The Haverford School

Infobox Private School
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name = The Haverford School


established = 1884
type = Private
religion = None
head_name = Headmaster
head = Dr. Joseph Cox
city = Haverford
state = PA
country = USA
campus = Suburban
enrollment = 948 total
331 Upper School
215 Middle School
402 Junior Kindergarten, Kindergarten, and Lower School
class = 15 students (Upper School)
17 Students (Lower and Middle School)
ratio = 8:1
year = 2006
SAT = 670 verbal
630 math
colors = Maroon and Gold
homepage = [http://www.haverford.org/ www.haverford.org] |

The Haverford School is a private, non-sectarian, all-boys college preparatory day school, junior kindergarten through grade twelve. Founded in 1884 as The Haverford College Grammar School, it is located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, nine miles outside of Philadelphia.

The current Headmaster of The Haverford is Dr. Joseph Cox.

Athletics

The Haverford School is a member of the Inter Academic Athletic Association, the country's oldest inter-scholastic athletic conference.

Notable faculty

* Donald Grey Brownlow - An army intelligence major in WWII, Brownlow received a purple heart and Bronze Star, as well as the French Croix de Guerre. He fought at Utah Beach, the Battle of the Bulge and Ardeness. Brownlow taught history at Haverford for 55 years, and was the author of 10 books on Military history.

Notable alumni

* Bert Bell '14 - NFL commissioner
* Maj. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler 1898 - Two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient; Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps; Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia 1924-1925; political speaker and author; nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker."
* Tom Claytor '81 - Single engine Bush pilot who began visiting remote areas in his single engine Cesna since 1990. Claytor's journey has been featured in a series of articles for National Geographic, and in the 1994 National Geographic special "Flight Over Africa". He provided Arial photography and co-starred in the Thai film "First Flight" which premiered at Cannes in 2007.
* Pete Conrad '47 - Astronaut; third man to walk on the moon.
*Theodore Miller Edison (1898-1992), only child of his inventor father who graduated college; went on to become an inventor with over 80 patents. [ [http://www.nps.gov/archive/edis/home_family/fam_album.htm#theo Edison Family Album: Theodore Miller Edison] , national Park Service. Accessed November 21, 2007.]
* Oscar Goodman '57 - Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada
* John Hickenlooper '70 - Mayor of Denver
* Jennifer Finney Boylan '76 - Author and memoirist
* Alec Brownstein '99 - Author and film director
* Al Hunt '60 - Managing editor of Bloomberg News
* Thacher Longstreth '37 - Former Philadelphia, PA City Councilman
* Mike Mayock '76 - Former NFL Player and NFL Analyst
* Henry Scales '99 - Billionare President of Campbells Soup
* Maxfield Parrish 1898 - Painter and illustrator
* Ronald Perelman '60 - Billionaire; controlling owner of MacAndrews & Forbes and Revlon
* Steve Sabol '60 - President of NFL Films
* Graham Walters '81 - Computer graphics expert who worked at Pacific Data Images on the Jim Henson Television show; was a key Pixar employee, with credits on Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug's life, and as producer of Finding Nemo.
* Peter Morris '91 - Playwright, author of Guardians (play)
* Jeremiah White 2000 - Professional soccer player

References

External links

* [http://www.haverford.org/ School's website]
* [http://www.haverford.org/podium/default.aspx?t=958 A History of the Haverford School by Headmaster Joseph Cox]