The Hotchkiss School
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| The Hotchkiss School | |
 |
|
|
Moniti Meliora Sequamur
(After instruction, let us move on to pursue higher things) |
|
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Lakeville, Connecticut, United States | |
| Information | |
| Head of school | Malcom McKenzie |
| Enrollment |
578 total |
| Faculty | 127 |
| Average class size | 12 students |
| Student:teacher ratio | 5:1 |
| Average SAT scores (2005) | 2013 |
| Type | Independent, Boarding |
| Endowment | $425 Million |
| Campus | Rural, 810 acres (3 km²) |
| Athletics | 17 sports |
| Mascot | Bucky the Bearcat |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Established | 1891 |
| Homepage | www.hotchkiss.org |
 |
The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page.(May 2008) Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. |
 |
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2008) |
 |
The quality of this article or section may be compromised by wording which promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. You can help Wikipedia by removing peacock terms or finding content which backs the claims. |
 |
The Hotchkiss School is an independent, American college preparatory boarding school located in Lakeville, Connecticut. Founded in 1891, the school enrolls 567 students in grades 9 through 12 and a small number of postgraduates.[citation needed] Students at Hotchkiss come from across the United States and 26 foreign countries.[citation needed] The current head of school is Mr. Malcolm McKenzie, former principal at Atlantic College in Wales. McKenzie is a former Rhodes Scholar, and holds a degree in linguistics.[citation needed] Hotchkiss is part of an organization known as The Ten Schools Admissions Organization. This organization was founded more than forty years ago on the basis of a number of common goals and traditions.[clarify] The School is a member of the G20 Schools group. Hotchkiss has one of the lowest admissions rates in the country with only 21% of students that applied being accepted—in comparison the Phillips Exeter Academy admitted 25% of it's applicants.[citation needed] In previous years the acceptance rate has dipped as low as 18%.[citation needed] At times, Hotchkiss is the most selective school in the country.[citation needed]
[edit] History
In the late 1800s, at the crossing of two country roads in Lakeville, Connecticut, sat an expanse of land known for its beauty and commanding views.[neutrality disputed] On these 65 acres, which at the time comprised open fields and several houses, Maria Bissell Hotchkiss chose to found The Hotchkiss School.[citation needed] Today, that original gift of land anchors a 545-acre campus with academic and residential buildings, playing fields and green lawns, the deepest freshwater lake in Connecticut, and lovely vistas of the Berkshire mountains. Hotchkiss is by design a medium-sized school in a large school setting—a setting located in an area designated by The Nature Conservancy as one of 200 “Last Great Places.”[cite this quote]
Maria Hotchkiss was the widow of Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, who founded the French arms company Hotchkiss et Cie, made famous by the use of its machine guns in World War I [1]. This led to a nickname for the school, "son of a gun" (see Wertenbaker and Basserman, The Hotchkiss School, 1966, p. 68). Maria originally had aspirations for the school to serve underprivileged students, and the original charter provided some scholarship for local farm-boys. With the guidance of then President of Yale University Timothy Dwight, Maria Bissell Hotchkiss established the School in 1891 to prepare young men for Yale. Since then, Hotchkiss has become coeducational, grown in size and scope, and established itself as one of the premier secondary schools in the country.[citation needed] Hotchkiss offers a classical education, finding strength in a traditional approach that has worked well and stood the test of time.[citation needed] Yet, over time, the Hotchkiss curriculum also has grown in size, and now includes more than 200 courses in 16 academic departments.[citation needed]
When The Hotchkiss School opened its doors in 1891, the first 50 boys were charged a boarding tuition of $600—more than many families could afford.[citation needed] But fortunately, Maria Hotchkiss had insisted on something unique in allocating the funds to establish the School: Hotchkiss would offer scholarship aid to deserving students.[citation needed] Thanks to her foresight, thousands of students have benefited from a policy that has remained constant for the last 116 years. Today, approximately 35 percent of the Hotchkiss student body receives financial assistance from an aid budget of more than $5.5 million.Template:Fact=June 2008
A few gifted students may become recipients of the "Hotchkiss Scholar" award. Awardees have their full tuition paid, in addition to this recipients receive a free laptop, free sports equipment, $850 dollars to purchase books, stationary, and other neccecties), an all-expenses paid trips abroad, free music lessons, and free health care.[citation needed]
[edit] Academic program
The curriculum at Hotchkiss has evolved over the years from a classical, formal, and prescriptive set of courses with limited sectioning to an increasingly diverse but interwoven learning opportunity, offering a choice of 227 separate courses, some of them interdisciplinary and many offered as seminars.[citation needed] Classes begin in September and end in June, with time off for Thanksgiving Break, Winter Break, and Spring Break.
Seventeen courses, including 4 years of English; 3 years of mathematics; 3 years of one language; 1 year of American history; 1 year of art, including art, dance, drama, music, or photography; and 1 year of biology, chemistry, or physics, are required of four-year students for graduation.[citation needed] Advanced Placement courses are available in many subject areas. Incoming students are given placement exams to determine the level at which they should begin their studies.
Students carry an average of five courses per semester. The average class size is 12.[citation needed] The School uses a letter grading system, and reports are sent to parents four times a year, or more often if the situation warrants it.[citation needed] Faculty members provide extra help in and out of the classroom setting and student tutors are available to help their peers. In addition, a comprehensive study skills program supports students who find some difficulty with an intensive academic program.
Qualified upper-class students may participate in a School Year Abroad program in China, France, India, Italy, or Spain; the Maine Coast Semester program; the Rocky Mountain Semester program; or the CityTerm program at the Masters School.[citation needed] They may also apply through the English-Speaking Union for a postgraduate year of study at an English boarding school.[1]
[edit] Faculty
In 2007–08, the Hotchkiss faculty consisted of 127 faculty members and administrators. Of the 124 faculty members, 81 hold advanced degrees, including seven doctorates.[citation needed]
Hotchkiss seeks a diverse and experienced faculty dedicated not only to teaching academic courses but also to aiding the full personal growth of each student. In addition to their teaching and administrative responsibilities, they are dormitory parents, academic advisers, and coaches.[2]
[edit] Students
The enrollment for 2007–08 consisted of 578 students, 521 of whom were boarding students, (274 girls and 304 boys).[citation needed] Students came from forty-two states and twenty-six other countries.[citation needed] International students constituted 12 percent, and students who were members of minority groups accounted for 32 percent of the student body.[citation needed]
The day-to-day life at Hotchkiss is governed by several important principles[citation needed]: concern for others, respect for all members of the community, and understanding and adherence to the rules as stated in the Hotchkiss School Handbook. The actions and attitudes of each student at Hotchkiss should be governed by concern for others, with the rules serving as guidelines for expected behavior. Composed of students and faculty members, the Hotchkiss Discipline Committee reviews reports of possible infractions of School rules and in each case makes recommendations for action to the Head of School.[3]
[edit] College Admission Counseling
Hotchkiss seeks to provide each student with the advice, support, and information necessary to make appropriate choices for future education. Three advisers guide students through the selection of colleges and the application process. More than 100 college representatives visit the School each year to conduct group meetings or interviews with students. Graduates of the class of 2007 are attending the following schools[citation needed]: Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Georgetown, Davidson, Vanderbilt, and Yale.
[edit] Campus and facilities
[edit] Academic facilities
From classrooms equipped with SmartBoards to an 87,000-volume library, a newly renovated science building, and a world-class music and arts center, Hotchkiss provides the academic resources students need to explore their own interests, to give voice or vision to their own ideas, and to communicate in the languages of various subject areas.[citation needed]
Opened in 1952, the library was renovated in 1981, increasing its size to 25,000 square feet. Some of what you’ll find: 250 carrels, 30 computer workstations, 20 laptops (available for students to check out), 87,000 volumes, and a catalog with access to more than 3,000 e-book titles. The on-line public access catalog, available at workstations throughout the library, provides sophisticated, easy access to the collection. Membership in the On-line Computer Library Center (OCLC), a consortium of more than 41,000 libraries throughout the world, provides interlibrary loan access to more than 47 million items. The library also provides campus-wide access to remote databases for work in all major disciplines. Journal articles, digital images, book reviews, and abstracts are easily accessible through powerful on-line indices from any location on the campus network.[citation needed]
[edit] Arts facilities
[edit] Esther Eastman Music Center
2005 saw the completion of Hotchkiss' brand new music center. Elfers Hall seats 700 and has excellent acoustics. The school has equipped the hall with a handmade Fazioli piano. There are also many practice rooms, three class teaching rooms, and a music technology studio.
The spacious, glass-walled, 640-seat music pavilion will command panoramic views of nearby Litchfield hills and lakes. The pavilion seating—configured in the round with parterre and upper-level balconies surrounding a flat-floor orchestra—takes its design cues from Boston Symphony Hall. The pavilion’s one-inch-thick glass walls open to an outdoor terrace for community concerts during the summer. The pavilion itself will have adjustable acoustics to support a wide range of musical performances as well as a variety of other school functions. When in “routine mode,” the pavilion will be furnished with lounge chairs and serve as a unique music listening room for students.
[edit] Treamine Gallery
The Tremaine Gallery is a museum-quality exhibition space located in the main building of The Hotchkiss School. With education at the heart of its mission, the gallery hosts six shows a year, encompassing a wide range of artists, media, and styles. Featured artists routinely attend the opening reception, present a gallery talk, and frequently are in-residence as visiting artists for Hotchkiss students. All shows are free and open to the public.
[edit] Athletic facilities
The athletics program is one of the School’s great strengths and a major source of its spirit.[citation needed] All students participate in the program every season[citation needed], and they pursue an activity of their choice at a level to suit their abilities.
The School prides itself on its ability to compete equally with other New England secondary schools. Hotchkiss also regularly takes part in annual coeducational New England championship meets in cross-country, field hockey, football, swimming, squash, track, volleyball, water polo, and boys’ wrestling.[citation needed]
The School’s athletic facilities are superb.[citation needed] A 212,000-square-foot athletic and fitness center opened in 2002. The Hotchkiss community now enjoys a second indoor ice rink, a field house with three basketball/volleyball courts and an elevated track, an expanded wrestling/multipurpose room, eight international-style squash courts, and a ten-lane swimming facility with a separate diving well. Other existing athletic facilities include a nine-hole golf course, a 400-meter all-weather track, a regulation baseball field, two football fields, four field hockey fields, five soccer/lacrosse fields, two paddle tennis courts, and twenty all-weather and three indoor tennis courts as well as a lakefront with a boathouse.[citation needed]
[edit] Indoor Facilities
- Field House - multi-purpose playing surfaces - elevated indoor exercise track
- Natatorium - 10 lane pool with a separate diving well
- Ice Hockey Rinks (two) - Schmidt Rink (NHL) - Dwyer Rink (Olympic)
- Fowle Gymnasium (hardwood-floor basketball court)
- Wrestling/Multi-Purpose Room
- Squash Courts - eight international courts
- Ford Indoor Tennis Courts - three indoor courts
- Chandler Fitness Center
- Training Rooms
- Locker Rooms and Shower Facilities
- Boat House (sailing)
[edit] Outdoor Facilities
- Nine-hole golf course designed by Seth Raynor
- All-weather track
- Twenty outdoor tennis courts
- Two paddle tennis courts
- Climbing walls
- Field hockey, soccer, lacrosse, and softball fields
- Football stadium
- Baseball stadium
- Lake Wononscopomuc (sailing)
- Three ponds and extensive hiking trails on a 550-acre wooded campus
The athletic complex, known as the "MAC", an acronym for the Forrest E. Mars Jr. '49 Atheletic Center, even though many students still prefer to call it the "AFC", for Athletic and Fitness Center, houses an Olympic-size ten lane pool, eight squash courts, two ice hockey rinks, two basketball courts, a wrestling room, a fitness center/weight room, indoor track, three indoor tennis courts and two paddle tennis courts.[citation needed]
[edit] Boarding and general facilities
Hotchkiss has twelve dormitories on campus, six for boys (Tinker, Edelman, Coy, Dana, Watson, and Van Santvoord) and six for girls (Bissell, Buehler, Flinn, Memorial, Garland, and Wieler). Rooms vary in size, from singles to the occasional triple.[citation needed]
About three quarters of the students reside in single rooms on corridors organized by class, averaging 15 students per corridor. Faculty members and senior proctors reside on each corridor and provide extensive supervision and guidance.[citation needed]
The School has one dining hall, a student center with a snack bar, a bookstore that carries a full line of supplies, and a number of areas for informal gatherings. The fully equipped, recently renovated Wieler Infirmary on campus is open 24 hours a day and the Sharon Hospital is 7 miles down the road. [4]
The dining hall and snack bar provide food. Three meals a day are served buffet-style in the dining hall. A salad bar, deli bar, pasta bar, cereal bar, soup bar and dessert bar are provided in addition to hot entrees. Meals at the dining hall are included in the tuition. Usually the snack bar is open when the dining hall is not.
[edit] Extracurricular activities
The location of the Hotchkiss School allows for many extracurricular opportunities on campus, in the local community, and in various locations beyond the town of Lakeville.[citation needed] Among the most active organizations are the Hotchkiss Dramatic Association,[citation needed] which schedules three major productions per year and presents as many as twelve student plays; the music department, which sponsors and encourages a wide range of informal musical groups; and the various student publications.
The community service club, the St. Luke’s Society, is involved in volunteer community affairs, including tutoring the handicapped, helping the aging, working in the Sharon Hospital, and working with the local volunteer ambulance service.[citation needed] Hotchkiss is a campus chapter member of Habitat for Humanity. Hotchkiss also has a School service program, whereby each student is expected to perform service within the School community for at least one semester each year.[5]
[edit] Athletics
Hotchkiss currently fields 17 interscholastic sports teams and the school is a member of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council and the Interscholastic Sailing Association.[citation needed] Historically strong athletic programs include the Girls Field Hockey team, the Girls Volleyball team, the Boys Hockey team, and the Boys Track team.[citation needed] Hotchkiss Field Hockey has won 9 New England championships, including six consecutive from 2002-2007. Hotchkiss Volleyball has won 7 New England Championships including the 2007 New England Volleyball Championships.[citation needed]
[edit] Clubs
Hotchkiss students run a number of clubs,[citation needed] including The Record, the student run newspaper; the Human Rights Initiative; WKIS Radio Station; BaHSA, the Black and Hispanic Student Alliance; the Gay/Straight Alliance; HotchkissTV; Hotchkiss Under God; The Whipping Post (Hotchkiss' satire publication); the Writing Block (a creative writing publication); the Chinese Club; Hotchkiss Republicans; Hotchkiss Democrats; the Hotchkiss Political Union; and SEA (Students for Environment Awareness). The Hotchkiss Speech and Debate Team competes at the national and international level. During Spring Break 2006, Hotchkiss hosted the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship. The Record, Hotchkiss' school newspaper, is published on a bi-monthly basis, and the Hotchkiss Dramatic Association celebrates its centennial year this winter.[when?] Clubs are student-run, though most have faculty advisors, and many of them receive a budget from the school to provide for their various needs.
[edit] Round Square
Hotchkiss is one of four US schools in Round Square, a global conference of more than 50 secondary schools. Students have the option to go on an exchange for a semester to another participating school, or they may meet other Round Square students while working together on a project at a more underprivileged school. Hotchkiss has recently hosted students from Germany, South Africa, and India.
[edit] Daily life
Classes are held six days a week, with Wednesdays and Saturdays as half days to accommodate interscholastic athletic competitions. A typical day begins with breakfast served cafeteria style between 7 and 8:30 a.m. The first period begins at 8, with 45-minute class periods thereafter. Students eat lunch during their free noontime period. Classes end at 3:10 p.m., and sports begin at 3:30. The dining hall is open for dinner between 5:30 and 7. Evening study times are set for ninth and tenth graders between 8 and 10.[citation needed]
Students are permitted to take weekends away from the campus, but most choose to remain at the School and join the variety of activities taking place. The standard weekend events include sports competitions, movies, dances, concerts, and other scheduled activities. As students move from the lower classes to the senior year, they are permitted more weekends away from campus. [6]
[edit] The China Connection
A relationship between this School located in northwestern Connecticut and the wider world began almost as soon as the School was founded. As early as 1912 Hotchkiss recruited students from China.[citation needed] This long-standing “China connection” may or may not play a role in the unique circumstance that, over the course of its history, the School has educated a quarter of the American ambassadors to China, including current Ambassador Clark T. "Sandy" Randt Jr. ’64.[citation needed] In the first half of the 20th century, Hotchkiss Headmaster George Van Santvoord ’08 was instrumental in recruiting international students from all parts of the world to Hotchkiss.[citation needed] He also enabled Hotchkiss students to study abroad by having the School join the English-Speaking Union program and through the inception of The International Schoolboy Exchange in 1928. Today, the Hotchkiss student body includes students from 18 countries, and on average 5 to 10 students study abroad each year with the School Year Abroad program. Established by the Class of 1948, the Fund for Global Understanding provides grant support for students participating in summer community service projects throughout the world. Hotchkiss is also a member of Round Square and Global Connections, international organizations that bring together students, faculty, and school leaders from around the world.[7]
[edit] Traditions
Blue and White Society[citation needed] Dedicated to school spirit and led by mascot Bucky the Bearcat, Blue and White takes its name from Hotchkiss's school colors. Members of Blue and White help organize orientation, pep rallies, and Spirit Days
Bow Tie Bowl[citation needed] This is serious trivia in which 50 teams of three contestants (with at most one faculty member) compete in a series of rounds played over six weeks, culminating in the final round in the dining hall before the entire School. While the contest takes place in the spring, students begin jockeying for the faculty member they want on their team as early as December. Faculty member Lou Pressman founded the competition during the tenure of Headmaster Robert A. Oden Jr., who always wore a bow tie.
Contra Dance[citation needed] In the late 1970s, former math teacher Art Eddy brought his enthusiasm for contra dancing (think: square dancing) to campus. Since then, the first night of orientation has been host to a School-wide contra dance in the field house. With almost the entire School twirling and spinning their partners on the dance floor, students say it's one of the highlights of the year.
Cardboard Boat Regatta[citation needed] A competition among physics students to design and construct a cardboard boat for two using five sheets of corrugated cardboard and two rolls of masking tape. The students use physics principles to calculate the buoyant force required to keep their crafts and crew afloat in the Hixon Pool.
Class Nomenclature[citation needed] The terminology for the four classes -- Prep (9th grade), Lower Mid (10th), Upper Mid (11th), and Senior -- came to Hotchkiss with the School’s first headmaster, Edward G. Coy. Coy had been head of the Greek department at Phillips Academy in Andover. Hotchkiss and Andover are the only schools to use this nomenclature.
Fun Fridays[citation needed] From student film screenings to spaghetti-eating contests to student-driven discussions, the program for Friday all-school Auditorium meetings is developed and run by the school co-presidents.
International Dinner[citation needed] Organized by the International Club, this annual dinner takes place in the spring. Hotchkiss’s international students and others prepare traditional dishes from their home countries and invite faculty and student friends to attend and chow down!
Jam Fest[citation needed] May 2004 brought the third annual JamFest, a brainchild of a current Hotchkiss student, with 18 student bands from 11 different schools playing on campus.
Coy Limbo Love Fest[citation needed] A fest of love and limbos outside Coy dormitory.
Matriculation Society[citation needed] Before Opening Chapel, all new students meet with the head of school in the chapel for a ceremony welcoming them into the Hotchkiss student body. Each student introduces himself or herself to the rest of the new students, shakes the head’s hand, and signs his or her name and hometown in one of two large leather-bound books (one for Pythians, one for Olympians – see below).
Olympians & Pythians[citation needed] When Hotchkiss was founded, members of these two student intramural teams competed in gymnastics matches, providing a major source of entertainment, competition, and friendly rivalry. Today, the teams comprise both students and faculty, and the friendly rivalry continues in a wider variety of contests including the Bow Tie Bowl. Whether you’re an Olympian or a Pythian depends on your class year: students to be graduated and faculty hired in odd years are Olympians, and in even years, Pythians.
Opening Chapel[citation needed] The evening before the first day of classes, the entire student body and all faculty members assemble for the Opening Chapel. The head of school and the two student co-presidents welcome everyone, and the head delivers a talk. The evening ends with a presentation of selected student awards and the singing of "Fair Hotchkiss," the School's alma mater.
School Seal & Motto[citation needed] At the seal’s center is Athena, the patron goddess of ancient Athens and of wisdom, shown in profile with her helmet. Encircling her image are the full school name, "The Hotchkiss School," its founding date "MDCCCCXCI," and the words of the Hotchkiss motto: "Moniti Meliora Sequamur." The Latin phrase is taken from Virgil’s Aeneid, Book 3, and might be loosely translated to mean, “After instruction, let us move on to pursue higher things."
Seniors First[citation needed] From the days of daily chapel service, seating for all-school meetings has been by class, with the seniors at the front of the room, symbolizing their leadership of the school. At the close of each meeting the head of school dismisses the entire student body with “Seniors first,” granting the senior class the right to depart before other students. At the end of the school year, after the graduation of the senior class, an all-school meeting is called, and the remaining classes move up to their new seats. The following fall, new preps take their places behind them.
Spirit Day[citation needed] The week leading up to and including “Taft Day," the Saturday in the fall when Hotchkiss teams compete against the Taft School. From kickoff night to the Friday night pep rally and bonfire to Taft Day itself, blue and white rule.
Student-Faculty Basketball Game[citation needed] An event for which the entire Hotchkiss community turns out. The game takes place on the night before “Long Winter Weekend,” a three-day weekend in late January. Students are known for dressing up in creative costumes, and faculty members are known for plenty of antics of their own. Each year, funds raised from ticket sales go to a selected charity.
Coy Tinker Olympics[citation needed] Can you run and balance an egg on a spoon at the same time? Coy and Tinker are the dormitories housing both ninth and tenth grade boys. Each year, the residents of these two dorms have the opportunity to test such skills in this afternoon-long competition, which usually takes place on the first Sunday in October. And lest you think "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," loyal residents of each dorm are equally insistent on the naming variation that puts their dormitory first! This is no longer a tradition since Coy is now upperclass.
Tokens of Esteem[citation needed] In 1984, the custom began of having each member of the senior class present the head of school with a small token of esteem on the graduation podium. That year, the head was given a golf ball by each class member; the following year it was marbles. More recent tokens of choice have been stickers of the U.S. flag, playing cards, and candy sticks.
Upper mid Carnival[citation needed] A much-anticipated event complete with slip 'n' slide, dunking machine, cotton candy, burgers, and much more that first began in 1965. The carnival is organized and run by the upper mids as a class fun- and fund-raiser every spring.
"Writes" of passage[citation needed] "Daily Themes" at Hotchkiss can be traced all the way back to the early part of the 20th century. The term refers to a two-month period during which all lower mids write up to 40 papers on themes of their choosing. A second writing tradition at Hotchkiss is the “ticket,” a spontaneous overnight essay assigned in all grades. The essay becomes the student’s “ticket” into class the following day.[8]
[edit] Notable alumni
Hotchkiss has a history of Captains of Industry in attendance, such as the founders of Time Magazine Henry Luce and Briton Hadden; The automotive Giants, Henry Ford II, Edsel Ford and William Clay Ford; The candy men Forrest Mars and John Mars; Thomas Edison's son, Governor Charles Edison; the founder of Morgan Stanley (Harold Stanley), Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, and the Director of the CIA Porter J. Goss. Within the fields of the arts and science/technology, Hotchkiss alumni include Nobel prize laurete Dickinson W. Richards (Medicine), Charles Stapper the Inventor of ROM; John G. Avildsen, Film Director (Rocky, and The Karate Kid), Tom Werner the producer of That 70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show, Cybill, A Different World, Grace Under Fire, Roseanne, he also is the Chairman and co-managing partner, Boston Red Sox; Professional athletes include Matt Herr and Torrey Mitchell (ice hockey NHL) as well as numerous Olympic participants. Hotchkiss also has a strong literary tradition, alumni authors include four time Pulitzer prize winner and Poet laureate of the United states of America, Archibald MacLeish, Pulitzer Prize Winner John Hersey, and Novelist Tom Dolby (Son of billionaire inventor Ray Dolby).[citation needed]
[edit] Hotchkiss in print
- The school is mentioned several times in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and in his short story Six of One.[citation needed]
- In the book Primary Colors by Joe Klein, later turned into a film, the principal character Henry Burton was educated at Hotchkiss, and is frequently referred to as 'Hotchkiss'.[citation needed]
- In Jeffrey Archer's novel Sons of Fortune, protagonist Fletcher Davenport is a Hotchkiss alumnus.[citation needed]
- In Tom Wolfe's novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons, the son of a minor character attends the school.[citation needed]
- There is a passing reference to the school in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho.[citation needed]
- The school is mentioned in Natalie Krinsky's book, Chloe Does Yale.
- The school is mentioned in Richard Rodriguez's memoir "Brown: The Last Discovery of America."
- In John McPhee's profile of alumnus Thomas Hoving ("A Roomful of Hovings"), Hoving is quoted as saying: "'The thought of being locked up there for weeks and weeks–I used to sweat with the horror of it. If you see your life in terms of weather, Hotchkiss was overcast and threatening. Trees were green there in my last year, because it was my last year.'"[citation needed]
- In Can't Take It With You: The Art of Making and Giving Money, alumnus and supporter Lewis B. Cullman writes, "Like most New England boarding schools of the time, Hotchkiss was built around the concept of rugged, manly Christianity. Living conditions were Spartan; trips home, rare...There was a Hotchkiss way to do everything." On page 41 he wrote of "the virulent anti-Semitism of Hotchkiss back then" and added, "as with all minorities, our status made us vulnerable."[citation needed]
- Hotchkiss alumnus Julian Houston, a judge in Massachusetts, wrote the novel New Boy, which recounts the story of Rob Garrett, the first African-American student at the fictional Draper School, which strongly resembles Hotchkiss. (According to a Boston Globe article (March 26, 2006) the author said of his own time at Hotchkiss, "'I was miserable there.'")[citation needed]
- For the school's centenary, Ernest Kolowrat was commissioned to write Hotchkiss: A Chronicle of an American School (ISBN 1-56131-058-1).[citation needed]
- Alumnus, former Librarian of Congress, and Poet Laureate Archibald MacLeish said in a 1982 interview "God, how I did not like Hotchkiss!" ("America Was Promises", American Heritage Magazine, vol. 32, issue 5)[citation needed]
- In Hotchkiss in the Fifties: Myths and Realities (George Mason University's History News Network, 11/29/2004), alumnus and historian Jesse Lemisch writes of the various forms of bigotry he witnessed at Hotchkiss. A disabled student was "stigmatized and physically beaten here." He goes on to write, "...anti-semitism was deep in the history and culture of the place." He quotes alumnus Lewis Lapham (editor of Harper's' Magazine): "'Hotchkiss, like Yale, like Harvard, is about setting wealth to music' [Kolowrat, p. 546]. Basically and in reality [continues Lemisch], it seems to me that Hotchkiss greases the wheels of capitalism." Jean Olsen, the wife of a Hotchkiss headmaster, suspected that the school was "by far the most male-oriented, chauvinistic school in the country" (see Kolowrat, pp. 379-380).[citation needed]
- The Hotchkiss School: A Portrait was published by the school in 1966 (authors: Wertenbaker and Basserman). The Hotchkiss headmaster George Van Santvoord, known as "The Duke" is quoted as saying "'...we took a religious census and found two Baptists, twenty-seven Jews, eight Quakers, three Mormons, and so on...a peculiar breakdown. We never bothered with any of that. Only question: are these boys going to gain from the experience and not prove too intractable?'" (Wertenbaker & Basserman, p. 113).[citation needed]
- Hobson Brown, Caroline Says, and Taylor Materne (Hotchkiss graduates in the 1990s) wrote the book "The Upper Class," a novel portraying the lives of two girls at a boarding school which closely resembles Hotchkiss both in appearances and traditions.[citation needed]
- The Hotchkiss School was mentioned in the episode "If It Should Happen to You" of the Best Years.[citation needed]
- "The Sixth Form," a 2008 novel written by Hotchkiss graduate Tom Dolby and set at the fictional Berkley Academy in Wilton, MA, is said to be based on Hotchkiss. The novel centers around the relationship between a young man and his older female English teacher.[citation needed]
[edit] Gallery
 Main Building |
 Main Building |
 Main Building |
 Main Building |
 |
 |
 |
 |
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=600439-2&inunId=1097&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1
- ^ http://www.hotchkiss.org/AboutHotchkiss/HistoryTra.asp
- ^ http://www.hotchkiss.org/AboutHotchkiss/HistoryTra.asp
[edit] Sources
 |
This article uses bare URLs for citations, which are subject to link rot. Please help improve this article by changing bare URLs into proper citations with titles, dates, and authors, so that the article remains verifiable in the future. Also consider using WebCite® to archive the links. |
Information resources independent from the school itself. Links to independent school organizations and accreditation services.
- Connecticut Association of Independent Schools
- The Association of Boarding Schools
- New England Association of Schools and Colleges
- [2]
[edit] External links
|
|
This article uses bare URLs for citations, which are subject to link rot. Please help improve this article by changing bare URLs into proper citations with titles, dates, and authors, so that the article remains verifiable in the future. Also consider using WebCite® to archive the links. |
- Hotchkiss School Website
- [3]
- Boarding School Review
- Ten Schools Admissions Organization
- Hotchkiss School Admissions Video
- Hotchkiss Student Sports Website (www.hgoblue.org)
- Round Square Organization
