Hathaway Brown School

Hathaway Brown School
Address
19600 North Park Boulevard
Shaker Heights, Ohio, (Cuyahoga County), 44122
United States
Coordinates 41°28′54″N 81°32′30″W / 41.48167°N 81.54167°WCoordinates: 41°28′54″N 81°32′30″W / 41.48167°N 81.54167°W
Information
Type Private, Secular, All-Girls
Motto Non Scholae Sed Vitae Discimus
(We learn not for school but for life)
Established 1876
Principal Susan Sadler
Headmaster William Christ
Grades Daycare-12
Enrollment 842
Student to teacher ratio 8:1
Color(s) Brown and Gold [1]         
Athletics 11 sports
Nickname HB
Team name Blazers[1]
Accreditation North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [2]
Newspaper The Review
Yearbook Specularia
Athletic Director Paul Maes
Website http://www.hb.edu

Hathaway Brown (HB) is an all-girls private school in Shaker Heights, Ohio, founded in 1876. It is also Ohio's oldest continuously operating college preparatory school for girls. The HB experience spans the early childhood program, primary school, middle school, and upper school.

History

Founded in 1876, Hathaway Brown began as “afternoon classes for young ladies” at the all-boys private Brooks Military School in downtown Cleveland. Its original name was the Brooks School for Ladies. In 1886, the school was purchased by Anne Hathaway Brown. During her tenure, Miss Brown changed the school’s name to “Miss Anne H. Hathaway Brown’s School for Girls” and introduced the school motto: nonscholar sed vita discimus (“we learn not for school but for life”).

After establishing itself within the community and constructing a new school at East 97th Street in 1905, Hathaway Brown moved to its current location at 19600 North Park Boulevard in Shaker Heights and prospered under the direction of other headmistresses, including Miss Mary Elizabeth Raymond (1912-38) and Miss Ann Cutter Coburn (1938-68).

At present, Hathaway Brown offers a coeducation early childhood program, and an all-girls K-12 program with an enrollment of 842 students (29 percent students of color EC-12). Hathaway Brown currently draws families from 78 communities across Northeast Ohio to its 16 acre Shaker Heights campus which houses an aquatics center, an invention lab, a dance studio, visual arts and performance spaces, and a working television studio. Hathaway Brown’s current Head of School is H. William Christ.

Current offerings include:

Timeline

Athletics

HB is consistently among the top athletic teams in Northeast Ohio.

Ohio High School Athletic Association team state championships

Other non-sancitioned state championships:

Other athletic accomplishments

Science Research and Engineering Program

Hathaway Brown’s Science Research and Engineering Program is an elective that was initiated in early 1998 by HB Director of Research Patricia K. Hunt. It now enrolls approximately one third of the grade 9-12 student population. Students in the Program are linked with supervising professionals from institutions such as Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, NASA Glenn Research Center, and the Cleveland Museums of Art and Natural History for the purpose of conducting a research project. Once a placement is made, the SREP Director assists as necessary, also helping students prepare for optional competitions.[5]

While most projects are scientific in nature, a number of students prefer to develop internship or shadowing experiences in non-scientific areas such as sports and entertainment management, architecture, radio broadcast, and fashion retail and marketing.

Current research projects in the Science Research & Engineering Program represent a cross section of the cutting edge research that is occurring in the Cleveland area, such as work on gene therapy, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) nanotechnology, BioMEMS, and microelectrochemical sensor development, as well as research into cures for many life-threatening diseases. One project, called PEACE, addresses a real erosion problem in low earth orbit, and will fly in space twice, once as a short term exposure experiment aboard the space shuttle, and another time as a long term exposure experiment aboard the International Space Station.[6] That version is in space now.

The work of HB's Science Research & Engineering Program students has garnered hundreds of awards at the regional, state, national, and international levels since 1999, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in college scholarships, cash, and other prizes such as computers and all-expense paid trips to places including London, Germany, and Israel.[7] Four SREP students have US Patents pending for their original inventions, and there are over 70 student authorships or co-authorships on technical publications or presentations.[8][9]

Robotics program

In the 2007-08 school year, Hathaway Brown debuted a FIRST Robotics team. FIRST team 2399 began as a collaborative project between Hathaway Brown and Case Western Reserve University, which provided facilities and mentors. In 2009, the team took home awards in robot design, the Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology Award and the General Motors Industrial Design Award, from the Buckeye and Pittsburgh regional competitions respectively and progressed to the semifinals at the 2009 Pittsburgh Regional.[10] The team moved all operations from Case to Hathaway Brown in the 2011 season and continues to compete annually in the FIRST Robotics Competition.

Accreditation and membership

Notable alumnae

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory". Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  2. ↑ NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on 2010-06-20. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  3. ↑ Hubbell & Bennes Cleveland Landmarks Commission
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site". Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  5. ↑ http://www.hb.edu/page.cfm?p=335
  6. ↑ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/MISSE_PEACE_Feature_prt.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.hb.edu/page.cfm?p=392
  8. ↑ http://www.hb.edu/page.cfm?p=1472
  9. ↑ http://www.hb.edu/uploaded/Institute_for_21st_Century_Education/PublicationsPresentations.pdf
  10. ↑ https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teaminfo&team=2399&event_type=FRC
  11. ↑ http://www.ncgs.org/profiles/hathawaybrownschool_75/~hathawaybrownschool_75
  12. ↑ http://www.oais.org/members.asp
  13. ↑ http://www.nais.org/applications/statsmap/detail.cfm?state=oh