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Pomfret School is a highly selective independent coeducational boarding and day school located in Pomfret, Connecticut
Pomfret, Connecticut

Pomfret is a New England town in Windham County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States. The population was 3,798 at the 2000 United States Census....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 for grades 9 through 12 and offers a post-graduate year. Pomfret School was founded in 1894, on the principles of intellectual rigor and the development of character. It is dedicated to the goals of helping students realize their scholarly, physical and spiritual potential while recognizing their responsibilities as members of a community.

Pomfret is located on Connecticut Route 169 next to The Rectory School
The Rectory School

The Rectory School is a boarding and day private school in Pomfret, Connecticut, USA founded in 1920 by the Rev. Frank H. Bigelow and his wife, Mabel on the grounds of Christ Church in Pomfret; it is currently located across the street from Christ Church....
.

campus was designed by noted landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted was an United States journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York, New York....
 in 1894.






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Pomfret School is a highly selective independent coeducational boarding and day school located in Pomfret, Connecticut
Pomfret, Connecticut

Pomfret is a New England town in Windham County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States. The population was 3,798 at the 2000 United States Census....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 for grades 9 through 12 and offers a post-graduate year. Pomfret School was founded in 1894, on the principles of intellectual rigor and the development of character. It is dedicated to the goals of helping students realize their scholarly, physical and spiritual potential while recognizing their responsibilities as members of a community.

Pomfret is located on Connecticut Route 169 next to The Rectory School
The Rectory School

The Rectory School is a boarding and day private school in Pomfret, Connecticut, USA founded in 1920 by the Rev. Frank H. Bigelow and his wife, Mabel on the grounds of Christ Church in Pomfret; it is currently located across the street from Christ Church....
.

Facilities

The campus was designed by noted landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted was an United States journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York, New York....
 in 1894. The architect Ernest Flagg
Ernest Flagg

Ernest Flagg was a noted American architect in the Beaux-Arts architecture style....
 (1857-1946) designed the Romanesque stone Clark Memorial Chapel in 1907, and the distinctive brick Georgian school house, four dormitories, infirmary & gymnasium from 1907 to 1917. In October 2003, Pomfret School opened the doors of its new athletic center and student union. The athletic center was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Jon Corzine
Jon Corzine

Jon Stevens Corzine is the Governor of New Jersey and a former United States Senator. He was sworn into office on January 17, 2006, for a four-year term ending in 2010, and has said that he intends to run for re-election in 2009....
, parents of a recent Pomfret graduate. Mr. Corzine is the current Governor of New Jersey
Governor of New Jersey

The Governor of New Jersey is the chief executive of the U.S. state of New Jersey. The current holder of that office is Jon Corzine, who re-assumed executive powers on May 7, 2007 from acting Gov....
. Other new facilities include the Jahn Rink, designed by world-renowned architect Helmut Jahn, the parent of a recent graduate; the Blodgett Boathouse and Blodgett Tennis Center, both donated by Mark Blodgett '75; a new state-of-the-art observatory; and the Lasell Alumni House. The school also owns a radio station, WBVC (FM)
WBVC (FM)

=General Information=WBVC is a freeform high school radio station located in Pomfret, Connecticut. Directly affiliated with Pomfret School, the station is funded through a gift from Bill and Virginia Cargill, whose initials, BVC, form the stations call letters....
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Notable alumni

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  • Edward Stettinius, Jr.
    Edward Stettinius, Jr.

    Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. was United States Secretary of State under President of the United Statess Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, serving from 1944 to 1945....
    , first United States Ambassador to the United Nations and U.S. Secretary of State
  • Edward Streeter
    Edward Streeter

    Edward Streeter was an United States novelist and journalist, best known for the novel Father of the Bride and his Dere Mable series....
     '10, banker and author of Father of the Bride and Mr. Hobbs' Vacation.
  • William P. Carey
    William P. Carey

    William Polk Carey born in Baltimore, Maryland is an American businessman and founder of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC, a corporate real estate financing firm headquartered in New York City....
     '48, businessman, philanthropist
  • Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr.
    Herbert Pell

    Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr. was a United States Representative from New York, United States Ambassador to Portugal, United States Ambassador to Hungary, and an instigator and member of the United Nations War Crimes Commission....
    , Member of Congress (D-NY) and U.S. Minister to Hungary & Portugal
  • Eric D. Coleman
    Eric D. Coleman

    Eric D. Coleman is a Democratic Party politician in the United States. He currently serves as state senator of Connecticut 2nd District, representing Bloomfield, Hartford, and Windsor....
    , State Senator, Deputy President Pro Tempore in the Connecticut Senate
  • Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.
    Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.

    Frederic Walker Lincoln, Jr. was born the son of Frederic Walker Lincoln and was married into the Rockefeller family. He was educated at Pomfret School, and graduated from Princeton University in 1921....
    , former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New York Medical College
  • William F. Draper
    William Franklin Draper

    William Franklin Draper was Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy, and an American Painting....
    , prominent portrait painter
  • Edward B. du Pont, former Chairman of Atlantic Aviation Corporation, Board Member DuPont
    DuPont

    E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company is an United States chemical industry that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuth?re Ir?n?e du Pont....
     Company
  • Sooho Cho '74, late President of Hanjin Shipping
    Hanjin Shipping

    Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd. is a global shipping company based in South Korea. It is a subsidiary of the Hanjin.Hanjin Shipping's subsidiaries include Hanjin Logistics, Keoyang Shipping, Senator Lines, and CyberLogitec....
     (HJS)
  • Henry F. du Pont, Board Member DuPont
    DuPont

    E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company is an United States chemical industry that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuth?re Ir?n?e du Pont....
     Company
  • Adam Hochschild
    Adam Hochschild

    Adam Hochschild is an United States author and journalist....
     '60, a founder of Mother Jones, author of the best-selling book King Leopold's Ghost
  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

    Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. is the third of 11 children born to Ethel Skakel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and is the nephew of John F. Kennedy and Edward M....
    , son of Senator Robert Kennedy and host of Ring of Fire
  • Ridley Pearson
    Ridley Pearson

    Ridley Pearson, born on March 13, 1953 in Glen Cove, New York, is an American writer. Pearson has historically written suspense and thriller novels for an adult audience, but has also begun branching out by writing adventure books for children....
     '71, best-selling author of The Art of Deception and co-author of Peter & The Starcatchers.
  • Alex Gibney
    Alex Gibney

    Alex Gibney is an Academy Award, Emmy and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award Award winning United States film director and movie producer....
    , Academy-, Emmy- and Grammy-winning writer, film producer and director
  • Jeremiah Bogert, New York Times Photo Editor
  • John Bockstoce '62, author of Whales, Ice, & Men, and Arctic Discoveries.
  • Buzz Yudell '65, architect, designed U.S. Embassy in Berlin
  • Jack Hardy
    Jack Hardy (singer-songwriter)

    Jack Hardy is a lyrical singer-songwriter and playwright based in Greenwich Village who has been influential in the North American and European folk music scenes for decades....
     '65, singer-songwriter
  • Peter Corbin '64, landscape & portrait artist
  • Bradford Hastings '68, the school's headmaster
  • Donald E. Williams, Jr.
    Donald E. Williams, Jr.

    Donald W. Williams, Jr. was first elected to the Connecticut General Assembly in a special election in 1993. Prior to his service in the State Senate, he served two terms as the First Selectman for the Town of Thompson....
     '75, State Senator
    State Senator

    A state senator is a member of a state's Senate, the upper house in the bicameral legislature of 50 U.S. states, or a legislator in Nebraska's unicameral Nebraska Legislature....
    , (D) President Pro Tempore of the Connecticut Senate
  • Prince Lorenzo Borghese
    Lorenzo Borghese

    Lorenzo Borghese , often referred to as Prince Lorenzo Borghese, is a member of an Italian noble family, an international cosmetics entrepreneur, an Internet businessman, an American television personality, a former featured bachelor on the 9th season of American Broadcasting Company's The Bachelor and an animal rights activist....
    , star of ABC's The Bachelor: Rome
  • Jimmy Gleacher, author
    Author

    An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
     of best-selling book It's How You Play the Game
  • John E. Evans, III, attorney, Noted national criminal defense lawyer and indigent legal services advocate
  • Eben Ostby, animator
    Animator

    An animator is an artist who creates multiple images called frames and Key frames that form an illusion of movement called animation when rapidly displayed....
     at Pixar
    Pixar

    Pixar Animation Studios is a CGI animation production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. To date, the studio has earned twenty-two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, and three Grammy, among many other awards, acknowledgments and achievements....
     Studios
  • Sarah Vaillancourt
    Sarah Vaillancourt

    Sarah Marie Vaillancourt is a Canada women's ice hockey player.She currently is an up and coming star playing for the Harvard University Crimson....
    , Olympic gold medalist
  • Orville Schell III '58, China-watcher, author.
  • Peter Beard '56, photographer.
  • Mark Simon '64, architect, Centerbrook Architects
  • Jon Stone
    Jon Stone

    Jon Stone started working for children's programs in 1955 beginning as writer as Captain Kangaroo. He later worked for Sesame Street as writer & executive producer....
     '48, a founding producer of Sesame Street and author
  • Scott Larned
    Scott Larned

    Scott Larned was the keyboardist and founding member of Dark Star Orchestra, a popular Grateful Dead tribute band. He also played with Brother Brother, Freddy Jones Band, Smoking Fish and Hackenwheeze....
    , late member of the Dark Star Orchestra
  • Theodore Robb, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry - 1970-1971
  • Roger Angell
    Roger Angell

    Roger Angell , is a fiction editor and regular contributor at The New Yorker. He has written many memorable essays on baseball as well as numerous fiction, non-fiction and criticism pieces....
     '38, Fiction editor and regular contributor at The New Yorker
  • Robert B. Fiske
    Robert B. Fiske

    Robert Bishop Fiske, Jr. is a prominent trial attorney and a partner with the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City. He was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1976 to 1980 after earlier having served as an assistant in the office from 1957 to 1961....
     '48, United States Attorney and Whitewater controversy Special Prosecutor
  • Robert Vickrey
    Robert Vickrey

    Robert Vickrey is a Massachusetts-based artist and author who specializes in the ancient medium of egg tempera. His paintings are surreal dreamlike visions of sunset shadows of bicycles, nuns in front of mural-painted brick walls, and children playing....
     '44, artist and author who specializes in the ancient medium of egg tempera
  • Joe Boyd
    Joe Boyd

    Joe Boyd is an United States record producer and former owner of the Witchseason production company. Boyd was instrumental in launching the careers of Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, and The Incredible String Band....
    , record producer and author of White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s


Notable faculty


Former Faculty

  • William E. Peck
    William E. Peck

    William E. Peck is the founder of Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut, Connecticut, a small boarding school. Peck founded the school in 1894; prior to that, he served as head of St....
    , founder and first headmaster 1894-1897, previously Head of St. Mark's School
  • Gov. John N. Dempsey
    John Dempsey (politician)

    John Noel Dempsey , born in Cahir, County Tipperary, Ireland. John Dempsey was the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1959-1961 and Governor of Connecticut from 1961 to 1971....
    , Pomfret soccer coach and subsequently Governor of Connecticut 1961-1971
  • Rep. Horace Seely-Brown, Jr.
    Horace Seely-Brown, Jr.

    Horace Seely-Brown Jr. was a United States House of Representatives from Connecticut.Seely-Brown was born in Kensington, Maryland. He attended the public schools of Hoosick, New York and graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in 1929....
    , Member of Congress (R-CT) 1947-49, 1951-59, 1961-63
  • Dr. Robert Dentler, Drafted Boston Public Schools desegregation
    Desegregation

    'Desegregation' is the process of ending racial segregation, most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the African-American Civil Rights Movement , both before and after the Supreme Court of the United States decision in Brown v....
     plan and later Dean of Boston University
    Boston University

    Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839....
  • Rev. George Langdon, Headmaster of Salisbury School
    Salisbury School

    Salisbury School is an all-boys, private college-preparatory school founded in 1901 and located in Salisbury, Connecticut. The campus consists of of beautiful landscapes and buildings....
     1942-1965
  • Dexter Strong, Pomfret's Headmaster 1942-1951 then Headmaster of Lakeside School
    Lakeside School

    The Lakeside School is a private school in Seattle, Washington, USA, for grades 5?12.Lakeside regularly sends approximately 25% of its graduating class to Ivy League schools, and 99% to college....
     in Seattle, WA
  • Patrick F. Bassett, Pomfret's Headmaster 1989-1993, Current President of the National Association of Independent Schools
    National Association of Independent Schools

    The National Association of Independent Schools, governed by a board of trustees and staffed by approximately 45 individuals, is a United States-based membership organization and the national voice of independent education....


Current Faculty


  • John Corrigan, crime novelist, Pomfret English teacher, and columnist for Golf Today


Prominent guests & fellows

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*David McCullough
David McCullough

David Gaub McCullough is an United States author, narrator, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award....
, writer, historian and host of The American Experience on public television
  • Joyce Carol Oates
    Joyce Carol Oates

    Joyce Carol Oates is an United States author. Raised in rural, working-class New York, Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction....
    , national award-winning author
  • Robert Ballard
    Robert Ballard

    Robert Duane Ballard is a former Commander in the United States Navy and an oceanography who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology....
    , oceanographer, discoverer of RMS Titanic
  • Frank McCourt
    Frank McCourt

    Francis "Frank" McCourt is an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, best known as the author of Angela's Ashes. Brother of author and actor Malachy McCourt ....
    , Pulitzer Prize winning author of Angela's Ashes
  • Carlos Fuentes
    Carlos Fuentes

    Carlos Fuentes Mac?as is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. Fuentes has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages....
    , Latin American novelist
  • Jacques d'Amboise
    Jacques d'Amboise

    Jacques d'Amboise is a well-known United States ballet dancer and choreographer....
    , world renowned dancer with the New York City Ballet Company
  • Victor Wooten
    Victor Wooten

    Victor Lemonte Wooten is an electric bass player. He is known for his technical Virtuoso and his skills as musician, composer, and author. Wooten has won the "Bass Player of the Year" award from Bass Player three times in a row, and was the first person to win the award more than once....
    , Bass guitarist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Oteil Burbridge
    Oteil Burbridge

    Oteil Burbridge, born 24 August 1967 in Washington, D.C., is an American multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age....
    , Bass guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band
  • Shelby Foote
    Shelby Foote

    Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an United States novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War, writing a massive, three-volume history of the war entitled The Civil War: A Narrative....
    , Author & American Civil War Historian
  • Chevy Chase
    Chevy Chase

    Cornelius Crane ?Chevy? Chase is an United States Emmy Award comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase quickly became a key cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live, where his Weekend Update skit quickly became a staple of the show....
    , writer, actor, performer
  • Jean-Michel Cousteau
    Jean-Michel Cousteau

    SummaryJean-Michel Cousteau is a France explorer, environmentalist, educator, film producer, the first son of ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and is the father of Fabien Cousteau and Celine Cousteau....
    , explorer, environmentalist, educator, film producer
  • Gov. Christine Todd Whitman
    Christine Todd Whitman

    Christine Todd "Christie" Whitman is an United States United States Republican Party politician and author who served as the List of Governors of New Jersey Governor of New Jersey of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President of the United States George W....
    , former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Governor of New Jersey
  • Donald Johanson
    Donald Johanson

    Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropology. Along with Maurice Taieb, and Yves Coppens he is known for the discovery of the skeleton of the female Hominidae australopithecine known as "Lucy ", in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia....
    , paleoanthropologist, discovered the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton known as "Lucy"
  • Brian Greene
    Brian Greene

    Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist and one of the best-known Super-string theory. Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia University....
    , physicist and String Theorist
  • Bill Bryson
    Bill Bryson

    William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, Order of the British Empire, is a best-selling United States author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on science subjects....
    , writer A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
  • Rep. Shirley Chisholm
    Shirley Chisholm

    Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was a African-United States politician, educator, and author. She was a United States Congress, representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983....
    , (D-NY) first African American woman elected to the United States Congress
  • Tom Brokaw
    Tom Brokaw

    Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw is an American television journalist and author. Brokaw is best known as the former anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News....
    , Anchor of the NBC Nightly News
  • David Brinkley
    David Brinkley

    David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC News, and later American Broadcasting Company in a career spanning from 1951–1997....
    , American television newscaster
  • Carole Simpson
    Carole Simpson

    Carole Simpson was an United States television News presenter at ABC News.BiographyBorn Dec. 7, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. Received B.A....
    , ABC News Anchor
  • Gov. Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
    Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

    Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr. is an United States politician who served as a United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, and List of Governors of Connecticut of Connecticut, and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1980....
    , (R-CT) U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut
  • Bob Feller
    Bob Feller

    Robert William Andrew "Bob" Feller , nicknamed the "Heater from Van Meter" and "Rapid Robert", is an United States former Major League Baseball pitcher....
    , Former Major League Baseball pitcher and Hall of Famer.
  • George Plimpton
    George Plimpton

    George Ames Plimpton was an United States journalist, writer, Literary editor, and actor. He is best-remembered for his sports writing and for founding The Paris Review....
    , Journalist, writer, editor, and actor
  • Benny Goodman
    Benny Goodman

    Benjamin David Goodman, was an United States jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing ", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
    , jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader
  • Dana Gioia
    Dana Gioia

    Michael Dana Gioia is an American poet and critic who retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full time....
    , Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts


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