Birch Wathen Lenox School
The Birch Wathen Lenox School is a college preparatory K-12 school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Birch Wathen Lenox comprises approximately 500 students from all around New York City. The Birch Wathen Lenox School is one of 322 independent schools located in the city.
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• Name — Birch Wathen Lenox School • Motto — Integrity, Civility, Loyalty • Established — 1991 (as Birch Wathen Lenox School) • Former Names — Birch Wathen School (1921) Lenox School (1916) • Type — Private, Coeducational • Grades — K-12 • Head Of School — Bill E. Kuhn • Faculty — 70 • Enrollment — 500 (total) 175 (grades 9–12) • Athletics — All major high school varsity sports • Colors — bluewhite Blue and White • Mascot — Lion • Campus Type — Brownstone • Campus Size — Single Building • Newspaper — The Clarion • Publication — Leaves • Location — 210 East 77th Street • City — Manhattan, New York City • State — New York • Zipcode — 10075 • Country — United States
History
History
Birch Wathen Lenox was created in 1991 through the merger of the Birch Wathen School (founded in 1921 by Louise Birch and Edith Wathen), and The Lenox School (founded in 1916 by Jessica Garretson Finch). The Lenox School had been an all-girls school until 1974, when it went co-educational. Between 1962 and 1989, Birch Wathen was located in the Herbert N. Straus House, an ornate French-style building at 9 East 71st Street across from the Frick Collection
Sports
Sports
Birch Wathen Lenox fields teams in soccer, volleyball, swimming, basketball, baseball, cross country, track and field, golf, tennis, hockey, and robotics. Athletic teams play under the auspices of the Independent Schools Athletic League (New York) or the Girls Independent School Athletic League, which are leagues in the NYSAISAA (New York State Association of Independent Schools Athletic Association). The robotics team plays in the FIRST Robotics Competition, more commonly referred to as FRC.
Notable alumni
Notable alumni
• Kathy Acker, writer • Josh Bekenstein, businessperson • Joan Birman, mathematician • Hope Cooke, last Queen of Sikkim • Barbara Costikyan, food writer • Joel Crothers (BW '58), actor • Viola Essen, dancer • Robert Gottlieb, president of Knopf Publishing. • John Katzman, edupreneur, CEO of Noodle • Alfred A Knopf, Jr., publisher • Judith Krantz (BW '44), novelist • Wendy Mogel, psychologist and author • Murray Rothbard (BW '42), Founder of anarcho-capitalism • Edwin Schlossberg, designer • Mary Stolz (BW '36), novelist • Gardiner L. Tucker (BW '43), former director of IBM Research, Assistant Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary General of NATO • Barbara Walters, journalist, writer, and media personality
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- 1.The Birch Wathen Lenox School – School Overview. Peterson's. March 12, 2007.
- 2.Nysais.org. New York State Association of Independent Schools: Birch Wathen Lenox School.
- 3.McBride, Jason. Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker. Simon & Schuster. 2022. 978-1-9821-1703-0.
- 4.Claridge, Laura. The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 68. 2016. 9780374114251.
- 5.Ruark, Liz (February 13, 2001). "Person of the Week: Judith Krantz ". Wellesley College.
- 6.Wendy Mogel Is Married to Michael Tolkin. New York Times. June 26, 1978.
- 7.Caroline Bouvier Kennedy To Wed Edwin Schlossberg. New York Times. March 2, 1986.
- 8.Mary Stolz Biographical Sketch .
- 9.Gardiner Luttrell Tucker Obituary (2021) New York Times. Legacy.com.
- 10.Nymag.com. Can Barbara Walters's Career Survive Rosie and Donald's War?- New York Magazine. March 5, 2007.
- 11.And Now Back To You, Barbara. New York Times. March 25, 1990.
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