| 词条 | Berwick Academy (Maine) |
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name = Berwick Academy| image=Berwick Crest.jpg | motto = {{lang-la|Dei Timor Initium Sapientæ}}| established = 1791| type = Private, Day & Boarding| religion = Unaffiliated| head_name = Head of School| head = James A. Hamilton| city = South Berwick| state = Maine| country = United States| coordinates = {{Coord|43|13|50|N|70|48|15|W |region:US-ME_type:edu |display=inline,title}}| campus = Semi-Rural, {{convert|80|acre}}, 11 Buildings| enrollment = 592 | ratio = 8:1| colors = Blue and White| mascot = Bulldog| athletics_conference = Eastern Independent League| homepage = www.berwickacademy.org {{Infobox NRHP| name = Berwick Academy | embed = yes | nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes | image = Fogg Memorial.jpg | caption = Fogg Memorial Building | location= Academy St., South Berwick, Maine | locmapin = Maine#USA | built = 2010 | architect OR builder = | architecture = Richardsonian Romanesque, Victorian, Federal, Colonial Revival | added = March 29, 1978 | area = {{convert|80|acre}} | governing_body = Private | refnum = 78000336[1] | increase = March 22, 1996 | increase_refnum = 10000058 }} Berwick Academy is a college preparatory school located in South Berwick, Maine. Founded in 1791, it is the oldest educational institution in Maine and one of the oldest private schools in North America. The school sits on an 80-acre, 11-building campus on a hill overlooking the Salmon Falls River, near the border between Maine and New Hampshire. Approximately 565 students in grades Pre-K through 12 (and Post-Grad) attend this coeducational day and boarding school. The majority of students commute to Berwick from approximately 60 communities in the surrounding regions of southern Maine, southeastern New Hampshire and northeastern Massachusetts. There are also some residential students who come from across the world. HistoryBerwick Academy was founded in 1791 when citizens of Berwick, York, and Wells (then villages in the District of Maine within Massachusetts) raised $500 to teach languages, liberal arts and sciences to "the youth in this part of the country." Chartered by Massachusetts Governor John Hancock later that year and armed with a classical educational mission, the school opened in a small hip-roofed Georgian building on land donated by Judge Benjamin Chadbournes. Today known as The 1791 House, the building was relocated to the current campus in 1971 and is the oldest school structure in the United States still utilized today.{{cn|date=August 2017}} From its founding the school contracted with the town of South Berwick to educate local students, serving both as a private college preparatory school and the de facto public school for the town. As the town grew and industrialized, the school's dual role necessitated campus expansion. A second Academy building (1830) was destroyed by fire in 1851; its successor, designed by architect Richard Upjohn, was itself superseded by the William Hayes Fogg Memorial Building. Built in 1894 by George Albert Clough in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, and built complete with electricity and state-of-the-art science labs, it remains the main Academy building today serving the majority of Upper School English, history, and foreign language classrooms. In 1955, the contract with South Berwick terminated and the school reverted to a purely private "prep school," featuring boarding for boys, a day department for girls, and college preparation on a classical model for both. Considerable physical expansion during this period included the acquisitions of surrounding homes for dormitories and of adjacent lands for playing fields. In the 1970s, the burdensome cost of housing students and the increasing suburbanization of northern New England dictated a further transformation from boarding academy to country day school. A Middle School was founded in 1971 and a Lower School in 1977; boarding was discontinued in 1976 and the dormitory-homes sold or converted to educational uses. In the subsequent decades the school's enrollment, endowment and physical plant have steadily increased, with the addition of Jackson Library, the Jeppesen Science and Math center, the Baldwin Arts Center, and a sports complex, among other facilities. The school has come to occupy a unique academic position in between the 18th century American college preparatory school and the 19th Century progressive country day school{{cn|date=August 2017}} – although it predates, sometimes by more than a century, most schools of either movement. In 2017 it was announced that the school would begin a small residential program, beginning in the 2018-2019 school year. OrganizationBerwick is governed by a 23-member Board of Trustees, with a Head of School in charge of fundraising and day-to-day operation. The three subsidiary schools are headed by Division Directors. The Upper School has advisors, class advisors, Grade Deans and an Assistant Director, and the Middle School a Dean of Students. AcademicsThe Academy is divided into three schools: the Lower School (grades PreK–4), the Middle School (grades 5–8) and the Upper School (grades 9–PG). The academic calendar is divided into trimesters; students typically take year-long classes, with some trimester-length elective classes in the Upper School. Students follow a rigorous academic program combining classical education and technology. Berwick has a student-teacher ratio of 8:1 and an average class size of 14 students. In keeping with the school's classical mission subjects of study are diverse and include Liberal Arts, Sciences, Fine Arts, Music and Mathematics. The Berwick curriculum balances tradition with innovation and prepares students for college while ensuring they become ethical citizens that possess "virtue and useful knowledge." College placementBerwick Academy has traditionally prepared students for Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Colby and Bates colleges. While these relationships have continued, graduates now matriculate at a wide variety of highly selective colleges in the United States and abroad, including the Ivy League, the Little Ivies and the Ancient Universities. AthleticsParticipation in sports is generally required for grade advancement. Middle School students are required to play three sports (an activity like "maker space" will also satisfy this requirement) during their course of study (one for each trimester), and participation in interscholastic athletics is required of Upper School students for at least one trimester per year. Waivers are given to Upper School students participating in a sport not offered at the school. Other after-school extracurricular activities, such as drama, dance, robotics, or independent research projects through the "Innovation Center", are offered as well. Lower school students participate in intramural sports. Berwick currently fields teams in Golf, Soccer, Field Hockey, Cross Country, Hockey, Basketball, Swimming, Lacrosse, Softball, Tennis, Baseball and Rowing. Teams compete in the Eastern Independent League (EIL) and New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) are divided by gender and skill level. When future major league baseball player Sam Fuld attended Berwick Academy as an eighth grader, he made the high school varsity, and the University of New Hampshire's baseball coach opined that he had the best batting swing of any player in the State.[2][2] He was the team's MVP, and a league All Star.[3] Awards and recognition
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References1. ^{{NRISref|version=2010a}} {{commonscat|Berwick Academy (Maine)}}{{National Register of Historic Places}}{{Maine Private and Boarding High Schools}}2. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/sports/baseball/20fuld.html | work=The New York Times | first=Tyler | last=Kepner | title=Sam Fuld's Value to the Rays Goes Beyond Numbers | date=April 19, 2011}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110424&content_id=18232488&vkey=perspectives&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |title=Fuld an easy underdog to pull for |publisher=mlb.com |author=Anthony Castrovince |accessdate=April 25, 2011}} 4. ^{{cite news|title=Berwick Academy selected to represent Maine at World Children's Festival|url=http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110311/GJNEWS_01/703119949&template=SouthernMaineRegion|accessdate=January 8, 2013|newspaper=Fosters Daily Democrat|date=March 11, 2011}} 14 : Federal architecture in Maine|Renaissance Revival architecture in Maine|School buildings completed in 1791|Schools in York County, Maine|Educational institutions established in the 1790s|1791 establishments in Maine|School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine|Private high schools in Maine|Preparatory schools in Maine|Private elementary schools in Maine|Private middle schools in Maine|South Berwick, Maine|Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine|National Register of Historic Places in York County, Maine |
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