to Hotchkiss with the School’s first headmaster, Edward G. Coy. Coy had been head of the Greek department at Phillips Academy in Andover. Hotchkiss and Andover are the only schools to use this nomenclature.
Fun Days From student film screenings to spaghetti-eating contests to student-driven discussions, the program for Friday all-school Auditorium meetings is developed and run by the school co-presidents.
International Dinner Organized by the International Club, this annual dinner takes place in the spring. Hotchkiss’s international students and others prepare traditional dishes from their home countries and invite faculty and student friends to attend and chow down!
Jam Fest May 2004 brought the third annual JamFest, a brainchild of a current Hotchkiss student, with 18 student bands from 11 different schools playing on campus.
Matriculation Society Before Opening Chapel, all new students meet with the head of school in the chapel for a ceremony welcoming them into the Hotchkiss student body. Each student introduces himself or herself to the rest of the new students, shakes the head’s hand, and signs his or her name and hometown in one of two large leather-bound books (one for Pythians, one for Olympians – see below).
Olympians & Pythians When Hotchkiss was founded, members of these two student intramural teams competed in gymnastics matches, providing a major source of entertainment, competition, and friendly rivalry. Today, the teams comprise both students and faculty, and the friendly rivalry continues in a wider variety of contests including the Bow Tie Bowl. Whether you’re an Olympian or a Pythian depends on your class year: students to be graduated and faculty hired in odd years are Olympians, and in even years, Pythians.
Opening Chapel The evening before the first day of classes, the entire student body and all faculty members assemble for the Opening Chapel. The head of school and the two student co-presidents welcome everyone, and the head delivers a talk. The evening ends with a presentation of selected student awards and the singing of "Fair Hotchkiss," the School's alma mater.
School Seal & Motto At the seal’s center is Athena, the patron goddess of ancient Athens and of wisdom, shown in profile with her helmet. Encircling her image are the full school name, "The Hotchkiss School," its founding date "MDCCCCXCI," and the words of the Hotchkiss motto: "Moniti Meliora Sequamur." The Latin phrase is taken from Virgil’s Aeneid, Book 3, and might be loosely translated to mean, “After instruction, let us move on to pursue higher things."
Seniors First From the days of daily chapel service, seating for all-school meetings has been by class, with the seniors at the front of the room, symbolizing their leadership of the school. At the close of each meeting the head of school dismisses the entire student body with “Seniors first,” granting the senior class the right to depart before other students. At the end of the school year, after the graduation of the senior class, an all-school meeting is called, and the remaining classes move up to their new seats. The following fall, new preps take their places behind them.
Spirit Day The week leading up to and including “Taft Day," the Saturday in the fall when Hotchkiss teams compete against the Taft School. From kickoff night to the Friday night pep rally and bonfire to Taft Day itself, blue and white rule.
Student-Faculty Basketball Game An event for which the entire Hotchkiss community turns out. The game takes place on the night before “Long Winter Weekend,” a three-day weekend in late January. Students are known for dressing up in creative costumes, and faculty members are known for plenty of antics of their own. Each year, funds raised from ticket sales go to a selected charity.
Coy Tinker Olympics Can you run and balance an egg on a spoon at the same time? Coy and Tinker are the dormitories housing both ninth and tenth grade boys. Each year, the residents of these two dorms have the opportunity to test such skills in this afternoon-long competition, which usually takes place on the first Sunday in October. And lest you think "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," loyal residents of each dorm are equally insistent on the naming variation that puts their dormitory first!
Tokens of Esteem In 1984, the custom began of having each member of the senior class present the head of school with a small token of esteem on the graduation podium. That year, the head was given a golf ball by each class member; the following year it was marbles. More recent tokens of choice have been stickers of the U.S. flag, playing cards, and candy sticks.
Upper mid Carnival A much-anticipated event complete with slip 'n' slide, dunking machine, cotton candy, burgers, and much more that first began in 1965. The carnival is organized and run by the upper mids as a class fun- and fund-raiser every spring.
"Writes" of passage "Daily Themes" at Hotchkiss can be traced all the way back to the early part of the 20th century. The term refers to a two-month period during which all lower mids write up to 40 papers on themes of their choosing. A second writing tradition at Hotchkiss is the “ticket,” a spontaneous overnight essay assigned in all grades. The essay becomes the student’s “ticket” into class the following day.[8]
List of Notable The Hotchkiss School Alumni
Notable alumni
--- Academia
- Dickinson W. Richards, Nobel Prize winner
- John Hersey, Pulitzer Prize winning author
- Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982), Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize *Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982), Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner.[9]
- Charles Stapper, Inventor in the early 1960s of read-only memory (ROM), which forms the basis for much of today’s publishing
- Alfred Whitney Griswold, President of Yale University
- Everett N. Case, President, Colgate University
- Willard F. Enteman II, President, Bowdoin College;
- Strobe Talbott, President of Brookings Institution, Deputy Secretary of State, Journalist, diplomat,
- Atholl McBean,Founder, Stanford Research Institute
- Arthur Howe, President of The Hampton Institute, Professor of citizenship at Dartmouth College;
- Zeph Stewart, Classics Professor, Harvard University
- Christopher Winship, Senior Professor of sociology, Harvard University.
- George F. Cahill Jr., Professor Emeritus of medicine, Harvard Medical School;,
- James T. Patterson III, Professor Emeritus of History, Brown University; author.
- Leonard Woods Labaree, Professor of History Yale University
- Arthur Howe Jr. ’, Dean of admissions, Yale University, Retired, President, American Field Service; .
- Edwin Foster Blair, Instructor at Yale
- William K. Muir Jr., Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley;
- Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Professor of philosophy and legal studies at Dartmouth College
- Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; author,
- Edward V. Nunes Jr., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
- Douglas S. Moore , Member of the music faculty of Columbia University; Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and one of few American opera composers;
- Arthur Lehman Goodhart, Legal scholar, Master of University College, Oxford University
- William Mansfield Clark, Pioneer in the field of biochemistry; significant contributor to the understanding of oxidation-reduction potentials of organic systems; DeLamar Professor of Physiological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; author, Topics in Physical Chemistry
- John E. Ellis III, Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The University of Chicago
- Benjamin Woods Labaree, Professor of History, Williams College; American Maritime Studies; Chairman of the Maritime Library;
- Richard M. Morse, Founder, the Institute of Caribbean Studies;
- [[Richard C. Overton], Founder, Professor of Business History, Northwestern University;;
- Edward H. Ahrens, Physician; Professor Emeritus, Rockefeller University;
- Robin Higham,Professor Emeritus of History, Kansas State University; author and co-author of military history books,
- Frederick Frank Pioneer in biotech ventures; vice chairman of Lehman Brothers; One of the Top 100 Contributors to Biotechnology”
- John P. Ferguson, Anthropologist, instrumental in the founding and development of the Iroquois Indian Museum in Howes Cave
- David Hawkins, Philosopher of science and assistant to J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project to build atomic bombs, and official historian of the project; developer of the Hawkins-Simon condition, still taught in advanced macroeconomics courses
- L. Mead Treadwell, Commissioner on the U.S. Arctic Research Commission of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation; managing director of the Institute of the North at Alaska Pacific University; vice chair of the Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery Institute; CEO, Venture Ad Astra, telecommunications and geographic information system
- John Ziegler, Physician; recipient, Albert Lasker Award for his work in the cure of Burkitt’s lymphoma;
- Robert D. Morris, World-renowned physician, epidemiologist and public health expert;
- Ian R. Desai, American Rhodes Scholar; at the University of Chicago, a class of 2004 student marshal (the University’s highest undergraduate award for scholastic achievement and leadership); co-founder of the Chicago Society,
Authors
- Archibald MacLeish, Poet Laureate of the United States; Pulitzer Prize recipient in [1932 for Conquistador; Librarian of Congress; Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Harvard; Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award recipient, 1952, for Collected Poems; recipient of Pulitzer Prize, drama, 1958, for J.B., a verse play based on the book of Job; Academy Award recipient for the screenplay, The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
- John Hersey, Recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1945, for A Bell for Adano; author of Hiroshima and The Algiers Motel Incident
- Tom Dolby, Author of the best-selling novel The Trouble Boy (2004). His second novel, set at a Massachusetts boarding school, is titled The Sixth Form (2008). Son of billionaire engenieer, Ray Dolby founder of Dolby Laboratories.
- Hobson Brown, Co-Author of The Upper Class
- Taylor Materne, Co-Author of The Upper Class
- Caroline Says, Co-Author of The Upper Class
- Elizabeth G. Hines, Co-author of the biography, Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire (2004 Non-Fiction Book Honor from the American Library Association)
- David McCord Lippincott, Novelist; American composer, lyricist and author; creative director at McCann Erickson, writing copy and creating jingles; author of several books including The Voice Of Armageddon (on which the film is based)
- Peter Matthiessen, Naturalist and author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, including At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Far Tortuga, The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes, and The Snow Leopard (National Book Award), 1978; recipient of Heinz Award in Arts & Humanities
- Julia Quinn, Romance novelist whose books include It’s In His Kiss, When He Was Wicked, Sir Phillip With Love, and The Viscount Who Loved Me
- Sophie B. Wadsworth, Poet and author of Letters from Siberia, for which she won the Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Award; recipient of awards from the Millay Colony for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Dennis Watlington, Author, Chasing America; Emmy Award recipient for outstanding individual achievement in writing for informational programming for The Black West
- Tom Reiss, Writer, author of The Orientalist, a national best-seller; contributor to The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other publications
- Stephen Birmingham, author
- David McCord Lippincott, Novelist and Screen writer
- Peter Matthiessen, Naturalist and Writer
- MacKenzie Tuttle Bezos, Author, The Testing of Luther Albright
- Stephen Birmingham, Author whose works include Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York and The Right Places
- Courtlandt D. B. Bryan, Author whose works include Friendly Fire, P.S. Wilkinson, Beautiful Women: Ugly Scenes, and the centennial history of the National Geographic Society
- Chase R. Ewald, Author whose works include Arts & Crafts Style and Spirit: Craftspeople of the Revival, and Cowboy Chic
Business
- Henry Luce (1898-1967), Co-founder of Time Magazine Also founder of Sports Illustrated and Fortune Magazine)
- Briton Hadden, Co-founder of Time Magazine
- James Alexander Linen III, Publisher, Executive Committee, Time Magazine
- Forrest Mars Jr., CEO of Mars, Incorporated, billionaire
- John Mars, billionaire
- Jonathan Bell Lovelace, Founder, Chairman Emeritus, President, Pioneer, and CEO of The Capital Group Companies, pioneer in the mutual fund business; The capital group is one of the world’s largest investment management organizations with assets in excess 1.4 trillion under management.
- Raymond J. McGuire, Global co-head of Investment Banking, Citigroup Inc.
- Don Durgin, President of NBC Television
- Harold Stanley, Founder, Morgan Stanley
- Henry Ford II, President of Ford Motor Company
- Edsel Ford, President of Ford Motor Company, son of Henry Ford
- William Clay Ford, Jr., CEO of Ford Motor Company
- Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., President of the Chrysler Building (Son of Walter Chrysler)
- Arthur Kittredge Watson, Chairman of IBM, US Ambassador to France
- John Thornton, COO Goldman Sachs
- John P. Thompson, Member of the Dallas family who built the world’s largest convenience store chain, 7-Eleven
- Jere W. Thompson, Member of the Dallas family who built the world’s largest convenience store chain, 7-Eleven
- William H.T. Bush
- Jonathan Bush, investment banker
- Fay Vincent (1938-), CEO, Columbia Pictures Industries, Baseball Commissioner.[10]
- Tom Werner, Chairman of the Boston Red Sox and co-founder of Casey Werner, producers of "The Cosby Show", "3rd Rock" and "That 70's Show"
- Peter Grauer, President and CEO, Bloomberg L.P.; president
- Stephen D. Greenberg, Former Deputy Commissioner, Major League Baseball; co-founder and president, Classic Sports Network
- Roy D. Chapin, CEO of American Motors Corporation; US Secretary of Commerce.
- Charles H. Bell, President and later CEO, General Mills
- C.S. Harding Mott, Philanthropist, General Motors Board of Directors
- John Shedd Reed, Chairman and CEO of the Santa Fe Railway, Philanthropist, ex-chairman of NMSC.
- Shelby Bonnie, Co-Founder of CNET Networks Inc.; former President and CEO
- Joseph Cullman, Chairman of Phillip Morris
- Frank A. Sprole, Vice chairman, Bristol-Myers Corporation;
- Cristina Mariani-May, Family proprietor of Banfi Vintners, America’s leading wine importer
- Howard C. Bissell, Chairman, Bissell Companies, Inc.
- John Luke, President and CEO, Westvaco Corporation
- Mark P. Mays, President and CEO, Clear Channel Communications
- Randall T. Mays, Chief Financial Officer, Clear Channel Communications
- Thomas J. “Tim” Litle IV ’, Co-founder and Chairman of Litle & Co.
- Jodie Watt McLean, President and Chief Investment Officer at Edens and Avant.
- George W. Mead II, Chairman, Consolidated Papers, Inc.
- Burton Tremaine, Business leader; President, Wadsworth Atheneum.
- James G. Gidwitz, Chairman and CEO, Continental Materials Corporation
- Lansing Crane, Chairman, Crane & Company
- Felipe A. Custer, Chairman and CEO, Corporation Custer-CPG S.A.
- Katha Diddel-Warren, [[President] and Creative Director, Twin Panda Inc.
- Thomas J. Edelman , Chairman, Berenson & Company; President, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
- Susan F. Fortgang,Fourth-generation owner and vice president of M. Fabrikant and Sons
- Arthur Morris Collens, President, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
- Arthur Howe, President, American Field Service
- Robert Chapman Sprague, Industrialist (Executive)
- Richard Lyon Bowditch, Steamship executive
- William Elfers, Venture capitalist
- John Miller Musser , Philanthropist
- Bernice Chen, President and CEO, Cheng Ming Ming Cosmetics Ltd.
- Gaylord Donnelley, Chairman, RR Donnelley
- Edgar Meyer Cullman, CEO, General Cigar Holdings, Inc.;
- David Lincoln Luke III, President, Westvaco
Government and Law
- Potter Stewart, Justice of the US Supreme Court
- Jon Ormond Newman, Judge, United States court of appeals
- Porter J. Goss, former Director of the CIA, Representative of Florida, United States House of Representatives
- Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State, Journalist, diplomat, President of Brookings Institution
- Paul Nitze, Secretary of the Navy, architect of US policy towards the Soviet Union, Co-founder of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies;
- Malcolm Baldrige, Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce
- Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Robert Bork, United States Solicitor General, Conservative legal scholar
- Robert C. McCormack, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Assistant Secretary of Defense; Assistant Secretary of the Navy
- H. Chapman Rose, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Under Secretary of the Navy
- Donald B. Easum, Former United States Assistant Secretary of State; United States Ambassador to Nigeria
- Roy D. Chapin, US Secretary of Commerce and CEO, American Motors Corporation;
- C. Langhorne Washburn, Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Tourism
- Charles Edison, Governor of New Jersey, son of Thomas Edison,
- Artemus Gates, banker, World War I hero, Undersecretary of the Navy
- Lawrence M. Judd, Governor of Hawaii
- Robert D. Orr, Governor of Indiana
- Ernest Gruening, Governor of Alaska, US Senator
- William Warren Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- G. Mcmurtrie Godley, United States Ambassador to France,and United States Ambassador to: Switzerland, Belgium, Cambodia, Congo, Laos, and Lebanon; considered by some to be the person most responsible for preventing the fall of Laos to the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese
- Arthur Kittredge Watson, United States Ambassador to France, Chairman of IBM
- Victor Ashe, United States Ambassador to Poland
- Livingston Champman, United States Ambassador to Canada
- Clark T. Randt, Jr., United States Ambassador to China 2001-Present
- Winston Lord, United States Ambassador to China 1985-1989
- Charles Yost, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, United States Ambassador to: Laos, Syria, and Morocco; United States Representative to the United Nations
- John L. Loeb Jr., United States Ambassador to Denmark; United States Representative to the United Nations
- Robert M. Beecroft, United States Ambassador; served as the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo’s Chief of Mission and Special Envoy for the Bosnian Federation
- Warren Clark Jr, United States Ambassador to Gabon, and United States Ambassador toSao Tome & Principe
- John C. Schiffer, Senator, State of Wyoming
- Hallett Johnson, United States Ambassador to Costa Rica
- Paul C. Lambert United States Ambassador to Ecuador
- Ken M. Schiffer, Director of Internal Security, Los Alamos
- R. Lawrence Coughlin Representative, United States House of Representatives
- Basil G. Comnas, Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program for Iraq, in charge of infrastructure projects; former head of the United Nations Office in Kosovo; served previously for United Nations missions in Somalia and Tajikistan
- Gaspard D’Andelot Belin, General Counsel, the United States Treasury Department
- Dan Wende Lufkin, Connecticut Environmental Commissioner
- William Gelon McKnight, Jr. Prominent Lawyer
- Eli Whitney Debevoise, Lawyer ( Debevoise & Plimpton firm)
- Robert H. BorkAmerican legal scholar and Supreme Court nominee; Distinguished Fellow, the Hudson Institute;
- Elizabeth M. Brown , Executive Director, the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy in Washington, DC; former counsel to Vice President Al Gore; an attorney advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice
- Robert E. Dineen Jr., Partner, Shearman & Sterling; considered an expert in U.S. and international private banking and financial transactions
- David H. Finnie, Senior counsel, the International Legal Division of Mobil Oil Company;
- Peter Hall, Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; former U.S. Attorney, District of Vermont
- Julian T. Houston, Associate Justice, Superior Court of Massachusetts; founder of Roxbury Youthworks, Inc.,
- Thomas R. McMillen, United States District Court Judge; chairman, the appeals board of the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission; Circuit Court Judge, Cook County
- Jon O. Newman, Judge, United States Court of Appeals;
- William H. Orrick, Protector of the Freedom Riders who sought to integrate buses in the South during his years in the Justice Department during the Kennedy administration; appointee to the Federal bench
- J. Howard Rossbach,Criminal Court Judge; commissioner, the Securities and Exchange Commission
- C. Newton Schenck III, Attorney, partner, and senior counsel, Wiggin & Dana; community leader; founder of New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre
- Jonathan W. Sloat, Attorney; general counseland congressional liaison with the U.S. Information Agency; member, International Cultural and Trade Commission
Media
- Henry Luce (1898-1967), Co-founder of Time Magazine Also founder of Sports Illustrated and Fortune Magazine)
- Briton Hadden, Co-founder of Time Magazine
- Don Durgin*, President of NBC
- Lewis H. Lapham, Editor of Harper's MagazineCompany
- John G. Avildsen, Film Director (Rocky, The Karate Kid)
- Eric d’Arbeloff, Independent filmmaker who produced Lovely & Amazing with two partners; producer, documentary film, Super Size Me
- Tom Werner, The Carsey-Werner Company whose productions include: That ’70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show, Cybill, Davis Rules, A Different World, Grace Under Fire, Roseanne; Chairman and co-managing partner, Boston Red Sox
- Gardner Botsford, Senior Editor, The New Yorkerauthor, A Life of Privilege, Mostly
- Peter Arno, The New Yorker cartoonist, (Coined the Phrase "Back to the drawing board").
- Susanna J. Fowler-Watt, Anchorwoman, “BBC Look East,” the BBC’s regional news program for the Eastern Counties,
- William Loeb, Conservative newspaper proprietor; publisher of the Union Leader newspaper
- Christopher W. Wallace, Host, Fox News Sunday, and contributor to the network’s political and election news coverage;
- Varian Fry, journalist and 'the American Schindler'
- William Block,Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Publisher
- Peter H. Hunt, Director of theater and television productions; recipient of a Tony Award for the musical 1776; NY Drama Critics Award, 1969; London Critics Award, 1970; Christopher Award, 1972; Edgar Award[, 1982; and Ace Award, 1983
- John W. Anderson, Senior correspondent, Washington Post Foreign Service Department
- William D. Blair, Journalist, Newsweek magazine, assistant editor; international correspondent, London; Bonn Bureau Chief; Paris Bureau Chief
- Felipe T. Edwards, Former deputy editor, EL MECURIO
- Edwin O. Denby, American poet and the most influential American dance critic of the 20th century;
- Christopher H. Meledandri, Chief Executive Officer of Illumination Entertainment; former President, Fox Animation at 20th Century Fox
- Jeremy Spear, Documentary filmmaker, whose works include Fast Pitch and Polynesian Power
- Laurence M. Mark, Producer, Laurence Mark Production
- Alan B. Curtiss, Producer who received nominations for the Directors Guild of America Award for Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, The Green Mile, and Master & Commander
- Charles D. Ebersol, Documentary filmmaker; with fellow alumni, Kip Kroeger ’00 and Willie Ebersol ’04, produced Itutheng about students at a school in Soweto, South Africa, who have suffered unspeakable abuses and violence in their short lives; film won award for best humanitarian film at the MountainFilm festival in Telluride, CO, was purchased by HBO, aired in 2006 on HBO and HBO Family, and was featured on the “Oprah Winfrey Show"
- Elizabeth Chandler, Screenwrite
- S. Bruce Beattie, Writer, producer, and director of the official bicentennial film, America the Beautiful, 1976
- Chris Wallace, television journalist on Fox
- Max Carlish, British documentary filmmaker; recipient of a BAFTA and an International Emmy Award for Best Arts Documentary for a series about The Royal Opera House in London and a groundbreaking series about British science fiction
- Bradford Dillman, Actor who appeared in A Certain Smile, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Way We Were, and other films
- Ben Mulroney, Host of Canadian Idol, son of Canadian Prime Minister
- Allison Janney, Emmy Award winning Actress
- John H. Hammond, Executive at Columbia Records, Record Producer (discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen)
- Leland Hayward, Hollywood and Broadway agent and producer
- Burr Steers, filmmaker and actor
Music and Art
- Douglas Moore , Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and one of few American opera composers; member of the music faculty of Columbia University;
- Roswell Rudd, Grammy nominated trombonist
- John Crosby, Founder, the Santa Fe Opera; general director until 2000; recipient, National Medal of Arts and Officer’s Cross of the Federal German Order of Merit; President, Manhattan School of Music and of Opera America; longest serving general director of any American opera company
- Esko Laine, Double bass player, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Peter Duchin, Orchestra leader; organizer, Peter Duchin Orchestras and Duchin Entertainment;
- Frederick "Dennis" Greene, Founder and lead singer, Sha Na Na; professor of law, University of Dayton School of Law
- Scott Powell, Member of the rock group, Sha Na Na; orthopedic surgeon
- Yin Miao, Pianist and musician who has performed at the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center; a successful recording artist whose CD of a performance with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra sold more than 200,000 copies
- Edwin Denby, poet and dance critic
- Thomas Hoving, Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- William H. Forsyth, Curator Emeritus of medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; director of the Cloisters
- John H. Hauberg, Art collector and benefactor; founded the Pilchuck Glass School; former president, the Seattle Art Museum
- Harry S. Parker III, Former director, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- Samuel Wagstaff, Noted museum director (Wadsworth Atheneum, Detroit Institute of Arts) and photography collector; his photographs formed the basis of the Getty Museum’s collection, one of the finest in the world
- Ian Wardropper,Chairman of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art;
- William Kienbusch, artist
- Gerald Murphy, Precisionist Artist
- Sheridan Lord, Artist
- Fred Cray, Artist; won a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in photography
- Gerald Murphy, Talented American artist and painter; influential figure in the arts in Paris and elsewhere in the 1920s
- Anthony Vevers, Artist and central figure of the art world of Provincetown, MA, for five decades; 2006 retrospective at the Hollis Taggart Galleries in New York City entitled, “Sailing to Byzantium: The Art of Tony Vevers”; respected professor of art history; important chronicler of the Provincetown art community
- Rodney Downes, Artist
- Henry Knox Sherrill, Episcopal Bishop
- Robert Arthur Bryan, Archbishop of Maritimes
Sport
- Matt Herr (1976-) ice hockey forward who played for part of four NHL seasons.[11]
- Torrey Mitchell, NHL forward for San Jose Sharks
- Caitlin Cahow, Member, Hockey Team USA, 2006 Olympic Games in Torino, Italy
- August Kammer, Member, the Hockey Team USA and Walker Cup golf team; winner of an Olympic bronze medal in 1936 as a member of the Hockey Team USA at Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Louise Gleason, Member, Olympic Sailing Team in 1992
- Gina Kingsbury, Member, Hockey Team Canada, 2006 Olympic Games in Torino, Italy
- Raymond W. Pond, Renowned Yale University football player known as “Ducky”; coach of football at Yale in the early 1930s
- Peter Revson, Race car driver - Formula 1
- Edward M. Swift, Senior writer, Sports Illustrated
- Francis T. Vincent Jr., Eighth Commissioner, Major League Baseball; Former President and CEO, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.;
- Stephen Greenberg, Former Deputy Commissioner, Major League Baseball; co-founder and president, Classic Sports Network
- Alden James, Kite boarder, one of the world’s best-known
Military
- Elliott B. Strauss, Allied Naval Commander in Chief, Rear Admiral; executive officer, commander, Commander in Chief, invasion of Normandy;
- Pierre Charbonnet, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy; Chief of Naval Reserve; Rear Admiral; recipient of seven Air Medals, three Distinguished Flying Crosses, and four times, Legion of Merit
- Douglas Campbell, American aviator and World War I flying ace; the first American aviator flying in an American unit to achieve the status of ace
- William P. Heilman, Brigadier General United States Army
- Willard Brown, World War II prisoner of war who directed construction of escape tunnels, an act that was the inspiration for the movie, The Great Escape
- Nicholas Lezama, M.D., MPH Colonel; United States Air Force Chief, Medical Plans and Policy; U.S. Transportation Command,
- Thaddeus Beal, Under Secretary of the Army; President and Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Trust Company of Cambridge, MA
- Artemus Gates , Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air; Under Secretary of the Navy; President, New York Trust
- Roswell Gilpatric, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force; Undersecretary of the Air Force; Deputy Secretary of Defense; member of the Council of Foreign Relations
Hotchkiss in print
- The school is mentioned several times in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and in his short story Six of One.
- In the book Primary Colors by Joe Klein, later turned into a film, the principal character Henry Burton was educated at Hotchkiss, and is frequently referred to as 'Hotchkiss'.
- In Jeffrey Archer's novel Sons of Fortune, protagonist Fletcher Davenport is a Hotchkiss alumnus.
- In Tom Wolfe's novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons, the son of a minor character attends the school.
- There is a passing reference to the school in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho.
- The school is mentioned in Natalie Krinsky's book, Chloe Does Yale.
- The school is mentioned in Richard Rodriguez's memoir "Brown: The Last Discovery of America."
- In John McPhee's profile of alumnus Thomas Hoving ("A Roomful of Hovings"), Hoving is quoted as saying: "'The thought of being locked up there for weeks and weeks–I used to sweat with the horror of it. If you see your life in terms of weather, Hotchkiss was overcast and threatening. Trees were green there in my last year, because it was my last year.'"
- In Can't Take It With You: The Art of Making and Giving Money, alumnus and supporter Lewis B. Cullman writes, "Like most New England boarding schools of the time, Hotchkiss was built around the concept of rugged, manly Christianity. Living conditions were Spartan; trips home, rare...There was a Hotchkiss way to do everything." On page 41 he wrote of "the virulent anti-Semitism of Hotchkiss back then" and added, "as with all minorities, our status made us vulnerable."
- Hotchkiss alumnus Julian Houston, a judge in Massachusetts, wrote the novel New Boy, which recounts the story of Rob Garrett, the first African-American student at the fictional Draper School, which strongly resembles Hotchkiss. (According to a Boston Globe article (March 26, 2006) the author said of his own time at Hotchkiss, "'I was miserable there.'")
- For the school's centenary, Ernest Kolowrat was commissioned to write Hotchkiss: A Chronicle of an American School (ISBN 1-56131-058-1).
- Alumnus, former Librarian of Congress, and Poet Laureate Archibald MacLeish said in a 1982 interview "God, how I did not like Hotchkiss!" ("America Was Promises", American Heritage Magazine, vol. 32, issue 5)
- In Hotchkiss in the Fifties: Myths and Realities (George Mason University's History News Network, 11/29/2004), alumnus and historian Jesse Lemisch writes of the various forms of bigotry he witnessed at Hotchkiss. A disabled student was "stigmatized and physically beaten here." He goes on to write, "...anti-semitism was deep in the history and culture of the place." He quotes alumnus Lewis Lapham (editor of Harper's' Magazine): "'Hotchkiss, like Yale, like Harvard, is about setting wealth to music' [Kolowrat, p. 546]. Basically and in reality [continues Lemisch], it seems to me that Hotchkiss greases the wheels of capitalism." Jean Olsen, the wife of a Hotchkiss headmaster, suspected that the school was "by far the most male-oriented, chauvinistic school in the country" (see Kolowrat, pp. 379-380).
- The Hotchkiss School: A Portrait was published by the school in 1966 (authors: Wertenbaker and Basserman). The Hotchkiss headmaster George Van Santvoord, known as "The Duke" is quoted as saying "'...we took a religious census and found two Baptists, twenty-seven Jews, eight Quakers, three Mormons, and so on...a peculiar breakdown. We never bothered with any of that. Only question: are these boys going to gain from the experience and not prove too intractable?'" (Wertenbaker & Basserman, p. 113).
- Hobson Brown, Caroline Says, and Taylor Materne (Hotchkiss graduates in the 1990s) wrote the book "The Upper Class," a novel portraying the lives of two girls at a boarding school which closely resembles Hotchkiss both in appearances and traditions.
- The Hotchkiss School was mentioned in the episode "If It Should Happen to You" of the Best Years.
- "The Sixth Form," a 2008 novel written by Hotchkiss graduate Tom Dolby and set at the fictional Berkley Academy in Wilton, MA, is said to be based on Hotchkiss. The novel centers around the relationship between a young man and his older female English teacher.
Gallery
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Main Building
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The Main Building
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The Eldeman Dormitory (Front Entrance)
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Esther Eastman Music Center
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Esther Eastman Staircase
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Esther Eastman Music Center
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Esther Eastman Music Center
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Griswold Science Center
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Hotchkiss' Star Spangled Banner
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Students
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School Gates
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Creek
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Sunset
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Hotchkiss Field
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Winter
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Hotchkiss Woods
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Lake Wononscopomuc
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Main Circle
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Main Circle
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Sports Facilities
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Football Team
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Track
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Football
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Baseball
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Football Field
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Golf
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Hockey Team
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Pep Squad
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Student Art
References
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.hotchkiss.org/AboutHotchkiss/HistoryTra.asp
- ^ http://www.hotchkiss.org/AboutHotchkiss/HistoryTra.asp
- ^ Davis, Robert Gorham. "Lives of the Poet"], The New York Times, August 10, 1986. Accessed December 26, 2007. "MacLeish views the events of his career as imposed, not chosen. His strong-minded mother, a friend of Jane Addams, tore him away from a thriving chicken business to send him to the Hotchkiss School."
- ^ Cohn, Roger. "Nothing But Curve Balls", The New York Times, June 3, 1990. Accessed December 18, 2007. "At the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., young Fay played guard on the football team, excelled at Latin and French and was remembered by classmates for his witty parodies of the poetry of Keats and Coleridge."
- ^ Wallace, William N. "COLLEGES HOCKEY: NOTEBOOK -- DIVISION III; Middlebury Makes It Four Straight Titles", The New York Times, March 25, 1998. Accessed December 18, 2007. "Herr, the captain from the Hotchkiss School and Alpine, N.J., was held back by injuries earlier, but is fit now."
Sources
Information resources independent from the school itself. Links to independent school organizations and accreditation services.
- Connecticut Association of Independent Schools
- The Association of Boarding Schools
- New England Association of Schools and Colleges
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