St. Albans School
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- For the school in Hertfordshire see St Albans School.
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Founded in 1909 as a school for the cathedral choir boys, the school currently has approximately 500 students spread between grades 4 and 12. It is located on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral along with the all-girls school National Cathedral School.
The faculty at the school are highly renowned. They include:
- Wallace B. Ragan, classics expert
- Donna Denize, poet
- Curtis Sittenfeld, novelist, including "Prep" (through June 2005)
The headmaster as of 2005 is Z. Vance Wilson. Past headmasters include Jack McCune, Mark Mullin, and Charles Martin. All headmasters become Canons of the cathedral automatically. Martin was famous for the statement, "St. Albans exists to help boys not into the kingdom of Harvard but into the kingdom of Heaven."
The Black Rose Vaughn Keith National Education Award was created as a memorial for the school's former Latin and Classics master, a tough but brilliant teacher and sometime punk-rock god, lead singer of Judy's Fixation.
Among those that sit on the school's governing board are Senate Majority Leader William Frist.
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College Destinations
Of the Class of 2005, the most popular college destinations were:
- University of Michigan (5)
- Vanderbilt (5)
- Yale (4)
- Georgetown (4)
- Princeton (3)
- Swarthmore (3)
Notable alumni
- Charles F. Bass, United States Congressman
- Evan Bayh, United States Senator
- Clancy Brown, American actor (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Carnivāle, and Starship Troopers) and chairman of the board of Brown Publishing
- Marvin Bush, son of former President of the United States George H.W. Bush , brother of current U.S. President George W. Bush
- Neil Bush, son of former President of the United States George H.W. Bush, brother of current U.S. President George W. Bush
- Prescott Bush, former United States Senator from Connecticut, grand father of George W. Bush and father of George H.W. Bush
- Michael Collins, astronaut
- Garrett Donovan, co-producer of Scrubs
- Harold Ford Jr., United States Congressman
- David Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool
- Tom Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool
- Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States (When his son was suspended from the school and later left, Gore disassociated himself from St. Albans and asked to be taken off of alumni lists)
- Donald Graham, chairman of the Washington Post
- Frederick Hauck, astronaut
- Jesse Hubbard, professional lacrosse player
- Brit Hume, Fox News television anchor
- Jesse Jackson Jr., United States Congressman
- Bo Jones, publisher and CEO of the Washington Post
- Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School professor
- Nick Lowery, professional football player, Kansas City Chiefs
- Thomas Kean, former Governor of New Jersey
- Bill Oakley, former executive producer of The Simpsons, co-founder of The Alban Antic
- Jonathan Ogden, professional football player, Baltimore Ravens
- Gore Vidal, author/writer
- John Warner, United States Senator
- Josh Weinstein, former executive producer of The Simpsons, co-founder of The Alban Antic
The School of Public Service
The School of Public Service (SPS) is a four-week residential summer program held on the grounds of St. Albans in Washington DC that combines academic courses, field trips and meetings with politicians, senior government executives and journalists, and affords students an inside view on the shaping and making of public policy.
External links
- St. Albans School (http://www.sta.cathedral.org/)
- School of Public Service (http://www.schoolofpublicservice.org/)
- Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington (http://www.aisgw.org/)