Wilbraham & Monson Academy - Wikipedia
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| Wilbraham & Monson Academy | |
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 Rich Hall | |
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423 Main Street , Hampden ,01095 United States | |
| Coordinates | 42°07′20.96″N 72°25′53.67″W / 42.1224889°N 72.4315750°W |
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| Type | Private, boarding, day, college preparatory school |
| Motto | At Home. In the World. |
| Established | 1804; 221 years ago |
| CEEB code | 222400 |
| NCES School ID | 00604261 |
| Chair | Scott B. Jacobs |
| Head of School | Brian Easler |
| Faculty | 66 |
| Grades | 9-12, including postgraduate |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 400 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 6:1 |
| Campus | 400 acres (1.6 km2) |
| Color(s) | Red and Blue |
| Mascot | Titan |
| Nickname | Titans |
| Annual tuition |
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| Revenue | $ 22,102,738 |
| Website | www.wma.us |
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.
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]
- Henry Barnard (1811–1900), educator
- Alfred Ely Beach, inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer
- Rick Bennett, NHL ice hockey player and college coach
- Mary Ann Booth (1843–1922), microscopist
- Henry Billings Brown, associate justice of the US Supreme Court. Wrote majority opinion for Plessy v. Ferguson
- Tyrell Burgess, Bermudian 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 (1853–1920), US Senator
- Emily Norcross Dickinson,[2] mother of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson
- Kyle Filipowski, Duke University and NBA basketball player
- Richard Fuld, former CEO Lehman Brothers
- Wong Fun, first Western-trained doctor in China, graduated from University of Edinburgh - 1855 [3]
- Wenyen Gabriel (born 1997), South Sudanese-American basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Bill Guerin, retired NHL hockey player; general manager of Minnesota Wild; four-time Stanley Cup champion[4]
- William Stewart Halstead, surgeon, studied at Monson Academy for a time[5]
- 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 (1927–2014), poet
- Christine Ladd-Franklin, mathematician, logician and psychologist - 1865
- Oliver Marcy, served as acting President of Northwestern University twice, while also serving as a professor of natural history
- 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, Canadian first president of Mount Allison University
- Charles Pratt, oil tycoon and founder of the Pratt Institute
- William Rice (1821–1897), Methodist Episcopal minister, author, and librarian
- Joey Santiago (born 1965), 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, lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
- Mark Warburton, gymnast
- Yung Wing, first Chinese graduate of an American university (Yale) - 1854
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- ^ "Emily Norcross Dickinson (1804–1882), mother". Emily Dickinson Museum. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Wong Fun". The University of Edinburgh. June 24, 2024. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
- ^ "Wilbraham & Monson Academy Profile (2021) | Wilbraham, MA". Boarding School Review. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ "Worcester District Medical Society".
- 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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