Wilbraham & Monson Academy
Wilbraham & Monson Academy (WMA) is a college-preparatory school located in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1804, it is a four-year boarding and day high school for students in grades 9-12 and postgraduate. A middle school, with grades 6–8, offers boarding for grade 8 students. The academy is located in the center of the town of Wilbraham, 75 miles (121 km) from Boston and 150 miles (240 km) from New York City.
| Wilbraham & Monson Academy | |
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 Rich Hall | |
| Address | |
423 Main Street , Hampden , 01095 United States | |
| Coordinates | 42°07′20.96″N 72°25′53.67″W |
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| Type | Private, boarding, day |
| Motto | At Home. In the World. |
| Established | 1804 |
| CEEB code | 222400 |
| NCES School ID | 00604261 |
| Chair | Scott B. Jacobs |
| Head of School | Brian Easler |
| Faculty | 66 |
| Enrollment | 400 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 6:1 |
| Campus | 400 acres (1.6 km2) |
| Mascot | Titans |
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| Revenue | $ 22,102,738 |
| Website | www |
Athletics
In fall 2007, the Academy unveiled its $4 million expansion of the Greenhalgh Athletic Center on campus. The expansion included a fitness room, a multi-purpose dance and wrestling space, a large conference room and new central locker facilities.[1]
Notable alumni
- Henry Barnard, educationalist
- Alfred Ely Beach, inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer
- Rick Bennett, ice hockey player and coach
- Mary Ann Booth, microscopist
- Tyrell Burgess, professional soccer player with Vancouver Whitecaps FC
- Kraisak Choonhavan, member of Thailand Senate for Nakhon Ratchasima Province (2000–2006); former chairman of the Thai Senate's Foreign Relations Committee
- Russell H. Conwell, minister and founder of Temple University - 1859
- Winthrop Murray Crane, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1870–1880
- Emily Norcross Dickinson,[2] mother of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson
- Kyle Filipowski, college basketball player
- Richard Fuld, former CEO Lehman Brothers
- Wenyen Gabriel, NBA basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans
- Bill Guerin, retired NHL hockey player; general manager of Minnesota Wild; four-time Stanley Cup champion[3]
- William Stewart Halstead, pioneering American surgeon, studied at Monson Academy for a time[4]
- Ratcliffe Hicks, Connecticut state legislator, industrialist, lawyer, and benefactor of the University of Connecticut
- Kim Hyun-jong, South Korean trade minister under Moon Jae-in and Roh Moo-hyun
- Galway Kinnell, poet
- Christine Ladd-Franklin, mathematician, logician and psychologist - 1865
- Patrick Mazeika (born 1993), baseball player
- Pat Phelan, professional soccer player for the New England Revolution
- Nitya Pibulsonggram, Thai Ambassador to the US (1996–2000), Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006–2008)
- Humphrey Pickard, first president of Mount Allison University
- Charles Pratt, oil tycoon and founder of the Pratt Institute
- Joey Santiago, band member of the Pixies
- Pote Sarasin, Prime Minister of Thailand (1957) secretary-general of SEATO (1958–1964)
- Lucy Stone, orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and women's rights advocate
- William Strong, governor of the Commonwealth 1900–1902
- Yung Wing, first Chinese graduate of an American university (Yale) - 1854
See also
References
- "Kuhn Riddle Architects".
- "Emily Norcross Dickinson (1804–1882), mother". Emily Dickinson Museum. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- "Wilbraham & Monson Academy Profile (2021) | Wilbraham, MA". Boarding School Review. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- "Worcester District Medical Society".
Further reading
- Massachusetts Board of Education; George A. Walton (1877), "Report on Academies: Monson Academy", Annual Report...1875-76, Boston – via Internet Archive
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External links
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