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Oscar Tang, Chinese-American investment banker and philanthropist; chairman of Board of Trustees of Phillips Academy and largest donor in Phillips Academy history (graduated 1956) William Davis Taylor, publisher and chair of the Boston Globe (graduated 1927) Thomas D. Thacher (1881–1950), one-time Solicitor General of the United States [62]
Phillips Academy Andover. This is a complete list of the principals of Phillips Academy since its founding in 1778. [1] From 1778 to 1928, the title was "Principal". In the year 1928, the name was changed to "Headmaster", and finally with the appointment of Barbara Landis Chase, the title was changed to "Head of School".
John Adams (September 18, 1772 – April 24, 1863) was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools. He was the 4th Principal of Phillips Academy. His life was celebrated by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in his poem, "The School Boy", which was read at the centennial celebration of Phillips Academy in 1878, thus ...
John Phillips (December 27, 1719 – April 21, 1795) was an early American educator and the cofounder of Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, along with his wife, Elizabeth Phillips. He was a major donor to Dartmouth College , where he served as a trustee.
Phillips Academy's traditional rival is Phillips Exeter Academy, which was established three years later in Exeter, New Hampshire, by Samuel Phillips' uncle John Phillips. Andover and Exeter's sports teams have played each other since 1861, [ 14 ] and the football teams have met nearly every year since 1878, making Andover-Exeter one of the ...
— John Henry Fitzgerald He was a strong proponent for the use of large caliber handguns, such as the .45 ACP Colt 1911 and was especially fond of using .45 Colt New Service revolvers. [ 7 ] He was among the first to advocate the two-handed shooting stance that was developed further into the Modern technique by Jack Weaver and Jeff Cooper [ 7 ...
Gideon Lane Soule (1816) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1838–1873 [66] Nathaniel Gookin Upham (1816) – associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court; railroad president; diplomat [68] George Lunt (1818) – politician, author, editor, poet [69] John Dennison Russ (1818) – physician; innovator in the education of the blind [1]
The following is a list of members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2006 to ... John Henry Schwarz; John Patrick Shanley ... Garret Adare FitzGerald ...