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==Campus and Resources== |
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The school's buccolic 2000-acre campus is familiarly known as "Millville", after a now-abandoned mill whose relic still stands in the woods near the Lower School Pond. Though the campus is located a few miles from the center of [[Concord]], a small city, the campus feels secluded and rural. Few members of the outside world regularly venture onto campus save for non-Faculty employees of the school, and students often describe this simultaneous feeling of community cohesion and seclusion from the outside as the "St. Paul's Bubble." |
[[Image:IMG 0419.jpg|left|thumbnail|Students play frisbee on the Chapel lawn on a warm spring day.]]The school's buccolic 2000-acre campus is familiarly known as "Millville", after a now-abandoned mill whose relic still stands in the woods near the Lower School Pond. Though the campus is located a few miles from the center of [[Concord]], a small city, the campus feels secluded and rural. Few members of the outside world regularly venture onto campus save for non-Faculty employees of the school, and students often describe this simultaneous feeling of community cohesion and seclusion from the outside as the "St. Paul's Bubble." |
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==Daily Life== |
==Daily Life== |
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Revision as of 01:51, 19 November 2005
- This is about the St. Paul's in the United States. There is also a St Paul's School (UK).
St. Paul's School is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, United States, affiliated with the Episcopal Church. It was founded in 1856 by Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck, Jr. The 2,000 acre (8 km²) New Hampshire campus currently serves around 530 students. The school became co-educational in 1971 and is one of only a handful of remaining 100% residential boarding schools in the U.S., and one of the only ones whose entire faculty resides on campus. St. Paul's attracts students from all over the United States and the world. Though the school is nominally a religious institution, the faiths represented in the student body run the gamut through every religion and include nonbelievers, and morning Chapel services incorporate readings and prayers from almost every major faith throughout the year.
Campus and Resources
The school's buccolic 2000-acre campus is familiarly known as "Millville", after a now-abandoned mill whose relic still stands in the woods near the Lower School Pond. Though the campus is located a few miles from the center of Concord, a small city, the campus feels secluded and rural. Few members of the outside world regularly venture onto campus save for non-Faculty employees of the school, and students often describe this simultaneous feeling of community cohesion and seclusion from the outside as the "St. Paul's Bubble."
Daily Life
Like many private schools in its area, St. Paul's operates on a six-day school week, meaning that classes meet on Saturday. Wednesdays and Saturdays, however, are half-days, with athletic games in the afternoons. Days packed with activity are both exhausting and engaging, a fact perhaps best summed up by the aphorism that "the days drag on and the weeks fly by."
The school day begins for many Paulies, as St. Paul's students (and, incidentally, alumni) are called, with Chapel. This mandatory interfaith half-hour meeting occurs four times a week (every school day except Wednesday and Saturday) and has four main components. A reading
Traditions
The school is known for its many longstanding traditions. For example, near the start of the school year—on a sunny, crisp Fall day—the Rector announces an unplanned "Cricket Holiday" in morning Chapel. Classes are cancelled for the day and the students participate in a variety of fun activities, plus rest and relaxation. The Cricket Holiday dates back to the first Rector, Henry Augustus Coit, who preferred cricket over baseball as a "more refined sport." Students who participate in "club" sports (intramural) at St. Paul's are assigned to one of three teams for their entire school careers—"Isthmian," "Delphian" or "Old Hundred." Student also are assigned to one of two "Boat Clubs""—Halcyon or Shattuck. The rivalry of the clubs has lasted for more than a century. If a graduate's descendent attends the school, he or she is assigned to the same clubs.
St. Paul's students once had a close relationship with the Grateful Dead and other jam bands. Several Grateful Dead histories make note of the pyramid dialect that was born at the school. Phish played in the Upper (the School's dining hall) on May 19, 1990.
Massachussets Representative Barney Frank taught at St. Paul's School in the early 60's.
The first ice hockey game ever played in the United States was played at St. Paul's School. The hockey program has enjoyed a long history with several notable alumni, including Hobey Baker and Malcom Gordon. America’s first racquets and squash courts were built at St. Paul’s in 1883. (The American sport of racquetball is a fusion of handball and the British game of squash). These first courts were the birthplace of squash tennis. St. Paul's School built an updated squash facility in 1915, and the community enjoys 10 international squash courts.
St Paul's School is a member of the Independent School League.
St Paul's School won the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup in the 2004 Henley Royal Regatta, beating Winchester College, St Paul's School (UK), Pangbourne College and Abingdon School. St. Paul's crews train on beautiful Turkey Pond, which includes a 2,000-meter rowing course.
St. Paul's is part of an organization known as The Ten Schools Admissions Organization. This organization was founded more than forty years ago on the basis of a number of common goals and traditions. Member schools include St. Paul's, Choate Rosemary Hall, Deerfield Academy, The Hill School,The Hotchkiss School, The Lawrenceville School, The Taft School, Loomis Chaffee, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Phillips Andover Academy.
Notable alumni
- Burnet Maybank Director of SC Dept of Revenue, and noted author
- Hobey Baker Renowned Hockey star and War Hero of WWI
- Archibald Cox Watergate Special Prosecutor
- Annie Duke Tournament Poker Champion
- John Franklin Enders, Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine
- Edward Harkness Philanthropist
- Jeff Halpern, NHL Player
- James Rudolph Garfield, U.S. politician
- Frank T. Griswold III Presiding Bishop, Episcopal Church
- William Randolph Hearst Newspaper Publisher
- John Lindsay Former New York City Mayor
- John Kerry U.S. Senator (D-MA) and 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate
- Jamie Koven, World Champion Rower
- John Jacob Astor IV Member of the Astor family who died on the RMS Titanic
- James W. Kinnear Former President & CEO Texaco, Inc.
- Howard Lederer Tournament Poker Champion (brother of Annie Duke)
- Bernard M. Makihara Former CEO Mitsubishi Corporation
- Rick Moody novelist, author of The Ice Storm
- J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr. Banker and Philanthropist
- Samuel Eliot Morison Author, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Harvard Professor
- Robert Mueller Current director of the FBI
- Judd Nelson Actor
- Catherine Oxenberg Actress
- Lewis Preston President, World Bank
- Don Sweeney, NHL Player
- William Taylor Publisher of the Boston Globe
- Jim Thompson Silk Trader (Thailand)
- Garry Trudeau Cartoonist
- Cornelius Vanderbilt III
- Owen Wister American Writer
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Film and Television Actor