Miss Porter's School
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| Miss Porter's School | |
| Established | 1843 |
| School type | Private, Boarding |
| Religious affiliation | None |
| Principal | M. Burch Tracy Ford |
| Location | Farmington, CT, USA |
| Campus | Township, 50 acres |
| Enrollment | 325 total 218 boarding 107 day |
| Faculty | 53 |
| Average class size | 11 students |
| Student:teacher ratio |
8:1 |
| Average SAT scores (2006) |
1238 |
| Athletics | 16 Interscholastic Sports |
| Color(s) | Green, white and black |
| Mascot | None; the Daisy is often mistakenly cited |
| Homepage | www.missporters.org |
Miss Porter's School, sometimes referred to simply as "Farmington," is a preparatory school for girls, located in Farmington, Connecticut. It was founded by Sarah Porter in 1843, with an eye to educating the elite young women of the Eastern seaboard.
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[edit] Notable alumnae
- Alice Hamilton (1888) - First female faculty member of Harvard Medical School, Founder of the field of Industrial Medicine.
- Theodate Pope Riddle - Architect
- Ruth Hanna McCormick (1897)- First woman to run for the U.S. Senate.
- Helen Coley Nauts (1925) - Founder of the Cancer Research Institute.
- Edith Bouvier Beale (1935)- "Little Edie" of "Grey Gardens" fame.
- Letitia Baldrige (1943) - Etiquette and public relations advisor.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1947) - First lady of the United States.
- Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim) (1949) - Fashion Designer
- Agnes Gund (1956) - Former president, Museum of Modern Art.
- Barbara Babcock (1955) - Emmy Award Winning Actress, Hill Street Blues
- Rebecca Miller Harvey (1959) - Co-founder of Crabtree and Evelyn Ltd.
- Tina Shapleigh Schmid (1966) - Founder of Transition Systems, Inc., and president, Business Solutions Group at Eclipsys Corporation.
- Heidi Ettinger (1969) - Tony Award-winning set designer, "The Secret Garden"
- Eliza Kimball (1969) - Senior political affairs officer, United Nations.
- Elizabeth May (1972) - Leader of the Green Party of Canada
- Sandy Erickson Golinkin (1973) - Publisher, Lucky Magazine.
- Analisa Torres (1977) - Judge, New York City.
- Suzannah Grant Hendrickson (1980)- Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, "Erin Brockovich," "28 Days" and "Pocahontas."
- Polly Allen Mellen (1942), an editor with Vogue magazine
- Pema Chodron - (formerly Deirdre Blomfield-Brown), a fully ordained Buddhist nun in the Tibetan vajrayana tradition, author of numerous books, and resident director of Gampo Abbey.
- Gene Tierney Academy Award-nominated, Best Actress(1945)
- Dina Merrill (née Nedenia Hutton)
- Barbara Hutton
- Brenda Frazier
- Gloria Vanderbilt
- Margaret Bedford (later Princess of Arenberg and Duchess of Uzes)
- Edith Hamilton, scholar of Greek Mythology and sister of Alice Hamilton
- Members of the Bush Family include Dorothy Walker Bush (1919) and Dorothy Bush Koch (1977)
- Members of the Rockefeller Family include Laura Rockefeller Chasin (1954)
- Nieces of Oprah Winfrey, Vera Wang and Howard Dean
- Daughter of Meryl Streep (attended but transferred)
[edit] School endowment
The endowment is currently at a market value of $80 million. On September 20, 2005, Miss Porter's launched a new campaign, Moonbeams Over Manhattan, to bring the school's endowment to $100 million.
[edit] Miss Porter's slang and jargon
- Ancient - Alumna
- Big-D - Formal Dress
- Congo - Congregational Church used as a meeting house
- Daisy - Daisy Cafe
- Day Studs - Day Students
- Little-D - Semi-Formal Dress
- Milk Lunch - Morning Break
- The Keepers - Keepers of Tradition (Formerly known as the "Terrible Ten;" which were formally disbanded in 1989 and secretly reinstated as "The Oprishniki" in 1990)
- P-lettes- Perilhettes, Senior Singing Group
- P.C. - Physical Conditioning Sports Class
- Prescott - Visiting Speaker Program sponsored by The Prescott Fund
- Salma - Salmagundy, School Newspaper
- Sit-Down Dinner - Semi-Formal Dinner
- Traditions - Events designed to welcome students and bring them into the community and to bid seniors farewell as they leave Miss Porter's
- Old Girl - Students that have attended the school for more than 1 year
[edit] Miss Porter's in fiction
- In the movie Holiday, the lead female, played by Katherine Hepburn, went to Miss Porter's.
- In the movie Mona Lisa Smile, the record for Joan (played by Julia Stiles) shows that she attended Miss Porter's though the record incorrectly locates the School in Pennsylvania.
- In the movie, The Skulls, the lead female went to Miss Porter's.
- In the musical Rent, one of the leads, Harvard-educated lesbian lawyer Joanne, attended and learned to tango with the French ambassador's daughter in her dorm room at Miss Porter's.
- In the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when Buffy's mother thinks it would be best to send Buffy away to school, she picks up an application to Miss Porter's. Buffy incorrectly believes it is a Catholic girls school.
- In the television series Dynasty Blake Carrington's headstrong daughter Fallon Carrington (Pamela Sue Martin) is a graduate of Miss Porter's.
