Cranbrook Educational Community

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The Cranbrook Educational Community (short or Cranbrook CEC ), a National Historic Landmark of the United States, is a renowned educational institution that was founded in the early 20th century by the newspaper tycoon George Booth.

The campus is located in Bloomfield Hills, a wealthy suburb of Detroit, and consists of the prestigious Cranbrook Schools, the School of Art Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of Science, the popular tourist Cranbrook House and Gardens as well as the Christ Church Cranbrook. The 129 -acre campus originated from a 70 -acre farm from the year 1904. The name comes from Cranbrook Cranbrook in Kent, England the birthplace of the father of the founder.

Cranbrook is famous for its architecture, the design of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The Cranbrook Academy of Art is one of the most important in the Americas. The Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School ( grades 9-12 ) is one of the most prestigious secondary educational institutions in the United States and is therefore often referred to in reference to the elite school Eton College in England as "American Eton ". The architects of the campus were Albert Kahn and Eliel Saarinen. The recognized artist Carl Milles and Marshall Fredericks have also contributed a large part to the wide variety of sculptures on campus.

The entire Cranbrook Educational Community in 2007 had assets of nearly a billion dollars, the Cranbrook Schools are funded with foundation assets and large annual budget of the wealthiest schools in the United States.

The architecture critic Paul Goldberger of The New York Times called the Cranbrook campus as one of the most beautiful in America.

History

In 1915, the newspaper tycoon George Booth and his wife Ellen opened up a part of their property to the public with the construction of a Greek theater, which is still used for performances by the Upper School. 1920, get with the construction of a secondary educational institution for boys, then called Cranbrook School for Boys, in 1927 the teaching recorded. The name " Cranbrook " is the birthplace of the father of George Booth in Kent, England. The school was designed by the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, who could continue to deal with the construction of the Kingswood School for Girls accents of the Arts and Crafts Movement, which spread since the 19th century from England to North America. In 1932, then started building the Cranbrook Academy of Art between Cranbrook School and Kingswood School, as well as the Cranbrook Art Museum. Furthermore Brookside originated ( a kindergarten and a primary school to fifth grade ); a gender- separate "middle" school ( Middle School ) for boys or for girls in classes 6-8. The Cranbrook School for Boys, the Kingswood School for Girls (both grades 9-12 ), the two Middle Schools and the Brookside School were it was decided independent schools until 1970 together under the name of Cranbrook Schools.

The term Cranbrook is also used in everyday contradictory. Cranbrook may mean the entirety of the campus along with all its facilities, but also and especially the Cranbrook Kingswood School ( Upper School for grades 9-12), which emerged from the former Cranbrook School for Boys and Kingswood School for Girls and represent the oldest buildings in the campus. The Brookside School ( kindergarten through fifth grade ) and the Cranbrook Kingswood School ( grades 9-12 ) are now co-educational, while the Middle Schools (grades 6-8) are still separated by gender. A more complete chronicle of the Cranbrook Educational Community can be found in Bishop Eckert's "The Campus Guide: Cranbrook " and Elizabeth C. Clark's " Beside a Lake ".

Cranbrook Schools

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In 1984, the Cranbrook School for Boys and Kingswood School for Girls were merged to coeducational Cranbrook Kingswood School. Most often, the school only CK or simply Cranbrook is called. Many of the Cranbrook Upper School programs have won awards. Of particular note here is the Department of Technology and which introduced groundbreaking for the use of new media as one of the first schools in the United States Smart Boards in all classrooms, such as moodle at school was. The student newspaper, The Clarion Crane belongs to the Columbia Scholastic Press Association to the best in the United States. Furthermore, the Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School ( grades 9-12 ) maintains one of the toughest selection of all private schools in the U.S., so is statistically only a commitment to eight candidates. In addition, the school is home to a relatively high number of students from around the world. In 2007, the share of these so-called International Students was 11 %, including the tradition to always 4 so-called ASSIST scholars from Europe. Particular importance is given to the successful application of outstanding American colleges, so enroll many of the CEC Alumni at Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California.

Dining Hall inside

Cranbrook House and Gardens

Gardens at the Art Museum

Cranbrook School

Trophy Room

Kingswood School

Dining Hall in winter

The Cranbrook Art Museum

Famous former students

• Eero Saarinen - Architect ( attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art; grew on the Cranbrook campus, which was designed by his father Eliel Saarinen, at )
• Julian Seymour Schwinger - (1932 ) Nobel Prize winner (Physics, 1965) with Richard Feynman for quantum electrodynamics
• William Talman - (1932 ) Actor
• Florence Knoll - (1934 ) Designer
• Bob Bemer - (1936 ) computer pioneer
• Harry Bertoia - (1937 ) Furniture Designer
• Edmund Bacon - (1938 ) architect, father of Kevin Bacon
• Charles Eames - (1940 ) designer and architect
• Natalie Zemon Davis - (1945 ) historian
• Daniel Ellsberg - (1948 ) journalist and publicist of the Pentagon Papers
• Alan K. Simpson - (1950 ) U.S. Senator (R- Wyoming), 1979-1997
• Duane Hanson - (1951 ) Artist
• Ward Just - (1953 ) Author
• Ivan F. Boesky - (1955; Cranbrook left without graduating) stock market speculator
• Pete Dawkins - (1955 ) winner of the Heisman Trophy, Rhodes scholar; former general
• Thomas McGuane III - (1958 ) Author
• Edmund White III - (1958 ) Author
• Michael Moriarty - (1958) ( left Cranbrook no degree) Actor
• Joel E. Cohen - (1961 ) Mathematicians
• Tod Williams - (1961 ) Architect
• Charles Bigelow - (1963 ) Font historian
• Taro Yamasaki - (1964 ) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism
• Mitt Romney - (1965 ) Former governor of Massachusetts, candidate for the U.S. presidential elections in 2012 and a former candidate for the U.S. presidential elections in 2008.
• Reed Slatkin - (1967 ) founder of Earthlink
• Michael Kinsley - (1968 ) Journalist (founder of the online magazine Slate, television presenter )
• Ann Romney - (1968 ) wife of Mitt Romney
• Mary Fisher - (1966 ) Founder of Family AIDS Network, daughter of multi-millionaire Max Fisher
• Bing Gordon - (1968 ) Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts
• Jeffrey Dearth - (1968 ) Former editor of The New Republic
• Sven Birkerts - (1969 ) Author
• Scott McNealy - (1972 ) CEO of Sun Microsystems
• Dey Young - (1973 ) actress
• Bill Prady - (1977 ) screenwriter and film producer
• Douglas Sills - (1978 ) Actor
• Amy Denio - (1979 ) Musician
• Rick damage - (1982 ) founder of the fast-food chain Quiznos
• Alexi Lalas - (1988 ) Former professional football player, manager of the Los Angeles Galaxy
• Renee Elise Goldsberry - (1989 ) actress
• Selma Blair - (1990 ) actress (including Cruel Intentions )
• Elizabeth Berkley - (1990 ) actress (including Showgirls )
• Todd Kessler - (1990 ) Writer ( invented the television series Damages - the power )
• Gabriel Nguema Lima - (1993 ) son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea (1979 - present); Deputy Secretary of Energy in Equatorial Guinea
• Jaime Ray Newman - (1996 ) actress

Other persons related to Cranbrook

• Eliel Saarinen - Architect ( planned as an architect most of the Cranbrook Campus )
• Leonard Bernstein - composer ( composed parts of the musical West Side Story at the Cranbrook Campus )
• Daniel Libeskind - Architect ( 1978-1985 Dean at the Cranbrook Academy of Art)
• Yoko Ono - Artist ( Art Exhibition in 1989 )
• Papa Doc - Fictional character from the Oscar-winning film 8 Mile, in which the rapper Eminem makes fun of Papa Doc, because he has attended the Cranbrook School ( something which is not well received by the mostly black audience in the film, as Cranbrook is regarded as very elitist ).