Wilbraham & Monson Academy

Wilbraham & Monson Academy (WMA) is a college-preparatory school located in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1804, it is a four-year boarding and day high school for students in grades 9-12 and postgraduate. A middle school, with grades 6–8, offers boarding for grade 8 students. The academy is located in the center of the town of Wilbraham, 75 miles (121 km) from Boston and 150 miles (240 km) from New York City.

Wilbraham & Monson Academy
Rich Hall
Address
423 Main Street Wilbraham , Hampden , Massachusetts 01095 United States
Coordinates	42°07′20.96″N 72°25′53.67″W
Information
Former names	Monson Academy Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy
Type	Private, boarding, day, college preparatory school
Motto	At Home. In the World.
Established	1804 (1804)
CEEB code	222400
NCES School ID	00604261
Chair	Scott B. Jacobs
Head of School	Brian Easler
Faculty	66
Grades	9-12, including postgraduate
Gender	Coeducational
Enrollment	400
Student to teacher ratio	6:1
Campus	400 acres (1.6 km2)
Color(s)	Red and Blue
Mascot	Titan
Nickname	Titans
Annual tuition	$75,500 - 7-day boarding $65,500 - 5-day boarding $45,000 - Upper School day $35,000 - Middle School day
Revenue	$ 22,102,738
Website	www.wma.us

Athletics

In fall 2007, the Academy unveiled its $4 million expansion of the Greenhalgh Athletic Center on campus. The expansion included a fitness room, a multi-purpose dance and wrestling space, a large conference room and new central locker facilities.

Notable alumni

• Henry Barnard, educationalist
• Alfred Ely Beach, inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer
• Rick Bennett, ice hockey player and coach
• Mary Ann Booth, microscopist
• Henry Billings Brown, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Wrote majority opinion for Plessy v. Ferguson
• Tyrell Burgess, professional soccer player with Vancouver Whitecaps FC
• Kraisak Choonhavan, member of Thailand Senate for Nakhon Ratchasima Province (2000–2006); former chairman of the Thai Senate's Foreign Relations Committee
• Russell H. Conwell, minister and founder of Temple University - 1859
• Winthrop Murray Crane, Senator
• Emily Norcross Dickinson, mother of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson
• Kyle Filipowski, Duke University basketball player
• Richard Fuld, former CEO Lehman Brothers
• Wenyen Gabriel (born 1997), South Sudanese-American basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Bill Guerin, retired NHL hockey player; general manager of Minnesota Wild; four-time Stanley Cup champion
• William Stewart Halstead, pioneering American surgeon, studied at Monson Academy for a time
• Ratcliffe Hicks, Connecticut state legislator, industrialist, lawyer, and benefactor of the University of Connecticut
• Kim Hyun-jong, South Korean trade minister under Moon Jae-in and Roh Moo-hyun
• Galway Kinnell, poet
• Christine Ladd-Franklin, mathematician, logician and psychologist - 1865
• Oliver Marcy, Served as acting President of Northwestern University twice, while also serving as a professor of natural history
• Patrick Mazeika (born 1993), baseball player
• Pat Phelan, professional soccer player for the New England Revolution
• Nitya Pibulsonggram, Thai Ambassador to the US (1996–2000), Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006–2008)
• Humphrey Pickard, first president of Mount Allison University
• Charles Pratt, oil tycoon and founder of the Pratt Institute
• Joey Santiago, band member of the Pixies
• Pote Sarasin, Prime Minister of Thailand (1957) secretary-general of SEATO (1958–1964)
• Lucy Stone, orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and women's rights advocate
• William Strong, governor of the Commonwealth 1900–1902
• Yung Wing, first Chinese graduate of an American university (Yale) - 1854

See also

• Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy

Further reading

• Massachusetts Board of Education; George A. Walton (1877), "Report on Academies: Monson Academy", Annual Report...1875-76, Boston – via Internet Archive{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

• Wilbraham & Monson Academy Website