Phillips Academy

'''Phillips Academy''' (also known as Andover and Phillips Andover) is a coed liberal arts high school, located in Andover, Massachusetts, near Boston. It should not be confused with Phillips Exeter Academy. It is an American preparatory school, with a history of educating America's elites for universities, particularly Yale University. Phillips Academy's historical relationship with Yale has receded this century, from 75% of students in a graduating class in the 1920s attending Yale, to 50% in the 1950s, to a low percentage today. The graduating students today attend a wide number of colleges and universities. Phillips Academy was founded in 1778, during the American Revolution by Samuel Phillips, Jr. The great seal of the school was designed by Paul Revere. George Washington sent his nephews here, and spoke at an assembly while visiting. John Hancock, the famous signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, signed the articles of incorporation. Paul Revere incorporated the symbols of bees, a beehive, and the sun into the school's great seal. The school's primary Latin motto, Finis Origine Pendet, meaning "the end depends upon the beginning," is scrolled across the bottom of the seal. The school's secondary motto, Non Sibi, located in the sun, means "not for self." Phillips Academy was chartered to educate "qualified youth from every quarter." Abbot Academy was founded in 1829 and named for Sarah Abbot; it was the first school for girls in New England. It educated elite American women for 144 years. Abbot Academy, a girls-only school, was adjacent to Phillips Academy, a boys-only school. Abbot and Phillips Academy merged in 1973, turning Phillips coeducational. Abbot alumnae often have felt that the merger was more of a hostile takeover, pointing to the neglect of Abbot's resources such as its buildings, which are used today for faculty housing and other indirect educational purposes. The name Andover is often used today to distinguish the school from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and reflects the merger of Phillips Academy and Abbot Academy.

Notable alumni

• William Beinecke (graduated 1932)
• Bill Belichick (graduated 1971)
• Paul Bremer (graduated 1959)
• Humphrey Bogart (c. 1917)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• George H. W. Bush (1936 - 1942)
• George W. Bush (graduated 1964)
• Jeb Bush (graduated 1971)
• Lincoln Chafee (graduated 1971)
• William Sloane Coffin (graduated 1942)
• Joseph Cornell (1917 - 1921)
• Walker Evans (c. 1920)
• John Murray Forbes
• Jeffrey Garten (graduated 1964)
• A. Bartlett Giamatti (graduated 1956)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (graduated 1825)
• John F. Kennedy, Jr. (1976 - 1979)
• Richard Kerry, father of John Kerry
• Vanessa Kerry, daughter of John Kerry (graduated 1995)
• Donald Klopfer (graduated 1918)
• John Lardner (graduated 1929)
• Jack Lemmon (graduated 1943)
• Samuel Morse (graduated 1805)
• Godfrey Anderson Rockefeller
• James Hardy Ropes (graduated 1885)
• James Spader (c. 1977)
• Lyman Spitzer
• Benjamin Spock (c. 1921)
• Frank Stella
• Henry Stimson (graduated 1883)
• William Davis Taylor (graduated 1927)
• Josiah Dwight Whitney (c. 1835)
• Richard A. Wolf (graduated 1964)
• Philip Wrigley (c. 1911)

External link

*Phillips Academy home page

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