Hotchkiss School

The Hotchkiss School is one of the most prestigious and affluent high schools in the United States. It has its headquarters in Lakeville, Connecticut.

It was founded in 1891 at the instigation of the then president of Yale, Timothy Dwight V., by Mary Harrison Bitchell Hotchkiss. Since 1974, even girls will be admitted to the original boys' school. The campus comprises about 2.2 km ² ( 545 acres), is picturesquely situated between two lakes and partly wooded. It also includes a sports complex opened in 2002 and a golf course.

In the school year 2006/ 07, the school has 555 students ( according to other sources 574 ), of which 10 % are foreigners. 91 % of students ( according to other sources 89 %) live on the school grounds ( boarding school ) while the remainder attend school only during the day.

To ( $ 29,925 including accommodation in a boarding school, both of 2005), the 25,450 U.S. dollars tuition per year raise, receive about 35% of the student financial aid from the school, a total of about 4.2 million U.S. dollars ( according to other sources 4, 98 million ). 72% of 120 teachers ( according to other sources, 68% of 127 ) have a degree beyond a Bachelor's degree, which is not required in the U.S. for teachers.

About 10% of the annual budget is covered by donations from former students ( alumni ), for example, from 1 July 2003 3,295,966 U.S. dollars to 30 June 2004, it donated. The budget is also financed from the proceeds of the endowment ( endowment ) of 284 million dollars.

Famous Alumni

  • John G. Avildsen, director (including Rocky and Karate Kid)
  • Jonathan Bush, an uncle of U.S. President George W. Bush
  • Walter P Chrysler, Jr., industrialist, son of Walter Chrysler
  • Herbert Dow, founder of Dow Chemical Company
  • Charles Edison, Governor of New Jersey, son of Thomas Edison
  • Edsel Ford president of Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford's son
  • Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company
  • Varian Fry, journalist and resistance fighter
  • Porter Goss, Director of the CIA
  • Alfred Whitney Griswold President of Yale University
  • Governor Ernest Gruening of Alaska, Senator
  • Briton Hadden co-founder of Time Magazine
  • John Hammond, a music producer ( among other things discovered Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen )
  • John Hersey, author and Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Allison Janney, actress, winner of an Emmy Award
  • Lawrence M. Judd, Governor of Hawaii
  • Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Harper 's Magazine
  • Winston Lord, U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1985-1989
  • Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine
  • Archibald MacLeish poet, Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Paul Nitze, Secretary of the Navy
  • Clark T. Randt, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 2001-2009
  • Dickinson W. Richards, Nobel Laureate
  • William Warren Scranton, Pennsylvania Governor, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
  • Harold Stanley, founder of Morgan Stanley
  • Potter Stewart, Justice of the Supreme Court
  • John Thornton President of Goldman Sachs
  • Charles Yost, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
The Karate Kid Director of Central Intelligence John Hammond (producer)
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