Morristown-Beard School
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Morristown-Beard School is a coeducation
al college-preparatory day school
, serving students in sixth through twelfth grade, located in Morristown
, in Morris County
, New Jersey
. Morristown-Beard School is the product of the 1971 merger of two institutions, Miss Beard's School for girls, founded in 1891, and the Morristown School for boys, established in 1891.
The Head of School is Peter J. Caldwell.
. The Rev. F.E. Edward was the first headmaster.
From 1891 to the fall of 1896, the school was located in the Normandy Park section of Morristown. In 1898, the school was reorganized and renamed Morristown School by three Harvard University
graduates of the class of 1888: Thomas Quincy Browne, Arthur Pierce Butler and Francis Call Woodman.
Morristown School merged with the Beard School, also founded in 1891, the former Miss Beard's School of Orange, New Jersey
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Using a $16.2 million fund from donations, the school renovated the middle school and funded construction of Founders Hall, a performing arts facility complete with a 630-seat theater. The new middle school opened in September 2008. Founders Hall opened in the winter of 2009. It also renovated South Wing, which houses the MBS Learning Center and visual arts classrooms.
, Model United Nations
, Salmagundi (yearbook), Service Committee, Business Club, and the Student Government Association. The Crimson Sun, the student newspaper, has received awards in recent years, including bronze and silver medals from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association
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The School requires community service of all students in grades 9 - 12. Students serve their communities in the following ways: organizing campus blood drives, participating in local programs like Adopt-A-Road, and volunteering in area service organizations. including Neighborhood House and Matheny Medical and Educational Center.
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Coeducation
Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...
al college-preparatory day school
Day school
A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children/teens return to their homes...
, serving students in sixth through twelfth grade, located in Morristown
Morristown, New Jersey
Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 18,411. It is the county seat of Morris County. Morristown became characterized as "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the...
, in Morris County
Morris County, New Jersey
Morris County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about west of New York City. According to the United States 2010 Census, the population was 492,276. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. Its county seat is Morristown....
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. Morristown-Beard School is the product of the 1971 merger of two institutions, Miss Beard's School for girls, founded in 1891, and the Morristown School for boys, established in 1891.
The Head of School is Peter J. Caldwell.
History
Morristown School was founded in 1891 as St. Bartholomew's School by the Episcopal ChurchEpiscopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...
. The Rev. F.E. Edward was the first headmaster.
From 1891 to the fall of 1896, the school was located in the Normandy Park section of Morristown. In 1898, the school was reorganized and renamed Morristown School by three Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
graduates of the class of 1888: Thomas Quincy Browne, Arthur Pierce Butler and Francis Call Woodman.
Morristown School merged with the Beard School, also founded in 1891, the former Miss Beard's School of Orange, New Jersey
Orange, New Jersey
The City of Orange is a city and township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 30,134...
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Using a $16.2 million fund from donations, the school renovated the middle school and funded construction of Founders Hall, a performing arts facility complete with a 630-seat theater. The new middle school opened in September 2008. Founders Hall opened in the winter of 2009. It also renovated South Wing, which houses the MBS Learning Center and visual arts classrooms.
Clubs and extracurricular activities
Some of the clubs and activities offered at the School include: Art Club, Contemporary Music Workshop, Drama Club, Film Club, Foster Care Club, Mariah (art & literary magazine), Mu Alpha ThetaMu Alpha Theta
Mu Alpha Theta is a United States mathematics honor society for high schools and two-year colleges. It has over 89,000 student members in more than 1,800 schools worldwide. Its main goals are to inspire keen interest in mathematics, develop strong scholarship in the subject, and promote the...
, Model United Nations
Model United Nations
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
, Salmagundi (yearbook), Service Committee, Business Club, and the Student Government Association. The Crimson Sun, the student newspaper, has received awards in recent years, including bronze and silver medals from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association is an international student press association, founded in 1925, whose goal is to unite student journalists and faculty advisers at schools and colleges through educational conferences, idea exchanges, textbooks, critiques and award programs...
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The School requires community service of all students in grades 9 - 12. Students serve their communities in the following ways: organizing campus blood drives, participating in local programs like Adopt-A-Road, and volunteering in area service organizations. including Neighborhood House and Matheny Medical and Educational Center.
iPad Pilot Program
In the fall of 2010, Morristown-Beard School became one of the first schools in the nation to integrate the Apple iPad into its curriculum. As part of the pilot program, six teachers and sixty students began using the iPads both inside and outside their classrooms. The school has announced it's intention to issue iPads to all students in sixth through twelfth grade.Athletics
Morristown-Beard School competes against other high schools in the Northwest Jersey Athletic ConferenceNorthwest Jersey Athletic Conference
The Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference is a sports league that includes public and private high schools from Morris County, Sussex County and Warren County, New Jersey, that operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association...
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- The School's mascot is a bear, but athletic teams compete as the Crimson, a century-old title derived from the Morristown School's deep connections to Harvard.
- The Boys' Baseball team were the 2005 and 2010 NJSIAANew Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic AssociationThe New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association is an association of hundreds of New Jersey high schools that regulates high school athletics and holds tournaments and crowns champions in high school sports.-State championships:...
Non-Public North B State Champions and the 2007 Prep B State Championship. - The Boys' Ice Hockey team won the 1980, 1982, 1983, 1994, 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2011 Mennen Cup and the 1974, 1975, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1991, 1997, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 NJISAA Prep Title.
- The Girls' Ice Hockey Team won the 2007 Women's Interscholastic Hockey League of the Mid-Atlantic Championship.
- The Boys' Golf Team won the 2007 Morris County Tournament.
- The Morristown-Beard football team went to the state championships at Giants StadiumGiants StadiumGiants Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium, located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. Maximum seating capacity was 80,242. The building itself was 230.5 m long, 180.5 m wide and 44 m high from service level to the top of the seating bowl and 54 m high to...
in November 2007, falling 28-7 to Paterson Catholic High SchoolPaterson Catholic High SchoolPaterson Catholic High School was a private four year Catholic high school located in Paterson, New Jersey that served students from 9th through 12th grade. It was under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson...
. - The 2008 Girls Field Hockey Team won the Prep B championship over Montclair Kimberley AcademyMontclair Kimberley AcademyMontclair Kimberley Academy, abbreviated "MKA", is a private coeducational day school located in Montclair, New Jersey, serving students from Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. Thomas W. Nammack became the school's fourth Headmaster in July 2005...
by a final score of 2-0.
Notable alumni
- Joan CaulfieldJoan CaulfieldJoan Caulfield was an American actress and former fashion model. After being discovered by Broadway producers, she began a stage career in 1943 that eventually led to signing as an actress with Paramount Pictures....
c. 1940, actress - Luis A. FerréLuis A. FerréDon Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the third Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973, and the founding father of the New Progressive Party which advocates for Puerto Rico...
1921, Governor of Puerto RicoGovernor of Puerto RicoThe Governor of Puerto Rico is the Head of Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Since 1948, the Governor has been elected by the people of Puerto Rico...
from 1969-1973 - Joseph NyeJoseph NyeJoseph Samuel Nye, Jr. is the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory neoliberalism, developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane, he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence...
1954, co-founder of the international relations theory "neoliberalism." Served as deputy secretary of defense and later as deputy secretary of state. A Rhodes Scholar, Nye is currently the Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, of which he also served as dean. - John Reed 1906. Class prefect. Journalist and revolutionary who wrote Ten Days that Shook the World. The only American to be buried in the KremlinKremlinA kremlin , same root as in kremen is a major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities. This word is often used to refer to the best-known one, the Moscow Kremlin, or metonymically to the government that is based there...
. Copies of Reed's Morristown letters and other ephemera were presented by a delegation from the School to Soviet Premier Mikhail GorbachevMikhail GorbachevMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...
in the late 1980s. - Jyles TuckerJyles TuckerJyles Christopher Tucker is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He was originally signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2007...
(born 1983), four-year starter on the school's football team, now linebackerLinebackerA linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...
for the San Diego ChargersSan Diego ChargersThe San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
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