Roeper School (Michigan)
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| The Roeper School | |
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| Address | |
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41190 Woodward Avenue , United States | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private Co-educational |
| Opened | 1941[2] |
| Founder | George and Annemarie Roeper |
| Head of school | David Feldman[1] |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Color(s) | red, black and white |
| Athletics conference | MIAC |
| Nickname | Roughriders |
| Rivals | Oakland Christian, Southfield Christian |
| Publication | The Muse |
| Newspaper | Tuna Talk |
| Website | www |
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The Roeper School is a private coeducational day school, with campuses in Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in Greater Detroit, serving students at all levels from preschool through the 12th grade. It was formerly known as Roeper City and Country School.
History
The Roeper School was founded in 1941 by George and Annemarie Roeper, who were forced to flee Nazi Germany. At the time the Roepers fled Europe, Annemarie had been invited by Anna Freud to be her protégé and, in fact, had completed her first year of medical school.
Together the Roepers founded the school intending it to be a place that, by teaching personal motivation and encouraging critical thinking skills and analysis, would educate children who would not follow leadership blindly as they believed had happened to many people in interwar Germany. It was also hoped the children would come to recognize the inherent dignity of every individual and to not harbor prejudice. [3]
The school first moved to the Bloomfield Hills campus (42°35′34.1″N 83°15′07.7″W / 42.592806°N 83.252139°W) in 1946 and was designated a school for gifted children in 1956. In 1965 the Upper School (high school) program was added, and in 1981, the middle and upper schools moved to the former Adams Elementary School in Birmingham, Michigan (42°33′00.8″N 83°12′23.6″W / 42.550222°N 83.206556°W), thereby creating two campuses.[4] The Capital Campaign fundraising initiative began in the mid-nineties and has provided the school with its largest investment in new facilities, including a new elementary school classroom building that sits adjacent to the new community center that houses the school's first adequate gymnasium, and the lower school's first adequate choir and band rooms.
Notable alumni
- Jen Cass, singer-songwriter[citation needed]
- Flavia Colgan, political activist and analyst
- Al Jean, television comedy writer[citation needed]
- John Marshall Jones, actor[citation needed]
- Mahvish Khan, freelance journalist and author[citation needed]
- Josh Linkner, founder of EPrize[citation needed]
- Ann Marsh, fencer and 3-time U.S. Olympian[citation needed]
- Dwayne McDuffie, comic book and animation writer
- Richard R. Murray, founder of Equity Schools Inc.
- Davy Rothbart, author, radio personality[citation needed]
- Angela V. Shelton, actress and comedian
- Charlie White, Olympic ice dancer
- Randall Woolf, composer[citation needed]
- Mark Zbikowski, Microsoft programmer, designer of the DOS executable file format
- Charlie Sutton IV, student at Harvard College
- Richard Li, current student
References
- ^ School web site home page retrieved November 25, 2008
- ^ School web site - General Information retrieved November 25, 2008
- ^ "The Roeper School: A model for holistic development of high ability". Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- ^ http://www.coventrycrest.com
External links
- Gifted education
- Private high schools in Michigan
- Schools in Oakland County, Michigan
- High schools in Oakland County, Michigan
- Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
- Preparatory schools in Michigan
- Educational institutions established in 1941
- Private middle schools in Michigan
- Private elementary schools in Michigan
- 1941 establishments in Michigan