Delbarton School

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Delbarton School
Location
230 Mendham Road, Morristown, New Jersey
Morris Township, New Jersey, USA
Information
Affiliation(s) Benedictine; The Roman Catholic Church
Founder Saint Mary's Abbey
Headmaster Br. Paul Diveny, O.S.B.
Students 542
Type Private, Day
Grades 7-12
Campus 400 acres
Motto Succisa virescit
(Cut down, grow back stronger)
Accreditation(s) Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
Mascot Green Wave
Color(s) Green and White
Yearbook Archway
Established 1939
Average SAT
scores		 1,330
Student:Teacher
ratio		 7:1
Athletics 15 sports
Homepage 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. Delbarton is a Catholic independent school directed by the Benedictine monks of St. Mary's Abbey.

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

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal ranked Delbarton School ninth among America's high schools. [3] 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. [4]

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 about $23,600 per year. Books are extra, estimated at $700. Transportation is about $1,500 annually.[5]

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[edit] History

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The school was founded in 1939 as a boarding school by the Benedictine Monks of St. Mary's Abbey then located in Newark in association with the newly built monastery, St. Mary's Monastery, a house of studies that had been established on part of the Luther Kountze estate. Kountze had coined the name Delbarton by putting together syllables from the names of three of his children: William Delancey, Barclay Ward, and Helen Livingston. 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 Fine Arts Center, built in 2006. Boarding ceased in 1983, and Delbarton is now only a day school.

[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 98% 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 students also participate in a number of community service activities that occur throughout the year on a more annual basis. Delbarton holds a Thanksgiving Food Drive every November to stock the local food pantries. In fact, the Food Drive regularly provides the Morristown Community Soup Kitchen with over 30,000 pounds of food. 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 students also participates in programs like Habitat for Humanity in Morris, Passaic and Essex Counties. In July of 2006, Delbarton students spent a week in Mississippi to help clean up and rebuild after the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The School also holds an annual blood drive for the Morris County-area Red Cross each fall.

[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. Students also have the opportunity to experience eco-tourism first hand in Costa Rica. Students have visited nature reserves, Arenal Volcano, Poás Volcano National Park, Jacó, Yuri's, Fresa's, Monteverde and Alex's all under the guidance of Carlos Vallerte while studying at the CPI language school in Heredia, Costa Rica. 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. The most recent established trip overseas was a mission trip to Nairobi, Kenya, where students donated money and aid to several schools.

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 at both Princeton’s 2005 conference and at the 2007 Seton Hall University conference.[6] 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.

[edit] Lacrosse

Under the guidance of 1979 alumnus Chuck Ruebling , Delbarton has had the best lacrosse team in New Jersey from 2000-2006. Delbarton won five straight overall state titles in the years 2002-06 and seven out of the last eight titles. In 2007, the Delbarton lacrosse team was ranked third in the nation by STX/Inside Lacrosse.[7] Delbarton's lacrosse team was also ranked fifth in the nation in 2007 by the LaxPower.com National High School Coaches Poll.[8] [9] The 2007 team won the Non-Public A state championship with a 14-5 win over Christian Brothers Academy.[10]

[edit] Ice Hockey

Delbarton won the state co-championship in 1989 and outright championships in 1992, 2002 2006, and 2008. Delbarton won Morris County's Mennen Cup championship 18 times over a 21 year span from 1984-2004. The hockey program has competed in the state's top league, 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 1,000 fans.[11]Delbarton won the state championship in 2008 by defeating St. Augustine Prep 5-1. It was Delbarton's fourth outright state championship and fifth overall, and the Green Wave set a state record with 27 wins, finishing the season 27-1-1. [12]

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) Mennen Arena in Morristown. [13]

[edit] Football

Delbarton's football program has won two state football championships, in 1993 and 1998. Delbarton has also finished second in 1988, 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.[14]

From 1946 to 1987 Delbarton was coached by William Regan Sr., who compiled a 236-83-10 record with 33 winning seasons with 7 undefeated seasons.[15]

[edit] Soccer

Delbarton has won five Morris County soccer championships and four state championships since 1995 under former all-American David Donovan. In 1997, under interim head coach Erin Sullivan, Delbarton won a triple crown - winning the Northern Hills Conference, Morris County Tournament and NJSIAA Parochial A state tournament. Again in 2003 and 2004, Delbarton won the triple crown, finishing second in the Newark Star-Ledger state rankings in 2003 and first in 2004. In 2003, the team beat Saint Benedict's Preparatory School of Newark, New Jersey, which was the number one team in the country and had not lost to a New Jersey team in 12 years. In 2007, Delbarton's soccer team made it to the North Jersey Non-Public A final and had achieved a No. 4 ranking in the nation but lost to arch-rival Seton Hall Prep. Delbarton still finished ranked in the top 10.[16]

[edit] Tennis

Delbarton's tennis program, under John P. Thompson, has won nine of the last ten Morris County Tournaments and six consecutive state group titles, finishing second in the state in 2006. The 2006 tennis team won the 2006 Group A State Championship with a 5-0 win over St. Augustine College Preparatory School.[17]

The tennis team won the 2007 Non-Public, North A state sectional championship with a 3-2 win over Pingry School.[18]

In 2008, the tennis team won the 2008 Non-Public, North A state sectional championship with a 4-1 win over Pingry School.[19] It went on to defeat Westfield High School, 3-2, to win its first ever Tournament of Champions title.[20]

[edit] Wrestling

In 2006, Delbarton's Mike Grey became the first four-time New Jersey state champion in the sport of wrestling.[21] In 2008, Delbarton won its first Northern Hills Conference Championship in wrestling.

[edit] Basketball

Delbarton won the Morris County Tournament in 2006. Delbarton placed second in the same tournament in 2007 and 2008.

[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 participants from neighboring schools.[22]

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 two years for 2 weeks and performs across the country. During the Summer of 2007 the Delbarton Schola Cantorum performed throughout Italy and in the Vatican.[23] Previous trips have included England, Ireland, and Scotland.

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 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".[24]

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Student Body, accessed December 23, 2006.
  2. ^ National Center for Education Statistics data for the Delbarton School, accessed November 30, 2006.
  3. ^ [1], accessed February 27, 2008.
  4. ^ Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), accessed May 11, 2006.
  5. ^ Admissions: Tuition, Delbarton School. Accessed October 24, 2007. "Tuition for the 2007-2008 academic year is $23,600.00."
  6. ^ Delbarton Model UN. Accessed June 5, 2007.
  7. ^ STX/Inside Lacrosse High School Rankings, Inside Lacrosse, May 7, 2007. Accessed June 5, 2007.
  8. ^ National Coaches/Computer Ratings
  9. ^ High School National Ratings
  10. ^ 2007 Boys Lacrosse - Non-Public - A, NJSIAA. Accessed June 5, 2007.
  11. ^ [2]<ref></ref> In 2006, Delbarton defeated previously undefeated Seton Hall Prep to win the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) non-public state Championship.<ref>[http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=144340&tclass=Non-Public 2006 Ice hockey - Non-Public], [[NJSIAA]]. Accessed [[July 18]], [[2007]].</li> <li id="cite_note-11">'''[[#cite_ref-11|^]]''' [http://www.nj.com/hssports/results/boysicehockey/index.ssf/2008/03/delbarton_5_st_augustine_1.html Delbarton 5, St. Augustine 1 - High School Boys Ice Hockey - NJ.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</li> <li id="cite_note-12">'''[[#cite_ref-12|^]]''' [http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=144340&tclass=Non%2DPublic NJSIAA 2006 Ice hockey - Non-Public], [[New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association]], accessed [[June 13]], [[2006]].</li> <li id="cite_note-13">'''[[#cite_ref-13|^]]''' [http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061203/SPORTS/612030341&GID=lkGRWZ4Op7BzKLqdxQMQBgY24r/H9ifsQm4xJMQRUd0%3D No joy in Morris: Delbarton, Montville, Parsippany Hills fall short: Morris fans brave chill for state playoff matchups], ''[[Daily Record (Morristown)]]'', [[December 3]], [[2006]].</li> <li id="cite_note-14">'''[[#cite_ref-14|^]]''' http://www.njsiaa.org/NJSIAA/HOF_years.aspx accessed Ocober 27, 2007</li> <li id="cite_note-15">'''[[#cite_ref-15|^]]''' http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:IfRCxVWIwj8J:www.denvillerockawaythisweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20071029/SPORTS0819/710290327/1032/SPORTS08+delbarton+soccer+fourth&hl=en&client=opera&gl=us&strip=1 accessed November 12, 2007</li> <li id="cite_note-16">'''[[#cite_ref-16|^]]''' [http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=159688&tclass=Non-Public%20Group%20Finals 2006 Boys Team Tennis - Non-Public Group Finals], [[NJSIAA]]. Accessed [[July 17]], [[2007]].</li> <li id="cite_note-17">'''[[#cite_ref-17|^]]''' [http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=216953&tclass=Non%2DPublic%2C%20North%20A 2007 Boys Tennis - Non-Public, North A], [[NJSIAA]]. Accessed [[June 7]], [[2007]].</li> <li id="cite_note-18">'''[[#cite_ref-18|^]]''' [http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=276712&tclass=North%20A]</li> <li id="cite_note-19">'''[[#cite_ref-19|^]]''' [http://www.nj.com/hssports/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1212208510221180.xml&coll=1]</li> <li id="cite_note-20">'''[[#cite_ref-20|^]]''' [http://www.risemag.com/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=NationalNews&&categoryKey=PlayerProfiles&articleId=6217 risemag.com]</li> <li id="cite_note-21">'''[[#cite_ref-21|^]]''' Fiddes, Jessica. [http://www.delbarton.org/oncampus/oncampus-detail.asp?pageaction=ViewSinglePublic&LinkID=2228&ModuleID=27&CID=2433&NEWSPID1=3 "Delbarton's Abbey Players Present One Acts 2007"], Delbarton School, [[April 17]], [[2007]]. Accessed [[August 29]], [[2007]].</li> <li id="cite_note-22">'''[[#cite_ref-22|^]]''' Fiddes, Jessica, and Micchelli, Margaret. [http://www.delbarton.org/oncampus/oncampus-detail.asp?pageaction=ViewSinglePublic&LinkID=2433&ModuleID=26 "Schola Cantorum Performs in Italy"], Delbarton School, [[August 27]], [[2007]]. Accessed [[August 29]], [[2007]].</li> <li id="cite_note-23">'''[[#cite_ref-23|^]]''' [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=1132E5CDC466B198&p_docnum=1&p_theme=gannett&s_site=dailyrecord&p_product=MDRB DEP Kills Abbey's Housing Proposal], ''[[Daily Record (Morristown)]]'', [[July 27]], [[2006]].</li> <li id="cite_note-24">'''[[#cite_ref-24|^]]''' [http://www.njassemblyrepublicans.com/pages/members/bios/carroll.htm Michael Patrick Carroll biography], New jersey Assembly Republicans. Accessed [[July 13]], [[2007]].</li> <li id="cite_note-25">'''[[#cite_ref-25|^]]''' [http://www.nctc.net/hazard/conrad/shadoe/ Shadoe Steele's Interview with Robert Conrad], Shadoe Steele 2007 interview transcript. Accessed [[May 29]], [[2007]]. "Amazing. I even hollowed out a heel on my cowboy boots. Now, Bob, in the early 1950s you graduated from the Delbarton school, a college preparatory school in Morristown, New Jersey. That was a long way from the windy city, did you live on the east coast for a while?"</li> <li id="cite_note-26">'''[[#cite_ref-26|^]]''' Smith, Dinitia. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE5DE163CF931A35753C1A9659C8B63 " Dark, Handsome And Short; Star of a Sundance Hit Is Ready for an Encore"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[October 2]], [[2003]]. "Mr. Dinklage attended the Delbarton School, a Catholic boys' school in Morristown, N.J., which was strongly sports-oriented. 'Being the size I am, adolescence is tricky,' he said."</li> <li id="cite_note-27">'''[[#cite_ref-27|^]]''' Dunlap, LucyAnn. [http://www.princetoninfo.com/200508/50817p08.html "A Play That Asks, 'What Happens After?'"], ''U.S. 1 Newspaper'', [[August 17]], [[2005]]. Accessed [[May 12]], [[2007]]. "He wrote his first play at age eight. His Catholic grammar school cancelled class one afternoon and put on his play. Later while he was attending Delbarton School in Morristown, he and a friend wrote two musicals, "Banned in Boston" and "Businessman's Holiday." You won't find these in his collected works but they certainly suggest a young man with an active imagination and a penchant for writing."</li> <li id="cite_note-28">'''[[#cite_ref-28|^]]''' [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/f000443/ Members of Congress / Mike Ferguson], ''[[Washington Post]]'', accessed [[May 12]], [[2007]]. "FERGUSON, Michael, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Ridgewood, Bergen County, N.J., June 22, 1970; graduated from Delbarton School, Morristown, N.J.;"</li> <li id="cite_note-29">'''[[#cite_ref-29|^]]''' [http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-lacros/stories/062507aab.html "Hubschmann Selected By Long Island Lizards In MLL Draft"], [[CSTV]], [[June 25]], [[2007]]. Accessed [[July 13]], [[2007]]. "Notre Dame midfielder Brian Hubschmann (Short Hills, N.J./Delbarton) was recently selected by the Long Island Lizards in the 2007 Major League Lacrosse (MLL) Draft. Hubschmann was taken in the fifth round as the 41st pick overall."</li> <li id="cite_note-30">'''[[#cite_ref-30|^]]''' Wilson, Duff; and Bernstein, Viv. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/sports/othersports/06duke.html?_r=1&oref=slogin "COLLEGES; Duke Cancels Season and Begins Inquiries"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[April 6]], [[2006]]. Accessed [[October 15]], [[2007]]. "McFadyen is one of five players on Duke's roster who attended Delbarton School, a private academy in Morristown, N.J."</li> <li id="cite_note-31">'''[[#cite_ref-31|^]]''' Noie, Tom. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCJ/is_3_28/ai_68362620 "Notre Dame's Dynamic Duo - Troy Murphy and Ruth Riley expected to boost both the men's and women's basketball teams at Notre Dame"], ''[[Basketball Digest]]'', January 2001. Accessed [[May 29]], [[2007]]. "Such push stems from Murphy's high school days at the exclusive Delbarton School in Morristown, N.J."</li> <li id="cite_note-32">'''[[#cite_ref-32|^]]''' Gulitti, Tom. [http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxMzMmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcwNzQxOTUmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2 "Devil's Jim Dowd paves way N.J. hockey players"], ''[[The Record (Bergen County)]]'', [[February 10]], [[2007]]. Accessed [[May 29]], [[2007]]. "George Parros, RW, Anaheim: Born in Washington, Pa., the Ducks' heavyweight moved to Randolph and played at Delbarton and Princeton."</li> <li id="cite_note-33">'''[[#cite_ref-33|^]]''' [http://www.delbarton.org/oncampus/oncampus-detail.asp?pageaction=ViewSinglePublic&LinkID=2258&ModuleID=26 Reade Seligmann '04 Speaks at Delbarton], Delbarton School. Accessed [[June 5]], [[2007]].</li> <li id="cite_note-34">'''[[#cite_ref-34|^]]''' [http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxMTkmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY3NjQ1MTkmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2 "Price is right for 'Boys"], ''[[The Record (Bergen County)]]'', [[September 24]], [[2005]]. Accessed [[June 7]], [[2007]]. "The Houston Texans released linebacker Frank Chamberlin of Mahwah and safety Jammal Lord of Hoboken, and the Buffalo Bills cut former Delbarton tight end Rod Trafford of Morristown."</li></ol></ref>

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