Miss Porter's School
Miss Porter's School | |
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founding | 1843 |
address |
60 Main Street |
place | Farmington , Connecticut |
State | Connecticut |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 41 ° 43 ′ 21 ″ N , 72 ° 49 ′ 46 ″ W |
management | Rachel Countryman |
Website | www.missporters.org |
Miss Porter's School is a college preparatory school for girls in Farmington , Connecticut , United States . The school foundation currently has a market value of 95 million US dollars .
history
Sarah Porter (born August 17, 1813 in Farmington; † February 18, 1900 ibid) was a well-known American educator and founder of the renowned private school for girls.
Sarah Porter was the daughter of the community leader and preacher Noah Porter (1781–1866) and his wife Mehitable "Hetty" Meigs (1786–1874). She studied at Farmington Academy and later at Yale College , one of the colleges of Yale University . As a professor , she later taught at schools in Massachusetts , New York, and Pennsylvania . On her return to Farmington, in 1843, she founded Miss Porter's School for girls , one of the first colleges for women in the United States . Sarah Porter was seen as an opponent of women's suffrage , but was a supporter of the education of young women. Her older brother, Noah Porter (1811-1892), was president of Yale College from 1871 to 1886 .
Famous Graduates
- 1886 Edith Hamilton
- 1888 Alice Hamilton
- 1888 Theodate Pope Riddle
- 1897 Ruth McCormick-Simms
- 1919 Dorothy Walker Bush
- 1925 Helen Coley Nauts
- 1930 Barbara Hutton
- 1935 Edith Bouvier Beale
- 1938 Gene Tierney
- 1938 Anne Cox Chambers
- 1941 Ellen Violett
- 1943 Letitia Baldrige
- 1947 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- 1949 Lilly Pulitzer
- 1955 Pema Chödrön
- 1955 Barbara Babcock
- 1964 Milbrey Rennie Taylor
- 1969 Heidi Ettinger
- 1972 Elizabeth May
- 1977 Dorothy Bush cook
- 1980 Suzannah Grant Hendrickson
- Dina Merrill
- Brenda Frazier
- Gloria Laura Vanderbilt