Wilbraham & Monson Academy (WMA) is a college-preparatory school located in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1804, it is a four-year boarding and day high school for students in grades 9-12 and postgraduate. A middle school, with grades 6–8, offers boarding for grade 8 students. The academy is located in the center of the town of Wilbraham, 75 miles (121 km) from Boston and 150 miles (240 km) from New York City.
Athletics
In fall 2007, the Academy unveiled its $4 million expansion of the Greenhalgh Athletic Center on campus. The expansion included a fitness room, a multi-purpose dance and wrestling space, a large conference room and new central locker facilities.[1]
Notable alumni
- Henry Barnard, educationalist
- Alfred Ely Beach, inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer
- Rick Bennett, ice hockey player and coach
- Mary Ann Booth, microscopist
- Tyrell Burgess, professional soccer player with Vancouver Whitecaps FC
- Kraisak Choonhavan, member of Thailand Senate for Nakhon Ratchasima Province (2000–2006); former chairman of the Thai Senate's Foreign Relations Committee
- Russell H. Conwell, minister and founder of Temple University - 1859
- Winthrop Murray Crane, Senator
- Emily Norcross Dickinson,[2] mother of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson
- Kyle Filipowski, Duke University basketball player
- Richard Fuld, former CEO Lehman Brothers
- Wenyen Gabriel, NBA basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans
- Bill Guerin, retired NHL hockey player; general manager of Minnesota Wild; four-time Stanley Cup champion[3]
- William Stewart Halstead, pioneering American surgeon, studied at Monson Academy for a time[4]
- Ratcliffe Hicks, Connecticut state legislator, industrialist, lawyer, and benefactor of the University of Connecticut
- Kim Hyun-jong, South Korean trade minister under Moon Jae-in and Roh Moo-hyun
- Galway Kinnell, poet
- Christine Ladd-Franklin, mathematician, logician and psychologist - 1865
- Patrick Mazeika (born 1993), baseball player
- Pat Phelan, professional soccer player for the New England Revolution
- Nitya Pibulsonggram, Thai Ambassador to the US (1996–2000), Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006–2008)
- Humphrey Pickard, first president of Mount Allison University
- Charles Pratt, oil tycoon and founder of the Pratt Institute
- Joey Santiago, band member of the Pixies
- Pote Sarasin, Prime Minister of Thailand (1957) secretary-general of SEATO (1958–1964)
- Lucy Stone, orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and women's rights advocate
- William Strong, governor of the Commonwealth[which?] 1900–1902
- Yung Wing, first Chinese graduate of an American university (Yale) - 1854
See also
References
- ^ "Kuhn Riddle Architects".
- ^ "Emily Norcross Dickinson (1804–1882), mother". Emily Dickinson Museum. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ^ "Wilbraham & Monson Academy Profile (2021) | Wilbraham, MA". Boarding School Review. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ "Worcester District Medical Society".
Further reading
- Massachusetts Board of Education; George A. Walton (1877), "Report on Academies: Monson Academy", Annual Report...1875-76, Boston – via Internet Archive
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