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Friends Academy is a Quaker, coeducational, independent, college preparatory school serving students from nursery school through the twelfth grade, located in Locust Valley, New York, United States. The school was founded in 1876 by 78-year-old Gideon Frost for "The children of Friends and those similarly sentimented."
Friends Academy was founded in 1810 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) from New Bedford, Dartmouth, and the surrounding area. It incorporated in 1812. [1] The campus was first located on County Street in New Bedford. It later moved to a building on Morgan Street. The school moved to its current Dartmouth campus in 1949.
The first day of classes was May 11, 1858, with grades 1–12, with only four boarders and twenty day students. At this time the school was officially known as Friends Academy. [ 8 ] On March 23, 1876, the school officially changed its name to Oakwood Seminary, however the first unofficial reference to the school's name as Oakwood appears in 1863.
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Hubbard Hall, often called "The Boat House," is the historic home of the United States Naval Academy ' s rowing teams in Annapolis, Maryland.Located on Dorsey Creek, off of the Severn River, it was completed in 1930 for the 40-man heavyweight rowing team.
Friends' School, Saffron Walden, England, (known as Walden School in 2016–17) the oldest Friends School, was founded in 1702, under the care of Britain Yearly Meeting which indirectly appointed the school's Board of Governors through the Friends' School Saffron Walden General Meeting [19] The school closed at the end of the summer term, 2017.
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The Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) is a college athletic conference of fifteen men's college rowing crews. It is an affiliate of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). [ 1 ]