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Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema

Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema  (3 April 1917 – 26 September 2007) was a Dutch writer who became a resistance fighter and RAF pilot during the Second World War. Near the end of the war he was adjudant (assistant) to Queen Wilhelmina. He was made Knight 4th class of the Military William Order. He is perhaps best known for his book Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) which described his experiences in the war. His book was later made into a film. The book and the film about it eventually were made into the most successful Dutch musical ever, premiering 30 October 2010.

Early life
Roelfzema was born in the former Dutch East Indies in Surabaya, on Java, when it was under colonial rule. He was from a patrician family, which is listed in the Nederland's Patriciaat. He was the second child of Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema and his wife Cornelia Vreede. His older sister, Ellen, had been born two years before. His father managed rubber and coffee plantations. In the 1930s the family returned to the Netherlands so the children could be provided with a good education. They initially moved to The Hague, and later moved on to Wassenaar. He played soccer and was a member of the Hague Football Association.

Roelfzema started writing in his teens. From 16 years of age onward he was committed to becoming a writer. He attended Leiden University and was a member of the Leidsch Student Corps Minerva society while living at Rapenburg 56 across the canal from the. During his hazing initiation, the president of his student corps, Ernst de Jonge, threw a soup tureen at a group of new students, striking Roelfzema in the head and cutting his scalp. De Jonge had been an Olympic rower at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, and was very popular among the students. His accidental wounding of Roelfzema was the basis for their forming a friendship.

After completing his first year of study, Roelfzema took time off to travel to the United States and crossed the country by freighthopping and hitchhiking. In 1939, he wrote a book of this experience, titled Rendezvous in San Francisco, which became a bestseller in the Netherlands.

War in Europe
Following his trip abroad Roelfzema returned to Leiden University to continue his studies. When war broke out in Europe in September, 1939, Roelfzema and his fellow students supposed Holland would remain neutral as it had during the First World War. When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in November he traveled there to cover the conflict, working as a war correspondent for the Rotterdams Nieuwsblad, the Dordrechtsch Nieuwsblad and the Haagsche Courant. Afterwards he wrote a book about it, titled Het Smeulende Vuur (The Smoldering Fire).

Following the conclusion of the war in Finland in March 1940, he returned home and resumed his life as a student at Leiden. He was there at the time of the German invasion of the Netherlands on 10 May 1940. Roelfzema joined the Dutch army reserve, but the Netherlands was overrun by the German army in five days, bringing the war to a close before he was deployed. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands fled to London to establish the government in exile there.

Roelfzema continued his studies during the occupation and became involved in the Dutch underground. In October, the faculty at Leiden received a letter demanding to know if they were of Jewish heritage. On 23 November all the Jewish staff at the university were dismissed. The dean of the Law School, Professor Rudolph Cleveringa, gave a speech on 26 November 1940 condemning these dismissals. He and several other of the law professors were arrested. This instigated a 48-hour strike by the students. In response the Germans closed the university.

In February 1941, Roelfzema wrote his 'Leids manifesto', which criticized German demands of excluding the Jewish students from the student societies. It called upon the students of Leiden to resist the policies of the German occupiers. He printed it at his own expense, and, during the night of 14/15 February, Roelfzema and eleven of his compatriots posted it all over Leiden. Ten days later, the board of the university made a request of the students that they resist the German occupiers no further. Roelfzema wrote a reply on 6 March, pledging in principle to commit no more opposition at the university. In April he was arrested by the secret police and held for a week at the notorious "Orange hotel", a political prison run by the Germans in Scheveningen.

In the midst of the unrest and disruption, the Germans re-opened Leiden University for ten days. As it happened, Roelfzema had been studying hard and took this opportunity to take exams. Taking his exams in formal tuxedo, as was the custom of his student society, Minerva, he passed and was awarded his doctorate in law on 10 June 1941. He was the first member of his class to attain the degree. Leiden University was closed again soon afterwards. Three weeks later, he was an Engelandvaarder, a Dutchman who escaped Nazi control by finding a way to reach England. Roelfzema, Peter Tazelaar, Bram van der Stok, Gerard Volkersz and Toon Buitendijk posed as crew members aboard the SS St. Cergue, a Swiss freighter bound for New York City. The ship was intercepted in the North Sea by the British cruiser HMS Devonshire (39), suspecting her to be a German supply ship. The Devonshire escorted her to Tórshavn, in the Faroe Islands, were the stowaways were brought ashore. Roelfzema persuaded the captain of the British cruiser to give them passage to Britain.

Activities in England
Once in London, Roelfzema became involved in a secret service group of escaped young Dutchmen called the Mews, after Chester Square Mews, the neighborhood in London where they lived. The group was being run under the direction of François van 't Sant, director of the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (CID, Centrale Inlichtingendienst). The agents were trained under Colonel Euan Rabagliati of MI9. Their operation was called 'Contact Holland', whose goal was to establish links with the disparate Dutch resistance groups, support them and coordinate their activities in the Netherlands. Most agents were brought into the Netherlands by parachute drop. This required the agent to be trained in parachuting and exposed them to the risks of doing so at night. Roelfzema, Peter Tazelaar and Chris Krediet came up with an alternative method of insertion. They proposed gaining access to the Netherlands by sea. They would use a Motor Gun Boat (MGB) to cross the English Channel, covering the last stretch of water by taking a small boat and rowing into shore.

Due to internal politics Van 't Sant was required to step down from his position with intelligence and control of the CID was transferred to Colonel Mattheus de Bruyne of the Dutch Marine Corps. De Bruyne lacked experience in intelligence work and did not have a good grasp on the subtlety required. He failed to recognize the fact that his agents were often arrested and yet were continuing to broadcast messages, except now they were under the control of the Germans. The usual procedure for transmitting messages was to include small errors. If an agent was forced to work for the Germans, he would leave out the errors. The result should be that contact was aborted immediately. De Bruyne concluded that the agents simply forgot to use the security-checks and even sent messages to remind them. This would tip-off the German intelligence and the agent would be replaced with a German and sent off to a concentration camp. Other intelligence mistakes by De Bruyne included attaching detailed maps of the landing sites at Noordwijk, Scheveningen and Walcherento to the walls of his London office and leaving them up. Observing this, Louis d'Aulnis, an agent of the CID, elected not to announce where his landing place would be beforehand, a measure which ended up saving his life.

In their first mission, Peter Tazelaar was to deliver radio equipment and bring two men back from the occupied Netherlands to join the government-in-exile in Britain. Roelfzema had met Tazelaar when the two men had worked as stokers on the St. Cregue during their escape. Roelfzema had often spent time at the seaside resort of Scheveningen and knew that every Friday night a large party was held at the Kurhaus of Scheveningen (Grand Hotel) which had been taken over by the Germans as a headquarters. Their plan was to approach Scheveningen late at night and take Tazelaar into shore by dinghy.

In the pre-dawn hours of 23 November 1941, Tazelaar, Roelfzema, Krediet and Lieutenant Francis 'Bob' Goodfellow rowed in on a small dinghy. When they neared the surf, Roelfzema and Tazelaar slipped off the boat and waded onto the beach. Tazelaar was then helped out of his wetsuit to reveal the black tuxedo he was wearing beneath it. Roelfzema then poured a generous amount of brandy over Tazelaar and left him, returning to the dinghy. Reeking of brandy, Tazelaar managed to pass himself off as a drunken party goer and staggered past the sentries stationed around the hotel. Two months later he returned to the beach with three others for a return to England. They were waiting on the beach for Roelfzema but the Sicherheitspolizei arrived on the scene first. Tazelaar and one other were able to escape. With no contact to England, he had to return overland, taking his chances traveling through Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal, before reaching England three months later.

Roelfzema led fifteen small-boat missions to the shores of the Netherlands. He was in charge of the insertion mission, while a Royal Navy lieutenant was in charge of the Motor Gun Boat carrying them. The small group would wait for the dark of a moonless night to attempt their missions, with Roelfzema going ashore with whoever was being dropped. 108 such Engelandvaarders returned to the Netherlands by parachute or boat to support the resistance. Only half survived the war.

On 22 February 1942, Roelfzema's 'transport service' performed an infiltration for his friend Ernst de Jonge. They rowed ashore at Katwijk. Roelfzema had already become suspicious that something was amiss with their insertion operations. He feared they were being betrayed by Nazi sympathizers present amongst the officers of the exiled government. Some three months after De Jonge's drop, a courier on his way to England was picked up by the secret police. He was carrying detailed reports written by De Jonge that had been transferred onto three roles of microfilm. De Jonge heard about the arrest but refused to go into hiding. Three days later, on 22 May, De Jonge and two of his fellow agents were arrested at an apartment in Rotterdam. They were brought to Kamp Haaren. From there they were transferred to Assen. Roelfzema did not hear from him again; De Jonge and a group of 52 others were sent to the Rawicz concentration camp in Poland. Of that group, 47 were sent over to Mauthausen, where they were executed. Ernst de Jonge remained with six others at Rawicz and died there in September 1944; he has no known grave.

With the capture of De Jonge, Roelfzema blamed de Bruyne. When de Bruyne instructed Roelfzema to provide information to another branch of the exiled Dutch government, Roelfzema refused for fear that it had been infiltrated by Nazi sympathizers. De Bruyne was angry with this insubordination and moved to have Roelfzema court-martialed. Queen Wilhelmina intervened and recommended him for the Netherlands' highest honor, the Militaire Willemsorde (Military Order of William). The court-martial proceedings were set aside and the Militaire Willemsorde was bestowed upon Roelfzema in the summer of 1942 by the Queen. Following this he met with Dutch Navy minister Johan Furstner and the court-martial was cancelled. Roelfzema had had enough of working with the secret service. He resigned from the Mews and volunteered to serve in the Royal Air Force.

The British military historian M. R. D. Foot has confirmed the degree of German penetration of SOE's Dutch networks, something SOE denied during the War. In his history of the Special Operations Executive, he wrote that the Allied intelligence effort in the Netherlands had been penetrated from the start of the war. Two Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) agents, Captain Sigismund Payne Best and Major Richard Stevens, had been captured in November 1939 during the Venlo Incident. This culminated in the capture of some 50 British and Dutch agents by the Abwehr and the Sicherheitsdienst in Operation North Pole.

Flying with the RAF
To fly for the RAF Roelfzema first had to qualify. Poor vision had disqualified him earlier from mandatory service in the Dutch reserves. The glasses he wore for visual correction should have disqualified him from pilot training as well. Ever resourceful, Roelfzema worked around this by smuggling in a lens and palming it during his vision test. He passed and was sent to Canada for flying school. He trained in single-seat fighter aircraft and was awarded the gold cufflinks on graduating his training course given to the best pilot cadet in the training group.

On returning to England he found himself sidelined, unable to get posted to an operational squadron. An unlikely avenue was with the elite Pathfinder Force of Bomber Command's most experienced and best pilots, whose job it was to guide the Bomber stream of the RAF night bombers through all weathers to their targets in Germany. While lamenting his situation with girlfriend Midge Cooper at a public house, 'Hamish' Mahaddie happened by. Mahaddie was a wing commander with the Pathfinders, who frequented the public houses after giving talks on Pathfinder techniques to see if he could recruit any pilots for his force. "Here's just the man we need!" said Cooper. Though hesitant to take on an inexperienced pilot, Mahaddie granted Roelfzema a spot at RAF Warboys, where the group trained pilots on twin-engine aircraft and night flying in preparation to work in the PFF. To obtain a position in the squadron, Roelfzema needed to score an "above average" in the training course, which he did. Thus the near-sighted novice fighter pilot was posted to the elite PFF, flying the De Havilland Mosquito.

Roelfzema flew with 139 Squadron. His aircraft was unarmed and relied on its speed to escape from German night fighters and luck to get through the flak. Normally Bomber Command crews were considered to complete a tour after 30 sorties. In the Pathfinder Force crews initially were required to complete 60 sorties but later this was reduced to 45. Roelfzema completed 72 operational sorties, including 25 missions over Berlin, the most heavily defended city in the Reich. For his service the RAF awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross. While serving in the RAF, Roelfzema flew with pilots and aircrews from other nations that had become occupied by Nazi Germany, whom he saw as comrades in arms. Years later he came to realize that working with Danes, Poles and others gave him a broader sense of the world which he came to appreciate.

Adjudant to the Queen
In early 1945, with France and parts of the Netherlands liberated, Roelfzema was appointed adjudant (assistant) to Queen Wilhelmina. To his surprise and delight, Peter Tazelaar had been selected as well. The two accompanied her back to the Netherlands when she returned 13 March 1945, after a five-year exile in London. The Queen landed in Antwerp, Belgium, and traveled west by car to Maldegem, where she turned north to enter the Netherlands at Eede. The Queen chose Eede as the point to enter her country because the village and surrounding area had been severely damaged by the war, resulting in many victims. The arrival of the Queen symbolized the end of years of oppression and loss of freedom and the beginning of a period of peace and prosperity. She stepped out of her armored carriage and walked firmly over the border, which was marked for the occasion. Years later, she recalled the border crossing in her memoirs as "One of the greatest events of my life". He flew the Queen home on the liberation of the Netherlands in May of that year. Shortly afterwards Roelfzema attended the two future Dutch monarchs, Princess Juliana and her daughter Princess Beatrix, on the aeroplane which brought them back to the Netherlands on the Gilze en Rijen flight of 2 May 1945. He helped Beatrix take her first few steps on liberated Dutch soil.

At the Queen's inauguration in The Hague on 6 July 1945, Roelfzema was in attendance at the Queen's request. He was also on hand when the princesses returned at Teuge Airport 2 August 1945.

After the war
After the Second World War, Queen Wilhelmina offered him a permanent appointment as her adjudant but he declined this position. Shortly thereafter he emigrated to the United States, became a US citizen and married his long-time girlfriend Margaret "Midge" Cooper. He worked in Hollywood, initially as an actor and then as a writer. He moved on to work in the television industry as a writer for the first Today Show program and later helped to launch The Tonight Show in New York City. He also wrote for a number of Dutch newspapers. In 1950 he was approached by Dutch admiral Conrad Helfrich, who asked him to help support the Moluccans. The Moluccas are a group of islands north and west of New Guinea. The islanders are predominantly Christian. Following the withdrawal of the Dutch from the Dutch East Indies, the Molluccans declined to be a part of the newly formed Republic of Indonesia, which was Muslim-dominated and under the rule of Sukarno, who had become increasingly authoritarian. They declared their independence as the Republic of South Maluku.

Sukarno was in the process of forcibly taking control of the islands. Roelfzema was approached to contact the resistance on the Moluccas and document that Sukarno was using military force against them. This evidence was to be presented to the United Nations, where the case of the Molaccan people could be heard. He was provided with a small float plane in the Philippines, a Republic RC-3 Seabee and a former aviator from the US Navy to fly the aircraft to Ambon in the Mollucas. The aircraft turned out to be overloaded and could not get airborne. Roelfzema and the pilot spent the next three days removing the aircraft's wheels to lighten it. After three days the pilot gave up and left Roelfzema to deal with the mission and the aircraft. He had not flown since the war five years previously and had never flown a float plane. He reached the Mollucas and obtained the evidence requested to support the claim before the UN. His efforts created a lot of public interest, which Roelfzema made use of to bring attention to the plight of the people of the Moluccas.

In 1956 he was appointed director of Radio Free Europe, and moved to Munich. In the late 1950s Roelfzema had a number of meetings in New York City with fellow Dutch national Ben van Marken, where they discussed their mutual interest in auto-racing. In 1963 he and Van Marken became co-founders of 'Racing Team Holland', a Dutch motorsport team. In November 1968 he married for the second time, to Karin Steensma, an interior decorator. At this time he was contacted by a Dutch publishing company whose primary holding was a Dutch newspaper. They asked if he would convey his war experiences for a series of articles to run in their paper and they proposed to send a ghost writer to take down narration and compose the pieces. After twenty years in the business world, he longed to return to his first calling of writing. He wanted to write about what had happened to him and his friends during the war. As a writer, he had the ability to express himself about what they had gone through, where he knew the others could not. Steensma supported his decision. He agreed to write the articles himself, if they would give him an advance and publish them in book form at the end. They agreed and he set about his task. After a year of work his book was published in 1970 under the title Het Hol Van De Ratelslang (The Rattlesnake Cave). Roelfzema was not happy with the book, the title, the cover, the publisher or how the book was being promoted. After six months it had sold some 13,000 copies in Holland. Roelfzema purchased the rights to the book, reworked it to make the stories flow together better, changed the title and got Prince Bernhard to write a foreword. This second presentation was titled "Soldaat Van Oranje" (Soldier of Orange), for his association with the royal family. It became an international bestseller.

In 1971 his son Erik invited him to visit him at his home on Maui, at the time a remote location. Roelfzema found the landscape, climate, smells and friendliness of the islands reminded him of his childhood home in Java. He felt he was coming home, purchased land there and after introducing his wife Karin to the island, the couple moved there together. They lived on Maui for a number of years before moving to a more remote location on the big island of Hawaii.

Prominent Dutch film maker Paul Verhoeven took an interest in Roelfzema's Soldaat Van Oranje and brought it to the screen. He cast Rutger Hauer in the part of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema. Roelfzema was on the set as a consultant and the two became lifelong friends. With the release of the film Soldaat van Oranje in 1977, Roelfzema gained greater public attention and Hauer was made into an international film star. The film won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Film in 1979. One year later, in 1980, it received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2010 the story was brought to the stage as a musical. The musical version of Soldier of Orange was presented in a unique rotating theater, which was special built in an old hangar at the former military airport at Valkenburg, which is located between Wassenaar and Katwijk near Leiden. The musical was very well received.

Roelfzema joined Barnwell Industries as a director in 1977. He encouraged the company's chairman to look to Hawai'i as a possible location to headquarter the business. He was instrumental in bringing the Tennessee-based energy company to Hawai'i in the early 1980s. The company drilled the first commercial geothermal well in Puna on the Big Island in 1980. The company is a leader in development in Hawai'i and performs oil and natural gas exploration in Canada and North America. Alex Kinzler, Barnwell president, said Roelfzema was an active and valued member of their board. While living in Hawaii Roelfzema became a member of the Waimea Outdoor Circle, a group that fosters environmental preservation and the enhancement of nature through education and community involvement. Outdoor Circle is a statewide environmental non-profit that works with branches throughout the Hawaiian Islands to protect Hawai'i's unique natural beauty.

He was close to Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who visited at his home on the Big Island of Hawaii. In 1980, Roelfzema played a ceremonial role as one of two kings of arms at the coronation of Queen Beatrix. Roelfzema wrote a second autobiography, In Pursuit of Life, in 2000. He died on 26 September 2007 at his home in Āhualoa near Honokaa, on the Island of Hawaii, at the age of 90. He was survived by his wife, Karin Steensma, his son Erik, step-daughter Karna Hazelhoff-Castellon, granddaughter Meadow, a great-granddaughter and great-grandson.

In his research for his biography of Dutch statesman François van 't Sant, Dutch author Sytze van der Zee discovered a letter from Van 't Sant to Queen Wilhelmina, where he informed her that a date had been set for a coup to overturn the acting Dutch government. The letter gave the date for the coup as 24 April 1947. It also outlined some of the ministers to be appointed to serve in a new government. Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema was listed as one of the men that could be relied upon. The coup never took place.

The Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Prize in Literature
In 2009 a foundation was established in memorial to promote writing and the ideals of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema. The foundation offers a bi-yearly literary prize in two categories: the Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Young Talent Prize, awarded to the best master's thesis written in Dutch or English at a Dutch or Flemish university, and the Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Biography Prize awarded to the best Dutch-language Biography. The Young Talent Prize aims to encourage young academic writers. The Biography Prize aims to promote interest in and the reading of biographical works among the Dutch. The thinking of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema and the standards and values that characterized his life are used as a guide in evaluating submissions. Princess Irene accepted the position of guardian of the "Erik Hasselhoff Roelfzema Foundation Prize".

Awards
Hazelhoff Roelfzema was acclaimed in the Netherlands as one of the nation's greatest heroes of the war. He was the recipient of the highest Dutch military honour. His experiences during the war became known throughout the world through his writings on those events and the film. Late in his life he was given the Dutch American Heritage Award. He did not see himself as unusual and when honoured was ever mindful of the friends that he had lost. In an interview in July with De Telegraaf, Hazelhoff Roelfzema said he had received too much recognition for his wartime exploits. "I became a war hero because I stuck out, because I wrote about my experiences".

He went on to offer:

"Achter iedere soldaat met talrijke militaire onderscheidingen staan honderden anonieme helden. Ik had het geluk herkend te worden, en oud

(Behind every soldier with numerous military awards are hundreds of unknown heroes. I was lucky enough to be recognized, and to live to grow old)."

National honours

 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands: Knight 4th class of the Military Order of William 4 June 1942
 * : Airman's Cross 22 September 1945
 * : Cross of Merit 20 March 1944
 * : War Commemorative Cross (Oorlogsherinneringskruis) with 2 clasps
 * : Resistance Memorial Cross
 * : Queen Beatrix's Inauguration Medal 1980

Foreign honours

 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: Distinguished Flying Cross, 3 July 1945
 * : 1939-1945 Star
 * : Air Crew Europe Star
 * : France and Germany Star
 * : War Medal 1939-1945

List of works

 * Rendezvous in San Francisco (Rendezvous in San Francisco ) (1939)
 * Het smeulende vuur (The smoldering fire) (1941)
 * Het hol van de ratelslang (The rattlesnake hollow) (1970)
 * Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange – a revision of Het hol van de ratelslang) (1971)
 * De verre tamboer; Soldaat van Oranje zwaait af (The distant tambourine; the Soldier of Orange bids farewell) (1973)
 * Op jacht naar het leven (Hunting for life) (2000)
 * In Pursuit of Life (2003)
 * Het leven van de Soldaat van Oranje – Autobiografie (The Soldier of Orange – Autobiography) (2006)

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Morristown–Beard School

Morristown Beard School is a coeducational, independent, college-preparatory day school located in Morristown, in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Serving students in sixth through twelfth grades, the school has two academic units: an Upper School (9-12) and a Middle School (6-8).

The present-day Morristown Beard School was formed from the 1971 merger of two single-sex schools: the Beard School for Girls and the Morristown School for Boys. The Commission on Secondary Schools at the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools has accredited the school since 1973.

Peter J. Caldwell served as Morristown Beard School's Head of School from 2011 to 2021. Liz Morrison assumed the role of Head of School on July 1, 2021.

Student body and faculty
As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 616 students and 94.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.6:1. The school's student body was 73.1% (450) White, 8.6% (53) Black, 6.3% (39) Hispanic, 6.0% (37) two or more races,, 5.7% (35) Asian and 0.3% (2) American Indian / Alaska Native. Of the 2018–19 school year, Morristown Beard School had 435 Upper School students and 140 Middle School students. The student body (46% male, 54% female) come from 90+ towns in New Jersey.

Ninety-two faculty members teach at Morristown Beard School as of the 2018–19 school year. The school has a faculty–to-student ratio of 1:7 and an average class size of 13 students. Seventy-two percent of the faculty hold advanced degrees, and 19% hold PhDs.

Morristown School
The Episcopal Church founded Morristown School as St. Bartholomew's School in 1891. Rev. Frank E. Edwards, a graduate of Harvard University (1891), served as the school's first headmaster, and classes took place in Morristown's Normandy Park area. St. Bartholomew's school was noted for hosting a speech by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels, in 1894.

Three years later, St. Bartholomew's School moved its classes to Whippany Road after building a new campus near the Morristown railroad station. Designed by architects Edward Lippincott Tilton and William A. Boring (co-designers of Ellis Island's Immigrant Station), the buildings for this campus required only 90 days to construct. The blended Colonial Revival and Classical Revival architecture styles reflect the colonial history of the Morristown area. Ford Mansion in Morristown (now part of Morristown National Historical Park) served as one of George Washington's headquarters during the American Revolutionary War.

When St. Bartholomew's School faced financial challenges in late 1897, three of its teachers from Harvard University Class of 1888 reorganized St. Bartholomew's School as the Morristown School. These three co-founders of Morristown School were Francis Call Woodman, Arthur Pierce Butler, and Thomas Quincy Browne. Aiding their work to start the new school, a large donation from wealthy businessman Henry Lee Higginson (known for founding the Boston Symphony Orchestra) provided critical seed funding. The school also benefited from large financial gifts of three other notable philanthropists: businessmen Charles Francis Adams III, Larz Anderson III, and Joseph Lee. Adams (a great-grandson of President John Quincy Adams) and Anderson (a son of General Nicholas Longworth Anderson) graduated from Harvard in the same class year as Morristown School's co-founders. (Lee graduated from Harvard five years earlier.)

Morristown School prepared its students for Harvard University, other Ivy League schools, and engineering schools. The school opened in September 1898 with 23 students and eight staff members. Just two years later, enrollment more than tripled to educate 75 students; the student body increased to 173 by 1923. In 1908, Morristown School achieved recognition as one of only two schools outside New England to send students to Harvard for ten consecutive years (1899–1908). Strengthening the connection with Harvard, Morristown School leaders hosted the Harvard Club of New Jersey. The club's April 1909 meeting brought visits from Harvard President Charles Eliot, New Jersey Governor John Fort, and New Jersey Chancellor Mahlon Pitney (later a U.S Supreme Court justice). Eleven years later, the Morristown School ran a $500,000 fundraising campaign to establish an endowment. Several Harvard graduates served on the campaign's executive committee, including graduates of Harvard and the Morristown School (writer Roger Burlingame, journalist Samuel T. Williamson, and businessman Felix Knauth).

During World War I, 65 of Morristown School's first 103 graduates (63%) served in the U.S. military. Their service reflected the value of community service emphasized by Morristown School to its student body. During the war, students at the school raised funds to purchase and equip the Morristown School Ambulance. They then presented this ambulance to the American Field Service for use in France. The American Field Service awarded Morristown School a certificate and a brass plaque to show its appreciation for the ambulance. In 1913, a group of 40 of Morristown School's students helped the Morristown Fire Department extinguish a forest fire that had spread over three miles on Horse Hill; the students used portable chemical extinguishers to fight the flames. Nine years later, the full student body (173 students) helped fight a large fire that had destroyed two nearby houses. In 1957, the basketball team donated a trophy to Delbarton School (the school rival) to honor Paul Kreutz, a Delbarton player who drowned in 1956.

Beard School
In 1891, sisters Lucie Beard, Eliza Mills Beard, and Ettie Beard Foster started a school for kindergarten students on Claredon Place in Orange, New Jersey. The three sisters were cousins of historian James Truslow Adams, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer. Eliza Beard oversaw the school's financial management, and Lucie Beard ran the educational activities. Their mother, Hester Truslow Beard, also assisted with the establishment of the school. The Beard school had an initial enrollment of 13 students. The all-girls school moved to Berkley Avenue in 1900 and continued adding grades until it graduated its first class in 1903. Taking the role of a preparatory country day school, Beard School prepared its students for the Seven Sisters and other colleges and universities.

Earning notoriety for this purpose, the Beard School received financial support from capitalist Sidney Morse Colgate of Colgate-Palmolive. In 1928, the school hosted a speech by Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, a social justice activist, at its commencement ceremony. Fosdick's visit reflected Beard School's commitment to service for its student body. During World War I, the students made bandages and wound dressings and began a tradition of sewing and knitting items to donate to the American Red Cross. This tradition extended into and past the Great Depression of the 1930s. During World War II, Beard School's students worked for the Junior Red Cross and assisted the American war effort by contributing their time and money.

On November 30, 1953, a large fire swept through Beard School's campus in the middle of the night. Reaching a peak of fifty feet in the air, the fire engulfed two of the school's five buildings and left them unusable. The fire destroyed an auditorium, 16 classrooms, and Beard School's gymnasium. After calling the fire department, Headmistress Edith Sutherland awakened the 20 boarding students and led them to safety on the school's front lawn.

Salvaging wood from the school's ruined buildings, a machinist repairman who lived nearby built a two-story garage for his family's home. His daughter later penned an essay about her childhood that described her memories surrounding the fire. Submitting the essay to Unico National, an Italian-American service organization, she earned second place in their Ella T. Grasso literary contest. Rebuilding, Beard School launched the Beard Fund campaign in Fall 1954 to fund construction of a new building to replace the two buildings devastated by the fire. The campaign hosted a Hawaiian-themed benefit dance on October 22, 1954, to raise some of the funds. In the spring of that school year, the Beard School opened the new fireproof building for use by classes. Eleven years later, the Beard School had discussions with Short Hills Country Day School about a potential merger of the two schools. The two schools did not merge, however. Short Hills Country Day School later merged with the Pingry School in Bernards, New Jersey.

Morristown Beard School
The all-boys Morristown School merged with the all-girls Beard School in 1971. The new co-ed school elected to use Morristown School's campus in Morristown and close the Beard School's campus in Orange. (The former campus of the Beard School now houses the White House Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center.) On Prize Day, June 5, 1971, the Morristown School officially transitioned into Morristown Beard School, a name chosen to reflect the importance of the history of its predecessor schools.

Recognizing their collective legacy, Morristown Beard School adopted the Beard School's Latin motto of ("Ad Astra per Aspera") and the Morristown School's school shield. (The Morristown School had two Latin mottos: "Civitas" and "Orbis Aratro Pendet". The former means citizenship, and the latter means: "The world hangs in the work of the plow.") Morristown Beard School also renamed its Main Building as Beard Hall. The first class of the school graduated in June 1972. Twenty-two years later, the school expanded its Middle School's student body from two grades (7-8) to three (6-8).

Many notable figures have visited Morristown Beard School to speak to students, faculty, and staff. Colonel Jack H. Jacobs, a Medal of Honor recipient, spoke on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend in 2015. Jacobs received the medal for bravery during the Vietnam War. Other notable speakers have included: businesswoman Bobbi Brown, authors Rachel Simmons and Bryan Burrough, and Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen.

During the George Floyd protests three seniors where recorded saying slurs and mocking George Floyd. Following this the three students had their admissions to various prestigious colleges revoked. Following the incident the Headmaster, Peter Caldwell, stepped down and Elizabeth Morrison was brought in to reshape school culture to be more diverse and inclusive and to empower the school's black students, however, this sudden change in management has been met with some push back with many of the teachers seeking employment elsewhere.

Facilities
Supported by a $16.2 million capital campaign, Morristown Beard School constructed the Middle School building and Founders Hall, a performing arts facility. The Middle School building opened during fall 2008, and Founders Hall, which houses a 630-seat surround-sound theatre, opened during winter 2009. In 2011, Morristown Beard School transformed Wilkie Hall, which had previously contained the performing arts center, into a technology center with multiple computer labs.

Renovated in 2004, Grant Hall now houses the Center for Academic Writing, the English Department, and the World Languages Department. That year, Morristown Beard also opened the renovated Beard Hall with space for Anderson Library and offices for the History Department, College Counseling, Admissions, and the Headmaster. In 2007, the school renovated South Wing, which now houses the MBS Center for Teaching and Learning (formerly the Center for Learning) and visual arts classrooms. Morristown Beard School's students have access to a film production studio with a green screen, a studio for multi-track digital audio recording, and a post-production studio.

School-wide iPad program
2010–2011 iPad pilot

In the fall of 2010, Morristown Beard School became one of the first schools in the U.S. to integrate the iPad tablet made by Apple Inc. into its curriculum. For their pilot program, six teachers and 60 students used iPads inside and outside the classroom. During the pilot program, executives from Apple, Inc. visited Morristown Beard School to observe how their iPads enhanced instructional practices and stimulated students' learning.

Campus iPad integration

Beginning with the 2011–2012 academic year, Morristown Beard School now requires all students to purchase an iPad and use the tablet device to assist schoolwork. The school's curriculum includes multiple electives that teach software development for iOS, the operating system that drives iPads, iPhones, and Apple TVs. Morristown Beard School also runs a dedicated 1000 Mbit/s Wi-Fi network to enable students' and faculty iPads to access the Internet.

In 2013, Morristown Beard School equipped all classrooms on its campus and many of the school's public spaces with ceiling mounted LCD projectors and wireless media streaming through Apple TV. That year, students Graham Dyer and Lena Rajan created the MBS Now app for iPads to help members of the school community quickly access information about school happenings. The MBS Now app provides information on class schedules, homework assignments, school calendars, lunch menus, extracurricular activities, athletic competitions, and school news. The app also provides school forms for various activities and information on senior projects. Members of the Morristown Beard School community contribute content to MBS Now by posting updates at the app's home portal. Publication of the source code for each update to MBS Now on GitHub enables students at other K-12 schools to develop similar iOS apps.

Clubs and extracurricular activities
Community service

Upper School (grade 9-12) students must complete at least eight hours of community service during each semester and write reflections on their experiences. Fulfilling their service requirement, many Morristown Beard students organize campus blood drives or assist local programs like Adopt-A-Trail. Other students volunteer for area nonprofit organizations, such as The Seeing Eye, Neighborhood House, Habitat for Humanity, and the Matheny Medical and Educational Center.

Campus clubs

The Crimson Sun, the student newspaper, has won three gold medalist awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Salmagundi, the school's yearbook, has published annually since 1904. The debate team has competed against area schools since a 1923 competition among Morristown School, Pingry School and Montclair Academy. The Quiz Bowl team has become increasingly prominent in recent years, hosting the first ever Morristown Beard Fall Invitational tournament in 2019. Other clubs and extracurricular activities at MBS include: Art Club, Business Finance and Investment Club, Contemporary Music Workshop, Drama Club, Drone Club, Film Club, Foster Care Club, GLOW Club (Girls Leadership, Outreach and Worth), Mariah (art & literary magazine), Mu Alpha Theta, Model United Nations, Service Committee, Young Republicans Club, Progressive Caucus, and the Student Government Association.

Theatre and arts

In recent years, Morristown Beard School's theatre program has received multiple nominations from Paper Mill Playhouse's Rising Star Awards program. In 2012, student Carina Steficek won a Student Achievement Award for her role as a master electrician and board operator in Bat Boy: The Musical. The following year, Morristown Beard School captured two awards at Montclair State University's Theatre Night Awards Ceremony. The school received an award for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for its performance of William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Student Alexa Rojek also received an award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Classical Work for her role in the play.

In 2013, student Jack Lindberg earned two awards for his singing accomplishments. He won first place for high school men singing classical voice at the Doris Lenz Festival for High School Students. Lindberg also captured a special commendation at the New Jersey All-State High School Opera Festival.

Athletics
The Morristown Beard School Crimson competes in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Morris, Sussex and Warren counties, and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). Prior to the NJSIAA's 2010 realignment, the school had participated in the Colonial Hills Conference which included public and private high schools in Essex, Morris and Somerset counties in west Central Jersey. With 335 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Non-Public B for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 37 to 366 students in that grade range (equivalent to Group I for public schools). The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Non-Public Group B (equivalent to Group I for public schools) for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 64 to 223 students.

Cheered on by the bear (the school mascot), Morristown Beard School's teams compete as the Crimson, a reflection of historical ties with Harvard. The school's 20 varsity teams have captured championships in several sports. Five of Morristown Beard School's teams (football, girls' ice hockey, boys' cross country, girls' tennis, girls' volleyball) have attained undefeated seasons in their athletic histories. During the 1990s, the athletic facilities at Morristown Beard School played host to floor hockey competition of the New Jersey Special Olympics Winter Games.

In 2012, Lou Lamoriello, general manager of three Stanley Cup-winning New Jersey Devils teams, presented the keynote address at the induction ceremony for the school's Athletic Hall of Fame. The following year, Tony Siragusa, a former NFL player who played on a Super Bowl-winning Baltimore Ravens football team, spoke at Morristown Beard School. Siragusa, father of Morristown Beard School student Samantha Siragusa '15, worked as a sideline reporter for NFL games on Fox Sports from 2003 to 2016.

Ice hockey
Boys' Ice Hockey Team

As one of the oldest hockey programs in the U.S., the boys' ice hockey team traces its history to the late 19th century. (The earliest media coverage about the program ran in the 1900–1901 academic year.) Since its founding, the boys' ice hockey team has captured 16 NJISAA Prep B Titles (1928, 1974–1975, 1980, 1982–1984, 1991, 1997, 2005, 2007–2010, 2012, and 2013 (co-champion)). The team won the Gordon Cup of the Gordon Conference in 1965 and 1966. Jon Vlachos, star center on those teams, received induction into the NJ High School Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2012.

Since joining the Morris County Conference, the boys' ice hockey team has won 10 Mennen Cups (1980, 1982–1983, 1994 (co-champion), 2006, 2009–2011, 2014, and 2015). Head Coach John Puskar earned the NJ Boys Ice Hockey Coach of the Year Award twice during his tenure from 2003 to 2009. In 2009, Former NHL player Randy Velischek took over as Head Coach of the boys' ice hockey team. Under his leadership, the sixth-ranked 2013–14 boys' ice hockey team defeated Delbarton School to reach the non-public state championship for the first time in school history. After tying Christian Brothers Academy in overtime of the state championship game on March 9, 2014, Morristown Beard School earned a share of the non-public state title. They finished the 2013–14 season with an overall record of 21–5–2. On April 7, 2014, the New Jersey Devils honored Morristown Beard's hockey team during a game at Prudential Center played against the Calgary Flames.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the hockey team competed against Kent School in holiday rivalry games played at Madison Square Garden. They played for the Ranger trophy donated by Colonel John S. Hammond, first president of the New York Rangers. After receiving a personal message of good luck from President Franklin Roosevelt, the team went on an overseas tour in Europe during the 1933–1934 school year. They competed against several club and school teams from Switzerland, Germany, and France.

Girls' Ice Hockey Team

The girls' ice hockey team began competition in the Women's Interscholastic Hockey League of the Mid-Atlantic (WIHLMA) in 2005. Since then, the team has won the league championship seven times (2007–2008, 2010–2014). The girls' hockey team notched their fifth straight WIHLMA title in a game played against Portledge School from Locust Valley, New York, on February 16, 2014. The team finished as the runner-up to Shady Side Academy in 2015,

On April 13, 2014, the New Jersey Devils awarded player Kendall Cornine '15 their High School Ice Hockey Girls' Player of the Year Award during a game against the Boston Bruins. Cornine, who played the position of forward, notched 26 goals and 24 assists during the season and earned All-State selection from The Star-Ledger. In 2015, NJ.com selected Cornine as their Girls Ice Hockey Player of the Year for 2014–2015 after she became Morristown Beard's all-time scoring leader. During her high school career, Cornine notched 104 goals and 94 assists to accumulate 198 total points in 75 games.

During the 2010–2011 school year, the girls' hockey achieved an undefeated 18–0 season during the 2010–2011 academic year. The girls' ice hockey team also notched 45 consecutive victories during the period from January 10, 2010, to February 15, 2012. Former NHL player Bruce Driver, who played on a Stanley Cup-winning NJ Devils team, has coached the girls' ice hockey team since the 2000–2001 season. He received the NJ Girls Ice Hockey Coach of the Year Award in 2007 and earned his 200th win in December 2013. Driver's daughter Whitney, Morristown Beard Class of 2004, played on the girls' ice hockey team, as well as on the softball and girls' soccer teams. She also helped create the school's sportsmanship award.

Football
Morristown Beard School's football team has a history that dates back to 1898. Coached by Princeton graduate Irvin Dickey and then Dartmouth graduate D.B. Rich, Morristown School's football team won 22 of 25 games (88%) during the 1898–1900 seasons. Speedy Harold Hathaway Weekes, who graduated in 1899, played a pivotal role in the team's success during the 1898 season. After playing his college career for the Columbia Lions football team of Columbia University, Weekes received induction into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. His brother, Bradford Gage Weekes, followed in Harold's footsteps during his own notable football career at Morristown School.

Continuing this success through the 20th century, the football team achieved 11 undefeated seasons (1901, 1911, 1914, 1916, 1919, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1948, 1987). They won the state championship in 1987 and finished as runner-up for the state championship at Giants Stadium in 2007. Theatre critic John Mason Brown, who received the superlatives of "Best All-Around", "Most Popular", Wittiest", at graduation, played guard on the football team during his years at the school (1917–1919).

Baseball and softball
Morristown Beard School's baseball team won the 2005 and 2010 NJSIAA Non-Public North B state championships. They also captured the 2007 Prep B state championship. John Sheppard, Head Coach of the baseball team, notched his 400th win in 2016, defeating Randolph High School to win the Morris County Tournament, the first tournament title in school history. On March 30, 2014, he received induction into the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Hall of Fame. Pitching coach Mike Sturgeon trained Boston Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello during his days at Seton Hall Preparatory School. (Sturgeon is also an alumnus of the high school.)

In 1984 and 1986, Morristown Beard School's softball team won titles. Spike Billings, who served for many years as the school's athletic director, and visual arts teacher Laurie Hartman coached those teams. Morristown Beard School elected Billings to its Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.

Boys' and girls' soccer
In 2014, the girls' and boys' soccer teams finished runner-up for the Non-Public North B state title at DePaul Catholic in Wayne, New Jersey. The girls' soccer team won the Prep B Title in 2004 (shared with Rutgers Prep) and 2013. The boys' soccer team won the state championship in both 1968 and 1974. George Tilghman, who served as headmaster of Morristown School (1926–1939), played on the soccer team during his years as a student at the school.

In 2018, the girls soccer team finished the season with a 10–9–3 record after defeating St. Rose High School by a score of 2–0 to win the Non-Public B state championship at Kean University.

Boys' and girls' basketball
The boys' basketball team debuted in the 1910–1911 school year. In 2011 and 2012, the team won consecutive conference championships in under Head Coach Eddie Franz. Franz netted his 300th win as Head Coach in 2013. He also received induction into the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association (NJSCA) Hall of Fame that year. Marquis Webb, a former Rutgers basketball player, has been head coach of the boys' basketball since 2023.

In 2014, the girls' basketball team won their conference in 2014 for the first time in school history. The team reached the quarterfinal round of the Morris County Tournament for the first time after defeating Morris Knolls High School. On March 15, 2015, the girls' basketball team defeated the Pennington School to capture the Prep B title for the first time in school history.

Other sports
The boys' cross country team achieved consecutive undefeated 17–0 seasons in 1960 and 1961. They won the Prep B title in both seasons.
 * Cross Country and Track

The boys' lacrosse team defeated Immaculata High School to win the Non-Public B state championship in 2008 and won the Prep B Title in 2008 and 2009. The girls' lacrosse team won the Prep B title in 2009, 2010, and 2014.
 * Lacrosse

The girls' tennis team won the Prep B title and the conference championship in an undefeated 12–0 season in 2011.
 * Tennis

The girls' volleyball team went undefeated in the 1986 season and captured the state championship.
 * Volleyball

The golf team won the school's first Prep B Title in the sport in 2009.
 * Golf

The girls' field hockey team has won the Prep B title in both 2008 and 2011.
 * Field hockey

Discontinued sports

 * Wrestling

Before its merger with the Beard School, Morristown School had a highly successful wrestling team. The wrestling team won three consecutive NJSIS Class B Championships from 1964 to 1966. In 1999, Morristown Beard School honored the 1965 wrestling team by electing it to the Athletics Hall of Fame.

Notable alumni
Morristown Beard School alumni have collectively received election to selective national societies for achievements in the arts, literature, science, theatre, and athletics. They have also attained several nationally prestigious awards. Morristown Beard School alumni have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Distinguished Service Cross, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Honor Award, the Medal for Merit, and France's Legion of Honour and Croix de Guerre for achievements in governmental and military service. For achievements in literature and journalism, they have attained a Newbery Medal, two Caldecott Honor Awards, The Bollingen Prize, the Peabody Award, three Emmy Awards, and the Library of Congress' Children's Book of the Year Award. Morristown Beard School alumni have attained the Vetlesen Prize (the highest award in geology/geophysics), the American Chemical Society's Industry Award, the Alexander Agassiz Medal, and a Rhodes Scholarship for achievements in science, innovation, and scholarship. Their humanitarian accomplishments have earned Lions Clubs International's Lions Humanitarian Award and the National Coalition of Hispanic Mental Health and Human Services' National Humanitarian Award. Morristown Beard School alumni have also captured gold medals in the Olympics and the Pan American Games.

 * Architects, designers, and engineers
 * Julie Beckman (class of 1991), architect who co-designed the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial
 * Sandra Carpenter (1934-2003, class of 1952), Hilton Hotels' chief information officer
 * Reginald Davis Johnson (1882-1952, class of 1900), California architect and designer of 2 National Historic Landmarks: Hale Solar Laboratory and Baldwin Hills Village
 * Winthrop Jones (1917-1999), artist, architect, and designer of schools and public buildings
 * Clive Meredith (1892-1932, class of 1910), radio engineer and founding owner of WSYR-AM, Syracuse's 2nd oldest station; grandson of Congressman Anson Burlingame
 * Samuel Shackford Otis (1891-1974, class of 1910), Illinois architect and designer of hotels and housing complexes
 * Austie Rollinson (class of 1986), principal designer for Callaway Golf's research and development unit; designed custom putters for Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els

 * Athletes and coaches
 * Ingersoll Arnold (1915-2004, class of 1935), hockey player, coach, and referee
 * Arthur Ayrault Jr. (1935-1990, class of 1952), two-time Olympic gold medalist in rowing (1956 Olympics and 1960 Olympics) and 7th headmaster at Lakeside School
 * Trevor Baptiste (born 1996, class of 2014), professional lacrosse midfielder for Atlas LC.
 * Penelope Probert Boorman (class of 1951), Pan American Games gold medalist in swimming and champion equestrian
 * Nancy Tasman Brower (class of 1947), former coach and athletic director who launched 4 girls' lacrosse programs
 * Kendall Cornine (born 1996, class of 2015), ice hockey forward for the Metropolitan Riveters of the NWHL.
 * Harry Fanok (born 1940), Major League Baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
 * Charlotte Glutting (1910-1996, class of 1927), amateur golfer and member of the U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Team for three Curtis Cups
 * Anna Harrington (class of 2008), All-American archer on a Columbia Lions team that won the gold medal at the Intercollegiate Archery Championships
 * Suzanne Hoyt (1934-2010, class of 1952), champion equestrian, philanthropist, and rancher
 * Carl Kinscherf (1919-2006, class of 1938), National Football League defensive back and punter on the New York Giants (1943–1944)
 * Dwight Mayer (1927-2013, class of 1945), champion croquet player and first president of PGA National's Croquet Club; descendant of Declaration of Independence signer Samuel Huntington
 * Holly Ponichtera (class of 2003), figure skater on four national championship teams at Dartmouth College
 * Ann Probert (class of 1960), amateur golfer, 14-time winner of the Garden State Championship, and past co-chair of the Curtis Cup
 * Ernest Savignano (1919-1994, class of 1938), assistant athletic coach at Brown University and football player for the Brown Bears
 * Jackman Stewart (1930-2000, class of 1950), athletic director and coach at the Berkshire School
 * Jyles Tucker (born 1983, class of 2003), National Football League linebacker for the San Diego Chargers
 * Harold Weekes (1880-1950, class of 1899), three-time Walter Camp All-American, captain of the Columbia Lions football team, and College Football Hall of Fame inductee
 * Alice Francis Wolf (1907-1990, class of 1924), squash and tennis player who reached the ranking of 10th best U.S. woman's player

 * Authors, illustrators, and publishers
 * Lindsay Barrett George (born 1952, class of 1970), children's writer, illustrator, and recipient of the Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year Award
 * Esther Eberstadt Brooke (1894-1987, class of 1915), vocational counselor, author of seven books, and sister of policy adviser Ferdinand Eberstadt
 * John Mason Brown (1900-1969, class of 1919), theatre critic for The Saturday Review, author of 13 books, and great-great-grandson of U.S. Senator John Brown of Kentucky
 * Roger Burlingame (1889-1967, class of 1909), book editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, author of 26 non-fiction books, and grandson of Congressman Anson Burlingame
 * Frank Damrosch Jr. (1888-1966, class of 1906), author, Episcopal priest, and son of Frank Damrosch, founder of the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School)
 * Elizabeth Hoffman Honness (1904-2003, class of 1922), novelist and author of 20 children's books
 * Hannah Lyons Bourne (1942-1999, class of 1959), author of eight children's books, including three cookbooks
 * Charles Morton (1899-1967, class of 1916), Associate Editor of The Atlantic Monthly and author of 6 books
 * William Pène du Bois (1916-1993, class of 1934), Newbery Award recipient and founding art editor of The Paris Review; son of painter Guy Pène du Bois
 * Frederick Roberts Rinehart (1902-1981, class of 1920), co-founder of Farrar & Rinehart and Rinehart & Co.; son of famed mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart
 * Stanley Rinehart Jr. (1897-1969, class of 1915), co-founder of Farrar & Rinehart and Rinehart & Co.; son of famed mystery writer Mary Roberts Rhinehart
 * Margaret Farrand Thorp (1891-1970, class of 1909), English professor at Smith College, author of 7 books, and niece of Cornell University President Livingston Farrand
 * Jim Weaver (class of 1981), author and Share Our Strength Chef of the Year for activities addressing childhood hunger

 * Business executives and financial professionals
 * John Vernou Bouvier III, father of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy
 * Edward G. Chace (class of 1900), vice president and treasurer of Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates, a predecessor of Berkshire Hathaway
 * William C. Dabney (class of 1912), president of Devoe & Raynolds Company (paints) and first soldier from Louisville, Kentucky, injured in World War I
 * Edward M. Douglas (class of 1921), senior IBM executive and vice president of sales and special administrative matters
 * Gerald W. Fogelson (class of 1951), president of Fogelson Group (real estate) who developed properties in eight states and Chicago's Central Station
 * George Delancey Harris (class of 1914), president of D.P. Harris Manufacturing Co., an early manufacturer of bicycles and roller skates
 * Alfred S. Harris (class of 1909), president of Harris-Seybold (now Harris Corporation) and offset printing innovator
 * Walter Elsaesser (class of 1942), senior Pan-American Airlines executive and divisional vice president for Atlantic operations
 * José Ferré (class of 1920), Puerto Rican businessman, government official, and brother of Puerto Rican Governor Luis Ferré
 * Connie Kemmerer (class of 1962), co-owner of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
 * Harris L. Kempner (class of 1920), chairman of the Board of Imperial Sugar, president of H. L. Kempner Co., and Galveston, Texas, philanthropist
 * Isaac Herbert Kempner Jr. (class of 1924), president of Imperial Sugar and Galveston, Texas philanthropist
 * Kenneth Komoski (class of 1946), founding executive director of the Educational Products Information Exchange Institute
 * Felix Knauth (class of 1914), executive director of the Latin American Economic Institute in Boston
 * Oswald Knauth (class of 1905), executive vice president of Macy's, president of Associated Dry Goods, and head of NYC Bureau of Economic Relief
 * Louis LaMotte (1896-1984, class of 1914), senior IBM executive and one of IBM's 50 Builders; father of Peter LaMotte, the NY Mets' first team physician
 * Naneen Neubohn (class of 1957), managing director of Morgan Stanley's London office and co-director of the Frankfurt, Germany, office
 * George W. Merck (class of 1911), president of Merck & Co. and head of the U.S. War Research Service during World War II
 * Donald Stralem (class of 1920), president of the National Travelers Aid Association and partner at Hallgarten & Company
 * Walter Tuckerman (class of 1899), developer of Bethesda, Maryland's Edgemoor neighborhood and co-founder of Burning Tree Club; descendant of Declaration of Independence signer Oliver Wolcott
 * Thomas Watson Jr., former CEO of IBM, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and son of IBM founder Thomas J. Watson
 * Finn Wentworth (class of 1976), President and CEO of the New Jersey (now Brooklyn) Nets; co-founder of the YES TV Network; real estate investor
 * Harvey Ladew Williams Jr. (1900-1986, class of 1916), founding board member of American Airlines and President of the United States Council for International Business; descendant of Roger Williams

 * Civil rights advocates, civic leaders, and humanitarians
 * Jane Barus (class of 1909), delegate to the New Jersey Constitutional Convention that drafted the current NJ State Constitution
 * Justin Brande (class of 1935), founding executive director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council; son of writer Dorothea Brande
 * Rosamond Carr (class of 1929), founder of Imbabazi, a Gisenyi, Rwanda organization providing educational, skills training, and income generating opportunities
 * Helen Day (class of 1904), social worker, child welfare advocate, and head of Sheltering Arms in New York City
 * Mary Dyckman (class of 1905), social worker and labor law activist for state laws regulating child labor and migrant labor
 * Randolph Guggenheimer (class of 1924), lawyer, philanthropist, co-founder of North General Hospital in Harlem, and nephew of civic leader Samuel Untermyer
 * Katherine C. Kelly (1942), Electoral College Delegate and advocate for women's rights and LGBT rights
 * Margaret C. McCulloch (class of 1919), civil rights activist who supported racial integration in Tennessee
 * Virginia Mathews (class of 1942), literacy advocate who helped develop Sesame Street and co-founded the American Indian Library Association; daughter of author John Joseph Mathews
 * Scott Michael Robertson (class of 1999), disability rights activist, co-founder Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN, 2006)
 * Marjory Swope (class of 1958), executive director of the New Hampshire Association of Conservation Commissions

 * Government officials
 * Eleanor Bontecou (class of 1909), World War II war crimes investigator at the U.S. Department of War and civil rights attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice
 * Luis A. Ferré (class of 1920), Governor of Puerto Rico and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
 * Dorcas Hardy (class of 1964), first woman commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration (1986–1989)
 * Alfred Jaretzki Jr. (class of 1909), special consultant to Secretary of War Henry Stimson and a drafter of the Investment Company Act
 * Theodore Knauth (class of 1903) chief of religious affairs for the American Zone of Occupation in Germany after World War II
 * Joseph Nye (class of 1954), National Intelligence Council Chairman and political scientist who co-founded neoliberalism and soft power (international relations)
 * David W. K. Peacock Jr. (class of 1942), Deputy Undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce
 * Herbert Pell, Congressman from New York, UN War Crimes Commission's U.S. Representative, and father of U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell
 * Marcie Berman Ries (class of 1968), U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria; former U.S. Ambassador to Albania.
 * Ileana Saros (class of 1968), Deputy Attorney General for New Jersey and first woman president of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units

 * Journalists and writers
 * Warren Bobrow (class of 1980), journalist, author, chef, and master mixologist for several liquor brands
 * Georgianna Brennan (class of 1954), society editor for The Newark Star-Ledger and daughter-in-law of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan
 * Herbert Brucker, editor-in-chief of The Hartford Courant and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors
 * Kendall Foss (class of 1923), journalist and contributing editor to Time magazine who helped found the Free University of Berlin
 * William A. Greene (class of 1932), public relations official who headed the Crusade for Freedom to fund Radio Free Europe
 * Victor Knauth (class of 1914), editor-in-chief of The Bridgeport Times-Star and owner of two radio stations
 * Betty Fible Martin (class of 1925), journalist and writer for The New York Times and other periodicals
 * Marion Clyde McCarroll (class of 1910), first woman journalist issued a press pass by the New York Stock Exchange
 * Churchill Newcomb (class of 1918), sports journalist and great-grandnephew of the donors of the land for Churchill Downs, the Kentucky Derby's home
 * John Reed (class of 1906) journalist who wrote Ten Days that Shook the World, the only American buried in the Kremlin, and subject of the Oscar-winning film Reds.
 * Alan Rinehart (class of 1919), writer, producer, and playwright; son of mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart
 * Jeffrey Schaub (class of 1977), broadcast journalist and recipient of 3 Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award
 * Samuel T. Williamson (class of 1912), founding editor-in-chief of Newsweek magazine and New York Times White House correspondent (Harding Administration)
 * Physicians and healthcare advocates
 * Aubrey Barr (class of 1985), marathon runner, cancer treatment advocate, and namesake of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Aubrey Fund.
 * Alfred Jaretzki III (class of 1937), Columbia University medical professor who helped develop vascular surgery and clinical research standards for myasthenia gravis; son of Alfred Jaretzki Jr. and husband of filmmaker Alexandra Isles
 * Martha MacGuffie (class of 1942), surgeon and founder of SHARE Africa, which supports communities affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa
 * Eliot Porter (class of 1920), biomedical researcher and nature photographer who popularized color photography in landscape photography
 * Judith Tobin (class of 1944), physician and Assistant State Medical Examiner for Delaware

 * Military officers
 * David Guy (class of 1915), pilot in the Lafayette Flying Corps during World War I
 * Carter Harman (class of 1936), helicopter pilot for the first U.S. military helicopter mission during World War II and executive with CRI Records
 * Samuel T. Hubbard Jr. (class of 1903), military intelligence officer who served on General John Pershing's staff during World War I
 * James Rogers McConnell, co-founder of the elite Lafayette Escadrille in the French Air Service in World War I
 * David S. Pallister (class of 1934), vice commander of Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire
 * Charles W. Plummer (class of 1910), World War I aviator and recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross for defending a reconnaissance squadron

 * Performing artists and media personalities
 * Kathryn Allison (class of 2010), actor and winner of the New York Musical Theatre Festival's 2014 Next Big Broadway Sensation contest
 * Prince Lorenzo Borghese, Italian-American businessman who starred on the ABC-TV show The Bachelor
 * Joan Caulfield, actress in Broadway plays, films, and situational TV comedies
 * Eleanor Caulkins (class of 1954), namesake of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Performing Arts Complex
 * Jeff Grace (class of 1992), independent film director, producer, and writer
 * Herbert Dudley Hale Jr. (class of 1910), documentary film producer at RKO Pathé for the U.S. State Department, Air Force, and Army.
 * Basil Durant (class of 1909), ballroom dancer who performed in vaudeville and other shows.
 * Jennifer Heller Wold (class of 1980), former SiriusXM radio host and co-founder of dating service Rose & Heller
 * Hurd Hatfield, actor who starred in The Picture of Dorian Gray and other movies, as well as TV shows
 * Ted Jewett (class of 1922), character actor on NBC radio, including The March of Time and Cavalcade of America
 * Nancy Lessler (class of 1964), ballroom dancer and 2-time winner of the Fred Astaire national ballroom dancing competition
 * Rachel Moss (class of 2013), Off Broadway actor and TV guest star
 * Isabel Pearse (class of 1930), actress who starred in plays in New York City, Maryland, and Michigan
 * Christina Ricci, Emmy-nominated actor
 * Gus Schirmer Jr. (1918–1992), actor, director/producer, and agent who discovered Lee Remick, Shirley Jones, and Sandy Duncan
 * Elizabeth Schultz Rigg (class of 1939), ballroom dancer, singer, and pianist; descent of Declaration of Independence signer Francis Lightfoot Lee
 * Sloan Simpson, First Lady of New York City during Mayor William O'Dwyer's administration; fashion commentator on TV/radio, fashion consultant, and model
 * Will Taggart (class of 2013), former School of Rock All Star

 * Educators, scientists, and scholars
 * Mary Travis Arny (class of 1928), biology professor at Montclair State College (now Montclair State University), naturalist, historian, and author
 * John A. Carpenter (class of 1938), Fordham University history professor who studied the Reconstruction era
 * Maunsell Crosby (class of 1904), ornithologist and close friend of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt; son of reformer Ernest Howard Crosby
 * Chapman Grant (class of 1906), herpetologist, historian, and grandson of U.S. President Ulysses Grant
 * Martha Leeb Hadzi (class of 1937), archeologist and art history professor at 4 of the Seven Sisters (Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, and Mount Holyoke)
 * James M. Howard Jr. (1922-2002, class of 1938), 13th headmaster of Blair Academy
 * Ridgely Hunt Jr. (class of 1905), supervisor of the Yale University libraries and grandson of U.S. Navy Secretary William H. Hunt
 * Barrington Moore Sr. (1883-1966), forester and father of sociologist Barrington Moore Jr.; great-grandson of Clement Clarke Moore, author of "The Night Before Christmas"
 * Walter C. Pitman III (class of 1949), Columbia University geophysicist whose research evidenced the Morley–Vine–Matthews hypothesis of seafloor spreading
 * Katharine Lambert Richards Rockwell (class of 1909), theology professor at Smith College and sister of physician Dickinson W. Richards
 * Carol Selman (class of 1964), governor's appointee to the New Jersey Historical Commission
 * George Hammond Tilghman (class of 1915), 3rd headmaster of the Morristown School and military officer
 * Brenda Pruden Winnewisser (class of 1957), physicist and oral historian who helped develop the study of terahertz spectroscopy

 * Visual artists and poets
 * Nathaniel Choate (class of 1918), sculptor, painter, and inductee of the National Academy of Design
 * Eleanor Maurice (class of 1921), abstract and realist painter; recipient of Audubon Artists' Emily Lowe Memorial Award
 * Craig Slaff (class of 1978), aviation artist and recipient of the National Museum of Naval Aviation's Director's Choice Award.
 * Gertrude Tiemer (class of 1915), painter, photographer, and poet
 * John Hall Wheelock (class of 1904), editor, poet, and 13th recipient of the Robert Frost Medal

Notable faculty, staff, and coaches

 * Katharine Fleming Branson, first headmistress of the Branson School
 * Thomas Bradley Buffum (1924–1930; 1932–1938), military aviator and member of the elite Lafayette Flying Corps in World War I
 * Thomas J. Campbell (1912–1913), athletic director at the Morristown School and head football coach at three colleges and universities: Bowdoin College, the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia
 * Bruce Driver (born 1962), former NHL player on a Stanley-Cup winning New Jersey Devils team.
 * Stearns Morse (1921–1923), English professor at Dartmouth College and head of the English Department at Morristown School
 * Alice Rumph (1922–1942), painter, etcher, and co-founder of the Birmingham Art Club, which established the Birmingham Museum of Art
 * Katherine Binney Shippen (1917–1926), children's writer and 2-time recipient of the Newbery Honor Award
 * Maud Thompson (1918–1926), educator, suffragist, speaker, and writer
 * Randy Velischek (born 1962), former NHL player for the New Jersey Devils, Minnesota North Stars, and Quebec Nordiques.

Notable trustees and advisory board members

 * Jerome Davis Greene, banker and head of John D. Rockefeller's business and philanthropic interests
 * John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton University
 * Henry Smith Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
 * Charles Scribner II, president of Charles Scribner's Sons publishing company; founding president of the Board of Trustees at the Morristown School and namesake of its Scribner Field for baseball games after him
 * Anson Phelps Stokes, philanthropist, civil rights activist, and clergyman
 * Grinnell Willis, second president of the Morristown School's Board of Trustees and funder of its gymnasium and Headmaster House (now the Alumni House); son of noted poet Nathaniel Parker Willis

Heads of School
St. Bartholomew's School

Rev. Frank E. Edwards (1891–1898)

Morristown School

 * Francis Woodman (1898–1917)
 * Arthur Pierce Butler (1917–1926)
 * George Tilghman (1926–1939)
 * Rev. James Holiday Stone Fair (1939–1940)
 * Rev. Earl N. Evans (1940–1942)
 * Valleau Wilkie (1942–1956)
 * Thompson D. Grant (1956–1971)

Beard School

 * Lucie C. Beard (1891–1946)
 * Sara Clarke Turner (1946–1948)
 * Edith M. Sutherland (1948–1970)
 * George Burr (1970–1971)

Morristown Beard School

 * Thompson D. Grant (1971–1974)
 * Philip L. Anderson (1974–1992)
 * William C. Mules (1992–1998)
 * L. Laird Davis (1998–2004)
 * Alex Curtis (2004–2011)
 * Peter J. Caldwell (2011–2021)
 * Liz Morrison (2021-)

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Westview High School

Westview High School is the name of several high schools in the United States:

 * Westview High School (Arizona), in Avondale, Arizona
 * Westview High School (Beaverton, Oregon), near Portland, Oregon
 * Westview High School (Indiana), in LaGrange County, Indiana
 * Westview High School (San Diego), in San Diego, California
 * Westview High School (Idaho Falls), in Idaho Falls, Idaho
 * Westview High School (Tennessee), in Martin, Tennessee
 * Westview High School (Nebraska), in Bennington, Nebraska

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Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)

The Southwestern Front was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War, formed thrice.

It was first created on June 22, 1941 from the Kiev Special Military District. The western boundary of the front in June 1941 was 865 km long, from the Pripyat River and the town of Wlodawa to the Prut River and the town of Lipkany at the border with Romania. It connected to the north with the Western Front, which extended to the Lithuanian border, and to the south with the Southern Front, which extended to the city of Odessa on the Black Sea.

Operational history
The Southwestern Front was on the main axis of attack by the German Army Group South during Operation Barbarossa. At the outbreak of war with Germany, the Front was commanded by Mikhail Kirponos and contained the Soviet 5th, 6th, 26th, and 12th Armies along the frontier. 16th and 19th Armies were in reserve behind the forward forces. These forces took part in the tank battles in western Ukraine and were surrounded and destroyed at the Battle of Uman and the Battle of Kiev (1941) in August and September 1941. Kirponos himself was killed during the Battle of Kiev.

The Front was immediately re-established with new forces. During the period of the Battle of Moscow it was under the command of Marshal Timoshenko, and included from north to south the 40th, 21st, 38th and 6th Armies. It was formally disbanded on July 12, 1942 and the forces transferred to the Stalingrad Front and Southern Front.

The Front was reformed from reserve armies on October 22, 1942. It was renamed the 3rd Ukrainian Front on October 20, 1943. 3rd Ukrainian Front's first operations were the Battle of the Dnieper and the Battle of Kiev (1943).

Southwestern Front on 22 June 1941
Composition Subordinate Front units directly under Commander of the Front:

 * 31st Rifle Corps
 * 193rd Rifle Division
 * 195th Rifle Division
 * 200th Rifle Division

 * 36th Rifle Corps:
 * 140th Rifle Division
 * 146th Rifle Division
 * 228th Rifle Division

 * 49th Rifle Corps
 * 190th Rifle Division
 * 197th Rifle Division
 * 199th Rifle Division

 * 55th Rifle Corps
 * 130th Rifle Division
 * 169th Rifle Division
 * 189th Rifle Division

 * 1st Airborne Corps
 * 1st Airborne Infantry Brigade
 * 204th Airborne Infantry Brigade
 * 211th Airborne Infantry Brigade

 * Fortified Regions
 * 1st Kiev
 * 3rd Latichov
 * 5th Khorosten
 * 7th Novogrudok–Volynsk
 * 13th Shepetovka
 * 15th Ostropol
 * 17th Izaslav

 * Front Artillery
 * 5th Anti-Tank Brigade
 * 205th Corps Artillery Regiment
 * 207th Corps Artillery Regiment
 * 368th Corps Artillery Regiment
 * 457th Corps Artillery Regiment
 * 458th Corps Artillery Regiment
 * 507th Corps Artillery Regiment
 * 543rd Corps Artillery Regiment
 * 646th Corps Artillery Regiment
 * 305th Cannon Artillery Regiment (RGK)
 * 355th Cannon Artillery Regiment (RGK)
 * 4th High Power Howitzer Regiment (RGK)
 * 168th High Power Howitzer Regiment (RGK)
 * 324th High Power Howitzer Regiment (RGK)
 * 330th High Power Howitzer Regiment (RGk)
 * 526th High Power Howitzer Regiment (RGK)
 * 331st Howitzer Regiment (RGK)
 * 376th Howitzer Regiment (RGK)
 * 529th Howitzer Regiment (RGK)
 * 538th Howitzer Regiment (RGK)
 * 589th Howitzer Regiment (RGK)
 * 34th Independent Special Artillery Division
 * 245th Independent Special Artillery Division
 * 315th Independent Special Artillery Division
 * 316th Independent Special Artillery Division
 * 263rd Independent Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

 * Front PVO
 * 3rd Air Defense Division
 * 4th Air Defense Division
 * 11th Air Defense Brigade
 * Air Defense Brigade Regions:
 * Stanislavov
 * Rovno
 * Zhitomir
 * Tarnopol
 * Vinnitsa

 * Front Tank/Mechanized Troops
 * 19th Mechanized Corps:
 * 40th Tank Division
 * 43rd Tank Division
 * 213th Mechanized Division
 * 21st Motorcycle Regiment

 * 24th Mechanized Corps:
 * 45th Tank Division
 * 49th Tank Division
 * 216th Mechanized Division
 * 17th Motorcycle Regiment

 * 1st Independent Armoured Car Division

 * Front Air Forces
 * 44th Fighter Aviation Division
 * 64th Fighter Aviation Division
 * 19th Bomber Aviation Division
 * 62nd Bomber Aviation Division
 * 14th Mixed Aviation Division
 * 15th Mixed Aviation Division
 * 16th Mixed Aviation Division
 * 17th Mixed Aviation Division
 * 63rd Mixed Aviation Division
 * 36th Fighter Aviation Division (PVO)
 * 315th Air Reconnaissance Regiment
 * 316th Air Reconnaissance Regiment

 * Front Engineer Troops
 * 45th Engineer Regiment
 * 1st Pontoon Bridge Regiment

Commanders

 * Colonel General Mikhail P. Kirponos (June 1941 – September 1941: killed in action)
 * Marshal Semyon K. Timoshenko (September 1941 – December 1941; April–July 1942)
 * Lieutenant General Fyodor Kostenko (December 1941 – April 1942)
 * Lieutenant General Nikolai F. Vatutin [promoted to Colonel General in December 1942] (October 1942 – March 1943)
 * Colonel General Rodion Ia. Malinovsky (March 1943 – October 1943)

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Procession of the Species

The Procession of the Species Celebration is an annual, community arts-based Earth Day celebration in Olympia, Washington. It is the largest annual Earth Day celebration in the Puget Sound area and Cascadia bioregion.

The procession features a parade of costumed individuals and groups, non-motorized floats, and puppets with animal and element themes. Procession rules do not allow live pets, motorized vehicles, candy, or words. The procession began in 1995, operates without government support, and has earned national recognition.

History
Started in 1995 by a group of Olympia residents, the procession was originally created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Earth Day and to support Congressional renewal of the Endangered Species Act. A virtual procession was conducted in 2020.

About
Taking place during Olympia's annual Spring Arts Walk, the procession regularly draws 30,000 spectators and 2,000–3,000 participants. The celebration, now in its 20th year, is completely noncommercial, made possible by community contributions of money, materials, time, and skills. The procession is produced by Earthbound Productions, a 501(c)(3) organization, which currently does not benefit from any public funding from the City of Olympia. Seven weeks before the procession, organizers establish a community art studio, open to the public for a minimal, optional donation. As there is no permanent studio space available for the procession, each year Earthbound Productions locates and rents a space to serve as the community art studio; ultimately, the group hopes to find a permanent location. The studio, staffed by volunteers, hosts art, music and costume design workshops. Participants use a wide range of artistic approaches, such as batik, papier mache, and luminaria. They use mostly donated or scavenged materials to express appreciation for the natural world and create costumes, banners, floats, puppets, drumming, community bands, and more. People of all ages join the procession itself, bedecked in costumes featuring the elements and various species of plants and animals. The procession has three rules: no live pets, no motorized vehicles, and no written words.

Influence and Recognition
Inspired by Olympia's event, Procession of the Species celebrations have taken place elsewhere in the US and around the world. The procession in Bellingham, Washington, has taken place since 2004. It is a nationally recognized model for community arts-based involvement, environmental education, arts education, and cultural exchange.

In its July 2009 "Best of America" feature, Reader's Digest magazine honored the Procession of the Species with the top spot in its "can't resist" parades and processions list, after having considered 50,000 other celebrations in the United States.

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David J. Mitchell

David Joseph Mitchell (born March 15, 1954) is a Canadian writer, former politician, university and college administrator, businessman and political commentator. He is a former President & CEO of the Public Policy Forum, an Ottawa-based NGO, which he abruptly left on August 20, 2015. His current position is Vice President, College Advancement and Chief External Relations Officer at Bow Valley College in Calgary, Alberta.

Education, writings
Mitchell holds a master's degree in Canadian and American history from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He served as Editor and Archivist at the British Columbia Provincial Archives. He is a self-confessed 'political junkie', who is a frequent commentator on Canadian politics and public life on radio and television. He has won awards for his writing, and is a former newspaper columnist (Vancouver Sun 1996–98; Business in Vancouver 1995–98).

He has authored a number of books about politics and history in BC:

 * W.A.C. Bennett and the rise of British Columbia, Vancouver 1983, Douglas & McIntyre, (ISBN 0-88894-395-4). A biography of W. A. C. Bennett.
 * Succession: the political reshaping of British Columbia, 1986 (ISBN 0-88894-566-3). A synopsis of the Social Credit administrations since W.A.C. Bennett.
 * All aboard!: the Canadian Rockies by train, 1995 (ISBN 1-55054-419-5)
 * The Hongkong Bank of Canada Story – Origin & Early Years, 1996
 * British Columbia's business leaders of the century, 1999 (editor)

Family, business career
He is the father of two daughters, and is married to author and women's advocate, Shari Graydon.

Mitchell has also worked as an executive in the forestry industry and in resource industries in western Canada (1984–1990).

Political career
He gained experience in parliamentary procedure and legislative processes as Deputy Clerk of the Saskatchewan Legislature (1981–84). He was elected in 1991 to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, for the Liberal Party, in the riding of West Vancouver-Garibaldi. He was the party's House Leader, but resigned his position as a result of a rift over the Charlottetown constitutional accord. He sat the remainder of his term, until 1996, as an "Independent". During his term, he was a watchdog on a broad range of issues including resource management, labour relations, advanced education, and parliamentary reform.

University/College administrator
He served as Vice President of External Relations at Simon Fraser University from 1997 to 2002, where he was responsible for fundraising, alumni relations, media and public relations, and government affairs. SFU raised over $65 million under his direction and significantly expanded its campus in downtown Vancouver.

He became Vice President of University Relations at the University of Ottawa in September 2002. He led the university through a major re-branding initiative, and helped launch the largest fundraising campaign in the university's history, which exceeded its $200 million objective a year ahead of schedule.

In September 2007, he moved to Queen's University, assuming the post of Vice Principal (Advancement). In January 2009, he returned to Ottawa to take a new position as president and CEO of the Public Policy Forum, an independent, non-partisan NGO that specializes in convening Canadian leaders on issues of public service and governance.

In April 2016, he commenced his new role at Bow Valley College as Vice President, College Advancement and Chief External Relations Officer.

Community service
Mitchell has served on the boards of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Aquarium and Marine Science Centre, the Ottawa Symphony, the Great Canadian Theatre company, the Parliamentary Centre and on the advisory committee of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen's University. He is a Governor and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

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Talk:Los Patios

Los Patios is a small county in the Colombian department of Norte de Santander and is listed on that page. I will update that page to point here. I am certain as Florentina Salas (mentioned in the park names) is a local hero there.

There is more info out there for this municipality but I get the impression that there isn't much to say and there are higher priorities for Colombia (and Argentina). I understand the remianing Spanish but it is a fairly convoluted history of how ranches were created, merged and renamed as the basis for the local boundaries. It isn't very interesting and requires local knowledge to clarify. Mtiedemann 00:25, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * My bad on Argentina. The original omitted mention of a country. I saw Rosario, the name of a reasonably major town in Argentina, saw the mention of cattle ranching, and jumped to a wrong conclusion. So there is also a Rosario in Colombia? We should list it at Rosario (disambiguation). -- Jmabel | Talk 00:58, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

 * There is a Villa Rosario in the same department, another municipality like Los Patios. But I had the same thought about Rosario, Argentina when I first saw the article - it is much bigger than the many other Rosarios that there must be in Latin America.

 * The article seems to say that it was originally part of Villa Rosario municipality and then No.37 of the province, before being called Los Patios. But I'd prefer to have a map of these provinces before committing to that translation. Mtiedemann 01:12, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I see that the translation is completed whilst I've been 'talking' - seems fine, well done. Mtiedemann 01:15, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Interlake

Interlake was a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1979, and has formally existed since the 1981 provincial election. Previously, much of the Interlake region was included in the constituency of St. George. As its name implies, Interlake was located between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba, in the mid-northern section of the province.

Interlake was bordered to the east by Lake Winnipeg, to the south by Lakeside and Gimli, to the north by Swan River, and to the west by Lake Manitoba. Communities in the riding include Arborg, Riverton, Ashern, Fraserwood. The Black and Deer Islands are also located in the riding.

Prior to the 2019 Manitoba general election, Interlake was abolished and its area was redistributed to the new riding of Interlake-Gimli.

In 1996, the riding's population was 18,653. In 1999, the average family income was $32,570, and the unemployment rate was 10.60%. Twenty-two per cent of the riding's residents are listed as low-income. Almost 25% of the riding's residents have less than a Grade 9 education.

Agriculture accounts for 22% of Interlake's industry, followed by government services at 13%.

Interlake had been represented continuously by members of the New Democratic Party since its creation. That ended with the 2016 election. In 1995, local members of the Progressive Conservative Party attempted to rig the voting results by promoting a candidate from Independent Native Voice, a minor party. The plan was unsuccessful, but caused a major provincial scandal when its details were revealed to the public in 1998-99.

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File:Golden Earring - Face It.JPG

Cover for album Face It by Golden Earring.

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Face It (album)

Face It is an album by Dutch hard rock band Golden Earring, released in 1994. The album was not issued in the U.S.

Track listing
All songs written by Hay and Kooymans except where noted.

 * 1) "Angel" – 3:41
 * 2) "Hold Me Now" – 3:42
 * 3) "Liquid Soul" – 4:06
 * 4) "Minute by Minute" (Gerritsen) – 5:06
 * 5) "Johnny Make Believe" – 4:44
 * 6) "Space Ship" (Hay, Kooymans, E.H. Roelfzema) – 1:59
 * 7) "The Unforgettable Dream" – 3:51
 * 8) "I Can't Do Without Your Kiss" – 4:23
 * 9) "Freedom Don't Last Forever" – 3:34
 * 10) "Maximum Make-Up" (Hay, Kooymans, Roelfzema) – 4:40
 * 11) "Legalize Telepathy" (Hay, Kooymans, Roelfzema) – 4:08

Personnel

 * Rinus Gerritsen - bass, guitar, harmonica, keyboard, vocals
 * Barry Hay - vocals, guitar
 * George Kooymans - guitar, vocals
 * Cesar Zuiderwijk - drums, percussion

 * Additional personnel
 * Ton Masseurs - Pedal Steel Guitar on track 8

Production

 * Producers: Rinus Gerritsen, Barry Hay, George Kooymans, John Sonneveld
 * Engineer: John Sonneveld
 * Mixing: John Sonneveld
 * Mastering: John Sonneveld

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Line F (Buenos Aires Underground)

Line F is a planned addition to the Buenos Aires Underground. After some delays, the budget was announced in 2015 for the first phase of construction from Constitución to Córdoba at a total cost of between 700 and 800 million dollars. As of 2015, it was not yet known if construction would be done as a turnkey project or build to order, however construction was due to start in 2016.

Overview
The line is set to be the most modern in the network, using automatic trains, a Communications-based train control system like the one being installed on Line C, and Platform screen doors. The line is also expected to have the highest ridership figures when compared to the existing lines.

Currently, the second phase of the development is still being defined, since a new railway station is being considered to complement the Retiro railway station, and if Line F is to have access to it, it would mean altering the northern part of the route to connect Line F with Line H further north at the proposed station.

Line E ghost stations
In 2006, it was considered whether the two Line E ghost stations (San José vieja and Constitución) could be used as the southern point of Line F, considering they overlapped the line's trajectory. However, it was later decided that Line F would use a completely new tunnel with new stations given the frequency the line is expected to have.

Line plan
P. Italia - Constitución:
 * Plaza Italia
 * Salguero
 * Sánchez de Bustamante
 * Pueyrredón
 * Santa Fe
 * Córdoba
 * Corrientes
 * Rivadavia
 * México
 * San Juan
 * Sáenz Peña
 * Constitución

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Esparreguera

Esparreguera (Esparraguera) is a municipality in Catalonia, in the province of Barcelona, Spain. It is situated in the comarca of el Baix Llobregat.

Esparreguera is famous in Catalonia for staging a grand version of the play Life and Passion of Jesus Christ every year in March and April, on the Sundays before and after Easter. The play is popularly known as La Passió d'Esparreguera. Over 300 actors, 50 technicians and 100 musicians participate in the play during five acts, twenty scenographic settings and more than five hours of drama, from the election of the apostles until the resurrection of Jesus.

The grand scale of the show is achieved with the volunteer contribution of the citizens of the town, in a tradition that dates back to Esparreguera's medieval origins. This tradition has made Esparreguera one of the cradles of Catalan performing arts, giving birth to actors such as the sisters Anna and Lola Lizaran, or the contemporary dancer Ramon Oller. The Shakira's music video for Empire was filmed in Esparreguera too.

title: Esparreguera