Pomfret School
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| Established | 1894 |
| Type | Private coeducational secondary, boarding |
| Affiliation | Episcopalian |
| Headmaster | Bradford Hastings '68 |
| Students | 350 |
| Grades | 9–12, PG |
| Location | Pomfret, Connecticut USA |
| Campus | Rural |
| Mascot | Griffin |
| Website | www.pomfretschool.org |
Pomfret School was founded by William E. Peck in 1894 on the principles of intellectual rigor and the development of character. Peck is the former head of St. Mark's School.
Pomfret School is an independent coeducational boarding and day school located in Pomfret, Connecticut, which educates grades 9 through 12. The school also offers a Post-Graduate year. It is dedicated to the goals of helping students realize their intellectual, physical and spiritual potential while recognizing their responsibilities as members of a community.
Pomfret operates WBVC an FM radio station.
Pomfret is located next to The Rectory School on Connecticut Route 169.
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[edit] Notable alumni
- Edward Stettinius, Jr., First United States Ambassador to the United Nations and Former U.S. Secretary of State
- WP Carey, Businessman, philantropist
- Rep. Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr., Member of Congress (D-NY) and U.S. Minister to Hungrey & Portugal
- Eric D. Coleman, State Senator , Deputy President Pro Tempore in the Connecticut Senate
- Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr., Former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New York Medical College
- William F. Draper, prominent portrait painter
- Edward B. du Pont, Former Chairman of Atlantic Aviation Corporation, Board Member du Pont Company
- Sooho Cho, President of Hanjin Shipping (HJS)
- Adam Hochschild, Author of best-selling book King Leopold's Ghost
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Son of Senator Robert Kennedy (D-NY)
- Ridley Pearson, Best-selling author of The Art of Deception and other standalone, mystery, and children's books
- Alex Gibney, Emmy- and Grammy-winning writer, film producer and director
- Jeremiah Bogert, New York Times Picture Editor
- Buzz Yudell, Architect, designed U.S. Embassy in Berlin
- Jack Hardy, Singer-songwriter
- Peter Corbin, Portrait artist
- Prince Lorenzo Borghese, Star of ABC's The Bachelor: Rome
- Jimmy Gleacher, Author of best-selling book It's How You Play the Game
- Eben Ostby, Animator at Pixar Studios
- Jeffery Corzine, Son of Senator John Corzine (D-NJ)
- Sarah Vaillancourt, Olympic gold medalist
- Spencer Bailey, A surviving passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 that crashed on July 19, 1989
[edit] Notable Faculty
- John N. Dempsey, Pomfret Soccer Coach and subsequently Governor of Connecticut 1961-1971
- Rep. Horace Seely-Brown, Jr., Member of Congress (R-CT) 1947-49, 1951-59, 1961-63
[edit] Prominent Fellows
- David McCullough, Writer, journalist, and host of The American Experience on public television
- Joyce Carol Oates, National award-winning author
- Robert Ballard, Oceanographer, discoverer of Titanic
- Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize wining author of Angela's Ashes
- Carlos Fuentes, Latin American novelist
- Jacques d'Amboise, World renowned dancer with the New York City Ballet Company
- Victor Wooten, Bass guitarist for Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
- Oteil Burbridge, Bass guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band
- Chevy Chase, Writer, actor, performer
- Jean-Michel Cousteau, Explorer, environmentalist, educator, film producer
- Christine Todd Whitman, Former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- Donald Johanson, Paleoanthropologist, discovered the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton popularly known as "Lucy"
- Brian Greene, Physicist and String Theorist
- Bill Bryson, Writer Spring 2007 Visiting Fellow
- Shirley Chisholm, First African American woman elected to Congress
