Phillips Exeter Academy
| Phillips Exeter Academy | |
|---|---|
| Rector : | Lisa MacFarlane |
| Establishment date: | 1781 |
| Motto: |
Non Sibi (Not for yourself) Finis Origine Pendet (The end depends on the beginning) χαριτι Θεου (By God's grace) |
| Place: | Exeter |
| State: | New Hampshire , USA |
| Sponsorship : | Private |
| School grounds : | 2.5 km² |
| Pupil : | 1068 |
| Teacher : | 203 |
| Class size: | 12 |
| Ratio teacher to student: | 1: 5 |
| Homepage : | www.exeter.edu |
The Phillips Exeter Academy ( Exeter , Phillips Exeter or PEA for short ) is an independent mixed boarding school for grades 9 to 12. The school is located in Exeter, New Hampshire , USA , approximately 80 kilometers north of Boston .
The school is very prestigious in the United States and has over $ 902 million in funding , which allows the school to provide generous scholarships. The school has an unofficial relationship with Harvard University and many students enroll at the well-known university.
Over 80% of the students ( Exonians ) live on the school premises and the remaining 20% come from the surrounding area. The school has also been open to girls since 1970.
Alumni
Well-known graduates are (with the year of the degree in brackets):
- Lewis Cass (1792) - Secretary of State
- Daniel Webster (1796) - politician
- George Bancroft (1811) - historian and founder of the United States Naval Academy .
- Franklin Pierce (1820) - 14th President of the USA
- Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874) - engineer and ergonomist, President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 1906–1907
- Gifford Pinchot (1885) - forest scientist
- Lawrence Dennis (~ 1914) - diplomat
- James Agee (1928) - author
- Lex Barker (1938) - actor
- Gore Vidal (1943) - author
- George Plimpton (1944) - author
- Donald Hall (1947) - poet
- John R. Harrison (1951) - journalist
- John Negroponte (1956) - first Director of National Intelligence
- Peter Benchley (1957) - journalist and author
- Daniel Dennett (1959) - philosopher
- John Irving (1961) - author
- David Finkelhor (1964) - sociologist
- Judd Gregg (1965) - politician
- Lawrence Lasker (1967) - producer and screenwriter of sneakers
- Benmont Tench (1971) - musician
- Ned Lamont (1972) - businessman and politician
- Paul Klebnikov (1981) - journalist
- Dan Brown (1982) - author ( Sacrilege et al.)
- Chang-Rae Lee (1983) - author
- Alessandro Nivola (1990) - actor
- Mark Zuckerberg (2002) - creator of Facebook
- Erik Per Sullivan (2009) - actor
- Win Butler - Musician ( Arcade Fire )
- William Butler (2001) - Musician ( Arcade Fire )
- Thomas Larkin (2009) - ice hockey player
- Duncan Robinson (2013) - basketball player
literature
- Charles Henry Bell: Phillips Exeter academy in New Hampshire: a historical sketch . Publisher: William B. Morrill, Exeter, NH printer Published 1883
Web links
Commons : Phillips Exeter Academy - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Footnotes
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 5, 2017)
- ↑ https://exeter.edu/about-us/academy-history