The Noble and Greenough School, commonly known as Nobles, is a coeducation

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al, nonsectarian

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 day and boarding school for students in grades seven through twelve. It is located on a 187 acre (0.75676282 km²) campus in Dedham

Dedham, Massachusetts

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, Massachusetts

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. The current enrollment of 550 students includes a balance of boys and girls, of whom 48 are weekly boarders who go home for the weekends. The majority of students are from Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, neighboring states and occasionally from abroad. After graduation, all members of the senior class go on to accredited four-year colleges and universities. In 2010, Nobles was ranked as the 17th best prep school in the United States by Forbes magazine. Nobles has 95 faculty members, with a student to faculty ratio of approximately 6:1. The average class size is 14. Tuition for the 2011-2012 academic year is $37,300 for day students and $42,500 for 5-day boarding students. Nobles' historic rival is Milton Academy

Milton Academy

Milton Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory, boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts consisting of a grade 9–12 Upper School and a grade K–8 Lower School. Boarding is offered starting in 9th grade...

.

History

Nobles was founded in 1866 by George Washington Copp Noble, in Boston, Massachusetts, as an all-boys preparatory school for Harvard University

Harvard University

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. It became known as Noble & Greenough in 1892. During WWI, the school merged with Boston based Volkman School, which had faced a drastically declining student population due to the headmaster's German origins. There is a monument to the Volkman School on the Noble's campus. In 1922, the school moved from Boston to its current location in Dedham

Dedham, Massachusetts

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. The Dedham property was previously the Nickerson family estate, and its grounds had been designed by Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted

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. It discontinued its lower school at this time, though the lower school still operates today as the Dexter School

Dexter School

Founded in 1926, the Dexter School is an independent school for boys located in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Its campus is also home to its sister school, Southfield, an independent school for girls founded in 1992....

. In 1975, Nobles admitted girls for the first time.

	Headmaster	Tenure	Events / Bio
1.	George Washington Copp Noble	1866–1920	Founder of the school
2.	Charles Wiggins II	1920–1943
3.	Eliot T. Putnam	1943–1971	Son-in-law of Charles Wiggins
4.	Edward "Ted" S. Gleason	1971–1987	School begins to admit girls
5.	Richard H. Baker	1987–2000
6.	Robert P. Henderson	2000–present

Facts

Noble & Greenough covers grades 7-12. Members of the twelfth grade are known as members of Class I, on down to seventh grade students who are known as members of Class VI, or more informally as the "sixies." Middle schoolers, in 7th and 8th grade, are housed in the Pratt Middle School, while the Upper School (grades 9-12) are housed in the main building, known as the Shattuck Schoolhouse.

The school covers 187 acre (0.75676282 km²) in Dedham, Massachusetts. The grounds include nine athletic fields, two gyms, and a sizeable length of the Charles River

Charles River

The Charles River is an long river that flows in an overall northeasterly direction in eastern Massachusetts, USA. From its source in Hopkinton, the river travels through 22 cities and towns until reaching the Atlantic Ocean at Boston...

, upon which the school's crew team practices.

Nobles alumni have been prominently featured in recent news coverage. Sarah Parsons

Sarah Parsons

Sarah Parsons is an American ice hockey player. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She is now a member of Dartmouth College's class of 2010.-High school:...

 '05 scored 4 goals in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games

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 for the USA's Olympic women's hockey team. Helen Resor '04 was also on this team. Ayla Brown

Ayla Brown

Ayla Marie Brown is an American NCAA basketball player and recording artist from Wrentham, Massachusetts. She is also known for her American Idol showing placing in the Top 16 on season 5 in 2005/06. She is the elder daughter of United States Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts and WCVB-TV...

 '06 was on the American television show American Idol

American Idol

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 as one of the final 13 contestants. Andrea Ross

Andrea Ross

Andrea Christine Ross is an American singer and actress. She has been an award-winning lead actress on stage in her local area of Boston, Massachusetts since the age of eight years old...

 '09 sang in the Concert for Diana and is currently on tour performing in a musical produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

In September 2006, Nobles completed a state of the art, $20 million dollar, 40000 square feet (3,716.1 m²) Arts Center, which houses theatrical productions as well as musical performances. The theatre was funded by the Viniks; thus the new venue was named the Vinik Theatre. This was part of an $86 million dollar capital campaign ending in 2008 that significantly improved faculty compensation as well as other aspects of the school. In total, there are three theaters in the school, Lawrence Auditorium in the main building, Vinik
Theatre in the Arts building and Towles Theater in the Baker science building.

Students also dine in a historic castle, designed by the architect Henry Hobson Richardson

Henry Hobson Richardson

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, who also designed Trinity Church

Trinity Church, Boston

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 in Boston.

The Noble and Greenough Middle School

The Noble and Greenough Middle School consists of approximately 100 students in the 7th and 8th grades, with approximately 50 students in each grade. The Middle School has a different afternoon activities program from the Upper School. Not all students start in the Middle School at Nobles.

Athletics at Nobles

Nobles is a member of the competitive Independent School League

Independent School League (Boston Area)

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. The school has 25 varsity teams. Boys and Girls participate in Soccer, Cross-Country, Hockey, Basketball, Squash, Skiing, Golf, Lacrosse, Tennis, Sailing, Crew, and the newly formed Ultimate Frisbee team. Boys also participate in Football, Wrestling, and Baseball, while Girls participate in Field Hockey and Softball. Boston College goalie, John Muse, and Boston College player, Jimmy Hayes, are Nobles graduates.

Nobles and Milton Academy

Milton Academy

Milton Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory, boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts consisting of a grade 9–12 Upper School and a grade K–8 Lower School. Boarding is offered starting in 9th grade...

 historically have a Nobles/Milton Day each athletic season. On this day, usually nearing, or on the last game of the season, the two schools compete in almost every sport. Students are known to "get psyched" by face-painting, reciting chants, and wearing team colors.

The student spirit group is called the "Dawg Pound" (Founded by Ross Chanowski, '07) and is typically led by two first class students. They form large cheering sections and practice organized cheers. For the students who do not play a sport in any given season, the Dawg Pound is a good way to support classmates.




Over the past 6 years (2003/2004 - 2008/2009):

• 87% of the 22 ISL varsity teams have winning records
• 66 ISL teams finished in the top 3 (>60%)
• 41 ISL championship teams
• 85% of eligible teams invited to NE Tournaments
• 15 teams won New England Championships
• 5 crews won NEIRA Gold Medals
• 2 National Crew Champions

2008/2009 Championship Summary:

• 7 ISL Titles: Boys Alpine Skiing, Girls Alpine Skiing, Girls Basketball, Girls Ice Hockey, Girls Lacross, Girls Soccer, and Softball
• 4 New England Team Titles: Girls Crew, Girls Cross Country, Girls Ice Hockey, and Girls Soccer
• 2 New England Champion Crews: Girls 1st and 2nd boats
• 1 National Crew Title: Boys Varsity Four

Performing arts

Nobles students populate a variety of performing arts groups. Additionally, Nobles' active theatre program produces four faculty-directed mainstage plays and an average of three student-directed productions each year. Many of these groups rehearse during "M-Block", a period of time twice each week set aside for performing arts groups to rehearse. Others practice outside of regular school hours. Performing arts groups include:

• The Nobleonians, a male a cappella
  A cappella
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  group,
• The Greensleeves, a female a cappella group,
• Noteorious, a student-run, co-ed a cappella
  A cappella
  A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
  
  group
• Imani, a co-ed group specializing in multicultural and world music,
• Chamber Singers,
• Concert Choir, a group regularly numbering more than 80 students,
• Jazz Band,
• Blues Band,
• Drum Ensemble,
• String Ensemble,
• Guitar Ensemble,
• Wind Ensemble,
• Chamber Music, a winter offering for small ensembles,
• Middle school equivalents to many of the above groups,

Visual arts

All Nobles students take at least one semester of introductory-level visual arts as a graduation requirement. Around 80% of students continue to intermediate-level courses, and approximately 25% take Advanced Placement

Advanced Placement Program

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 level arts courses. Students are instructed in Photography (darkroom and digital), Painting, Drawing, Ceramics, and Digital Design.

Students' art can be found on display in the Dawson Gallery, Schmid Gallery, and on Exposure, Nobles' visual arts website. Additionally, the Foster Gallery showcases the work of external, regional artists. Finally, Calliopé, a student-run literary and arts magazine, produces two to three issues each year.

Publications

There are several publications at the Noble and Greenough School. The most well-known is the Nobleman, a student-run newspaper that is overseen by a faculty adviser, funded by the school, and prints the most often. The Nobleman is typically a 20 page paper that publishes anything from local school issues and facts to global issues, and is largely features and opinion based. It is known for making amusing announcements in daily assembly.
There is also Calliope, a literary arts magazine that is published every year several times. La Noblesse is a publication that members of the French Club, the Language Department and other language enthusiasts print occasionally. Finally, there is the school yearbook which is produced by a group of students in the upper school every year. There are also several middle school equivalents, such as the MS Press and Chrysalis.

Clubs and organizations

A variety of student-run clubs and organizations at Nobles meet both during and after regular school hours. These groups include a Chess, Film, Diplomacy, and Debate Club, as well as student boards for community service and multicultural students. The Nobleman, a student newspaper, and the Nobles Theatre Collective reflect student-generated interest in writing and the arts. Many take place during "X - Block", "M - Block", and in after-school meetings.

Traditions

Morning Assembly: Every morning Noble's students begin the day with an all-school assembly. Every other week in an 'long assembly' that takes place on a Wednesday, distinguished speakers or performers visit the school and address the audience, normally followed by an informal meeting with especially interested students. The Nobles Dictionary (1975): "Assembly: daily re-enactment of the Tower of Babel."

Christmas Carol: Every year before the winter break, the sixies (first year middle-schoolers) put on a rendition of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol.

"Power of Light" Along with the "Christmas Carol" part of the sixie students perform the "Power of Light" a story about two Jewish children escaping from the Nazis in World War Two.

The Nobleman: The Nobleman is the school newspaper, run mostly by only first class students.

Castle Secret Passageways: There are rumored to be many secret passages in the Castle. When the building served as the boys' dormitory, many would sneak out in the night to explore the building. The legend that surrounds this tradition is that there is a passageway that has never been found by anyone, but is supposed to extend from the castle, underground, to the other side of the Charles River. The student who finds this passage is supposed to be granted free tuition to the school until they graduate.

Rivalry: The Noble and Greenough School has a rivalry with Milton Academy

Milton Academy

Milton Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory, boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts consisting of a grade 9–12 Upper School and a grade K–8 Lower School. Boarding is offered starting in 9th grade...

 (also a member of the ISL) which becomes most prominent every fall during Nobles/Milton Weekend. Athletic teams from both schools play each other on the same campus (alternating yearly) creating a festive and heated environment. Courtesy of the 1975 Nobles Dictionary, "Milton: Nobles' satanic alter-ego." ... "Milton Game: the fame that determines the success of the season, as well as the fund drive." The Nobles/Milton football game is one of the oldest annual rivalries in the nation, beginning in 1886. The rivalry continues at the graduate level. Beginning in 1984, the graduate soccer teams from the two schools have met on the same afternoon as the school varsity teams play. As far as is known, this is the only rivalry of this nature that endures to present time.

The Classics: The school was started as a preparatory school for Harvard University. At the time one of the requirements for admission to Harvard was a thorough knowledge of Latin and Greek. Therefore the students at Noble and Greenough primarily studied the Classics. This is still reflected in the middle school where it is required to take Latin in the seventh grade via a hybrid English-Latin class called English Via Latin.

Wiggins Papers: Students of the junior class submit a portfolio of writing every year in expository, creative, and personal narrative styles. The most impressive are chosen for the Wiggins Prize.

Senior Projects: In the spring of their senior year, students have the option of dropping classes to provide time for the undertaking of a project of their own design.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni

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 of Noble and Greenough include:

• Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.
  Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.
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  , director of the Wadsworth Atheneum
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• Michael Beach
  Michael Beach
  -Biography:Beach was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, of Cape Verdean descent. He attended the prestigious Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts on scholarship from ABC . He was introduced to acting when he was sidelined by a lacrosse injury during high school by a classmate...
  
  , class of 1982, actor featured in ER
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  , Third Watch
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• Ayla Brown
  Ayla Brown
  Ayla Marie Brown is an American NCAA basketball player and recording artist from Wrentham, Massachusetts. She is also known for her American Idol showing placing in the Top 16 on season 5 in 2005/06. She is the elder daughter of United States Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts and WCVB-TV...
  
  , daughter of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown
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• Bridget Camp-Bleckmann, class of 1989, Principal designer of Penumbra textile
• Michael Jude Christodal, class of 1986, recording artist, songwriter
• Chris Cleary
  Chris Cleary
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  , class of 1998, professional soccer player
• Harry Crosby
  Harry Crosby
  Harry Crosby was an American heir, a bon vivant, poet, publisher, and for some, epitomized the Lost Generation in American literature. He was the son of one of the richest banking families in New England, a member of the Boston Brahmin, and the nephew of Jane Norton Grew, the wife of financier J....
  
  , founder of the Black Sun Press
  Black Sun Press
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• Robert Dunham
  Robert Dunham
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  , American actor
• Keith Elam, member of Gang Starr
  Gang Starr
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  , aka Guru
• Mark Fayne
  Mark Fayne
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  , class of 2006, hockey player drafted in 2005 NHL draft
• Richard P. Freeman
  Richard P. Freeman
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  , class of 1888, U.S. Representative
• Andrew Glass, class of 2008, hockey player drafted in 2007 NHL draft
• Kylie Gleason
  Kylie Gleason
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  , class of 2008, figure skater
• Seth Goldman
  Seth Goldman (businessman)
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  , class of 1983, co-founder, president and TeaEO of Honest Tea
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• Wycliffe Grousbeck
  Wycliffe Grousbeck
  Wycliffe "Wyc" Grousbeck is CEO, governor, and co-owner of the National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics.After spending seven years as a partner at a venture capital firm, Highland Capital Partners, Grousbeck founded the group Boston Basketball Partners L.L.C...
  
  , class of 1979, co-owner of the Boston Celtics
  Boston Celtics
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• David Herrmann, class of 1980, First World War historian and author
• Sir Denis Henry, Judge of the United Kingdom Court of Appeal.
• Nya Jade, class of 1994, singer.
• Melvin Johnson
  Melvin Johnson
  Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr. was an American designer of firearms, lawyer, and US Marine Corps officer.Born into an affluent Boston, Massachusetts family, he was commissioned into the Marine Corps Reserve in 1933 as a Second Lieutenant and completed Harvard Law school in 1934...
  
  , class of 1927, weapons designer, Harvard professor
• Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
  Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
  Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Jr. was an American bomber pilot during World War II. He was the eldest of nine children born to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Elizabeth Kennedy....
  
  , attended lower school, brother of JFK and RFK
• John F. Kennedy
  John F. Kennedy
  John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
  
  , attended lower school, 35th President of The United States of America
• Jonathan Kozol
  Jonathan Kozol
  Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954, and Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 with a degree in English Literature. He was awarded a Rhodes...
  
  , class of 1954, educator, activist & author
• Clarence Cook Little, class of 1906, biologist and President of University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
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• Royal Little
  Royal Little
  Royal Little , was the founder and chair of Textron, and is considered to be the Father of Conglomerates....
  
  , class of 1915, founder of Fortune 500
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   company Textron
  Textron
  Textron is a conglomerate that includes Bell Helicopter, E-Z-GO, Cessna Aircraft Company, and Greenlee, among others. It was founded by Royal Little in 1923 as the Special Yarns Company, and is headquartered at the Textron Tower in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.With total revenues of...
  
   and "Father of Conglomerates"
• A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1873, President of Harvard (1909–1933)
• Percival Lowell
  Percival Lowell
  Percival Lawrence Lowell was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death...
  
  , class of 1872, astronomer
• Ralph Lowell
  Ralph Lowell
  Major Ralph Lowell was a World War I veteran, banker, and philanthropist from Boston.Ralph was born in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts to John and Mary Emlen Lowell . Lowell graduated from Harvard College in 1912...
  
  , class of 1907, banker and philanthropist
• Francis Peabody Magoun
  Francis Peabody Magoun
  Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. MC was one of the seminal figures in the study of medieval and English literature in the 20th century, a scholar of subjects as varied as football and ancient Germanic naming practices, and translator of numerous important texts...
  
  , World War I
  World War I
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   ace
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   and scholar of languages and literature
• Samuel Eliot Morison
  Samuel Eliot Morison
  Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years...
  
  , class of 1901, American historian and author
• Albert Nickerson
  Albert Nickerson
  Albert Nickerson was the Chairman and C.E.O. of Mobil Oil, and chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1961 to 1966.Nickerson graduated from Noble & Greenough School in 1929 and Harvard University in 1933...
  
  , class of 1929, former chief executive of Mobil Oil and chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Sarah Parsons
  Sarah Parsons
  Sarah Parsons is an American ice hockey player. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She is now a member of Dartmouth College's class of 2010.-High school:...
  
  , class of 2005, member of the 2006 Olympic ice hockey team
• William Phillips
  William Phillips (diplomat)
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  , class of 1896, United States diplomat
• Roger Putnam
  Roger Putnam
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  , American politician and businessman
• Helen Resor, class of 2004, member of the 2006 Olympic ice hockey team
• Alexander Hamilton Rice, Jr., class of 1894, physician and explorer of South America
• Andrea Ross
  Andrea Ross
  Andrea Christine Ross is an American singer and actress. She has been an award-winning lead actress on stage in her local area of Boston, Massachusetts since the age of eight years old...
  
  , class of 2009, actress and singer.
• Leverett Saltonstall
  Leverett Saltonstall
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  , class of 1910, Governor of Massachusetts (1939–1945) and United States Senator (1945–1967)
• Francis Sargent, class of 1935, Governor of Massachusetts (1969–1975)
• Mayo A. Shattuck III
  Mayo A. Shattuck III
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  , American businessman, CEO of Constellation Energy
  Constellation Energy
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• Louis Agassiz Shaw
  Louis Agassiz Shaw
  Louis Agassiz Shaw Junior was an instructor of physiology at the School of Public Health of Harvard University, where he is credited in 1928 along with Philip Drinker for inventing the Drinker respirator, the first widely used iron lung.-Family and early life:Shaw's parents were Louis Agassiz Shaw...
  
  , inventor of the iron lung
  Iron lung
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  , Harvard professor
• Courtney Sims
  Courtney Sims
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  , class of 2003, NBA Basketball player
• Robert Storer
  Robert Treat Paine Storer
  Robert Treat Paine Storer was an American football player for Harvard University. In 1912, he scored Harvard's first touchdown against Yale since 1901 and was selected as a first-team All-American at the tackle position. In 1913, he was captain of Harvard's last undefeated, untied football team...
  
   (b. 1893) Harvard University football player and WWI war hero
• Karen Thatcher
  Karen Thatcher
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  , class of 2002, Olympic women's hockey player for Team USA
• J. Rupert Thompson
  J. Rupert Thompson
  J. Rupert Thompson, born July 14, 1964, is a director and producer of reality television. He graduated from Noble and Greenough School, a prestigious New England preparatory school located in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1986, where he also co-captained the school's boys cross-country team...
  
  , class of 1986, reality television show producer
• Chris Tierney
  Chris Tierney
  Chris Tierney is an American soccer player who currently plays for New England Revolution in Major League Soccer.-College:...
  
  , class of 2004, professional soccer player, New England Revolution
  New England Revolution
  The New England Revolution is an American professional association football club based in Foxborough, Massachusetts which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada...
  
  
• George Clapp Vaillant
  George Clapp Vaillant
  George Clapp Vaillant was an American anthropologist.George Clapp Vaillant was born 1901 in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Noble and Greenough School in his hometown. After finishing his secondary education at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he went to Harvard University where he...
  
  , anthropologist and author
• Dan Weinstein
  Dan Weinstein (athlete)
  -Biography:Of the handful of Jewish-American Olympians who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano, Japan, Weinstein was by far the youngest. At 17 years of age, he was not only the youngest athlete on the U.S. speedskating team, he was also the youngest man on the entire U.S. Winter...
  
  , class of 1999, Olympic speed skater
• James N. Wood
  James N. Wood
  James Nowell Wood was an American museum director who spent 25 years as head of the Art Institute of Chicago and later served as head of the J. Paul Getty Trust, starting in 2006.Wood was born in Boston on March 20, 1941...
  
  , class of 1959, former President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust
  J. Paul Getty Trust
  The J. Paul Getty Trust is the world's wealthiest art institution with an estimated endowment in April 2009 of $US 4.2 billion. Based in Los Angeles, California, it operates the J. Paul Getty Museum, which has two locations, the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Pacific...
  
  
• Mr. Lif
  Mr. Lif
  Mr. Lif is an American hip hop artist from Boston, Massachusetts. Often noted for his political lyrics, he has released two studio albums on El-P's Definitive Jux label and one on Bloodbot Tactical Enterprises. Mr...
  
  , rap artist
• Seth Priebatsch
  Seth Priebatsch
  Seth Priebatsch is the creator of SCVNGR and LevelUp social gaming sites. Seth was a keynote speaker at South by Southwest 2011. According to the SCVNGR site, the goal of the application is to "build the game layer on top of the world"....
  
  , class of 2007, entrepreneur, founder of Scvngr
  Scvngr
  SCVNGR is a social location-based gaming platform for mobile phones. The application has both a consumer and enterprise component. Companies, educational institutions, and organizations can build challenges, the core unit of their game, at places on SCVNGR from the web. The service also supports SMS...