Kimball Union Academy
Kimball Union Academy is a private boarding school located in New Hampshire. Founded in 1813, it is the 22nd oldest boarding school in the United States. It is located in the upper Connecticut River Valley village of Meriden, New Hampshire.
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Overview
Overview
The academy's 1300 acre village campus is hours via major highways from Boston, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut. Nearby bus, train, and plane terminals link the area directly with Boston, New York City, and Manchester, New Hampshire. The academy is governed by a 17-member board of trustees.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Kimball Union Academy • Type — Private Boarding • Head Label — Head of School • Head — Tyler Lewis • City — Meriden • State — NH • Country — USA • Enrollment — approx. 340 • Faculty — approx. 52 • Avg Class Size — 11 • Ratio — 6:1 • Athletics — 20 interscholastic • Athletic Conference — Lakes Region League • Colors — Orange & Black • Mascot — Wildcat • Campus — Rural
Notable alumni
Notable alumni
• Abdul-Malik Abu (born 1995), basketball player in the Israeli Premier Basketball League • F. Lee Bailey, defense attorney • Frederick H. Billings, lawyer, financier and President of the Northern Pacific Railway • Francis B. Brewer, congressman • Augusta Cooper Bristol (1835–1910), poet, lecturer • John Graham Brooks (1846-1938), sociologist and author • Henry E. Burnham, U.S. senator • Frank Gay Clarke, congressman • William Cogswell, congressman, general • William N. Cohen, Justice of the New York Supreme Court • Frank Dunklee Currier, congressman • Daniel Bateman Cutter, physician and New Hampshire politician • Irving W. Drew, U.S. senator • Kasim Edebali, NFL player • Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Presbyterian minister, Reconstruction politician • Louis B. Goodall, congressman • A.J. Greer, NHL player for the Florida Panthers • Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman who was one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory • Jordan Harris, NHL player for the Boston Bruins • Doc Hazelton, major league baseball player and college coach • Chester Bradley Jordan, Governor of New Hampshire • Ernest Everett Just, African American biologist • Nathan Knight, NBA basketball player • Edward Chalmers Leavitt, artist • John C. Lord, Presbyterian minister and nativist • James D. Lynch, African American politician, minister • Charles W. Porter, Secretary of State of Vermont • Samuel L. Powers, congressman • Will Sheff, rock musician • Steven Sotloff, Israeli-American journalist • Taylor Soule, WNBA player • Dana Stone, Vietnam War photographer • Bainbridge Wadleigh, U.S. senator • Aldace F. Walker, railroad president • James M. Warner, Civil War general, industrialist • Augustus Washington, African American photographer • William Wells, Civil War general, Medal of Honor winner • Andrew Wheating, Olympian • Benjamin F. Whidden, first ambassador to Haiti
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- Dana StonePhotographer
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- Will SheffPerson
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Notes from the source article
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- 27.Sheff, Will. Will Sheff: The First Time an Adult Took Me Seriously. The New York Times. February 2017.
- 28.The Boston Globe. N.H. school Sotloff attended expresses sorrow.
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- 36.USA Track & Field, Inc. Andrew Wheating.
- 37.Proceedings - Grafton and Coös County Bar Association, New Hampshire By Grafton and Coos Bar Association, p. 351-358
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