| Taft School | |
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Non ut sibi ministretur sed ut ministret
Not to be served but to serve |
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| Watertown, Connecticut, USA | |
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| Type | Co-ed, Private, Boarding |
| Religious affiliation | None |
| Established | 1890 |
| Headmaster | William R. MacMullen '78 |
| Faculty | 117 |
| Enrollment | 570
Boarding: 464 Day: 106 |
| Average class size | 11 |
| Student:teacher ratio | 5:1 |
| Campus | 220 acres (.89 km2) |
| Color(s) | Maroon, Navy Blue |
| Athletics | 27 Interscholastic [1] |
| Mascot | Rhino |
| Average SAT scores | Verbal: 634 Math: 655 (2007) |
| Website | taftschool.org |
The Taft School is a private, coeducational prep school located in Watertown, Connecticut, USA. The school was founded by Horace Dutton Taft in 1890. It has 570 students, about 470 of whom live on the 220-acre (0.89 km2) campus. Taft is a member of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization. Horace Taft was the brother of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States and the 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Campus and facilities
The campus is located in Watertown, Connecticut, and is approximately 220 acres (0.89 km2) in size. It includes two theaters, an 18-hole golf course, 12 tennis courts, 8 squash courts, 2 fieldhouses, 2 ice hockey rinks, (1 Olympic sized and 1 NHL sized), and more than 10 fields all situated around Potters Pond.[1]
Dorms
There are eight dorms on the Taft Campus. There are 3 boys' dorms including Charles Phelps Taft (CPT), Horace Dutton Taft (HDT), and ISP. There are 5 girls' dorms including Mac, Centennial, Congdon, Vogelstein (Vogue), and Upper School Girls' Dormitory (USGD/The Rock).
Students
In 2008, Taft has 577 students from 33 states and 21 foreign countries.[2] The school hosts students in 9th through 12th grades as well as post-graduate (PG) students. Students are referred to by their grade's common name such as Lower Mids, Mids, Upper Mids, and Seniors. A dress code (pithily summarized by the "collared shirt,no sweatshirts, no denim" dictum) is required for all students. Semi-formal attire is required for sit down dinners. There are currently 470 boarders and 109 day students. In 2009, the senior class graduated 171 students.
Faculty
The faculty at the Taft School includes 69 men and 48 women, a total of 117 teachers.[2] Consequently, there is a 5:1 student to teacher ratio.[2] The majority of the Taft faculty live on campus, in both private houses scattered across the grounds, or in apartments in the dorms. Each floor of each dorm has at least one faculty apartment.
Academics
There are more than 207 academic courses offered at the Taft School. The average class consists of 11 students.[2] Advanced Placement Program courses are offered in 27 disciplines[2], including Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Spanish Literature, Spanish Language, French Literature, French Language, Latin, European History, American History, American Government, AB and BC Calculus, Statistics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics B and C, and Environmental Science, Studio Art, Music Theory, Music History, English Literature, Economics, and Computer Science AB.
Class of 2007
- Average SAT Reasoning Test CR: 690[2]
- Average SAT Reasoning Test Math: 670[2]
- From the middle 50% of the class, combined SAT scores ranged from 1200–1450[2]
College acceptance
From 1997 to 2007, Taft Seniors (165 per year on average) have matriculated in greatest numbers at the following colleges and universities: Georgetown (65); Boston College (55); Middlebury (56); Cornell (49); Brown (47); Harvard (40); Trinity College (39); Colgate (38); Hamilton (36); Colby (34); NYU (34);Yale (32); Columbia (31); Boston University (29); UVM (28); Vanderbilt (28); University of Pennsylvania (27); Bates (26); Princeton (26); University of Virginia (25); Bowdoin (23); Bucknell (23); Colorado College (22); Davidson (22); Williams (21); Tulane (21); Dartmouth (19);Carnegie-Mellon (18); Wesleyan (18); St. Lawrence (17); Tufts (17); University of Colorado (16); University of Richmond (16); Skidmore (15); Johns Hopkins (14); Amherst (14); Syracuse (14); Babson (14); Connecticut College (14); University of Chicago (14); Hobart and William Smith (13); Duke University (12); University of Michigan (12); University of North Carolina (12); George Washington University (12).[2]
Notable alumni
Academics
- Stevan Dedijer '30, Founder of the Research Policy Institute, Croatian Intelligence
- Alfred G. Gilman '58, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- Mason Gross '29, President of Rutgers University
Arts and entertainment
- Trey Anastasio '83, Phish Lead guitarist
- Jeff Baxter '67, musician (Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers)
- Henry Beard '63, cofounder, National Lampoon, co-author, Bored of the Rings
- Peter Berg '80, actor/director
- Mary Chapin Carpenter '76, Five-time Grammy-award winner.[3]
- Spencer Treat Clark '05, Actor Gladiator, Mystic River, Unbreakable, and The Last House on the Left
- Nelson Antonio Denis '72, Film Director, Screenwriter
- Adam Duritz '82, lead singer of Counting Crows
- Grant Goodeve, actor, Eight is Enough
- Deane G. Keller '17, Painter and educator[4]
- Ralph Lee '53, Guggenheim fellow and Obie Award winner
- Steve Sandvoss '98, Actor
- Fred Small '70, Singer-songwriter
Business
- John M. Schiff '21, Investment banker, philanthropist, honorary chairman of Lehman Brothers.[5]
- George Weyerhaeuser '44, Chairman and CEO, Weyerhaeuser Company[6]
Government officials
- Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania[7]
- Robert C. Hill '38, United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Spain and Argentina
- William S. Mailliard '35, U.S. Congressman, California[8]
- Joseph Irwin Miller '27, American industrialist, Cummins Engine Company
- Manuel Rocha '69, United States Ambassador to Bolivia 2000-02
- Earl T. Smith '22, United States Ambassador to Cuba (1958-59)
- Robert Taft 1906, U.S. Senator from Ohio 1939-53, majority leader
- Robert Taft, Jr. '35, Republican Congressman 1963-65, 1967-71, Senator 1971-76
- Bob Taft '59, Governor of Ohio
- William Howard Taft III '33, United States Ambassador to Ireland
- John S. Wold '34, U.S. Congressman, Wyoming[9]
Legal and judiciary
- Flemming L. Norcott, Jr. '61, Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court[10]
- Robert W. Sweet '40, federal judge who heard New York Times v. Gonzales concerning the Judith Miller controversy.[9]
Sports
- Darren Bragg '87, professional baseball player
- James Driscoll '96, professional golfer[11]
- Patrick Kerney '95, professional football player
- Allison Mleczko '93, gold medalist in first women's Olympic ice hockey game at Nagano; silver medalist in 2002. [12]
- Barbara Potter '79, Hall of Fame professional tennis player
- James Stillman Rockefeller '20, Olympic gold medalist, 8-man rowing (Paris, France)
- Ryan Shannon '01, professional hockey player
- John Welchli '46, Olympic silver medalist, Melbourne, 1956]
- Max Pacioretty '07, professional hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens
Writing, journalism, and publishing
- Steven J. Erlanger ’70, Paris bureau chief (formerly Jerusalem bureau chief) for The New York Times
- Varian Fry '26 Journalist and "the American Schindler"
- Philip K. Howard '66, founder of Common Good, author of The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America[13]
- Thomas Kuhn '40, author of Structure of Scientific Revolutions, coined the phrase "paradigm shift"
- John Merrow ’59, Peabody Award-winning journalist and producer
- Josh Quittner '75, author, editor Business 2.0
- David Kenyon Webster '40, American soldier, journalist, and author
References
- ^ About The Taft School
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Taft Facts
- ^ Schoemer, Karen. "No Hair Spray, No Spangles", The New York Times, August 1, 1993. Accessed December 3, 2007. "Born and reared in Princeton, N.J., one of four sisters whose father, Chapin Carpenter, worked for Life magazine, Carpenter is suburban to the core. What's more, she attended private schools, including the Taft School in Connecticut, and graduated from Brown University."
- ^ Guide to the Deane Keller Papers : Finding Aid
- ^ John Schiff, A Philanthropist And Investment Banker, Dies - New York Times
- ^ Obituaries | Dilettante Oliver Hills Whitney, Dies At 75 | Seattle Times Newspaper
- ^ CRALEY, Nathaniel Neiman, Jr. - Biographical Information
- ^ MAILLIARD, William Somers - Biographical Information
- ^ a b Citation of Merit
- ^ Justice Flemming L. Norcott, Jr
- ^ Category
- ^ Harvard University Gazette
- ^ Common Good: Founder & Chair
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