Cranbrook Educational Community
Cranbrook Educational Community | |
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Sponsorship | Private |
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Bloomfield Hills , Michigan United States |
management | Rick Took |
Website | www.cranbrook.edu |
The Cranbrook Educational Community ( Cranbrook or CEC for short ), a United States National Historic Landmark , is a prestigious educational institution founded by newspaper tycoon George Booth in the early 20th century .
Located in Bloomfield Hills , a wealthy suburb of Detroit , the campus consists of the prestigious Cranbrook Schools , the Cranbrook Academy of Art , the Cranbrook Art Museum , the Cranbrook Institute of Science , the popular Cranbrook House and Gardens and the Church Christ Church Cranbrook . The 129 acre campus grew out of a 70 acre farm from 1904. The name Cranbrook comes from Cranbrook in Kent , England, the birthplace of the founder's father.
Cranbrook is famous for its architecture, the construction of the Arts and Crafts Movement . The Cranbrook Art Academy is one of the most important on the American continent. The Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School (grades 9-12) is one of the most prestigious secondary educational institutions in the United States and is therefore often referred to as the "American Eton" after the elite Eton College in England. The architects of the campus were Albert Kahn and Eliel Saarinen . Recognized artists Carl Milles and Marshall Fredericks also contributed greatly to the wide variety of sculptures on campus.
The entire Cranbrook Educational Community had a fortune of almost one billion dollars in 2007, and the Cranbrook Schools are among the richest schools in the United States with their endowment and large annual budget.
The architecture critic Paul Goldberger of the New York Times described the Cranbrook Campus as one of the finest in America.
history
In 1915, newspaper tycoon George Booth and his wife Ellen opened part of their property to the public with the construction of a Greek theater that is still used today for Upper School performances. In 1920, a secondary school for boys was built, then called the Cranbrook School for Boys , which began teaching in 1927. The name "Cranbrook" is the birthplace of George Booth's father in Kent , England . The school was designed by the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen , who continued to set accents of the Arts and Crafts Movement with the construction of the Kingswood School for Girls , which had spread from England to North America since the 19th century. In 1932 construction began on the Cranbrook Academy of Art between Cranbrook School and Kingswood School , as well as the Cranbrook Art Museum . Furthermore originated Brookside (a kindergarten and a primary to fifth grade); a gender-separated “middle school” for boys and girls in grades 6–8. The Cranbrook School for Boys , the Kingswood School for Girls (both grades 9-12), the two Middle Schools and the Brookside School were independent schools until 1970 it was decided to group them under the name Cranbrook Schools .
The term Cranbrook is also used in an adversarial way in everyday life. Cranbrook is the totality of the campus including all mean its facilities, but also and especially the Cranbrook Kingswood School (Upper School for grades 9-12), which from the former Cranbrook School for Boys and the Kingswood School for Girls emerged and represent the oldest buildings on the campus. Brookside School (Kindergarten through fifth grade) and Cranbrook Kingswood School (grades 9-12) are now co-educational, while Middle Schools (grades 6-8) have remained gender segregated. A more complete chronicle of the Cranbrook Educational Community can be found in Bishop Eckert's "The Campus Guide: Cranbrook" and Elizabeth C. Clark's "Beside a Lake".
Cranbrook Schools
Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School | |
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Sponsorship | Private |
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Bloomfield Hills , Michigan United States |
management | Arlyce Seibert, Charles Shaw |
Website | www.schools.cranbrook.edu |
In 1984 the Cranbrook School for Boys and the Kingswood School for Girls were merged to form the co-educational Cranbrook Kingwood School . Most of the time the school is just called CK or just Cranbrook. Many of the Cranbrook Upper School programs have won awards. Particularly noteworthy here is the Department of Technology, which was one of the first schools in the United States to introduce smartboards in all classrooms and pioneered the use of new media, such as B. was moodle at school. The school newspaper The Crane Clarion is one of the best in the United States, according to the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Furthermore, the Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School (grades 9-12) maintains one of the toughest selection processes of all private schools in the USA, so statistically there is only one acceptance for every eight applicants. Furthermore, the school is home to a relatively high number of students from all over the world. In 2007 the proportion of these so-called international students was 11%, including, according to tradition, 4 so-called ASSIST scholars from Europe. Successful application to outstanding American colleges is of particular importance; many of the CEC alumni are enrolled at Harvard University , Yale University , Princeton University , Stanford University , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Columbia University , the University of Chicago , the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California .
Well-known former pupils and students
- Eero Saarinen - Architect (attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art; grew up on the Cranbrook campus designed by his father Eliel Saarinen )
- Julian Seymour Schwinger - (1932) Nobel Prize Winner (Physics, 1965) together with Richard Feynman for quantum electrodynamics
- William Talman - (1932) actor
- Florence Knoll - (1934) designer
- Bob Bemer - (1936) computer pioneer
- Harry Bertoia - (1937) furniture designer
- Edmund Bacon - (1938) architect, father of Kevin Bacon
- Charles Eames - (1940) designer and architect
- Natalie Zemon Davis - (1945) historian
- Daniel Ellsberg - (1948) Journalist and Publicist for the Pentagon Papers
- Alan K. Simpson - (1950) US Senator (R- Wyoming ), 1979-1997
- Duane Hanson - (1951) artist
- Ward Just - (1953) Author
- Ivan F. Boesky - (1955; left Cranbrook without a degree) stock market speculator
- Pete Dawkins - (1955) Heisman Trophy winner , Rhodes Scholarship holder; former general
- Thomas McGuane III - (1958) Author
- Edmund White III - (1958) Author
- Michael Moriarty - (1958) (left Cranbrook without a degree) actor
- Joel E. Cohen - (1961) Mathematician
- Tod Williams - (1961) architect
- Charles Bigelow - (1963) writer historian
- Taro Yamasaki - (1964) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism
- Mitt Romney - (1965) Former Massachusetts Governor , 2012 US Presidential nominee and 2008 US Presidential nominee.
- Reed Slatkin - (1967) Founder of EarthLink
- Michael Kinsley - (1968) journalist (founder of the online magazine Slate , television presenter)
- Ann Romney - (1968) wife of Mitt Romney
- Mary Fisher - (1966) Founder of Family AIDS Network , daughter of multi-millionaire Max Fisher
- Bing Gordon - (1968) Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts
- Jeffrey Dearth - (1968) Former editor of The New Republic magazine
- Sven Birkerts - (1969) author
- Brad Leithauser - (1971) Author
- Scott McNealy - (1972) CEO of Sun Microsystems
- Dey Young - (1973) Actress
- Bill Prady - (1977) screenwriter and film producer
- Douglas Sills - (1978) actor
- Amy Denio - (1979) musician
- Rick Schaden - (1982) founder of the Quiznos fast food chain
- Alexi Lalas - (1988) Former professional soccer player, Los Angeles Galaxy manager
- Renée Elise Goldsberry - (1989) actress
- Selma Blair - (1990) actress (including Ice Cold Angels )
- Elizabeth Berkley - (1990) actress (including showgirls )
- Todd Kessler - (1990) screenwriter (invented the television series Damages )
- Gabriel Nguema Lima - (1993) son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea (1979 - present); Deputy Minister of Energy in Equatorial Guinea
- Jaime Ray Newman - (1996) actress
Other people related to Cranbrook
- Eliel Saarinen - Architect, planned most of the Cranbrook campus as an architect.
- Leonard Bernstein - composer, composed parts of the musical West Side Story on the Cranbrook campus.
- Daniel Libeskind - architect, Dean of the Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1978 to 1985.
- Yoko Ono - artist, art exhibition in 1989.
- Papa Doc - Fictional character from the Oscar- winning film 8 Mile , in which the rapper Eminem makes fun of Papa Doc for attending the Cranbrook School.
See also
literature
- A&E with Richard Guy Wilson, (2000). America's Castles: Newspaper Moguls, Pittock Mansion, Cranbrook House & Gardens, The American Swedish Institute. A&E Television Network .
- Eric J. Hill and John Gallagher: AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture . Wayne State University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8143-3120-3 .
- Jayne Merkel: Eero Saarinen . Phaidon Press, London 2005, ISBN 0-7148-4277-X .
- Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen: Eero Saarinen . Yale University Press, New Haven 2006, ISBN 0-300-11282-3 .
- Antonio Roman: Eero Saarinen . Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2003, ISBN 1-56898-340-9 .
- Aline B. (ed) Saarinen: Eero Saarinen on His Work . Yale University Press, New Haven 1968.
- Pierluigi Serraino: Saarinen, 1910-1961: a Structural Expressionist . Taschen, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8228-3645-1 .
- Carolyn Pitts: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Cranbrook , National Park Service, Washington 1989
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Michigan. National Park Service , accessed August 14, 2019.
- ^ Cranbrook website, Programs & Lectures: Center Concert and Benefit, Leonard Bernstein and Friends, June 7, 2015 ; accessed April 12, 2017.