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By the 1880s, Miss Porter’s was a nationally well-respected school that boasted nearly 100 young women as students. In the 19th century, Miss Porter’s School curriculum included Latin, French and German, spelling, and reading.
Jan 18, 2024 · Discover the illustrious ex-students of Miss Porter's School, a reputed institution steeped in history and prestige. The academy's alumni are a testament to the excellence of the educational opportunities it offers.
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Nov 30, 2021 · Miss Porter’s School. Teachers John Bryk, Kaitlin Cowles, Michelle Perry, Ian Rumsey and Math Department Chair Hur-shiu Webb attended the virtual annual conference of the National Council...
Dec 4, 2023 · How can Miss Porter’s School best live out its mission of educating young women to become informed, bold, resourceful and ethical global citizens who will shape a changing world?
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Classical scholar Edith Hamilton graduated from Miss Porter’s. So did her sister Dr. Alice Hamilton, the first woman faculty member of Harvard University Medical School and founder of the field of industrial medicine. Graduates would include the mother, daughter, wife, sister-in-law and mistress of presidents. Dorothy Walker Bush, the mother of Pre...
Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark was an American heiress born Nonie “Nancy” May Stewart Worthington Leeds in Zanesville, Ohio. Her family soon moved to Cleveland and sent her to Miss Porter’s. After graduation she entered high society and married Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmarkafter two failed marriages. Because of the prince’s fin...
Edith Bouvier Beale, a first cousin to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, pursued fame without much luck. Then the documentary film Grey Gardens came along. The film showed her living with her mother, poor and isolated on an East Hampton estate. When the film came out, Jackie intervened and paid $32,000 to clean the house, install a new furnace an...
Cissy Patterson was the granddaughter of Joseph Medill, owner of the Chicago Tribune and mayor of Chicago. She made a name for herself in Washington society, then bought and published the Washington Times-Herald. She befriended Marguerite Cassini, daughter of the Russian ambassador, and Alice Roosevelt. The press labeled them the ‘Three Graces.’ Sh...
Miss Porter's School (MPS) is a private college preparatory school for girls founded in 1843 in Farmington, Connecticut. The school draws students from many of the fifty U.S. states, as well as from abroad.
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Mar 9, 2008 · MISS PORTER’S SCHOOL looks as it did a year ago, an idyllic setting. It’s just the sort of refuge where you’d like to study Chinese or biology or finally figure out what Existentialism...
