Hoosac School
Encyclopedia
Hoosac School is a private
co-educational Episcopal
boarding school
located in Hoosick Falls
, New York
in the United States
.
border. The school hosts the yearly Yule Log
Festival which was an American first. This production has since been copied many times after Dr. Tibbits published a book containing the basics for the festival. One of the most prominent members of the Hoosac School was Father Sill who left the Hoosac School in 1906 to found the Kent School
which he based on Hoosac. The current headmaster is Dean Foster.
instead of semesters. Students have the option to take non-credit courses during free hours such as art or music classes. A number of advanced placement courses are available. Students from non English speaking countries have the option to take ESL
courses. The student body is governed by a series of prefects who are elected by the administration and the previous prefects. Hoosac School has a 100% college acceptance rate among graduating seniors.
Notable Universities that Hoosac alumni have attended include:
. Though Hoosac continues to recruit many students from the United States
and Canada
for the hockey program.
, or sport jackets, neckties are required with dress shirt
. Females must wear appropriate garments which include dresses, dress shirts with skirts or other formal wear
. Dresses are required for dinner for women. Saturday and Sunday are "free dress" days allowing students to wear what they please within tasteful limits.
Students are required to go to a Chapel
service in the morning before classes. There are period breaks depending on the students schedule giving occasional downtime throughout the day. Students must attend classes or will stand in front of the student court. The majority of the offenses will result in a student receiving detention or doing labor jobs on Sunday morning.
Students have "work jobs" which are rotating per week, these include doing dishes and fixing meals in the dining hall or cleaning certain common areas.
There are weekly off-campus trips to Bennington, Vermont and other surrounding cities. Breaks are usually long to allow foreign students a chance to return home. A Christmas
break of 3 to 6 weeks is normal.
has the widest use containing a dormitory, classrooms, and the administrative offices
. The dining hall is where every meal on campus takes place, lunch and dinner are served here in a formal community style. The dining hall is also the place where awards are given out during the school year, including the National Honors Society awards. The dining hall is also used as the stage for the Yule Log Festival. The school has an astronomy dome in the science building which has recently been reactivated. The most recent addition is the wood shop which was built in the winter of 2009.
Sports facilities include a large multipurpose grassy field area, a gymnasium with full sized basketball court, and a swimming pool. Near the schools entrance there is a large pond which has been used in the past for kayaking and canoeing. Currently the school is raising capital to build a private ice arena to save time and money renting an off campus rink.
The Dormitories on Campus are;
Men:
Pitt-Mason Hall
Lavino House
Wood Hall
Dudley Cottage
Cannon House
Whitcomb Hall
Women:
McCullough House
Tibbits Hall
Lewisohn House
at Hoosac School is the flagship sport which the school actively recruits for. This hockey program won the 2007 New England Prep School Division 2 championship. Students can opt to take winter skiing at the school which involves daily trips to Jiminy Peak. There is also a private ski hill with a tow rope for the student body which is open on the weekends. Sports offered include: soccer, lacrosse, basketball, golf, skiing, cross country, and flag football.
There are two inter school competitive groups, the Antonians and the Graftonians. Each club contains one half of the student body. Each year there is a multiple event game series to decide which group is the better opponent overall.
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
co-educational Episcopal
Episcopal 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...
boarding school
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
located in Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls, New York
Hoosick Falls is a village in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The population was 3,182 at the 2010 census, a decline of 254 since 2000. During its peak around 1900, the village had a population of about 7,000...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
in the United States
United States
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.
History
Hoosac school was founded in 1889 by Dr. Edward Dudley Tibbits. Facilities are located on the Tibbits Estate which rests on 350 acres (1.4 km²) near the VermontVermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
border. The school hosts the yearly Yule Log
Yule log
A Yule log is a large and extremely hard log which is burned in the hearth as a part of traditional Yule or Christmas celebrations in several European cultures...
Festival which was an American first. This production has since been copied many times after Dr. Tibbits published a book containing the basics for the festival. One of the most prominent members of the Hoosac School was Father Sill who left the Hoosac School in 1906 to found the Kent School
Kent School
Kent School is a private, co-educational college preparatory school in Kent, Connecticut, USA. The Reverend Frederick Herbert Sill, Order of the Holy Cross, established the school in 1906 and it retains its affiliation with the Episcopal Church of the United States.Students at Kent come from more...
which he based on Hoosac. The current headmaster is Dean Foster.
Academics
Average student body on a yearly basis is 125 students grades 8-12. The school has a 1 to 4 faculty to student ratio. Class size varies but can be as small as 3 students. Students often live in the same buildings as teachers who act as dorm parents. The school has half day Wednesday and Saturday classes which allows the school to operate using trimestersAcademic term
An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called terms...
instead of semesters. Students have the option to take non-credit courses during free hours such as art or music classes. A number of advanced placement courses are available. Students from non English speaking countries have the option to take ESL
ESL
ESL is a common abbreviation for English as a Second Language, see English language learning and teaching.ESL may also refer to:-Companies:...
courses. The student body is governed by a series of prefects who are elected by the administration and the previous prefects. Hoosac School has a 100% college acceptance rate among graduating seniors.
Notable Universities that Hoosac alumni have attended include:
- Boston CollegeBoston CollegeBoston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
- Boston UniversityBoston UniversityBoston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
- Concordia University
- Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
- Clark UniversityClark UniversityClark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts.Founded in 1887, it is the oldest educational institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates undergraduates...
- Emory UniversityEmory UniversityEmory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
- Hartwick CollegeHartwick CollegeHartwick College is a non-denominational, private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college located in Oneonta, New York, in the United States. The institution was founded as Hartwick Seminary in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick, and is now known as Hartwick College...
- Hobart and William Smith CollegesHobart and William Smith CollegesHobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, are together a liberal arts college offering Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Teaching degrees. In athletics, however, the two schools compete with separate teams, known as the Hobart Statesmen and the...
- Lyme Academy College of Fine ArtsLyme Academy College of Fine ArtsThe Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts is an art college in Old Lyme, Connecticut-History:The Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts was founded in 1976 by Elisabeth Gordon Chandler as a figurative academy for the teaching of sculpture, figure drawing, Illustration and painting dedicated to the fine arts...
- Pratt InstitutePratt InstitutePratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...
- Salve Regina UniversitySalve Regina UniversitySalve Regina University is a university in Newport, Rhode Island. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, the university is a Catholic, co-educational, private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of Rhode Island in 1934. In 1947 the university acquired Ochre Court and welcomed its first class...
- Sarah Lawrence CollegeSarah Lawrence CollegeSarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, and a leader in progressive education since its founding in 1926. Located just 30 minutes north of Midtown Manhattan in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, this coeducational college offers...
- Seton Hall UniversitySeton Hall UniversitySeton Hall University is a private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States. Seton Hall is also the oldest and largest Catholic university in the...
- Syracuse UniversitySyracuse UniversitySyracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
- University of MarylandUniversity of MarylandWhen the term "University of Maryland" is used without any qualification, it generally refers to the University of Maryland, College Park.University of Maryland may refer to the following:...
- University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
Student body
The large majority of the population are boarding students. Day students make up a very small percentage of the overall enrollment. Normally the male to female ratio is 3:1. A large number of the students hail from overseas. The school used to have a large Korean student population, but in recent years their numbers have fallen. As of November during the 2011-2012 school year, roughly 50% of the school's population is ChineseChinese
Chinese refers to anything pertaining to the Chinese people.* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, or one of several Chinese ethnicities** Zhonghua minzu（中華民族）, the supra-ethnic Chinese nationality...
. Though Hoosac continues to recruit many students from the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
for the hockey program.
Campus life
Classes run 6 days a week, Monday-Saturday. The dress code is formal, males must wear suitsSuit (clothing)
In clothing, a suit is a set of garments made from the same cloth, consisting of at least a jacket and trousers. Lounge suits are the most common style of Western suit, originating in the United Kingdom as country wear...
, or sport jackets, neckties are required with dress shirt
Dress shirt
A shirt, or dress shirt in American English, is a garment with a collar, a full-length opening at the front from the collar to the hem, and sleeves with cuffs. Shirts are predominantly used by men, since women usually wear blouses...
. Females must wear appropriate garments which include dresses, dress shirts with skirts or other formal wear
Formal wear
Formal wear and formal dress are the general terms for clothing suitable for formal social events, such as a wedding, formal garden party or dinner, débutante cotillion, dance, or race...
. Dresses are required for dinner for women. Saturday and Sunday are "free dress" days allowing students to wear what they please within tasteful limits.
Students are required to go to a Chapel
Chapel
A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...
service in the morning before classes. There are period breaks depending on the students schedule giving occasional downtime throughout the day. Students must attend classes or will stand in front of the student court. The majority of the offenses will result in a student receiving detention or doing labor jobs on Sunday morning.
Students have "work jobs" which are rotating per week, these include doing dishes and fixing meals in the dining hall or cleaning certain common areas.
There are weekly off-campus trips to Bennington, Vermont and other surrounding cities. Breaks are usually long to allow foreign students a chance to return home. A Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
break of 3 to 6 weeks is normal.
Facilities
The large amount of buildings on campus are of mixed use, most of the buildings (dorms not included) house classrooms. Tibbits HallTibbits House
Tibbits House, also known as Tibbits Hall, is a historic home located at Hoosick in Rensselaer County, New York. The house was built about 1860 and -story, rectangular Gothic Revival–style building. It is constructed of cut ashlar sandstone blocks and has steeply pitched gable roofs covered with...
has the widest use containing a dormitory, classrooms, and the administrative offices
Academic administration
An academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the faculty or academics, although some personnel may have joint responsibilities...
. The dining hall is where every meal on campus takes place, lunch and dinner are served here in a formal community style. The dining hall is also the place where awards are given out during the school year, including the National Honors Society awards. The dining hall is also used as the stage for the Yule Log Festival. The school has an astronomy dome in the science building which has recently been reactivated. The most recent addition is the wood shop which was built in the winter of 2009.
Sports facilities include a large multipurpose grassy field area, a gymnasium with full sized basketball court, and a swimming pool. Near the schools entrance there is a large pond which has been used in the past for kayaking and canoeing. Currently the school is raising capital to build a private ice arena to save time and money renting an off campus rink.
Dormitories
There are several dormitories spread across the campus. There are total of 9 dorms ranging in size from 4 to 40 students and are either men or women, no co-ed dorms exist. The largest is the Pitt-Mason dorm for boys holding the majority of the male student body. Due to an expansion in the 1960s and 1970s the architecture of the largest dormitories are very similar in construction and design.The Dormitories on Campus are;
Men:
Pitt-Mason Hall
Lavino House
Wood Hall
Dudley Cottage
Cannon House
Whitcomb Hall
Women:
McCullough House
Tibbits Hall
Lewisohn House
Sports
Every student on campus is required to do a sport or an activity in the afternoons and must participate every trimester. Men's ice hockeyIce hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
at Hoosac School is the flagship sport which the school actively recruits for. This hockey program won the 2007 New England Prep School Division 2 championship. Students can opt to take winter skiing at the school which involves daily trips to Jiminy Peak. There is also a private ski hill with a tow rope for the student body which is open on the weekends. Sports offered include: soccer, lacrosse, basketball, golf, skiing, cross country, and flag football.
There are two inter school competitive groups, the Antonians and the Graftonians. Each club contains one half of the student body. Each year there is a multiple event game series to decide which group is the better opponent overall.
Sources
- http://www.hoosac.com/
- http://www.hoosac.com/page.cfm?p=10
- http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/246
- http://uhls.org/ISpy/hoof/hoof-tibb.html
- http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hoosac+school&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&z=13&iwloc=A
- http://www.nelsap.org/ny/hoosac.html
- http://www.petersons.com/pschools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=1111061-1&reprjid=11&inunId=1093&typeVC=instvc&sponsor=1
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