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Pomfret School, the Glossary

Pomfret School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory boarding and day school in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States, serving 350 students in grades 9 through 12 and post-graduates.^[1]

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1894 establishments in Connecticut
Boarding schools in Connecticut
Private high schools in Connecticut

Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild (born October 5, 1942) is an American author, journalist, historian and lecturer.

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Alex Gibney

Philip Alexander Gibney (born October 23, 1953) is an American documentary film director and producer.

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Arthur Purdy Stout

Arthur Purdy Stout (1885–1967) was an American surgeon and pathologist.

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Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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Boston.com

Boston.com is a regional website that offers news and information about the Boston, Massachusetts, region.

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Brian Flynn (ice hockey)

Brian Michael Flynn (born July 26, 1988) is an American professional ice hockey forward who is an unrestricted free agent.

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CambridgeSeven

Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc., stylized as CambridgeSeven, and sometimes as C7A, is an American architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Connecticut House of Representatives

The Connecticut State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Connecticut's 2nd congressional district

Connecticut's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Earl of Pomfret

Earl of Pomfret (alias Pontefract) was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1721 for Thomas Fermor, 2nd Baron Leominster.

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Edward Stettinius Jr.

Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. (October 22, 1900 – October 31, 1949) was an American businessman who served as United States Secretary of State under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1944 to 1945, and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 1946.

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Edward Streeter

Edward Streeter (August 1, 1891 – March 31, 1976), sometimes credited as E. Streeter, was an American novelist and journalist, best known for the 1949 novel Father of the Bride and his Dere Mable series.

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Eric D. Coleman

Eric Dean Coleman (born May 26, 1951) is a Democratic politician in the United States.

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Ernest Flagg

Ernest Flagg (February 6, 1857 – April 10, 1947) was an American architect in the Beaux-Arts style.

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Felice Mueller

Felice Mueller (born October 15, 1989) is an American rower.

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Frederic W. Lincoln IV

Frederic Walker Lincoln IV (15 October 1898 – 7 April 1968) was chairman of the board of trustees of the New York Medical College and the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital who married into the Rockefeller family.

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.

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Griffin

The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (grýps; Classical Latin: grȳps or grȳpus; Late and Medieval Latin: gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.

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Helmut Jahn

Helmut Jahn (January 4, 1940 – May 8, 2021) was a German-American architect, known for projects such as the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the Thompson Center in Chicago; One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok, Thailand, among others.

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Herbert Pell

Herbert Claiborne Pell Jr. (February 16, 1884 – July 17, 1961) was a United States representative from New York, U.S. Minister to Portugal, U.S. Minister to Hungary, and a creator and member of the United Nations War Crimes Commission.

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Horace Seely-Brown Jr.

Horace Seely-Brown Jr. (May 12, 1908 – April 9, 1982) was an American politician and a US Representative from Connecticut.

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Jack Hardy (singer-songwriter)

John Studebaker "Jack" Hardy (November 23, 1947 – March 11, 2011) was an American singer-songwriter and playwright based in Greenwich Village, who was influential as a writer, performer, and mentor in the North American and European folk music scenes for decades.

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James Rothman

James Edward Rothman (born November 3, 1950) is an American biochemist.

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Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and writer.

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Jon Stone

Jon Arthur Stone (April 13, 1931 – March 30, 1997) was an American writer, director, and producer who was best known as an original crewmember on the children's television show Sesame Street and is credited with helping to develop characters such as Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird.

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Lorenzo Borghese

Lorenzo Borghese (Don Lorenzo dei Principi Borghese; born June 9, 1972) is an Italian-American businessman, television personality, and member of the Borghese family.

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Michael K. Farr

Michael K. Farr is an American author.

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Mixed-sex education

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

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New England Preparatory School Athletic Council

The New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) is an organization that serves as the governing body for sports in preparatory schools and leagues in New England.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Orville Schell

Orville Hickock Schell III (born May 20, 1940) is an American sinologist.

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Pat Boyd

Patrick S. Boyd (born January 28, 1981) is an educator and American politician who is a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, serving since 2017.

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Peter Beard

Peter Hill Beard (January 22, 1938 – March 31 / April 19, 2020) was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer who lived and worked in New York City, Montauk and Kenya.

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Philip Ainsworth Means

Philip Ainsworth Means (April 3, 1892 – November 24, 1944) was an American anthropologist, historian, and author.

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Pomfret Street Historic District

The Pomfret Street Historic District is a historic district roughly along Pomfret Street (Route 169), from Bradley Road to Woodstock Road in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States.

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Pomfret, Connecticut

Pomfret is a town located in Windham County, Connecticut, United States, with a population of 4,266 according to the 2020 United States Census.

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Private school

A private school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a public school.

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Ridley Pearson

Ridley Pearson (born March 13, 1953, in Glen Cove, New York) is an American author of suspense, thriller and adventure books.

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Robert B. Fiske

Robert Bishop Fiske Jr. (born December 28, 1930) is an American trial attorney and a partner with the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City.

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Robert Vickrey

Robert Remsen Vickrey (August 26, 1926 – April 17, 2011) was a Massachusetts-based artist and author who specialized in the ancient medium of egg tempera.

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Roger Angell

Roger Angell (September 19, 1920 – May 20, 2022) was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball.

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Sarah Vaillancourt

Sarah Marie Vaillancourt (born May 8, 1985) is a Canadian women's ice hockey player.

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Secondary education in the United States

Secondary education is the last six or seven years of statutory formal education in the United States.

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Spencer Bailey

Spencer Bailey (born August 18, 1985) is an American writer, editor, journalist, and podcast host.

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Ted Sizer

Theodore Ryland Sizer (June 23, 1932 – October 21, 2009) was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder (and eventually President Emeritus) of the Essential school movement and was known for challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of American secondary schools.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomfret_School

Also known as The Pomfret School.

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Pomfret School, the Glossary

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See also

1894 establishments in Connecticut

Boarding schools in Connecticut

Private high schools in Connecticut

References