POMFRET SCHOOL

'Pomfret School' is an independent coeducational boarding and day school located in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States that educates grades 9 through 12. The school also offers a post-graduate year. It is dedicated to the goals of helping students realize their intellectual, physical and spiritual potential while recognizing their responsibilities as members of a community.
Pomfret School was founded by William E. Peck in 1894 on the principles of intellectual rigor and the development of character. Peck is the former head of St. Mark's School.
Pomfret operates WBVC, an FM radio station.
Pomfret is located next to The Rectory School on Connecticut Route 169.

Contents

Facilities

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

Prominent fellows

External links

Facilities

In October 2004, Pomfret School opened the doors of its new athletic center and student union. The athletic center was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Jon Corzine, parents of a recent Pomfret graduate. Mr. Corzine is the current Governor of New Jersey.

Notable alumni

★ Edward Stettinius, Jr., first United States Ambassador to the United Nations and U.S. Secretary of State

★ WP Carey, businessman, philantropist

★ Rep. Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr., Member of Congress (D-NY) and U.S. Minister to Hungrey & Portugal

★ Eric D. Coleman, State Senator , Deputy President Pro Tempore in the Connecticut Senate

★ Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr., former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New York Medical College

★ William F. Draper, prominent portrait painter

★ Edward B. du Pont, former Chairman of Atlantic Aviation Corporation, Board Member du Pont Company

★ Sooho Cho, President of Hanjin Shipping (HJS)

★ Adam Hochschild, author of best-selling book ''King Leopold's Ghost''

★ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of Senator Robert Kennedy (D-NY)

★ Ridley Pearson, best-selling author of ''The Art of Deception''

★ Alex Gibney, Emmy- and Grammy-winning writer, film producer and director

★ Jeremiah Bogert, ''New York Times'' Photo Editor

★ Rich Espinal, holds the NCAA Division 1 record for most career penalty minutes in Men's Lacrosse, has played for stints on many semi-pro lacrosse clubs in the northern New-England area.

★ Buzz Yudell, architect, designed U.S. Embassy in Berlin

★ Jack Hardy, singer-songwriter

★ Peter Corbin, portrait artist

★ Donald E. Williams Jr, State Senator, President Pro Tempore of the Connecticut Senate

★ Prince Lorenzo Borghese, star of ABC's ''

★ Jimmy Gleacher, author of best-selling book ''It's How You Play the Game''

★ John E. Evans, III, attorney, Noted national criminal defense lawyer and indigent legal services advocate

★ Eben Ostby, animator at Pixar Studios

★ Spencer Bailey, a surviving passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 that crashed on July 19, 1989

★ Sarah Vaillancourt, Olympic gold medalist

Notable faculty

★ John N. Dempsey, Pomfret soccer coach and subsequently Governor of Connecticut 1961-1971

★ Rep. Horace Seely-Brown, Jr., Member of Congress (R-CT) 1947-49, 1951-59, 1961-63

Prominent fellows

★ David McCullough, writer, historian, and host of ''The American Experience'' on public television

★ Joyce Carol Oates, national award-winning author

★ Robert Ballard, oceanographer, discoverer of Titanic

★ Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize wining author of ''Angela's Ashes''

★ Carlos Fuentes, Latin American novelist

★ Jacques d'Amboise, world renowned dancer with the New York City Ballet Company

★ Victor Wooten, Bass guitarist for Bela Fleck & the Flecktones

★ Oteil Burbridge, Bass guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band

★ Chevy Chase, writer, actor, performer

★ Jean-Michel Cousteau, explorer, environmentalist, educator, film producer

★ Christine Todd Whitman, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

★ Donald Johanson, Paleoanthropologist, discovered the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton known as "Lucy"

★ Brian Greene, physicist and String Theorist

★ Bill Bryson, writer ''A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail''

★ Rep. Shirley Chisholm, first African American woman elected to the United States Congress

External links

★ Pomfret School website

★ Pomfret School Admissions Video on SchoolFair.tv

★ Pomfret School's Radio Station: WBVC 91.1 FM

★ Norwich Bulletin Article on Bill Bryson