Morristown-Beard School

Morristown-Beard School is a coeducational college-preparatory day school, serving students in sixth through twelfth grade, located in Morristown, in Morris County, New Jersey. Morristown-Beard School is the product of the 1971 merger of two institutions, Miss Beard's School for girls, founded in 1891, and the Morristown School for boys, established in 1891.

The Headmaster is Peter J. Caldwell.^[1]

History

Morristown School was founded in 1891 as St. Bartholomew's School by the Episcopal Church. The Rev. F.E. Edward was the first headmaster.

From 1891 to the fall of 1896, the school was located in the Normandy Park section of Morristown. In 1898, the school was reorganized and renamed Morristown School by three Harvard University graduates of the class of 1888: Thomas Quincy Browne, Arthur Pierce Butler and Francis Call Woodman.

Morristown School merged with the Beard School, also founded in 1891, the former Miss Beard's School of Orange, New Jersey.

Using a $16.2 million fund from donations, the school renovated the middle school and funded construction of Founders Hall, a performing arts facility complete with a 630-seat theater. The new middle school opened in September 2008. Founders Hall opened in the winter of 2009. It also renovated South Wing, which houses the MBS Learning Center and visual arts classrooms.^[2]

Clubs and extracurricular activities

Some of the clubs and activities offered at the School include: Art Club, Contemporary Music Workshop, Drama Club, Film Club, Foster Care Club, Mariah (art & literary magazine), Mu Alpha Theta, Model United Nations, Salmagundi (yearbook), Service Committee, Business Club, and the Student Government Association. The Crimson Sun, the student newspaper, has received awards in recent years, including bronze and silver medals from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

The School requires community service of all students in grades 9 - 12. Students serve their communities in the following ways: organizing campus blood drives, participating in local programs like Adopt-A-Road, and volunteering in area service organizations. including Neighborhood House and Matheny Medical and Educational Center.

iPad Pilot Program

In the fall of 2010, Morristown-Beard School became one of the first schools ^[3] in the nation to integrate the Apple iPad into its curriculum. As part of the pilot program, six teachers and sixty students began using the iPads both inside and outside their classrooms. The school has announced it's intention to issue iPads to all students in sixth through twelfth grade.^[4]

Athletics

Morristown-Beard School competes against other high schools in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference.

• The School's mascot is a bear, but athletic teams compete as the Crimson, a century-old title derived from the Morristown School's deep connections to Harvard.
• The Boys' Baseball team were the 2005 and 2010 NJSIAA Non-Public North B State Champions and the 2007 Prep B State Championship.^[5]
• The Boys' Ice Hockey team won the 1980, 1982, 1983, 1994, 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2011 Mennen Cup and the 1974, 1975, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1991, 1997, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 NJISAA Prep Title.
• The Girls' Ice Hockey Team won the 2007 Women's Interscholastic Hockey League of the Mid-Atlantic Championship.
• The Boys' Golf Team won the 2007 Morris County Tournament.^[6]
• The Morristown-Beard football team went to the state championships at Giants Stadium in November 2007, falling 28-7 to Paterson Catholic High School.^[7][8]
• The 2008 Girls Field Hockey Team won the Prep B championship over Montclair Kimberley Academy by a final score of 2-0.^[9]

Notable alumni

• Joan Caulfield c. 1940, actress^[10]
• Luis A. Ferré 1921, Governor of Puerto Rico from 1969-1973^[11]
• Joseph Nye 1954, co-founder of the international relations theory "neoliberalism." Served as deputy secretary of defense and later as deputy secretary of state. A Rhodes Scholar, Nye is currently the Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, of which he also served as dean.
• John Reed 1906. Class prefect. Journalist and revolutionary who wrote Ten Days that Shook the World. The only American to be buried in the Kremlin. Copies of Reed's Morristown letters and other ephemera were presented by a delegation from the School to Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s.^[12]
• Jyles Tucker (born 1983), four-year starter on the school's football team, now linebacker for the San Diego Chargers.^[13]

References

External links

• Morristown-Beard School website
• Peterson's School Close-Up