St. Paul's School (Brooklandville, Maryland)
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Veritas et Virtus
Truth and Virtue
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| Type | Private, Day |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Episcopal |
| Established | 1849 |
| Sister school | St. Paul's School for Girls |
| Headmaster | David C. Faus |
| Faculty | 105 |
| Grades | K–12 |
| Gender | Coed (K-4) Boys (5-12) |
| Enrollment | 866 total |
| Student to teacher ratio | 9:1 |
| Campus | Suburban, 64 acres (260,000 m2) |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Athletics conference | MIAA |
| Mascot | Crusader |
| Rival | Boys' Latin |
| Newspaper | The Page |
| Website | www.stpaulsschool.org |
St. Paul's School is an independent K-12 college-preparatory school in Brooklandville, Maryland (a suburb of Baltimore), located on a 64-acre (0.26 km2) rural campus in the Green Spring Valley Historic District, about ten miles (16 km) north of the city of Baltimore. St. Paul's was founded in 1849 at Old St. Paul's Parish in Baltimore City by Reverend William Edward Wyatt. Throughout its history, St. Paul's has moved its campus five times, finally residing at the current grounds in Brooklandville. The focal point building on the Brooklandville campus is Brooklandwood, a mansion built in 1793 by Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]
Today, St. Paul's is co-ed through the fourth grade, but all-male from fifth through twelfth grade. Its sister school St. Paul's School for Girls is located on an adjacent campus, with the schools sharing in some foreign language and elective classes.
Contents
Academics
Early years
At the time of the school's founding in the nineteenth century, boys studied Greek, Latin, and math. The practice of church music was also given high priority, starting with the creation of the Men and Boys’ Choir of Old St. Paul’s Church in 1873.
Today
St. Paul's offers a college-preparatory curriculum for students in the Upper School (grades 9-12).
St. Paul's is known for its small class sizes, collegial student-teacher relationships and strong focus on the liberal arts. The school recently established an IB Diploma Program to further enrich a curriculum of Advanced Placement and Honors courses.
St.Paul's also offers courses in theater, concert chorale, digital arts, and visual arts, many of which are cross-registered with the neighboring St. Paul's School for Girls.
Athletics
St. Paul's places a strong emphasis on athletics. Despite the school's small class sizes of roughly 70 students per class year, the school supports varsity teams in football, soccer, volleyball, cross-country, wrestling, swimming, basketball, ice hockey, squash, tennis, crew, golf, baseball and, perhaps most notably, lacrosse, for which St. Paul's has repeatedly been one of the top-ranked teams in the nation.[2]
Varsity lacrosse
Since the start of varsity lacrosse at St. Paul's in 1933, the Crusaders have won 25 MSA/MIAA titles — more than any other team in the conference. Most recently, St. Paul's defeated longtime rival Boys' Latin 17-7 in the 2010 MIAA Conference Championship game at Towson University's Unitas Stadium. St. Paul's has produced 12 C. Markland Kelly Award winners, which honors the top player in the state of Maryland each year. St. Paul's has also produced 22 high school All-Americans and 21 graduates in the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame, in addition to producing more college All-Americans than any other program in the country.
St. Paul's claimed its first Maryland Scholastic Association (MSA) lacrosse title in 1940 under head coach Howdy Myers. St. Paul's would dominate the next two decades in the MSA winning the title 14 times. During this stretch, many college programs would schedule scrimmages against St. Paul's in the early spring. In 1947, St. Paul's beat Princeton University twice, the first coming in a preseason scrimmage in Princeton, New Jersey and the second a scheduled game at Johns Hopkins University's Homewood Field. During this period, St. Paul's posted five undefeated seasons, four under Howdy Myers, and another in 1951 while Jim Adams was the head coach. The fabled 1969 Crusader team, coached by legendary George Mitchell, went undefeated and is considered one of the best in history. The 1992 St. Paul's team also went undefeated, winning a MSA championship under coach Mitch Whiteley. In 2010, St. Paul's won the conference championship, the 25th in school history, under current head coach Rick Brocato.
Traditions
Since 1935, the St. Paul's Honor Council has been run by a group of upperclassmen who are elected by the student body. The council upholds the school's honor code and the principles of the school motto, Veritas et Virtus, truth and virtue.
Each year, the St. Paul's community returns to the site of its founding at Old St. Paul's Parish in downtown Baltimore for the annual Lessons and Carols celebrations, a tradition originating in the Anglican community, most notably at King's College, Cambridge. Students from all years participate in the day-long festivities.
The first alumni association was founded in 1894. Today, St. Paul's has an active alumni membership of over 2,500. Each year, the alumni association plays host to a number of events that bring alums back to campus, such as the bull roast dinner, which is an annual highpoint.
Notable alumni
- James 'Ace' Adams '46, lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee and legendary coach; namesake includes Adams Field at UPenn[3][4]
- Scott Bacigalupo, lacrosse player
- A. Aubrey Bodine, internationally renowned photographer
- Conor Gill, professional lacrosse player
- Steve Johnson, professional baseball player; pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles[5]
- Alex Gaskarth, Singer/Guitarist of rock'n'roll band All Time Low.
- Charles L. Lea Jr., venture capital pioneer, former board member of Fedex & Amgen[6]
- Johnny Mann, Grammy Award-winning composer, conductor, entertainer, and recording artist
- Brooks T. Moore '81, narrator for How It's Made
- Mark Pellington, director of Arlington Road and award-winning music video for the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy"
- Richard Sher, newscaster, WJZ-TV Baltimore
- Steven D. Silverman, Baltimore based trial attorney
- Mark Walsh, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, political activist
- Michael Watson, professional lacrosse player
- Glenn Yarbrough, folk singer, leader singer of the Limeliters from 1959 to 1963
- Don Zimmerman, lacrosse coach
References
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- ↑ http://www.makinghistory.upenn.edu/node/536
- ↑ http://apps.uslacrosse.org/museum/halloffame/view_profile.php?prof_id=10
- ↑ http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bal-sp.osnotes17mar17,0,2226203.story
- ↑ http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/lehman/chrono.html?company=new_court_private_equity_fund_inc
Further reading
- Hein, David. "The Founding of the Boys' School of St. Paul's Parish, Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (1986): 149-59.
- Hein, David. "Christianity and Honor." The Living Church, August 18, 2013, pp. 8-10.
- Otterbein, Angelo F. We Have Kept the Faith : The First 150 Years of the Boys' School of St. Paul's Parish, 1849-1999. Brooklandville, Md.: St. Paul's School, 1999.
External links
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- Private high schools in Maryland
- Private middle schools in Maryland
- Private elementary schools in Maryland
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