Delbarton School

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Delbarton School
Motto	Succisa virescit (Cut down, grow back stronger)
Established	1939
Type	Private, Day
Affiliation	Benedictine; The Roman Catholic Church
Founder	Saint Mary's Abbey
Headmaster	Fr. Luke Travers, O.S.B. (1999-2007)
Students	546
Grades	7-12
Location	230 Mendham Road, Morristown, New Jersey Morris Township, New Jersey USA
Accreditation	Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
Campus	400 acres
Colors	green and white
Mascot	Green Wave
Yearbook	Archway
Average SAT scores	1,330
Student:Teacher ratio	7:1
Athletics	15 sports
Website	www.delbarton.org

Delbarton School is a private all-male Roman Catholic college preparatory school in Morris Township, New Jersey, USA, educating students from 7th to 12th grade. The school is run by the Benedictine monks of St. Mary's Abbey and caters to a wide variety of North Jersey families.

Delbarton's student body comprises students from more than eight counties.^[1] Minority students represent about 12% of the student body.^[2].

For the 1983-84 school year, Delbarton School received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. ^[3]

Delbarton is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools and is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

Tuition is $22,500 per year. Books are extra, estimated at $400. Transportation is about $1,400 annually.^[4]

1 History
2 Community Service
3 International Focus
4 Athletics
5 Arts Programs
6 Abbey Woods
7 Notable alumni
- 7.1 Alumni in the news
8 References
9 External links

[edit] History

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The school was founded in 1939 as a boarding school by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, in association with the newly built monastery, St. Mary's Abbey. The school was established on part of the Luther Kountze estate, which he had named Delbarton by putting together syllables from the names of his three children. The Kountze Mansion, now known as "Old Main", remains an academic building, but most classes are conducted in Trinity Hall, built in 1958, the adjacent Rev. Stephen W. Findlay Science Pavilion, built in 1995, and the Arts Center, built in 2006.

[edit] Community Service

Delbarton students engage in many activities to give back to the community. Delbarton's community service programs are run by the school's current juniors and seniors with help from faculty volunteers. In the Catholic and Benedictine tradition the student body and administration has set a goal of 100% student community service participation . For the past two years, more than 97% of the Delbarton student body participated in some form of community service.^{[verification needed]} Through Delbarton’s Campus Ministry program, students participate in weekly trips to the Morristown Soup Kitchen, in addition to tutoring local children via Logos Tutors and interacting and playing with handicapped children via EPOCH.

Delbarton holds a Thanksgiving Food Drive every November to stock the local food pantries. It also holds a Christmas Gift and Clothing Drive every December, where members of the junior class travel down to the Appalachia region of West Virginia and Kentucky to provide holiday gifts and clothing to the residents of the area. Delbarton also participates in programs like Habitat for Humanity in Morris, Passaic and Essex Counties. The community also holds an annual blood drive for the Morris County-area Red Cross.

[edit] International Focus

The school has made many efforts to open up the student body to the international community. Over the past few years many respectable speakers have spoken to the student body including James Luom, Elie Wiesel, Dith Pran and Lech Wałęsa.

Delbarton students also have several opportunities to travel abroad. The school participates in foreign exchange programs with schools in Ireland and the Bildungszentrum Markdorf School in Markdorf, Germany. Juniors can travel to the Caribbean during the summer between their junior and senior year to learn about the culture and history of select islands through the school's SOL program. Delbarton students have also traveled to Spain on several organized summer trips and to Germany for World Youth Day. The school has also sent several students to help assist in Operation Smile Missions in China, Honduras, and Thailand. Over the summer of 2006, many students spent a week in Mississippi to help clean up and rebuild after the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

Within the school’s regular activities, students participate in the school’s Model United Nations and Challenge 20 / 20 clubs. The Model U.N. Club is run by a four member student secretariat and a club moderator, which plan the club's weekly meetings. The club participates in 4 – 5 Model UN Conferences every year and has attained much success, winning the Best Small Delegation Award from Princeton’s 2005 conference.^[5] The club also participates in The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN), held in the Netherlands for a week every January.

[edit] Athletics

Delbarton competes with the nickname "Green Wave" in the Suburban Division of the Northern Hills Conference.

Lacrosse

Under the guidance of 1979 alumnus Chuck Ruebling, Delbarton has had the best lacrosse team in New Jersey in each of the last five years. Delbarton won five straight overall state titles in the years 2002-06 and seven out of the last eight titles. Many of the leading college lacrosse teams around the country have Delbarton alumni.^{[citation needed]}

Ice Hockey

Delbarton won the state co-championship in 1989 and outright championships in 1992, 2002 and 2006. Delbarton won the Mennan Cup championship 18 times over a 21 year span from 1984-2004. The hockey program has competed in the Gordon Conference since the 2004-2005 school year. The team won the Gordon Cup championship in its first season.

Delbarton's chief rival is Seton Hall Prep. Regular-season games between the two regularly draw more than 2,000 fans.^{[citation needed]} In 2006, Delbarton defeated the previously undefeated Seton Hall Prep to win the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Ice Hockey Non-Public championships.

Delbarton plays its home games at the Aspen Ice Arena in Randolph, New Jersey following years of early morning winter practices at the outdoor Essex Hunt Club (Peapack) and the more local (and enclosed) Mennan Arena (Morristown). ^[6]

Football

Delbarton's football program has won two state football championships, in 1993 and 1998. Delbarton has also finished second in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005, and 2006. On December 2, 2006, Delbarton faced Immaculata High School in the Non-Public Group III state final at Rutgers University, losing 22-14.^[7]

For more than 40 years, Delbarton was coached by William Regan Sr., one of the state's all-time winningest coaches.^{[citation needed]} From 1988 to 2002, Delbarton was coached by John Kowalik. From 2003 to the present, its coach has been Brian Bowers.

Soccer

Delbarton has won five Morris County soccer championships and four state championships since 1995 under former all-American David Donovan. In 1997, under head coach Erin Sullivan, Delbarton won a triple crown - winning the Northern Hills Conference, Morris County Tournament and State Tournament.

Tennis

Delbarton's tennis program, under John P. Thompson, has won nine of the last ten Morris County Tournaments and five consecutive state group titles, finishing second in the state in 2006.

Wrestling

In 2006, Delbarton's Mike Grey became the first four-time New Jersey state champion in the sport of wrestling.^[8]

Basketball

Delbarton won the Morris County Tournament in 2006.

[edit] Arts Programs

Delbarton's Abbey Players produce three theatrical productions yearly: a fall play, a winter musical and a spring 'One Act' production featuring student written and directed plays. The productions attract many participants from neighboring schools.^{[verification needed]}

Delbarton has a range of musical ensembles, including a Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, Abbey Orchestra, Percussion Ensemble, and the Schola Cantorum. Commonly referred to as 'Schola,' the group features about 40 Delbarton students of all grades. The group performs all year in school concerts and at mass. Schola also travels to a European country every few years for 1-2 weeks and performs across the country. During the Summer of 2007 the Delbarton Schola Cantorum plans to perform throughout Italy and in the Vatican^{[citation needed]}.

On October 19, 2006, Delbarton officially opened its brand new Fine Arts Center. The arts and music departments were formerly housed in the school's historic "Old Main" building. The new 34,000 sq.ft. building includes a 622-person theater, several art studios, and rehearsal spaces for Delbarton’s many musical groups. The school broke ground on the site during the Summer of 2005 and ended construction in the Fall of 2006.

[edit] Abbey Woods

After a six year battle between state officials and the Monks at Delbarton School, as well as $2 million in lawyers fees, a decision was made on July 26, 2006, that the request for a sewer extension to the the proposed $100 million Abbey Woods development, a continuing-care retirement community, would not be allowed. Environmentalists and several Morris Township residents had been working against the project that would develop 71 acres of zoned land adjacent to the Jockey Hollow Park. Rev. Elias R. Lorenzo commented in the Star-Ledger that "If the development is not passed, we will sell the land to other developers".^[9]

[edit] Notable alumni

Ned Eng, Professional skateboarder with a part in the new Adio skate video^{[citation needed]}
Kary Antholis, Senior Vice President for Miniseries at HBO, actor, Academy Award Winner
Darryl M. Bell, actor
Robert Conrad, the only actor to be inducted into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame
Peter Dinklage, actor
Christopher Durang, playwright
Mike Ferguson, United States congressman
Mike Grey, four-time NJSIAA state wrestling champion
Branden Rooney, 2002 European Cup fencing finalist
Ken Heaton, college baseball coach (New Jersey City University)
Derek Maguire '90, professional hockey player (drafted by the Montreal Canadiens),
Robert Tappan Morris, computer scientist, created first internet virus
Troy Murphy, professional basketball player (Indiana Pacers)
George Parros, professional hockey player (Anaheim Ducks)
Wes Swackhamer, former professional baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals minor-league system)
Rod Trafford, former professional football player (Buffalo Bills)
John C. Traynor, artist

[edit] Alumni in the news

Five of the Duke University lacrosse team members at the time of the 2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal are Delbarton alumni, including Reade Seligmann '04, who faces charges of sex abuse and kidnapping, and Ryan McFadyen '04 who rose to national attention because of his vulgar e-mail after the incident.^[10]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

St Mary's Abbey, Delbarton School, Morris Township, New Jersey, USA

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