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12 unusual facts about Phillips Academy


Don Sweeney

He took a job in 2005 as Assistant Dean of Admissions at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and was also a studio analyst for Bruins' games on New England Sports Network (NESN).

Henry W. Clune

He attended West High School and for a short time was a student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

High school secret societies

Introductions could have been made to the K.O.A and A.U.V. (Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas) secret societies of Phillips Academy, of which Skull and Bones inductee George H. W. Bush was a member of the latter.

Jacob H. Stewart

He moved with his parents to Peekskill, New York, where he attended the common schools and was graduated from Phillips Academy.

John M. Woolsey

Born in Aiken, South Carolina to William Walton Woolsey and Katherine Buckingham Convers Woolsey, Woolsey attended private school in Englewood, New Jersey and Phillips Academy.

Johnson N. Camden, Jr.

Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Camden Jr. attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, Columbia Law School in New York City, and the law school at University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Patsy Donovan

He finished out his career coaching High School baseball at Phillips Academy in Andover, where he coached the future 41st President, George H.W. Bush.

Robert G. Carter

He was preparing to enter Phillips Academy when Carter enlisted as a private in the 22nd Massachusetts Infantry at the start of the American Civil War and remained with the Army of the Potomac from August 5, 1862 until October 4, 1864.

Saint Grottlesex

In contrast, the so-called academies, such as Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, and Milton, were generally founded in the late eighteenth century as places to "combine scholarship with more than a little Puritan hellfire" and, originally, were often the first educational step in preparing men for the Puritan ministry.

Salutat

The painting remained unsold during Eakins's lifetime, and was bought from his widow by Thomas Cochran in 1929; he subsequently donated the picture to the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

Tamar Gendler

She grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, where she attended the Andover public schools and then Phillips Academy Andover.

Yardley Chittick

Chittick was a graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and was the first person to attend his 90th reunion in the school's 230 year history.


Aga Khan Academies

It includes such institutions as Phillips Academy in Andover, USA, Schule Schloss in Salem, Germany and the Institute for Educational Development at the Aga Khan University.

Alex Darrow

Before attending Placer High School, beginning in his sophomore year of high school, Darrow attended the private Jesuit High School (Sacramento) during the regular school year of 2007-2008, and the prestigious Phillips Academy Andover during the summer of 2008.

Charles Amos Cummings

Two early projects of the firm, Brechin Hall built in 1861, and Stone Chapel built in 1867 both at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts brought positive notice, and increased commissions to the firm.

Deerfield Academy

A short list of the best-known rivalries among American boarding schools would include AndoverExeter, GrotonSt. Mark's, LawrencevilleHill, and, perhaps tops for fierce observance, Deerfield–Choate.

Emery Bopp

He won numerous awards, and his work is represented in such museums and permanent collections as the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, the Hunter Gallery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the South Carolina Arts Commission, Erskine College, the High Museum of Art, and the Greenville County Museum of Art.

English–Latin rivalry

The rivalry is the oldest continuous high school football rivalry in the U.S, and fourth longest all time behind Phillips Academy versus Phillips Exeter Academy, Wellesley, Massachusetts versus Needham, Massachusetts, New London, Connecticut versus Norwich Free Academy in Norwich, Connecticut, and Lawrenceville School vs. Blair Academy.

Jesse Colin Young

At the age of 15 years old, Young received a scholarship to the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and was later expelled.

John William Grout

John William Grout (1843–1861) was an American Civil War soldier from Worcester, Massachusetts and a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover in 1859, who served with the Union's 15th Massachusetts as a Second Lieutenant and was killed at age eighteen at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff.

Kipp Lynn Academy

Some of the high schools that KIPP Lynn students will be attending are Northfield Mount Hermon School, Pingree School, Bishop-Fenwick Catholic School, North Cambridge High School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Phillips Academy, and St. Mary's High School of Lynn.

Lee Marmon

In May and June 2006, a collection of Marmon's best-known images was on display at the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

Manhattan Country School

Boarding schools that MCS graduates have enrolled in are: The Lawrenceville School, Westtown School, Williston Northampton School, The Hotchkiss School, Phillips Academy and George School.

Marie Eguro

Marie attended Troy Junior High School in Shorewood Illinois, moved on to Phillips Academy, Andover for her high school years, and went on to graduate cum laude from Harvard University in 1996 with a major in chemistry.

Miru Kim

She moved back to Massachusetts in 1995 to attend Phillips Academy in Andover and moved to New York City in 1999 to attend Columbia University.

Philip F. Gura

A graduate of Phillips Academy (1968), he received his A.B., magna cum laude, in History and Literature in 1972 from Harvard College, and his Ph.D., in the History of American Civilization in 1977, from Harvard University, where he lived in Lowell House.

Raymond C. Clevenger

He was educated in the public schools in Topeka and at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

Seth Berry

He attended high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, during which time he interned in the Washington, D.C., congressional office for Maine's District 1 representative, John R. McKernan, Jr..

Thomas D. Thacher

Thacher attended Taft School and Phillips Academy of Andover, Massachusetts for his preparatory education, before following his family tradition and attending Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.

Tristan Perich

Perich was the Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, serving as a composer, musician and visual artist.