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Lake Forest Academy

January 31, 2023

Lake Forest Academy (also known as LFA) is a co-educational college preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12. The school is located on the North Shore in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States, about 30 miles north of Chicago. As of the 2019–2020 school year, the school enrolled 435 students, with the students coming from 13 states and 35 countries. This school is among the most selective boarding schools in the United States.[4] The current head of school is Christopher O. Tennyson. The school is accredited by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS),[5] Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS),[6] and the Secondary School Admission Test Board (SSATB).[7]

Lake Forest Academy
Location
Lake Forest
,
Illinois

United States
Information
TypeIndependent, college-prep, day & boarding
MottoMidwestern Heart. Global Mind
Established1857
1974 -- Merged with Ferry Hall School
FounderSylvester Lind
CEEB code142525
Head of SchoolChris Tennyson
Faculty118[2]
Grades9–12
GenderCo-educational
Enrollment435
52% day, 48% boarding[1]
Average class size12 students
Student to teacher ratio6:1[1]
CampusSuburban, 150 acres (1 km2)
Color(s)Orange & black    
Athletics27 sports[3]
MascotCaxy
Websitelfanet.org

History

The original inhabitants of the region of the North Shore were the Potawatomi.[8] The town of Lake Forest emerged in the area after the violent dispossession of the Potawatomi in the 1830s, the Chicago cholera epidemic of 1854, and the arrival of the railway from Chicago in 1855.[9] The academy (known as "LFA") was founded in 1857 as a key part of plans for Lake Forest more generally. In tune with the religious revivalism of the time period, the boys preparatory school was Presbyterian.[10] LFA's first principal—Samuel F. Miller—had been one of the civil engineers who helped build the railway, as well as a founder of the Presbyterian Church in town.[11] Early curriculum included Greek, Latin, Mathematics, English, Grammar, and Geography.[12]

Life for early students was rustic. An outdoor pump provided water for drinking and washing.[13] In the fall and summer they often simply bathed in Lake Michigan; in the winter, however, they did not bathe at all. They recalled wandering and hunting in the ravines along Lake Michigan.[14] Another of their pastimes was "hickory nutting," in which boys would climb trees "to shake down the nuts to...friends beneath."[14]

In the lead-up to the Civil War, the student body received military training from the eccentric Elmer Ellsworth.[15] The New York farm boy was enamored with the fezzes and billowy pants of local Algerian soldiers who abetted French colonization of North Africa. And so Ellsworth he began organizing units all around the United States known as Zouaves in their image (or at least his idea of it), including at nascent Lake Forest Academy. Ellsworth would go on to acquire fame for being the first officer to be killed in the conflict. Many of the boys Ellsworth trained ended up fighting in the war, too.[16]

The Young Ladies' Seminary at Ferry Hall, later simplified to Ferry Hall School, was founded in 1869, and was considered a sister school. Lake Forest College was a third component of the original founders' design and opened its doors later although it uses the academy's founding date as its own. It has no formal relationship with the original schools.[17]

It was during the leadership of Principal George Cutting (1887-1890) that the colors of orange and black were selected, perhaps influenced by the fact that Cutting had attended Princeton.[18]

In May 1946, fire destroyed the school's main building. Headmaster E. Francis Bowditch telegrammed students and faculty with the following message: "You, not the buildings, are LFA. Carry on."[19] In 1948, Lake Forest Academy moved its campus to where it is currently located, the gargantuan former estate of Chicago meat baron J. Ogden Armour. Armour lost the premises thanks to the Depression of 1921. Subsequently, a group led by Samuel Insull acquired the property.[20] They were in the process of converting it to a golf course when the Stock Market Crash of 1929 struck. Workers allegedly walked off the job of a half-finished locker room complex and never came back.

At the celebration of the school's centennial in 1957, head of school Harold H. Corbin Jr declared, "The City of Lake Forest, born in an educational dream, should never allow itself to forget that in one vital sense it is a manufacturing town--not merely residential--and its sole demonstrable product is education."[21] The poet Robert Frost and Princeton president Harold Dodds also visited campus and gave speeches in conjunction with the activities. In other festivities, plans were announced to build a headmaster's residence on campus to be named for General Robert E. Wood, the business tycoon whose advocacy for America First before World War II had turned into a penchant for Joseph McCarthy in the postwar period.[22][23]

Ferry Hall and Lake Forest Academy proceeded with their separate missions until the early 1970s, at which point the schools began to coordinate their efforts. A merger of the schools to form the coeducational Lake Forest Academy-Ferry Hall School took place in 1974. Later, the school's name officially became Lake Forest Academy.

Campus

 
The Formal Gardens

Lake Forest Academy is situated on a wooded 150-acre (0.61 km2) campus, which includes a small lake. There are 30 plus buildings on campus, including Reid Hall (formerly the estate of Chicago meat entrepreneur J. Ogden Armour), Corbin Academic Center, Hutchinson Commons, the Student Union (which houses the dining hall), five dormitories and several faculty housing buildings. The Cressey Center for the Arts (formerly the Fine & Performing Arts Center, or FPAC) is the site for all-school meetings, concerts and student theatrical productions; the Reyes Family Science Center; and a new student union building was opened in the fall of 2016,housed within it is the Stuart Center for Global Learning.[24]

LFA has a variety of athletic facilities, including the David O. MacKenzie '50 Ice Arena, a swimming pool, the Glore Memorial Gymnasium, the James P. Fitzsimmons Athletic Wing, the Crown Fitness & Wellness Center, tennis courts, all-weather track (new as of 2005), and five full-sized playing fields for football, field hockey, and soccer.

Approximately three-quarters of the faculty of Lake Forest Academy live on campus.

Dormitories

Lake Forest Academy houses its approximately 200 boarding students in five different campus dormitories. The dorms are single-sex and are of varying size.

Ferry Hall Dormitory

Ferry Hall Dormitory was completed in the winter of 2012, and the first girls moved into their rooms in February of that year.

Named in honor of Ferry Hall School, and taking design elements from that campus, Ferry Hall Dormitory is the first building to be built on the campus of Lake Forest Academy for girls. With 36 beds, Ferry, as it has come to be known by students is the newest dormitory and is located across the field hockey field from Atlass Hall, forming a quad with the Crown Fitness and Wellness Center and Reid Hall.

In addition to housing students, Ferry Hall Dormitory is also the home to four faculty apartments.

Atlass Hall

 
Atlass Hall

Atlass is the newest boys' dormitory, and located in the center of campus, it is closest to the academic buildings and dining hall. In addition to generously sized rooms and new furniture, Atlass also sports a comfortable lounge area with a television, sofas, and pool table. Atlass is a two-story building that houses 70 boys and four faculty members in apartments on either north or south end of the dorm. Atlass opened in January, 1999 following a grant from H. Leslie Atlass Jr., class of 1936, in honor of his father (class of 1912).[25] According to the inscription on the dormitory, Atlass Sr. was a "broadcasting pioneer and innovator."[26] The financial gift was given with the condition that it be used to construct a new boys' dormitory, since Bates House, the previous boys' dormitory constructed in 1948, was in extremely poor condition.

Warner House

 
Warner House

Warner House houses about 30 boys and five faculty members; four in the actual structure, and one family in the attached Remsen Cottage.[27] Warner is acknowledged to be the oldest structure on the Lake Forest Academy campus, thought in campus lore to have been a horse stable in the years before the academy when J. Ogden Armour occupied the campus space. Upon the academy's relocation to its current physical plant in 1948, the Board of Trustees dedicated the building to Ezra J. Warner Jr., class of 1895.[28] Warner is located near the football field and with its relatively large number of faculty, has always been a dormitory that epitomizes the strong connection between students and faculty at LFA.

Marshall Field House

 
Marshall Field House

Marshall Field House (or simply "Field") is the home to 72 female boarding students. Field is older than the Atlass dorm with its first season of housing students in 1965 but Field House is the closest dorm to the Student Center and has the most spirit of all of the academy dormitories.

Marshall Field House was named after Marshall Field, the founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based chain of department stores. A substantial donation was made by Field to the academy, and the Marshall Field House was dedicated to him on October 9, 1965.[29]

McIntosh Cottage

 
McIntosh Cottage

McIntosh Cottage (known simply as "Mac") is a unique dormitory, housing only nine girls in five rooms. In addition to the nine student residents, McIntosh houses two faculty members in apartments.[30] McIntosh was named for Arthur T. McIntosh, class of 1896, by his son.[31]

Athletics

The academy was formerly a member of the Chicago Independent School League and competed against eight other independent schools in Chicago's suburbs in some sports. The following sports are offered:[32]

Students at LFA may also partake in non-team P.E. activities such as bowling, curling, salsa dance, jogging, lacrosse, water polo, weightlifting, and yoga, as well as a winter/spring musical.

LFA has a very strong athletic tradition that began in 1859 when Elmer E. Ellsworth, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln who already had become well known in the leading eastern cities by organizing military units called Zouaves, would be hired to drill the students. Ellsworth would be called to Washington, D.C. by Lincoln who made him a colonel. He was the first officer in the Civil War to give his life for the Union cause. The academy's drill team had been a pet project of Colonel Ellsworth, so that after the Civil War, when President Lincoln's body was brought through Chicago from Washington to Springfield, it would act as escort and guard of honor from Chicago to the State Capitol.

Because of the Ellsworth experiment, a gymnasium would be erected in 1864 and physical training was strongly stressed. In 1876, the LFA baseball team played against Albert Spalding's Chicago White Stockings (later renamed the Cubs) professional team. LFA lost; the score was 31 to 1. In 1888, football would be introduced by math and physics instructor William H. ("Little Bill") Williams. He would later coach and would be president of the University Athletic Association; and he has been called the father of the Western Collegiate Football Association, subsequently named "The Big Ten." The academy's football tradition would be carried on by such legendary coaches as Clarence Herschberger and especially Ralph Jones whose teams during the 1920s stood among the finest in the entire country. He had been the University of Illinois' head basketball coach and its freshman baseball and football coach. For eight years he would achieve great success in the Big Ten and had written the acknowledged standard work on scientific basketball playing. Under his stewardship of LFA's football program during the 1920s, it became more and more difficult for the school to arrange games with secondary schools, and the schedule would be nearly filled against college freshman and junior college teams. In the early 1930s when an ex-player of Jones' bought the Chicago Bears, he would ask Jones to coach them. He did so with distinction, which included the first NFL championship.

Lake Forest Academy is notable for not being a full member of the Illinois High School Association, the body which governs most sports and competitive activities in Illinois. According to a September 2009 interview with the school's athletic director, "LFA's athletic philosophy and active recruitment of international students conflict with the IHSA and that the Caxys are not eligible to compete for state championships in any sport. And LFA was not about to change its private-school philosophy (required athletics for every student) to conform to IHSA standards."[33]

Mascot

 

The LFA mascot is the "Caxy", which is ancient Greek for "ribbit" – the croaking sound made by a frog. In the early 1900s, Aristophanes' hit comedy, The Frogs, was the subject of a popular Greek literature class.[34] LFA is believed to be the only school with "Caxys" as a nickname, although a popular athletic cheer at Yale University uses lines from the same Aristophanes play.[35] The cheer dates back to at least 1896, when a student revolt against suspensions of several students led to dozens of students taking the train to Chicago, where upon alighting at Wells Street they wandered the streets and chanted, "Caxy, go wack! Go wack! Go wack! Caxy, go wack! Go wack! Go wack! Hi-O! Hi-O! Paraballoo! 'Cademy! 'Cademy! L.F.U.!!"[36]

Traditions

Move-Up Day

Move-Up Day began as a tradition at Ferry Hall in 1906, originally called Ivy Day, commemorating the annual planting of Ivy at the base of Smith Hall.[37] Over time, this tradition would evolve into its current form, usually being held the day before Graduation. Departmental awards and speeches are given, and at the end of the ceremony, each class is invited to "move up" and literally take the place that they will occupy the next year: seniors move to sit with the alumni, juniors take the former spots of the seniors, and so on.

All-School Handshake

At the beginning of each year every student, faculty member, and administrator gathers in the formal gardens and participates in the all school handshake.[38] The entire school arranges themselves in a line around the periphery of the Formal Gardens and the Head of School begins by shaking the person's hand next to him, then he moves on to the next until each person has shaken the hand of all others.

Field Day

Field Day also began at Ferry Hall, starting in the spring of 1903 with "classes competing in races, the high jump, and a five-pound shot put, among other events." Field Day would die out in the 1970s as a result of the merger between Ferry Hall and Lake Forest Academy.[39]

The House Cup

The House Cup Competition would be re-established in 2004. The students are divided up into four houses (Bird, Lewis, Sargent, and Welch) and compete in various events throughout the year. The house with the most event points at the end of the year have their name inscribed on a trophy that is displayed in Reid Hall; the colors of the winning team are used in the student handbook cover for the following year. This is based on the House system which is found in British schools; however unlike British schools, students are not divided up based on what dorm they are in. This is similar to the house system in the Harry Potter series, and as such the students often debate which LFA house corresponds with that in the series; there is never any consensus on this.

Reputation

 
Reid Hall, which houses the English department and a number of administrative offices

Lake Forest Academy is well-recognized as one of the strongest college preparatory schools in the United States.[40] All graduates attend a 4-year college or university, and many of them attend Ivy League schools, "Little Ivies", and other elite colleges and universities.[41]

Ties to the leading colleges and universities with the academy date back to its very first graduating class. Innovation has been the school's hallmark particularly under strong headmasters such as William Mather Lewis (headmaster between 1905 and 1913 and, subsequently, president of George Washington University and thereafter Lafayette College) and E. Francis Bowditch[42] (headmaster between 1941 and 1951 and later dean at MIT). John Wayne Richards led the school from 1913 until 1941. His pioneering instructional plan of a rotating class schedule received coverage in Time magazine in both 1930 and 1931 under headlines that employed a term of endearment for the headmaster that referenced both his size and a common nickname for Richard.[43][44] Harold Harlow Corbin Jr. served as head of the school from 1951 until 1969. Corbin was also a renowned collector of eagle figurines, and he occasionally lectured on the topic.[45][46]

One of the fundamental strengths of the school is the potential for strong relationships that form between students and faculty. Faculty, approximately three-quarters of whom live on campus, also serve as coaches and dorm supervisors. This aspect of the academy is often promoted by the Admissions Department and others as a feature that sets the school apart from other institutions. Former head of School Dr. John Strudwick mentions that "LFA prides itself on its small classes and its Advisory system which both promote a unique and productive relationship between faculty and students."[47]

On film

The campus has been used as a shooting location for several films, among them: Damien: Omen II, Ordinary People, The Babe, and The Package.[48]

Notable alumni

For alumnae graduating before 1972, see Ferry Hall School.

Arts

Business and law

Government and public service

Journalism and letters

Science

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Lake Forest Academy also known as LFA is a co educational college preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12 The school is located on the North Shore in Lake Forest Illinois United States about 30 miles north of Chicago As of the 2019 2020 school year the school enrolled 435 students with the students coming from 13 states and 35 countries This school is among the most selective boarding schools in the United States 4 The current head of school is Christopher O Tennyson The school is accredited by the National Association of Independent Schools NAIS 5 Independent Schools Association of the Central States ISACS 6 and the Secondary School Admission Test Board SSATB 7 Lake Forest AcademyLocationLake Forest IllinoisUnited StatesInformationTypeIndependent college prep day amp boardingMottoMidwestern Heart Global MindEstablished18571974 Merged with Ferry Hall SchoolFounderSylvester LindCEEB code142525Head of SchoolChris TennysonFaculty118 2 Grades9 12GenderCo educationalEnrollment43552 day 48 boarding 1 Average class size12 studentsStudent to teacher ratio6 1 1 CampusSuburban 150 acres 1 km2 Color s Orange amp black Athletics27 sports 3 MascotCaxyWebsitelfanet org Contents 1 History 2 Campus 2 1 Dormitories 2 1 1 Ferry Hall Dormitory 2 1 2 Atlass Hall 2 1 3 Warner House 2 1 4 Marshall Field House 2 1 5 McIntosh Cottage 3 Athletics 4 Mascot 5 Traditions 5 1 Move Up Day 5 2 All School Handshake 5 3 Field Day 5 4 The House Cup 6 Reputation 7 On film 8 Notable alumni 8 1 Arts 8 2 Business and law 8 3 Government and public service 8 4 Journalism and letters 8 5 Science 8 6 Athletics 8 7 Other 9 References 10 External linksHistory EditThe original inhabitants of the region of the North Shore were the Potawatomi 8 The town of Lake Forest emerged in the area after the violent dispossession of the Potawatomi in the 1830s the Chicago cholera epidemic of 1854 and the arrival of the railway from Chicago in 1855 9 The academy known as LFA was founded in 1857 as a key part of plans for Lake Forest more generally In tune with the religious revivalism of the time period the boys preparatory school was Presbyterian 10 LFA s first principal Samuel F Miller had been one of the civil engineers who helped build the railway as well as a founder of the Presbyterian Church in town 11 Early curriculum included Greek Latin Mathematics English Grammar and Geography 12 Life for early students was rustic An outdoor pump provided water for drinking and washing 13 In the fall and summer they often simply bathed in Lake Michigan in the winter however they did not bathe at all They recalled wandering and hunting in the ravines along Lake Michigan 14 Another of their pastimes was hickory nutting in which boys would climb trees to shake down the nuts to friends beneath 14 In the lead up to the Civil War the student body received military training from the eccentric Elmer Ellsworth 15 The New York farm boy was enamored with the fezzes and billowy pants of local Algerian soldiers who abetted French colonization of North Africa And so Ellsworth he began organizing units all around the United States known as Zouaves in their image or at least his idea of it including at nascent Lake Forest Academy Ellsworth would go on to acquire fame for being the first officer to be killed in the conflict Many of the boys Ellsworth trained ended up fighting in the war too 16 The Young Ladies Seminary at Ferry Hall later simplified to Ferry Hall School was founded in 1869 and was considered a sister school Lake Forest College was a third component of the original founders design and opened its doors later although it uses the academy s founding date as its own It has no formal relationship with the original schools 17 It was during the leadership of Principal George Cutting 1887 1890 that the colors of orange and black were selected perhaps influenced by the fact that Cutting had attended Princeton 18 In May 1946 fire destroyed the school s main building Headmaster E Francis Bowditch telegrammed students and faculty with the following message You not the buildings are LFA Carry on 19 In 1948 Lake Forest Academy moved its campus to where it is currently located the gargantuan former estate of Chicago meat baron J Ogden Armour Armour lost the premises thanks to the Depression of 1921 Subsequently a group led by Samuel Insull acquired the property 20 They were in the process of converting it to a golf course when the Stock Market Crash of 1929 struck Workers allegedly walked off the job of a half finished locker room complex and never came back At the celebration of the school s centennial in 1957 head of school Harold H Corbin Jr declared The City of Lake Forest born in an educational dream should never allow itself to forget that in one vital sense it is a manufacturing town not merely residential and its sole demonstrable product is education 21 The poet Robert Frost and Princeton president Harold Dodds also visited campus and gave speeches in conjunction with the activities In other festivities plans were announced to build a headmaster s residence on campus to be named for General Robert E Wood the business tycoon whose advocacy for America First before World War II had turned into a penchant for Joseph McCarthy in the postwar period 22 23 Ferry Hall and Lake Forest Academy proceeded with their separate missions until the early 1970s at which point the schools began to coordinate their efforts A merger of the schools to form the coeducational Lake Forest Academy Ferry Hall School took place in 1974 Later the school s name officially became Lake Forest Academy Campus Edit The Formal Gardens Lake Forest Academy is situated on a wooded 150 acre 0 61 km2 campus which includes a small lake There are 30 plus buildings on campus including Reid Hall formerly the estate of Chicago meat entrepreneur J Ogden Armour Corbin Academic Center Hutchinson Commons the Student Union which houses the dining hall five dormitories and several faculty housing buildings The Cressey Center for the Arts formerly the Fine amp Performing Arts Center or FPAC is the site for all school meetings concerts and student theatrical productions the Reyes Family Science Center and a new student union building was opened in the fall of 2016 housed within it is the Stuart Center for Global Learning 24 LFA has a variety of athletic facilities including the David O MacKenzie 50 Ice Arena a swimming pool the Glore Memorial Gymnasium the James P Fitzsimmons Athletic Wing the Crown Fitness amp Wellness Center tennis courts all weather track new as of 2005 and five full sized playing fields for football field hockey and soccer Approximately three quarters of the faculty of Lake Forest Academy live on campus Dormitories Edit Lake Forest Academy houses its approximately 200 boarding students in five different campus dormitories The dorms are single sex and are of varying size Ferry Hall Dormitory Edit Ferry Hall Dormitory was completed in the winter of 2012 and the first girls moved into their rooms in February of that year Named in honor of Ferry Hall School and taking design elements from that campus Ferry Hall Dormitory is the first building to be built on the campus of Lake Forest Academy for girls With 36 beds Ferry as it has come to be known by students is the newest dormitory and is located across the field hockey field from Atlass Hall forming a quad with the Crown Fitness and Wellness Center and Reid Hall In addition to housing students Ferry Hall Dormitory is also the home to four faculty apartments Atlass Hall Edit Atlass Hall Atlass is the newest boys dormitory and located in the center of campus it is closest to the academic buildings and dining hall In addition to generously sized rooms and new furniture Atlass also sports a comfortable lounge area with a television sofas and pool table Atlass is a two story building that houses 70 boys and four faculty members in apartments on either north or south end of the dorm Atlass opened in January 1999 following a grant from H Leslie Atlass Jr class of 1936 in honor of his father class of 1912 25 According to the inscription on the dormitory Atlass Sr was a broadcasting pioneer and innovator 26 The financial gift was given with the condition that it be used to construct a new boys dormitory since Bates House the previous boys dormitory constructed in 1948 was in extremely poor condition Warner House Edit Warner House Warner House houses about 30 boys and five faculty members four in the actual structure and one family in the attached Remsen Cottage 27 Warner is acknowledged to be the oldest structure on the Lake Forest Academy campus thought in campus lore to have been a horse stable in the years before the academy when J Ogden Armour occupied the campus space Upon the academy s relocation to its current physical plant in 1948 the Board of Trustees dedicated the building to Ezra J Warner Jr class of 1895 28 Warner is located near the football field and with its relatively large number of faculty has always been a dormitory that epitomizes the strong connection between students and faculty at LFA Marshall Field House Edit Marshall Field House Marshall Field House or simply Field is the home to 72 female boarding students Field is older than the Atlass dorm with its first season of housing students in 1965 but Field House is the closest dorm to the Student Center and has the most spirit of all of the academy dormitories Marshall Field House was named after Marshall Field the founder of Marshall Field and Company the Chicago based chain of department stores A substantial donation was made by Field to the academy and the Marshall Field House was dedicated to him on October 9 1965 29 McIntosh Cottage Edit McIntosh Cottage McIntosh Cottage known simply as Mac is a unique dormitory housing only nine girls in five rooms In addition to the nine student residents McIntosh houses two faculty members in apartments 30 McIntosh was named for Arthur T McIntosh class of 1896 by his son 31 Athletics EditThe academy was formerly a member of the Chicago Independent School League and competed against eight other independent schools in Chicago s suburbs in some sports The following sports are offered 32 Fall Cross country running Boys and Girls Field hockey Girls Golf Boys Ice hockey Prep Soccer Boys Swimming Girls Tennis Girls Volleyball Girls Winter Basketball Boys and Girls Ice hockey Boys Girls and Prep Squash Co ed Swimming Boys Spring Badminton Girls Baseball Boys Soccer Girls Softball Tennis Boys Track amp field Boys and Girls Volleyball Boys Lacrosse Boys and Girls The Bowditch Bell traditionally rung by sports teams after away victories Students at LFA may also partake in non team P E activities such as bowling curling salsa dance jogging lacrosse water polo weightlifting and yoga as well as a winter spring musical LFA has a very strong athletic tradition that began in 1859 when Elmer E Ellsworth a close friend of Abraham Lincoln who already had become well known in the leading eastern cities by organizing military units called Zouaves would be hired to drill the students Ellsworth would be called to Washington D C by Lincoln who made him a colonel He was the first officer in the Civil War to give his life for the Union cause The academy s drill team had been a pet project of Colonel Ellsworth so that after the Civil War when President Lincoln s body was brought through Chicago from Washington to Springfield it would act as escort and guard of honor from Chicago to the State Capitol Because of the Ellsworth experiment a gymnasium would be erected in 1864 and physical training was strongly stressed In 1876 the LFA baseball team played against Albert Spalding s Chicago White Stockings later renamed the Cubs professional team LFA lost the score was 31 to 1 In 1888 football would be introduced by math and physics instructor William H Little Bill Williams He would later coach and would be president of the University Athletic Association and he has been called the father of the Western Collegiate Football Association subsequently named The Big Ten The academy s football tradition would be carried on by such legendary coaches as Clarence Herschberger and especially Ralph Jones whose teams during the 1920s stood among the finest in the entire country He had been the University of Illinois head basketball coach and its freshman baseball and football coach For eight years he would achieve great success in the Big Ten and had written the acknowledged standard work on scientific basketball playing Under his stewardship of LFA s football program during the 1920s it became more and more difficult for the school to arrange games with secondary schools and the schedule would be nearly filled against college freshman and junior college teams In the early 1930s when an ex player of Jones bought the Chicago Bears he would ask Jones to coach them He did so with distinction which included the first NFL championship Lake Forest Academy is notable for not being a full member of the Illinois High School Association the body which governs most sports and competitive activities in Illinois According to a September 2009 interview with the school s athletic director LFA s athletic philosophy and active recruitment of international students conflict with the IHSA and that the Caxys are not eligible to compete for state championships in any sport And LFA was not about to change its private school philosophy required athletics for every student to conform to IHSA standards 33 Mascot Edit The LFA mascot is the Caxy which is ancient Greek for ribbit the croaking sound made by a frog In the early 1900s Aristophanes hit comedy The Frogs was the subject of a popular Greek literature class 34 LFA is believed to be the only school with Caxys as a nickname although a popular athletic cheer at Yale University uses lines from the same Aristophanes play 35 The cheer dates back to at least 1896 when a student revolt against suspensions of several students led to dozens of students taking the train to Chicago where upon alighting at Wells Street they wandered the streets and chanted Caxy go wack Go wack Go wack Caxy go wack Go wack Go wack Hi O Hi O Paraballoo Cademy Cademy L F U 36 Traditions EditMove Up Day Edit Move Up Day began as a tradition at Ferry Hall in 1906 originally called Ivy Day commemorating the annual planting of Ivy at the base of Smith Hall 37 Over time this tradition would evolve into its current form usually being held the day before Graduation Departmental awards and speeches are given and at the end of the ceremony each class is invited to move up and literally take the place that they will occupy the next year seniors move to sit with the alumni juniors take the former spots of the seniors and so on All School Handshake Edit At the beginning of each year every student faculty member and administrator gathers in the formal gardens and participates in the all school handshake 38 The entire school arranges themselves in a line around the periphery of the Formal Gardens and the Head of School begins by shaking the person s hand next to him then he moves on to the next until each person has shaken the hand of all others Field Day Edit Field Day also began at Ferry Hall starting in the spring of 1903 with classes competing in races the high jump and a five pound shot put among other events Field Day would die out in the 1970s as a result of the merger between Ferry Hall and Lake Forest Academy 39 The House Cup Edit The House Cup Competition would be re established in 2004 The students are divided up into four houses Bird Lewis Sargent and Welch and compete in various events throughout the year The house with the most event points at the end of the year have their name inscribed on a trophy that is displayed in Reid Hall the colors of the winning team are used in the student handbook cover for the following year This is based on the House system which is found in British schools however unlike British schools students are not divided up based on what dorm they are in This is similar to the house system in the Harry Potter series and as such the students often debate which LFA house corresponds with that in the series there is never any consensus on this Reputation Edit Reid Hall which houses the English department and a number of administrative offices Lake Forest Academy is well recognized as one of the strongest college preparatory schools in the United States 40 All graduates attend a 4 year college or university and many of them attend Ivy League schools Little Ivies and other elite colleges and universities 41 Ties to the leading colleges and universities with the academy date back to its very first graduating class Innovation has been the school s hallmark particularly under strong headmasters such as William Mather Lewis headmaster between 1905 and 1913 and subsequently president of George Washington University and thereafter Lafayette College and E Francis Bowditch 42 headmaster between 1941 and 1951 and later dean at MIT John Wayne Richards led the school from 1913 until 1941 His pioneering instructional plan of a rotating class schedule received coverage in Time magazine in both 1930 and 1931 under headlines that employed a term of endearment for the headmaster that referenced both his size and a common nickname for Richard 43 44 Harold Harlow Corbin Jr served as head of the school from 1951 until 1969 Corbin was also a renowned collector of eagle figurines and he occasionally lectured on the topic 45 46 One of the fundamental strengths of the school is the potential for strong relationships that form between students and faculty Faculty approximately three quarters of whom live on campus also serve as coaches and dorm supervisors This aspect of the academy is often promoted by the Admissions Department and others as a feature that sets the school apart from other institutions Former head of School Dr John Strudwick mentions that LFA prides itself on its small classes and its Advisory system which both promote a unique and productive relationship between faculty and students 47 On film EditThe campus has been used as a shooting location for several films among them Damien Omen II Ordinary People The Babe and The Package 48 Notable alumni EditFor alumnae graduating before 1972 see Ferry Hall School Arts Edit John Agar actor formerly married to Shirley Temple 49 Bix Beiderbecke jazz cornet player expelled attended 1921 22 50 David Bradley film director Temple Hoyne Buell 1914 architect viewed as the father of the modern indoor shopping mall 51 Jay Chandrasekhar comedian and film director 52 Max Demian 2005 performance artist Jean Harlow actress attended 1926 1927 Jesse Hibbs 1925 film director Brad Morris 1994 television actor Robert Myhrum 1944 television director Tom Neal actor 53 Kelly Perine 1987 actor McLean Stevenson actor 54 Stephen Wade 1970 folk musician Melora Walters 1979 actressBusiness and law Edit James Aubrey attended 1931 32 president of CBS and MGM Charles Edmund Beard 1916 aviation pioneer and president of Braniff Airlines 55 Andrew T Berlin 1979 businessman and philanthropist minority stakeholder in the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team Ralph Bogan co owned baseball s Milwaukee Atlanta Braves James R Cargill 1941 billionaire scion of Minnesota s Cargill family pioneered in the computerization of animal feed formulations 56 Gaylord Donnelley attended 1923 24 former chairman of R R Donnelley amp Sons Charles Gelatt 1935 Wisconsin businessman and philanthropist early co owner of the Milwaukee Brewers George N Gillett Jr 1956 communications mogul former co owner of the English Premier League team Liverpool F C and NASCAR auto racing team Richard Petty Motorsports Louis Upton 1907 co founder of Whirlpool Corporation Rawleigh Warner Jr attended 1935 36 chairman CEO of Mobil Oil Government and public service Edit Makola Abdullah 1986 14th President of Virginia State University VSU Richard L Conolly 1910 Admiral of the United States Navy during World War II 57 Jan Crull Jr Native American rights advocate filmmaker attorney 58 Geoff Diehl class of 1988 State Representative for the 7th Plymouth District of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts John Francis Grady 1948 United States District Court Judge senior judge for the Northern District of Illinois Melvin R Laird attended 1938 39 US Congressman 1952 69 and Secretary of Defense 1969 73 54 Edward Everett Nourse theologian 59 Nauman S Scott class of 1934 one of the first Louisiana U S District Court Judges to advocate desegregation Charles H Wacker 1872 chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission and beer maker 60 61 62 Journalism and letters Edit Bill Ayers professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who co founded the Weather Underground 63 Ward Just Washington Post Vietnam War correspondent and author Michael Leonard class of 1966 feature reporter for NBC s Today show Rebecca Makkai class of 1995 author Ralph J Mills poet and critic Robert Wilson Patterson class of 1867 newspaper publisher Bill Schulz class of 1994 Fox News Science Edit Patrick M McCarthy surgeon class of 1973 heart surgeon Cristopher Moore class of 1983 computer scientist mathematician and physicist Karl Patterson Schmidt herpetologist Paul Starrett class of 1883 structural engineer Charles Thom microbiologist and mycologist Athletics Edit Neil Blatchford 1964 speed skater who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics 64 Angus Brandt Australian professional basketball player Alex DeBrincat right winger for NHL s Chicago Blackhawks Alfred Eissler NFL player Dylan Ennis professional basketball player Tyler Ennis NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers Babe Frump NFL player with the Chicago Bears Angel Garcia professional basketball player Genevieve Lacasse Olympic gold medalist goalkeeper Canadian national women s hockey team David Levine ARCA Racing Series race car driver for Lira Motorsports Victor Pineda soccer player for Chicago Fire and United States U 18 national team Teddy Purcell right winger for NHL s Tampa Bay Lightning Paul Schuette NFL player with the New York Giants Chicago Bears and Boston Braves Other Edit Robert S Hartman logician and philosopherReferences Edit a b Facts and Figures Archived from the original on 2018 04 08 Retrieved 2018 04 08 Faculty and Staff Directory Archived from the original on 2018 04 08 Retrieved 2018 04 08 Lake Forest Academy Athletic Department Lake Forest Academy Archived from the original on 2011 07 18 Retrieved 2009 03 15 Most Selective Boarding Schools 2018 19 at Organization Member Information Lake Forest Academy NAIS National Association of Independent Schools Archived from the original on 2011 07 20 Retrieved 2009 01 01 Directory of Schools ISACS Independent Schools Association of the Central States Archived from the original on 2011 02 12 Retrieved 2009 01 01 SSAT School Locator Service SSAT Secondary School Admission Test Archived from the original on 2008 12 17 Retrieved 2009 01 01 Arpee Edward 1944 The History of Lake Forest Academy Chicago RF Seymour pp 17 18 Arpee Edward 1944 The History of Lake Forest Academy Chicago RF Seymour p 20 Arpee The History of Lake Forest Academy p 22 Arpee The History of Lake Forest Academy pp 20 31 Arpee The History of Lake Forest Academy p 36 Arpee The History of Lake Forest Academy p 29 a b Manierre George October 1917 Reminiscences of Lake Forest Academy and its Students from the Opening of the Academy in Fall of 1859 to the Year 1863 Inclusive Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 10 3 394 407 Arpee History of Lake Forest Academy pp 37 38 Arpee The History of Lake Forest Academy pp 39 40 About Us History Lake Forest Academy Archived from the original on 2009 11 02 Retrieved 2007 01 01 Arpee The History of Lake Forest Academy p 82 Heise Kenan 15 February 1990 Obituaries E Francis Bowditch ran Lake Forest Academy Chicago Tribune Arpee Edward 1963 Lake Forest Illinois history and reminiscences 1861 1961 Rotary Club of Lake Forest p 215 Arpee Edward Lake Forest Illinois history and reminiscences 1861 1961 p 262 Pflaum Irving 31 March 1954 The Baffling Career of Robert E Wood Harper s Doenecke Justus Aug 1978 General Robert E Wood The Evolution of a Conservative Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 71 3 174 a gift from Jim Stuart LFA 59 a member of the family who founded the Quaker Oats Company and whose father R Douglas Stuart Jr was the U S Ambassador to Norway under U S President Ronald Reagan Atlass Hall from the official website As referenced on the inscription outside Atlass Hall Warner House Archived 2007 09 27 at the Wayback Machine from the official website As referenced on the inscription outside Warner House As referenced on the inscription outside Marshall Field House McIntosh Cottage Archived 2007 09 27 at the Wayback Machine from the official website As referenced on the inscription outside McIntosh Cottage Team News Lake Forest Academy Archived from the original on 2011 07 18 Retrieved 2009 01 01 Masterson Dave 3 September 2009 Caxys to line up against Mount Carmel Chicago Sun Times archived from the original on 18 December 2009 retrieved 13 April 2010 A Caxy Lake Forest Academy Athletics Archived from the original on 2007 09 27 Retrieved 2007 01 01 Schiff Judith Ann May 1998 The Greatest College Cheer Yale Alumni Magazine Archived from the original on 2006 12 31 Retrieved 2007 01 01 Revolt at Lake Forest Chicago Daily Tribune 4 February 1896 Pridmore 102 News amp Calendar Lake Forest Academy 2007 08 27 Retrieved 2008 01 17 permanent dead link Pridmore 104 See These Are the Best Boarding Schools in the United States at http www townandcountrymag com society news a7803 best boardi Review of Lake Forest Academy Boarding School Retrieved 2006 03 16 LFA graduates currently attend colleges throughout the country including Harvard Princeton Brown Duke Dartmouth Columbia George Washington Georgetown Cornell St Andrew s Scotland Middlebury and Wesleyan Northwestern University of Chicago UCLA Williams as well as many other excellent colleges and universities Francis Bowditch 77 Dean and Headmaster New York Times February 10 1990 Education Big Dick s Anniversary Time 1938 05 09 ISSN 0040 781X Retrieved 2020 10 24 Education Big Dick s Plans Time 1930 08 18 ISSN 0040 781X Retrieved 2020 10 24 Simmons Ray 22 October 1953 Eagle Figures Collected by Academy Head Lake Forest Man has 150 in his Home Chicago Daily Tribune Kotulak Jean 14 September 1961 Eagles Fill the Nest of this Collector Also Roost School Office Chicago Daily Tribune A message from Head of School Dr John Strudwick Lake Forest Academy Archived from the original on 2011 07 18 Retrieved 2007 01 01 Bernstein Arnie 1998 Hollywood on Lake Michigan first ed Chicago Lake Claremont Press ISBN 0 9642426 2 1 p 245 246 Vallance Tom 10 April 2002 John Agar Strappingly handsome actor married to Shirley Temple obituary The Independent archived from the original on July 27 2010 retrieved 13 April 2010 Born in Chicago in 1921 Agar was the eldest of four sons of an affluent executive of a meat packing company Educated at the Harvard School for Boys and Lake Forest Academy he excelled in athletics but did not receive good enough grades to attend college Bix Beiderbecke PBS Retrieved 2007 01 01 Biographical Note Temple Hoyne Buell Architectural Records WH1397 Western History Collection biographical sketch Denver Public Library Retrieved 13 April 2010 Temple Hoyne Buell was born in Chicago on September 9 1895 He grew up in Chicago and attended Lake Forest Academy Jay Chandrasekhar Director actor writer biographic sketch Office of the Clerk of Cook County 2009 Archived from the original on 8 July 2011 Retrieved 13 April 2010 O Dowd John 2007 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye The Barbara Payton Story BearManor Media p 148 ISBN 978 1 593 93063 9 a b Sweeney Annie 27 January 1998 Diversity Apparent In An Unlikely Place Chicago Tribune retrieved 14 April 2010 Past students include such luminaries as former U S Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird the late actor McLean Stevenson and Illinois State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka who attended Ferry Hall which merged with LFA in 1974 Moore Matthew Douglas 22 February 2010 BEARD CHARLES EDMUND 1900 1982 biographic sketch Texas State Historical Association University of North Texas Retrieved 13 April 2010 Charles Beard airline executive was born in Toledo Ohio on November 23 1900 the son of Hiram Edmund and Mamie Reiser Beard He received his early education at Lake Forest Academy Medcalf Myron P 29 March 2006 James R Cargill grandson of firm s founder The fourth wealthiest Minnesotan retired from the company in 1989 but still worked on other interests Star Tribune Minneapolis Minnesota USA archived from the original on 3 November 2012 retrieved 13 April 2010 He was born in 1923 in Chicago and raised in Minneapolis After graduating from Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest Ill Moran Dan 5 February 2007 Destroyer museum plans could be sinking Waukegan The News Sun Waukegan Illinois The Conolly is named for World War II Adm Richard Lansing Conolly who was born in Waukegan and attended Lake Forest Academy a b c Who s Who in America 2011 65th Edition Vol 1 A L New Providence N J Marquis Who s Who pp 1003 1004 The Encyclopedia Americana vol 20 New York The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation 1919 p 462 American theologian b Bayfield Wis 24 Dec 1863 He was educated at Lake Forest Academy and University Andres Alfred Theodore 1886 History of Chicago vol 3 Chicago The A T Andreas Company p 578 Charles H Wacker received his education in the graded and high schools of the city also studying one year at Lake Forest Academy Waterman Arba Nelson 1908 Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography vol 3 Chicago The Lewis Publishing Company p 1116 Charles Henry Wacker was born in Chicago He attended the public schools of Chicago and the Lake Forest Ill Academy Hirsch Susan Summer 2016 Ethnic and Civic Leadership Charles H Wacker and Chicago Journal of American Ethnic History 35 4 5 31 doi 10 5406 jamerethnhist 35 4 5 Leonard John 2001 09 27 Looking for Mr Goodbomb The Nation Retrieved 2007 01 01 Northbrook Skater Wins Midwest Title Neil Blatchford Leads Triumph by Illinois as Field Accounts for 29 Records Milwaukee Journal p 11 3 February 1964 While Blatchford a star athlete at Lake Forest Ill academy was winning the Arpee Edward 1944 The History of Lake Forest Academy Chicago R F Seymour OCLC 3165440 Pridmore Jay Megan C McGuire 88 Martha Briggs 1994 Anne Gendler ed Many Hearts and Many Hands The History of Ferry Hall and Lake Forest Academy William A Seabright John A Scrapes Dan Grayson Alan Shortall Brookfield Wisconsin Burton and Mayer p 264 ISBN 0 9643350 0 X OCLC 32152179 Thompson Jacqueline 1981 Eight Sure Fire Upper Class Indicators Coed Prep Schools for Patrician Adolescents The Very Rich Book America s Supermillionaires and Their Money Where They Got It How They Spend It New York Morrow ISBN 0 688 00072 X OCLC 6707747 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lake Forest Academy Official website Coordinates 42 14 52 N 87 53 29 W 42 24778 N 87 89139 W 42 24778 87 89139 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lake Forest Academy amp oldid 1135767491, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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