Chadwick School
Chadwick School | |
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Address | |
26800 South Academy Drive Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274 United States | |
Coordinates | 33°46′36″N 118°21′40″W / 33.77667°N 118.36111°WCoordinates: 33°46′36″N 118°21′40″W / 33.77667°N 118.36111°W |
Information | |
Type | Independent |
Established | 1935 |
Headmaster | Jack Creeden |
Faculty | 106[1] |
Grades | K-12 |
Enrollment |
830[1] (2013-2014
) |
Campus | Suburban |
Campus size | 45 acres (18 ha) |
Color(s) | Navy blue and white |
Athletics | 24 CIF Varsity teams |
Athletics conference | CIF Southern Section Prep League |
Mascot | Pacific bottlenose dolphin |
Endowment | $20,706,482.00 |
Website | School website |
Chadwick School is a nonsectarian independent K-12 day school located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, California, United States.[2][3][4] Specifically it is located at the top of the neighborhood referred to as "Academy Hill", which is bounded by a canyon, a precipice, Crenshaw Boulevard, and Palos Verdes Drive North.
History
The school was founded in 1935[5] by Margaret Lee Chadwick and Commander Joseph Chadwick in San Pedro, California.[6] In 1938 the school moved to Palos Verdes, California.[5] In the beginning Chadwick was an open air day and boarding school for 75 students.
After the retirement of the Chadwick family in 1963, the school created a board of trustees[5] and in 1968 discontinued its boarding program. In 1972, Chadwick joined the Cum Laude Society.[5] Up until the 1980s the school owned all of the hill leading up to it which was sold off to establish the school's endowment. Since then the school has opened more buildings, a gymnasium, and a performing arts center.[7] It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.[8] The movie adaptation of the book Mommie Dearest was filmed at Chadwick in 1981.[9]
Student and faculty profile
Chadwick is divided into three schools: the Village School (K-grade 6), the Middle School (grades 7-8), and the Upper School (grades 9-12). 63 percent of the faculty members held advanced degrees in the 2014-2015 school year.[10]
Chadwick International
On January 13, 2010, the school announced that it would be administrating and integrating a sister school in South Korea. Chadwick was the third school chosen to administrate the new school after a deal with Vancouver International Primary and Secondary School fell through. Prior to that, the International School Service had submitted plans to run the school but withdrew them.[11] Later in the process the school's opening was delayed by Chadwick administrators when they failed to submit paperwork on time.[12]
The school is located in the Songdo International City, a city renowned for its efforts to 'go green'[13] and is administratively a near replica of Chadwick School in Palos Verdes.[14] Headmaster Ted Hill has stated that the sister school will remain in contact with the originating school through the use of Telepresence equipment supplied by Cisco.[15]
The school opened on September 6, 2010, and completed its first year in June 2011. As of the 2013-14 school year, Chadwick International enrolled 780 students in grades pre-K through 10. Eleventh grade was added in September 2014, and the school will graduate its first class in 2015-16. There are now frequent exchanges and visits between the two Chadwick campuses.[16][17]
Study abroad
In addition to sending students to Chadwick International, Chadwick frequently exchanges students with other schools that participate in the Round Square program. Chadwick students also travel to other schools through additional programs such as ones through the Community Service program.
Sperm whale skull fossil
On February 5, 2014, a fossil of a sperm whale skull embedded in a piece of Middle Miocene Era Altamira Shale was removed to be studied at the LA County Natural History Museum.[18][19] An expert from the museum believes that the skull may be of a previously unknown species.[20][21] This event was widely covered by Los Angeles area news outlets.[22][23][24][25]
Extracurricular activities
Athletics
Chadwick's main rivals are Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California[26] and Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada, California.[27]
Chadwick participates in 23 Varsity CIF sports. They include boys' football, tennis, volleyball, waterpolo, basketball, soccer, baseball, golf, and girls' tennis, volleyball, waterpolo, equestrian, basketball, soccer, golf, lacrosse, softball and cheerleading. They also include coed cross country, swimming, and track and field.
In 2007 Chadwick reevaluated its image and decided that yellow was not an appropriate school color. It also realized that its athletics logo featured a non-native dolphin. After these realizations the school designed a new blue, grey, and white logo featuring a native and more aggressive looking dolphin.
School newspaper
The school newspaper, The Mainsheet, is published in print and online.[28] Online publication was restarted at the beginning of March 2012.[29][30]
Intracurricular activities
Robotics
In 2006 members of the high school community started Wicked Wobotics, team 2150, a FIRST robotics team.[31] The team won the Judges' choice award at the 2008 FIRST Robotics competition in Las Vegas, Nevada and was ranked sixth after the qualifying rounds.[32] The FRC team was discontinued in 2010.[33] The remaining team focused on the simpler and less expensive VEX Robotics Competition.
In 2011 the school added an optional robotics class to its science curriculum and moved into a larger room previously occupied by the maintenance department.
In 2014 the team had 30 members, and had to move to a much larger classroom.
In 2015 the team had 12 students.
Chadwick Robotics also collaborates with the robotics program at the Chadwick International campus in Songdo, South Korea, sharing engineering techniques and innovative strategies for each year's contest.
Notable alumni
Business
- Danese Cooper - programmer, Wikipedia[34]
- Jann Wenner - owner of Rolling Stone magazine[35]
Entertainment
- Christina Crawford - actor and author of Mommie Dearest[9][36]
- Peter Davis - winner of an Academy Award for documentary[37]
- Chuck Dukowski - Bass player for 1970s punk rock band Black Flag [38]
- Jessica Gottlieb - author[39]
- Brandon Lee - actor and martial artist, son of Bruce Lee[40]
- Shannon Lee - daughter of Bruce Lee, sister of Brandon Lee
- Mike Lookinland - actor, The Brady Bunch[41]
- Liza Minnelli - winner of the Emmy, Grammy, Academy and Tony Awards[42]
- Aida Mollenkamp - television chef and food writer, Ask Aida and FoodCrafters[43]
- Rick Moses - actor/singer/songwriter
- Eric Puchner - novelist & short story writer[44]
- Maureen Reagan - actor, child of Ronald Reagan[45]
- Pippa Scott - actress[46]
- George Starbuck - poet, winner of the 1983 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize[47]
- Robert Towne - screenwriter/director, winner of an Academy Award for the screenplay of Chinatown[48]
- Michael Viner - record and audiobook producer[49]
- Peter Zuckerman - journalist, The Oregonian[50]
Athletics
- Lindsay Davenport - № 1 ranked female tennis player[51]
- Christen Press - World Champion soccer player, Olympian, recipient of the 2010 Hermann Trophy.[52]
- Rebecca Smith - Olympic soccer player[53]
- John Thorrington - soccer player[54]
Notable employees
- Ansel Adams[55] - Photographed school and school events; Set up dark room[56]
- Latario Rachal[57] - Athletics coach
- Cedric Wright[58] - Photography teacher
In literature
Nonfiction
- Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton[59]
- Indigenous: growing up Californian by Cris Mazza[60]
- Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford[61]
- The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture by Edvige Giunta[62]
Fictional Chadwick School novels
- Mandie by Lois Gladys Leppard
- Surviving Chadwick: A Novel by Phillip Wilhite[63]
- THE TRUST: A Secret Society Novel by Tom Dolby[64]
- White Lines by Jennifer Banash. Several fictional teachers in the novel share their names with Chadwick faculty. For example, the character Mr. Cass in the novel shares his last name with a Chadwick teacher.[65][66] Dr. Banash herself taught English at Chadwick.[67]
Filmography
Year | Film | Notes |
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1981 | Mommie Dearest | Shot in main parking lot |
References
- 1 2 "Chadwick At A Glance". http://www.chadwickschool.org/. Chadwick School. Retrieved 27 September 2013. External link in
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- ↑ "Directions to Chadwick." Chadwick School. Retrieved on March 28, 2010.
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- 1 2 Mommie Dearest (1981)
- ↑ Chadwick opens Songdo campus Archived February 1, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
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- ↑ cache:4InX0pYUdLAJ:www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/10/117_62635.html chadwick likely to run songdo school korea times - Google Search
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- ↑ Chadwick International School
- ↑ Chadwick School to operate new school in South Korea - The Daily Breeze
- ↑ The City of the Future | Video - ABC News
- ↑ "Chadwick International School: ES Schedule and Calendar". Chadwickinternational.org. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
- ↑ "A Whale of a Find at Chadwick". The Navigator. Chadwick School. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
- ↑ Pappas, Stephanie (January 28, 2014). "Whale of a Tale: Rare Marine Fossil Found at School". livescience. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ Mintz, Zoe (January 29, 2014). "Rare Whale Skull Discovered By Science Teacher, ‘Remarkable’ Fossil May Belong To New Species [PHOTO]". International Business Times. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ Littlejohn, Donna. "‘Priceless’ fossil find on Palos Verdes Peninsula could be 12-million-year-old sperm whale". The Daily Breeze. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ Romero, Dennis (Jan 28, 2014). "12-Million-Year-Old Whale Fossil Found at Palos Verdes School". La Weekly. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ Irick, Whitney (Jan 29, 2014). "Science Teacher Discovers Rare Whale Fossil on School Grounds". NBC4. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ Holguin, Robert (January 29, 2014). "RARE FOSSIL DISCOVERED AT PALOS VERDES SCHOOL". ABC7. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ Harvey, Pat; Magers, Paul. "Fossil Of Possible Undiscovered Sperm Whale Found In Palos Verdes". CBS Los Angeles. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ Palos Verdes Peninsula News
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- ↑ the Mainsheet | Chadwick School | Student driven online newspaper
- ↑ "Student Publications". Chadwick School. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
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- ↑ Danese Cooper | LinkedIn
- ↑ Rolling Stone | Music News, Reviews, Photos, Videos, Interviews and More
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- ↑ IMDB Hearts and Minds
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- ↑ Lee, Brandon - The Free Information Society
- ↑ Mike Lookinland - Biography
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- ↑ Chadwick School: Boys Cross Country Team Award Winners
- ↑ Nemy, Enid (2001-08-09). "Maureen Reagan, 60, Activist and President's Daughter". New York Times.
- ↑ "Pippa Scott Was Sure To Become Actress". Lewiston Evening Journal. Oct 6, 1962. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ↑ Olivia Vordenberg 2011 NH POL Champion. "Poetry Out Loud". Poetry Out Loud. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
- ↑ "Overview for Robert Towne". Tcm.com. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
- ↑ Elaine Woo, "Michael Viner dies at 65; tabloid book publisher", Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2009.
- ↑ Chadwick Alum Wins Major Journalism Award - Chadwick School
- ↑ Price, S.L. (2006-09-16). "Standing Tall". Sports Illustrated.
- ↑ Hays, Graham. "Press finishes career on top". espn.com. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ Leggat, David (August 5, 2008). "Soccer: Ferns ready to show they deserve their place". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved September 23, 2011.
- ↑ John Thorrington - Soccer Blog - ESPN Los Angeles
- ↑ Chadwick School: Ansel Adams and Cedric Wright
- ↑ Gray, Alysia (2011-01-10). "A Local School's Famous Photogs". NBC Los Angeles. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
- ↑ "Chadwick football team crushes Saint Joseph", Palos Verdes Peninsula News, October 7, 2010.
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- ↑ Amazon.com: Surviving Chadwick: A Novel (9780595520947): Phillip Wilhite: Books
- ↑ THE TRUST: A Secret Society Novel by Tom Dolby
- ↑ Banash, Jennifer (2013). White lines. New York: Penguin Group. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-101-60788-6.
- ↑ "Faculty and Staff Directory". chadwickschool.org. Chadwick School. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
- ↑ Arieh, Nicole (7 October 2010). "Brentwood welcomes new teachers to Middle and Upper Divisions" (PDF). The Flyer (1). Brentwood School. Retrieved 27 August 2014.