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Cambridge Rindge and Latin School

April 11, 2024

The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, also known as "CRLS" or "Rindge", is a public high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It is a part of the Cambridge Public School District. In 1977, two separate schools, Rindge Technical School and Cambridge High and Latin School, merged to form the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. The newly built high school at the time increased its capacity to more than 2,000 students in all four grades.

Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
Address
459 Broadway

Cambridge
,
Massachusetts
02138

United States
Coordinates42°22′27″N 71°06′43″W / 42.37417°N 71.11194°W / 42.37417; -71.11194
Information
TypePublic
MottoOpportunity, Diversity, and Respect
Established1648; 376 years ago (1648)
School districtCambridge Public School District
PrincipalDamon Smith
Teaching staff177 (2014–2015)[1]
Grades9–12
Age range14–20
Enrollment1,977 (2019–2020)[2]
Color(s)Black, Silver and White
Athletics conferenceMIAA District A – Dual County League
MascotFalcons
AccreditationNEASC
NewspaperThe Register Forum
Nobel laureatesEric Allin Cornell
Websitecrls.cpsd.us

History edit

CRLS is actually several separate schools combined into a greater whole. In 1642, the year Harvard College's first class of nine young men was graduated, the General Court made it the duty of Cambridge to require that parents and masters properly educate their children or be fined if they neglected to do so. (Girls, however, did not usually attend public schools until 1789, when Boston voted that "children of both sexes" should be taught in the reading and writing schools of its newly reorganized system.) In 1648, Cambridge set up a public grammar school, Master Elijah Corlett's "lattin schoole," making Cambridge the fifth town (after Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, and Salem) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to do so. Corlett's schoolhouse came into the possession of Old Cambridge in 1660, and over the next century was succeeded by several new buildings. The public school that evolved from Cortlett's original was a "grammar school" in a double sense: an English grammar school for Old Cambridge and a Latin grammar school (teaching the rudiments of Latin and Greek) for all Cambridge.[4] The school generally aimed to prepare students for admission to college:

"And by the side of the colledge a faire GRAMMAR Schoole, for the training up of young Schollars, and fitting of them for ACADEMICALL LEARNING, that still as they are judged ripe, they may be received into the colledge of this Schoole. Master CORLETT is the Mr., who hath very well approved himselfe for his abilities, dexterity and painfulness in teaching and education of the youth under him."[5]

By 1832, public schools in Cambridge were open to girls as well as boys. In 1838, Cambridgeport organized a public high school to serve all of Cambridge at the corner of Broadway and Windsor Streets. However, since the location was not easily accessible to either Old Cambridge or East Cambridge, most of the new high schools' students were drawn from Cambridgeport. In 1843, Old Cambridge set up the Female High School, and East Cambridge completed its Otis schoolhouse. Not until 1848 did plans to merge the high schools of the three competitive wards overcome sectional differences. This marked the origin of the Cambridge High School, which began in a new building erected at the corner of Amory and Summer streets and was immediately flooded with over 135 applicants.[4]

The Cambridge High School was divided in 1886: its classical department became the Cambridge Latin School and its remaining departments the Cambridge English High School. The English High School was located at the corner of Broadway and Fayette Streets, while the Latin School was transferred to the Lee Street church, which had been renovated to receive it. At the time of the separation, the high school contained 515 pupils, and 16 teachers. Six teachers and 165 pupils went to the Latin school.[4]

From 1969 to 2000 the school hosted an experimental program known as The Pilot School, founded as a joint venture of the Cambridge public schools and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.[6] The Pilot School was established to offer a small classroom experience including outside-of-school experiences.[7] The program closed in June 2000 as part of an overall restructuring of the school.[8]

In 2001 there was an attempt to restructure the Cambridge Rindge & Latin school under headmaster Paula Evans, which had found controversy. She resigned shortly afterwards. After her resignation she began efforts to create a charter school, which became the Community Charter School of Cambridge (CCSC). Colleen Walsh of the Boston Globe said that Evans's charter school efforts "touched off a firestorm" and that "many people" were upset at her because they perceived that she had abandoned Cambridge Rindge & Latin.[9]

Beginning in 2003, the City of Cambridge set in motion an plan for CRLS: "the first major renovation and refurbishing of the 35-year-old [sic] high school building."[10] The project continued to be pushed back, due to state funding issues and other obstructions along the way. In 2006, the state announced a return in funding, and by the Spring 2007 the School Committee started looking at wider-ranging renovations for the building. The renovations were at last undertaken in 2009-2011.[10]

Athletics edit

Athletics have always played a major part in the school's extracurricular activity structure.[11] The 11 fall sports take place between September and Thanksgiving (the day of the football team's final game), Winter sports are played between the first Monday following Thanksgiving and February/March depending on the circumstances of the year. The ten spring sports start on the third Monday in March, and finish in the latter days of May.[12][13][14]

The Register Forum edit

The school's newspaper is Register Forum. It was first founded in 1891 as the C.M.T.S Register,[15] the name was further changed to the Rindge Register, and in 1977, when the two public high schools in the city merged, their papers merged as well.[16] The Cambridge Latin Forum merged with the Rindge Register to become The Register Forum. The Register Forum now publishes 10 editions per year at the end of each month, September to June. Those editions range from 8 to 24 pages, and focus on events around the school. The paper was formerly printed at The Harvard Crimson press, but has since moved production to out of state facilities due to cost restraints.

Media Arts Program edit

During the early 21st century the Media Arts Studio was founded at 454 Broadway Ct in Cambridge MA. Throughout the years of the Media Arts Program, a large archive of film was broadcast on local channels 6 and 26,[17] some of the students who have participated in the Media Arts Studio Program have gone on to pursue careers in sports broadcasting from prestigious universities such as Syracuse.[18]

Controversy edit

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the school was subject to multiple accusations of inherent racism in its infrastructure, which led to the disbanding of the original houses, as well as the changing of the original school mascot from a bust of a Native American to a falcon and their name from Warriors to Falcons after concerns about the racist history of the mascot. Students entered their ideas and then voted for the new mascot in a school wide contest. The graduating class of '90 was the last class to wear brown and gold and Native American warrior and being the last of the Warriors.[19]

In 2000 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts uncovered a number of issues with the school.[20]

Notable alumni edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Profile: CRLS: Teacher Data (2010–11)", Massachusetts Department of Education
  2. ^ "Profile: CRLS: Enrollment Data", Massachusetts Department of Education
  3. ^ "Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - 2019-20 SAT Performance Report - All Students Statewide Report".
  4. ^ a b c Arthur Gilman, ed. The Cambridge of 1896: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1896. pages 187–197. Google Books
  5. ^ , Cambridge Public School District (archived 2004)
  6. ^ Gollub, Wendy L.; Mulhauser, Fritz (September 1970). "Cambridge Pilot School. First Year Report".
  7. ^ "Alternative School Spokesmen Press Cambridge for Support". Harvard Crimson. March 21, 1973. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
  8. ^ Coleman, Sandy (May 2, 2000). "For School, A Final Bell: Nontraditional Program In Cambridge To Close Its Doors". Boston Globe. ProQuest 405348903.
  9. ^ Walsh, Colleen. "A NEW SCHOOL CAMPAIGNS FOR CREDIBILITY ; EDUCATOR UPBEAT DESPITE THE CRITICS." Boston Globe. August 14, 2005. City Weekly p. 8. Retrieved on June 3, 2013.
  10. ^ a b . Archived from the original on September 27, 2008. Retrieved September 29, 2008.
  11. ^ "Cambridge Athletics Hall of Fame".
  12. ^ "Fall Sports".
  13. ^ "Winter Sports".
  14. ^ "Spring Sports".
  15. ^ "The Rindge register".
  16. ^ "The Rindge register".
  17. ^ "Cambridge Educational Access TV (CEATV) 6/26".
  18. ^ "Sports Media and Communications Track".
  19. ^ Duncan-Wald, Chloe; McArthur, LiLi. "History of the CRLS Mascot". The Register Forum. Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
  20. ^ Holbrook, Andrew S. (December 6, 2000). "State Decertifies Programs at CRLS". The Harvard Crimson, Inc. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
  21. ^ "Bio: Leroy Anderson"
  22. ^ "Rindge Diplomas Given; Exercises of the Cambridge Manual Training School Graduates at Sanders Theatre". The Boston Globe. June 16, 1910. p. 15. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  23. ^ Theroux, Paul (2001). Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings, 1985–2000. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 258. ISBN 9780618126934.
  24. ^ 'Public Officials of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1951–1952,' Biographical Sketch of Walter Joseph Sullivan, pg. 290
  25. ^ Goode, Erica; Serge F. Kovaleski (April 20, 2013). "Boy at Home in U.S., Swayed by One Who Wasn't". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2018. Dzhokhar, a handsome teenager with a wry yearbook smile, was liked and respected by his classmates at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School,[...]
  26. ^ Martin, Philip (March 25, 2015). "Tsarnaev Trial Puts Cambridge Rindge & Latin High in National Spotlight". WGBH. Retrieved September 23, 2018. And since 2013, CRL has also become known for its most infamous graduates: the Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

External links edit

 
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The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School also known as CRLS or Rindge is a public high school in Cambridge Massachusetts United States It is a part of the Cambridge Public School District In 1977 two separate schools Rindge Technical School and Cambridge High and Latin School merged to form the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School The newly built high school at the time increased its capacity to more than 2 000 students in all four grades Cambridge Rindge and Latin SchoolAddress459 BroadwayCambridge Massachusetts 02138United StatesCoordinates42 22 27 N 71 06 43 W 42 37417 N 71 11194 W 42 37417 71 11194InformationTypePublicMottoOpportunity Diversity and RespectEstablished1648 376 years ago 1648 School districtCambridge Public School DistrictPrincipalDamon SmithTeaching staff177 2014 2015 1 Grades9 12Age range14 20Enrollment1 977 2019 2020 2 Color s Black Silver and WhiteAthletics conferenceMIAA District A Dual County LeagueMascotFalconsAccreditationNEASCNewspaperThe Register ForumNobel laureatesEric Allin CornellWebsitecrls wbr cpsd wbr us Contents 1 History 1 1 Athletics 1 2 The Register Forum 1 3 Media Arts Program 1 4 Controversy 2 Notable alumni 3 References 4 External linksHistory editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Cambridge Rindge and Latin School news newspapers books scholar JSTOR June 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message CRLS is actually several separate schools combined into a greater whole In 1642 the year Harvard College s first class of nine young men was graduated the General Court made it the duty of Cambridge to require that parents and masters properly educate their children or be fined if they neglected to do so Girls however did not usually attend public schools until 1789 when Boston voted that children of both sexes should be taught in the reading and writing schools of its newly reorganized system In 1648 Cambridge set up a public grammar school Master Elijah Corlett s lattin schoole making Cambridge the fifth town after Boston Charlestown Dorchester and Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to do so Corlett s schoolhouse came into the possession of Old Cambridge in 1660 and over the next century was succeeded by several new buildings The public school that evolved from Cortlett s original was a grammar school in a double sense an English grammar school for Old Cambridge and a Latin grammar school teaching the rudiments of Latin and Greek for all Cambridge 4 The school generally aimed to prepare students for admission to college And by the side of the colledge a faire GRAMMAR Schoole for the training up of young Schollars and fitting of them for ACADEMICALL LEARNING that still as they are judged ripe they may be received into the colledge of this Schoole Master CORLETT is the Mr who hath very well approved himselfe for his abilities dexterity and painfulness in teaching and education of the youth under him 5 By 1832 public schools in Cambridge were open to girls as well as boys In 1838 Cambridgeport organized a public high school to serve all of Cambridge at the corner of Broadway and Windsor Streets However since the location was not easily accessible to either Old Cambridge or East Cambridge most of the new high schools students were drawn from Cambridgeport In 1843 Old Cambridge set up the Female High School and East Cambridge completed its Otis schoolhouse Not until 1848 did plans to merge the high schools of the three competitive wards overcome sectional differences This marked the origin of the Cambridge High School which began in a new building erected at the corner of Amory and Summer streets and was immediately flooded with over 135 applicants 4 The Cambridge High School was divided in 1886 its classical department became the Cambridge Latin School and its remaining departments the Cambridge English High School The English High School was located at the corner of Broadway and Fayette Streets while the Latin School was transferred to the Lee Street church which had been renovated to receive it At the time of the separation the high school contained 515 pupils and 16 teachers Six teachers and 165 pupils went to the Latin school 4 From 1969 to 2000 the school hosted an experimental program known as The Pilot School founded as a joint venture of the Cambridge public schools and the Harvard Graduate School of Education 6 The Pilot School was established to offer a small classroom experience including outside of school experiences 7 The program closed in June 2000 as part of an overall restructuring of the school 8 In 2001 there was an attempt to restructure the Cambridge Rindge amp Latin school under headmaster Paula Evans which had found controversy She resigned shortly afterwards After her resignation she began efforts to create a charter school which became the Community Charter School of Cambridge CCSC Colleen Walsh of the Boston Globe said that Evans s charter school efforts touched off a firestorm and that many people were upset at her because they perceived that she had abandoned Cambridge Rindge amp Latin 9 Beginning in 2003 the City of Cambridge set in motion an plan for CRLS the first major renovation and refurbishing of the 35 year old sic high school building 10 The project continued to be pushed back due to state funding issues and other obstructions along the way In 2006 the state announced a return in funding and by the Spring 2007 the School Committee started looking at wider ranging renovations for the building The renovations were at last undertaken in 2009 2011 10 Athletics edit Athletics have always played a major part in the school s extracurricular activity structure 11 The 11 fall sports take place between September and Thanksgiving the day of the football team s final game Winter sports are played between the first Monday following Thanksgiving and February March depending on the circumstances of the year The ten spring sports start on the third Monday in March and finish in the latter days of May 12 13 14 The Register Forum edit The school s newspaper is Register Forum It was first founded in 1891 as the C M T S Register 15 the name was further changed to the Rindge Register and in 1977 when the two public high schools in the city merged their papers merged as well 16 The Cambridge Latin Forum merged with the Rindge Register to become The Register Forum The Register Forum now publishes 10 editions per year at the end of each month September to June Those editions range from 8 to 24 pages and focus on events around the school The paper was formerly printed at The Harvard Crimson press but has since moved production to out of state facilities due to cost restraints Media Arts Program edit During the early 21st century the Media Arts Studio was founded at 454 Broadway Ct in Cambridge MA Throughout the years of the Media Arts Program a large archive of film was broadcast on local channels 6 and 26 17 some of the students who have participated in the Media Arts Studio Program have gone on to pursue careers in sports broadcasting from prestigious universities such as Syracuse 18 Controversy edit During the late 1980s and early 1990s the school was subject to multiple accusations of inherent racism in its infrastructure which led to the disbanding of the original houses as well as the changing of the original school mascot from a bust of a Native American to a falcon and their name from Warriors to Falcons after concerns about the racist history of the mascot Students entered their ideas and then voted for the new mascot in a school wide contest The graduating class of 90 was the last class to wear brown and gold and Native American warrior and being the last of the Warriors 19 In 2000 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts uncovered a number of issues with the school 20 Notable alumni editBen Affleck 1990 actor director and screenwriter Emily Banks actress Shore Leave model Miss Rheingold Matt Damon 1988 actor and screenwriter Casey Affleck 1993 actor Nate Albert musician Mighty Mighty Bosstones record executive Leroy Anderson composer 21 Orson Bean actor Lukas Biewald entrepreneur Traci Bingham actress and model Maxime Bocher 1883 mathematician Walter Brennan actor and three time Academy Award winner Max Casella 1985 actor The Sopranos and Doogie Howser M D Peggy Cass actress and comedian Del Castillo 1893 1992 organist composer 22 David Chu Hong Kong politician 23 Jeremy Collins Winner Sole Survivor of Survivor Cambodia Eric Cornell 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics Bronson Crothers pediatric neurologist E E Cummings poet Bill de Blasio the Mayor of New York City Patrick Ewing 1981 NCAA Basketball Champion and former head coach of the Georgetown Hoyas legendary center for the New York Knicks and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame Jessica Garretson Finch 1893 author suffragette founding President of Finch College Helen Lee Franklin 1895 1949 teacher and social justice advocate Gina Grant known for gaining early admission to Harvard University only to have it revoked when it was revealed that she had killed her mother Vernon Grant cartoonist Sian Heder writer director of CODA 2021 film and other films Emanuel D Molyneaux Hewlett one of the first African American attorneys to argue before the United States Supreme Court Karl Hobbs former head coach of the George Washington University Colonials basketball team Charles Charlie Jenkins Winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne Australia D D Kosambi 1907 1966 mathematician statistician Marxist historian of India and polymath Rev Ashley Day Leavitt pastor Harvard Congregational Church Brookline Massachusetts Tom and Ray Magliozzi aka Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers hosts of NPR s Car Talk Paul F O Rourke public health advisor Walter Pierce director of Celebrity Series of Boston Rumeal Robinson NCAA Basketball Champion at Michigan and NBA player Harold Russell World War II veteran and Academy Award winner William Russell youngest person ever elected Governor of Massachusetts Walter J Sullivan Massachusetts politician 24 John Thomas set several world records in the high jump Winner of Bronze medal at 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome amp Silver medal at 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Jean Tatlock psychiatrist communist and writer who was romantically involved with J Robert Oppenheimer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 25 and Tamerlan Tsarnaev Boston Marathon bombers Philip Martin of WGBH described them as the school s most infamous graduates 26 Korczak Ziolkowski sculptor of the Crazy Horse Memorial Eddie Waitkus former Major League Baseball playerReferences edit Profile CRLS Teacher Data 2010 11 Massachusetts Department of Education Profile CRLS Enrollment Data Massachusetts Department of Education Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 2019 20 SAT Performance Report All Students Statewide Report a b c Arthur Gilman ed The Cambridge of 1896 a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation The Riverside Press Cambridge Mass 1896 pages 187 197 Google Books History Cambridge Public School District archived 2004 Gollub Wendy L Mulhauser Fritz September 1970 Cambridge Pilot School First Year Report Alternative School Spokesmen Press Cambridge for Support Harvard Crimson March 21 1973 Retrieved August 2 2018 Coleman Sandy May 2 2000 For School A Final Bell Nontraditional Program In Cambridge To Close Its Doors Boston Globe ProQuest 405348903 Walsh Colleen A NEW SCHOOL CAMPAIGNS FOR CREDIBILITY EDUCATOR UPBEAT DESPITE THE CRITICS Boston Globe August 14 2005 City Weekly p 8 Retrieved on June 3 2013 a b CRLS Renovation Project Archived from the original on September 27 2008 Retrieved September 29 2008 Cambridge Athletics Hall of Fame Fall Sports Winter Sports Spring Sports The Rindge register The Rindge register Cambridge Educational Access TV CEATV 6 26 Sports Media and Communications Track Duncan Wald Chloe McArthur LiLi History of the CRLS Mascot The Register Forum Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Retrieved April 5 2019 Holbrook Andrew S December 6 2000 State Decertifies Programs at CRLS The Harvard Crimson Inc Retrieved March 24 2024 Bio Leroy Anderson Rindge Diplomas Given Exercises of the Cambridge Manual Training School Graduates at Sanders Theatre The Boston Globe June 16 1910 p 15 Retrieved May 26 2023 Theroux Paul 2001 Fresh Air Fiend Travel Writings 1985 2000 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt p 258 ISBN 9780618126934 Public Officials of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1951 1952 Biographical Sketch of Walter Joseph Sullivan pg 290 Goode Erica Serge F Kovaleski April 20 2013 Boy at Home in U S Swayed by One Who Wasn t The New York Times Retrieved September 23 2018 Dzhokhar a handsome teenager with a wry yearbook smile was liked and respected by his classmates at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Martin Philip March 25 2015 Tsarnaev Trial Puts Cambridge Rindge amp Latin High in National Spotlight WGBH Retrieved September 23 2018 And since 2013 CRL has also become known for its most infamous graduates the Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School CRLS homepage Cambridge Public School Department homepage The CRLS Sub Community of CambridgePublic an unofficial information and discussion site Notable Cambridge Alumni Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Performance Information In Memoriam Cambridge High and Latin School Class of 1969 Yearbook Project Portals nbsp Massachusetts nbsp Schools Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Cambridge Rindge and Latin School amp oldid 1215385786, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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