Abbot Academy (also known as Abbot Female Seminary and AA) was an independent boarding preparatory school for women boarding and day care for students...
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paraphrases from the academy constitution. In 1828, all-boys Phillips Academy was joined by a sister school, Abbot Academy. Abbot was one of the first...
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Phillips Academy. When a friend of his went to Boston to take the entrance exam to get into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Abbot went for...
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notable past students of Phillips Academy (also known as Phillips Andover and Andover) and of the former Abbot Academy (Phillips became coeducational in...
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Jackson, Maine, April 28, 1819; son of Ezra and Phebe Abbot. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1840. In 1847...
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Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is a co-educational college-preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire. Established in 1781, it...
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Maria Susanna Cummins (category Abbot Academy alumni)
Maria Susanna Cummins (April 9, 1827 – October 1, 1866) was an American novelist. She authored the wnovel The Lamplighter (1854). Maria Susanna Cummins...
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Edwards Amasa Park (category Abbot Academy)
Amherst in 1835; and Bartlet professor of sacred rhetoric (1836-1847), and Abbot professor of Christian theology (1847-1881) at Andover. He died at Andover...
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Julia Alvarez (category Abbot Academy alumni)
wanted to do with her life. At the age of 13, her parents sent her to Abbot Academy, a boarding school, because the local schools were not considered sufficient...
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (category Abbot Academy alumni)
Johnson (1863). Phelps received an upper class education, attending the Abbot Academy and Mrs. Edwards' School for Young Ladies. She had a gift for telling...
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Kate Douglas Wiggin (category Abbot Academy alumni)
Female Seminary, a winter term at Morison Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, and a few months' stay at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated...
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Lucy R. Lippard (category Abbot Academy alumni)
lived in New Orleans and Charlottesville, Virginia, before enrolling at Abbot Academy in 1952. Her father, Vernon W. Lippard, a pediatrician, became assistant...
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photographic skills and became interested in the art form. Abbot Academy merged with Phillips Academy in 1973; Woodman graduated from the public Boulder High...
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Massachusetts. Though she attended both the Maplewood Institute and Abbot Academy, Dawes did not graduate from either institution. She also did not have...
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Marcia McCabe (category Abbot Academy alumni)
Parade Publications publisher Arthur H. Motley. She graduated from Abbot Academy in 1973 and attended Rollins College before moving to New York City...
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Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England. Its population was 24,029 in 2011, and...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (category Abbot Academy alumni)
John Marshall. She was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts and attended Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. After beginning undergraduate studies at...
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Alice Stone Blackwell (category Abbot Academy alumni)
Harris Grammar School in Dorchester, the Chauncy School in Boston and Abbot Academy in Andover. She attended Boston University, where she was president...
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Ann Cole Gannett (category Abbot Academy alumni)
Ann Sheafe and Benjamin E. Cole in Brookline, Gannett graduated from Abbot Academy in Andover in 1933, and then from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in...
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Carol Bly (category Abbot Academy alumni)
with the damage that evil people could do. After graduating from the Abbot Academy boarding school, McLean received her B.A. in English and history from...
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Hollywood, California in 1933. She was educated at the Brearley School, Abbot Academy, and Smith College, from which she graduated in 1954. Her sister was...
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Fellowship for Education. Sizer left Harvard to serve as headmaster of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1972 to 1981, to lead a study of American...
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Philena McKeen, principal of Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts Ned O'Gorman, poet and educator – spent part...
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John Smith (abolitionist) (category Abbot Academy)
philanthropists. John Smith, in particular, contributed to Phillips Academy and Abbot Academy. John Smith was also instrumental in building Andover's Memorial...
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Wendy Ewald (category Abbot Academy alumni)
educator. Wendy Ewald was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduated from Abbot Academy in 1969 and attended Antioch College between 1969 and 1974, as well...
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In Andover, Massachusetts, she attended Abbot Academy, an all-girls school. She graduated from Abbot Academy in June 1962.[citation needed] After graduating...
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Philena McKeen (category Abbot Academy)
– May 13, 1898) was an American educator and the 11th principal of Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. During her thirty-year tenure, she managed...
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Oscar Tang (category Phillips Academy alumni)
School (’53) and Phillips Academy in Andover (’56). His future wife, Frances Young, attended Andover's sister school, Abbot Academy (’57), and she went on...
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and later in Massachusetts. Educated at a school in New Hampshire and Abbot Academy (Andover, Massachusetts), she began attending ballet and other dance...
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Julia Constance Fletcher (category Abbot Academy alumni)
was Henriette Malan, the daughter of a Swiss clergyman. She went to Abbot Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts, and was in the class of 1867. After her...
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