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List Of Groton School Alumni
The following is a list of notable alumni of Groton School. __NOTOC__ Note on sources The first official school history, Frank D. Ashburn's ''Fifty Years On: Groton School, 1884''–''1934'' (1934) (hereafter "Ashburn"), provides a complete list of Groton alumni (including students who did not graduate) through 1934, as well as a non-exhaustive list of some of the more notable alumni. Ashburn's companion book ''Peabody of Groton'' (2d ed. 1967) provides a more extensive list of notable alumni but does not provide the years of their graduation. Where possible, graduation dates for names listed solely in ''Peabody of Groton'' have been cross-referenced with the list of graduates in ''Fifty Years On''; otherwise, a question mark has been placed next to the presumptive graduation year (that is, four years before the individual graduated from college). The second official school history, Acosta Nichols' ''Forty Years More: A History of Groton School, 1934''–''1974'', does not c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groton School
Groton School is a Private school, private, college-preparatory school, college-preparatory, day school, day and boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, United States. It is affiliated with the Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal tradition. Groton enrolls about 380 boys and girls from the eighth through twelfth grades, dubbed Forms II–VI in the British fashion. Its $475 million endowment enables the school to admit students on a Need-blind admission, need-blind basis. Typically, 40–44% of students are on Student financial aid in the United States, financial aid. Students with family incomes under $150,000 attend for free. The school admitted 8% of applicants in 2022. Its List of Groton School alumni, list of notable alumni includes U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Nobel laureate John B. Goodenough. History The Peabody era, 1884–1940 Groton School was founded in 1884 by Endicott Peabody (educator), Endicott Peabody, an Episcopal priest. Peabody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Noble
Lawrence Mason Noble was an American ice hockey forward, defenseman and coach. He led Yale to back-to-back intercollegiate championships in 1929 and 1930. Career Born in Monroe, Michigan, Noble was raised in Syracuse, New York, and attended Kent School, a private prep school in Connecticut. After graduating, he began attending Yale University in the fall of 1923 and joined the freshman hockey team. Once he was eligible to play on the varsity teams, Noble was a member of the football and baseball teams but he excelled as a member of the ice hockey squad. As a sophomore, Noble played as a reserve forward, substituting in as required when the starters needed rest. That season he helped the Bulldogs win an intercollegiate title while losing just 1 game all season. The following year, Noble transitioned into a larger role with the team and began the year as a left wing, however, due to a rather poor season for the team he was shifted to defense. He remained on the blueline for his sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur H
Arthur Higelin (born 27 March 1966), better known under his stage name Arthur H (), is a French singer-songwriter and pianist. He is best known in France for his live performances—four of his albums were recorded live. Life and career He is the son of the French singer Jacques Higelin and Nicole Courtois, and half brother of singers Izïa Higelin and stage and film actor, theatre director and music video director Kên Higelin. After traveling in the West Indies, he studied music in Boston before returning to Paris and developing his eclectic but highly personal musical style, drawing on such influences as Thelonious Monk, Serge Gainsbourg, the Sex Pistols, jazz, blues, Middle Eastern music and the tango. He first performed in 1988 in clubs in Paris, as leader of a trio with bassist Brad Scott and drummer Paul Jothy. His first album, ''Arthur H'' (1990), combined rhythmic experimentation and '' bal-musette'' elements with a vocal style which has been compared to Tom Wai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors Of The United States To Paraguay ...
The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Paraguay. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently ''Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.'' See also *Paraguay–United States relations *Foreign relations of Paraguay *Ambassadors of the United States References United States Department of State: Background notes on Paraguay* External links United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for ParaguayUnited States Department of State: ParaguayUnited States Embassy in AsuncionPDF of Ambassador James H. Thessin's Nomination Testimony {{Ambassadors of the United States Paraguay * United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Lathrop Towell
Timothy Lathrop Towell (born 1934) is a former American Ambassador to Paraguay (1988–1991) and the President, Founder, and Chief Executive Officer The Foreign Policy Group. He was also the U.S. Consul in Cochabamba, Bolivia. There have been reports that Juan Carlos Wasmosy, the former President of Paraguay, paid Towell's firm almost $300,000 for work in 1997 and 1998. It was also reported that in 1997 the State Department wanted him to register as a foreign agent. Towell, a Cleveland native, earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Yale University in 1957 and a Master of Arts in European History from Case-Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case ... in 1962. Towell had several careers before working for the State Department including ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Greenough Thayer
William Greenough Thayer (December 24, 1863 – November 27, 1934) was an American educator, headmaster of St. Mark's School from 1894 to 1930. Early life Thayer was born in New Brighton, Richmond County, New York, the son of Robert Helyer Thayer, a hardware merchant and ship chandler, and Hannah Appleton. After graduating from Amherst College in 1885, he attended the Union Theological Seminary and Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge), he was ordained an Episcopal minister. Career Thayer taught at Groton School, from 1889–1894, before being appointed headmaster of St. Mark's School, a post he held for 36 years until 1930. During this period, Thayer made numerous improvements to the school and its reputation rose to be amongst the most prominent private schools in the country. Eight or ten times in the school year, Thayer would leave school to marry his alumni. From the Time article: ''Imposing is his Record at Socialite Weddings, for Loyal St. Mark's Grooms will hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Bishop Of Massachusetts
The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. History Massachusetts was founded by Puritans who did not accept such aspects of the Church of England as bishops and the Book of Common Prayer. The first Anglican parish in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was King's Chapel in Boston, founded in 1688, 58 years after the city. After the American Revolution, King's Chapel became the first Unitarian congregation in North America. The oldest remaining parishes in the diocese are Christ Church in Quincy, founded in 1704, St. Paul's in Newburyport, founded as Queen Anne's Chapel in 1711, St. Michael's Church in Marblehead, founded in 1714, Christ Church in Boston (Old North Church), founded in 1723, and St. Andrew's Church in South Scituate (now Hanover), founded in 1727. The diocese was organized in 1784, five years before the Episcopal Church itself. The first bishop (for New England and New York) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lewis Slattery
Charles Lewis Slattery (December 9, 1867 – March 12, 1930) was the Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, a prominent theological writer in the early 20th century, and a leader of the Broad Church movement within the American Episcopal Church. He headed the commission that eventually published the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (BCP), which governed worship in Episcopal churches until 1979. Although he rejected the label of "liberal," his amendments to the Anglican liturgy steered the Episcopal Church away from the doctrines of original sin and total depravity, and (if tentatively) towards gender equality. He also served as the president of the board of trustees of Wellesley College and helped establish Brooks School. Early life and education Slattery was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Reverend George Sidney Leffingwell Slattery and Emma McClellan Slattery. He attended East High School in Denver, Colorado, where he graduated with the highest grade point average in the sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Atlantic
''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. It features articles on politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. It was founded in 1857 in Boston as ''The Atlantic Monthly'', a literary and cultural magazine that published leading writers' commentary on education, the abolition of slavery, and other major political issues of that time. Its founders included Francis H. Underwood and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier. James Russell Lowell was its first editor. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the magazine also published the annual ''The Atlantic Monthly Almanac''. The magazine was purchased in 1999 by businessman David G. Bradley, who fashioned it into a general editorial magazine primarily aimed at serious national readers and " thought leaders"; in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellery Sedgwick
Ellery Sedgwick (February 27, 1872 – April 21, 1960) was an American editor, brother of Henry Dwight Sedgwick. Early life He was born in New York City to Henry Dwight Sedgwick II and Henrietta Ellery (Sedgwick), grand daughter of William Ellery. His ancestors, a leading family of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, established a tradition of literary achievement, including authors Catherine Maria Sedgwick and Henry Dwight Sedgwick III. Career Sedgwick graduated from Groton School in 1890 and from Harvard University in 1894. He returned to Groton in 1894 and taught classics there until 1896. Subsequently, he was assistant editor of the '' Youth's Companion'' at Boston (1896–1900) and in New York worked as editor of '' Leslie's Monthly Magazine'' (1900–05) and the ''American Magazine'' (1906–07). He was associated with ''McClure's Magazine'' for short periods and with the publishing house of D. Appleton & Co., in 1909. He returned to Boston to be editor of the ''Atlantic Mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Sackett
Leyland Hugh Sackett (13 August 1928 – 12 April 2020) was an archeologist credited with being among the discoverers of the Palaikastro Kouros. Education Sackett attended Merton College at Oxford. Work As an archeologist, Sackett co-directed excavations at Lefkandi ( Mervyn Popham was the other co-director) and worked at Minoan Palaikastro and Roman Knossos in Crete. His work at Lefkandi took place from 1962 to 1963 and 1964–1990, investigating Iron Age Greece. His excavation work at Palaikastro took place from 1962 to 1963 and 1983–2020. Additional work included excavations at Chios, Knossos, and Attica. His association with the British School at Athens began in 1954. Sackett was assistant director of the school from 1961 to 1963 and later became a vice-president there. He taught classics and Greek archeology at the Groton School in Massachusetts for more than 60 years. He was Groton's longest-serving faculty member. Beginning in 1968 and until at least 2006, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Rickey
George Warren Rickey (June 6, 1907 – July 17, 2002) was an American kinetic sculptor known for geometric abstractions, often large-scale, engineered to move in response to air currents. Early life and education Rickey was born on June 6, 1907, in South Bend, Indiana. When Rickey was still a child, his father, an engineer with Singer Sewing Machine Company, moved the family to Glasgow, Scotland, in 1913. Growing up with a father who was an engineer and a grandfather who was a clockmaker instilled in the young Rickey an interest in mechanical systems and anything needing winding or cranking, from the family car to the phonograph. Additionally, the Rickeys lived near the river Clyde, and George learned to sail around the outer islands on the family's sailboat. As did his youthful interest in engineering, Rickey’s familiarity with boat movements from an early age would inform the signature kinectic sculpture he began developing in the 1950s. Rickey was educated at Glen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
