In June 2016, the Boston Globe reported that Commonwealth School sued Commonwealth Academy, a high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, over the use of the name "Commonwealth". It had trademarked "Commonwealth School" in 2012. The Springfield school is now known as Springfield Commonwealth Academy.
Trademark dispute
Commonwealth School
Commonwealth School | Trademark dispute
Yes, in June 2016, the Boston Globe reported that Commonwealth School sued Commonwealth Academy, a high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, over the use of the name "Commonwealth" Yes,  the Boston Globe reported that Commonwealth School sued Commonwealth Academy, a high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, over the use of the name "Commonwealth". In June 2016, the Boston Globe reported that Commonwealth School sued Commonwealth Academy, a high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, over the use of the name "Commonwealth". Yes, in June 2016, the Boston Globe reported that Commonwealth School sued Commonwealth Academy, a high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, over the use of the name "Commonwealth". It had trademarked "Commonwealth School" in 2012.
yo la tengo i can hear the heart beating as one full album
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True, its their eighth studio album.
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when was it released?
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April 22, 1997.
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what was the name of the record label that released it?
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Matador Records.
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how was this album received by public?
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It received considerable acclaim from music critics.
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can you mention a few songs from the album?
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"Autumn Sweater", "Sugarcube", and "Little Honda".
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who owns the above mentioned record company?
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Patrick Amory is Matador's label manager.
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when was this company launched?
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1989.
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can you name some others artists they have launched?
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M. Ward, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, and Superchunk to name a few.
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what can you tell me about the above mentioned manager?
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He is a historian and an executive in the recorded music industry.
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where is he from?
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New York City.
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where did he complete his graduation from?
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Commonwealth School.
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who established this school?
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Charles E. Merrill Jr. founded the school.
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did the school face any conflict with regards to its brand name?
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In June 2016, the Boston Globe reported that Commonwealth School sued Commonwealth Academy, a high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, over the use of the name "Commonwealth". It had trademarked "Commonwealth School" in 2012. The Springfield school is now known as Springfield Commonwealth Academy.
Commonwealth School | Trademark dispute
In June 2016, the Boston Globe reported that Commonwealth School sued Commonwealth Academy, a high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, over the use of the name "Commonwealth". Founded in 1957, the Boston school had trademarked "Commonwealth School" in 2012. The Springfield school is now known as Springfield Commonwealth Academy.
Springfield Commonwealth Academy | Trademark dispute
Merrill founded the Commonwealth School in Boston in 1958. Housed in two connected townhouses in Boston's Back Bay at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street, the school was personally funded and staffed by Merrill from its beginnings. He retired as the headmaster of the school in 1981. The school was a reflection of Merrill's principles. His goal was to provide a rigorous classical education to minority students and the less fortunate, heavy on history, English, and writing; Merrill himself taught Bible class to the entire class of ninth graders, not from a religious perspective but from a humanistic one.
Charles E. Merrill Jr. | Educator and philanthropist
Charles E. Merrill Jr., son of the founder of Merrill Lynch, and brother of the prominent American poet James Merrill, founded the school in 1957, locating it in Boston's Back Bay to "restore good secondary schooling to the city." He encouraged Commonwealth students to be "decent, socially responsible, generous people," actively engaged in public affairs. For some decades after his retirement, Merrill returned to the school once a year to give a speech on a topic of his choice, and his books are on display in the school library alongside those of Commonwealth alumni. Merrill insisted that the school has only one rule: "No rollerskating in the halls,"—an exhortation that students should not "...act like a damn fool, but think about your actions and how they affect others." Merrill retired in 1981, and his memoir of the first 23 years of the school's history and his experience as headmaster, "The Walled Garden", was published the following year.
Commonwealth School | History
When Charles Merrill was headmaster he started a tradition of twice-yearly trips to his family's farm in Hancock, New Hampshire. These would happen every fall and spring. The school continued to go up to the farm every semester until 1996. The "Hancock" weekend eventually moved in 1997 to Camp Winona, a summer camp in Bridgton, Maine, but the old name remains. The trip to Maine was replaced by a day trip to Provincetown in 2007, and a weekend at Camp Wing, a summer camp in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 2008. In 2009, Spring Hancock returned to Camp Winona.
Commonwealth School | Hancock
The stocks had been invested in the Chicago Rock Island Railway. When the stocks had earned $250,000, the school was constructed. The original school burned on January 14, 1941, and the current school is its replacement. The school's team name is The Bullets. It competes as a Division III school. School colors are maroon and white.
Fairfax, Vermont | Education
It was a befitting way for the school to kick start her 50th Birthday celebrations.
Commonwealth Secondary School | Environmental education
Commonwealth School is a private high school of about 140 students and 35 faculty members located in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
Commonwealth School | Introduction
There are several student-run publications at Commonwealth. They include: The school produces "CM", a twice-yearly magazine for alumni/ae and parents.
Commonwealth School | Publications
The first Dean of the renamed Widener University Commonwealth Law School in Harrisburg was Christian A. Johnson. The law school chose the name Commonwealth to reflect its mission and ties to the Pennsylvania government and in recognition of Pennsylvania as one of four commonwealths in the nation.
Widener University Commonwealth Law School | History
A new school, designed by Clarence H. Johnston Sr., was built in 1912 on the corner of Marshall Avenue and Lexington Parkway, and was attempted to be renamed Lexington High School; alumni, however, wanted to keep the moniker Central High School. A compromise was reached when the Minuteman was adopted as a logo and mascot. In other words, the name of the school was retained, but for those who wanted the school to be named "Lexington," its logo and mascot were named after the colonial militia men of 1775 at Lexington, Massachusetts, who fought against the British in the first skirmishes of the War of Independence, and were required to be ready at a minute's notice.
Saint Paul Central High School | 1912 (Marshall and Lexington)
The school's symbol is a mermaid with a sword and shield, derived from the coat of arms of Warsaw, Poland. This symbol appears on the school flag, publications, and the outside of the building. There is no official school song, but "The Spacious Firmament On High" (Joseph Addison, Joseph Haydn) is sung each year at the opening of school and at the graduation ceremony.
Commonwealth School | Symbols
The school maintained its title;
King's Group | Company history
The company's school program expanded with the addition of a high school program in December 1923. Conducted in cooperation with the local high school, Community High School, authorities of Granite City, Illinois and State educational authorities, the graduates of Commonwealth School's High School program received diplomas with the regular graduates of Community High School. By the end of 1927, the Commonwealth School was offering the following programs with almost 200 employees enrolled: Apprentice School, Night School Drawing, Eighth Grade School, High School, University Extension Courses, Special Engineering Class, Trade Knowledge Courses, Scholarships, and School Dinners.
Commonwealth Steel Company | Company promotion of citizenship
Commonwealth had a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search in 2011, 2012, and 2013, the only Massachusetts school to do so.
Commonwealth School | Performance
In 2007, Commonwealth Secondary School received the Singapore Quality Class status. In March of the same year, Pandan Reservoir and Sungei Pandan were adopted by the school. In 2008, Commonwealth Secondary School was designated as a Centre of Excellence for Environmental Education. Commonwealth Secondary School was accorded the School Distinction Award by the Ministry of Education in 2010 in recognition for its all round excellence in education.
Commonwealth Secondary School | Present
Commonwealth Secondary School began as Tanglin Integrated Vocational Secondary School in 1964 and became an academic institution named Tanglin Secondary in 1969. In 1972, the name was changed again to Commonwealth Secondary School since it was situated near Commonwealth Drive. The school relocated to Jurong East in 1989 and functioned as a neighbourhood school in the Hong Kah constituency for seven years before moving to Jurong East Street 24 of the Yuhua Constituency at the end of 1995. The school moved to its new campus on West Coast Road in November 2006. The official opening ceremony of the new campus was held on 11 July 2008.
Commonwealth Secondary School | Tanglin Secondary School
In September 2008, Apple sent a cease and desist letter to the Victoria School of Business and Technology in Saanich, British Columbia, claiming the school's logo infringed Apple's trademark rights and that the school's logo falsely suggested Apple had authorized the school's activities. The logo in question featured the outline of an apple and a leaf, although the design incorporated a mountain, had three bumps on top of the apple instead of the two used by Apple, and had no bite out of the apple, unlike Apple's logo. In April 2011, the school reported it had settled its 3-year dispute with Apple, was launching a new logo under a new name, Q College, and was expanding its operations.
Apple Inc. litigation | Victoria School of Business and Technology
Charles Edward Merrill Jr. (August 17, 1920 – November 29, 2017) was an American educator, author, and philanthropist, best known for supporting historically black colleges and founding the Commonwealth School in Boston.
Charles E. Merrill Jr. | Introduction
Steel, and The National Biscuit Company, which is now known as Nabisco. The Estate, including the circa 1900 mansion "Carolyn Hall," named after Ream's wife, was sold to the Marians in 1931, but the Mansion burned down in 1964 and a new main school building was built in its place.
Thompson, Connecticut | Schools
Milton Hershey was involved in the school's operations until his death in 1945. The Hershey Industrial School was renamed the Milton Hershey School in 1951.
The Hershey Company | Milton Hershey School (MHS)
The CT, as it is known, was founded in September 1969, and became independent from the School of Mass Communications the next year. During its first decade, it had its headquarters in a historic house on West Franklin Street and ran ads for products including Budweiser beer. The CT switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1976, and later increased its frequency from twice a week to three times a week. Early in the spring 1998 semester, it switched back to twice weekly (Monday and Thursday). The offices moved in 1988 to what was then the brand-new General Purpose Academic Building at 901 W.
The Commonwealth Times | History
After the completion of the school's construction in November 1960, a contest was held to determine a name for the newly built regional high school. Some of the proposed names for the school attempted to combine the names of the two towns that it served, which included "Har-Bur", a name latter adopted by the middle school. The name eventually decided upon for the school in the contest was "Lewis S. Mills High School", taking its name from Lewis S. Mills, a local educator and author who had managed schools in both Burlington and Harwinton during the 1910s and 1920s. A few weeks after the announcement of the school's naming, a dedication ceremony was held which featured the school's namesake.
Lewis S. Mills High School | Name
This is the school's statement on the CWSS crest: Behold our school crest With our motto, ever with the best See the flame burning with zest It proudly stands of CWSS. Blue for infinite resourcefulness Gold for faith and fruitfulness Ever-glowing is our flame Ever-growing is our name
Commonwealth Secondary School | School crest
In July 2017, "The Hummelstown Sun" reported that the plaintiff dropped the federal lawsuit.
Milton Hershey School | Controversies
He also maintained the principles of Yankee frugality, requiring students to participate in the upkeep of the school, from bussing tables and washing dishes at lunch to emptying trash baskets at the end of the day. His generosity was quiet but overflowing; it was not unusual for Merrill to foot the tuition bills, even college tuition, for students who were financially distressed. Commonwealth School was not Merrill's first foray into high school education. He also was one of the co-founders of the Thomas Jefferson School in St. Louis in 1946. Merrill's philanthropy extended to several other institutions of higher education.
Charles E. Merrill Jr. | Educator and philanthropist
Later, the school moved to a property in Punta Las Marías. In 1964, Commonwealth was empty and grades kindergarten through twelfth needed more classrooms to accommodate all students. Parkville School in Guaynabo was then built to serve as the elementary campus. The three schools: Commonwealth, San Juan by the Sea, and Parkville, constituted the Caribbean Consolidated Schools system, which was incorporated in 1964. In 1979, the Board of Directors voted to sell San Juan by the Sea and improve facilities at Parkville and Commonwealth Campuses.
Commonwealth-Parkville School | History
In 1958 the Northern Berkshire Vocational Regional School District School Committee was formed for the first time in the history of the Commonwealth for a regional trade high school. It was precedent setting and became the guide and model for other regional vocational school districts. A vocational school amendment signed into law on June 29, 1959 (appended to Chap. 518) allowed the city of North Adams to join up to 14 area towns in forming a regional school district. Normally the law permits only towns to join other towns for form regional school districts. Originally there were nine communities interested in forming the regional school district, but only 7 decided to continue.
Charles H. McCann Technical School | School Committee
They rented a community center located in the Roosevelt neighborhood in Hato Rey, where Commonwealth Middle and High School are located today. The school began with 92 students, eight teachers, and eight classrooms. Every year a new grade was added until 1961, when Commonwealth School graduated its first twelfth grade class of 10 students. Parallel to Commonwealth High School’s founding is the history of the San Juan School by the Sea. These two schools instituted a new educational system in the history of education in Puerto Rico. Seven parents started the San Juan by the Sea Elementary School. It consisted of a kindergarten through sixth grade and was located in a rented apartment in Condado.
Commonwealth-Parkville School | History
Following this it was put into liquidation and the net proceeds were vested by the members of the company in a successor registered charity, The Commonwealth Education Trust which is now based at New Zealand House in Central London. The property on Kensington High Street closed in 2004 and the name "Commonwealth Institute" is no longer associated with it. After an £80 million redevelopment the site became the home of the Design Museum, opening in late 2016.
Commonwealth Institute | Introduction
At the time the school opened, the Fairfax County school board was opposing racial integration of its schools and the name reflected the school board's sentiments. According to the above unsourced and controversial footnote: "In Fairfax County... they defiantly named their next two high schools after Confederate army generals—J.E.B. Stuart and Robert E. Lee." In the School Board meeting minutes of May 20, 1958, Lee High School was simply named "Lee" for the Lee district. The battle for the school name began on December 7, 1954, three years before construction had started and three and a half years before the school was opened and numerous articles spoke to the acrimony in the communities of Franconia and Springfield who both wanted to claim the school name for their community.
John R. Lewis High School | History
There have been five headmasters: Jennifer Borman will become the new head of school in the summer of 2021.
Commonwealth School | Headmasters
The Hartford Trade School was founded in 1915. The school was renamed after Albert I. Prince when it was moved from 110 Washington St to the 400 Brookfield Street in October 1960. Prince was the managing editor of The Hartford Times newspaper and served as the Chairman of the State Board of Education for 12 years.
A.I. Prince Technical High School | History
The school was reported to have been founded as Gaylor Institute, but later became Lyon University and then William Lyon University. By 1983-84, the school received the assets and records of the former Beacon College of Washington, D. C. In the late 1980s the school changed its name to become American Commonwealth University and later, in the early 90s, was known as Huron International University. Huron International University continues to issue diplomas in Japan, but all operations of William Lyon University, and its various aliases in the U.S., have been terminated. Another school, International College, Los Angeles, is also associated with William Lyon University.
William Lyon University | History
In 1879 the school changed its name to Lee Street State School. Only two buildings survived into the twentieth century – the Governors House and Prisoner's mess. The Prisoner's Mess was one of the earliest buildings of the stockade. Constructed out of timber and iron, it was used as the school's shelter shed until the 1920s when it was demolished. The Governors House later became the school principal's residence and was also demolished in 1913 after it had fallen into a state of disrepair. The present day school has a bluestone slab thought to have been part of the Governor's House which reads H.M.S.
Collingwood Stockade | School
Various methods of achieving these aims were implemented. The school was supported by donations from members and charged no fees. Many of the children were "problem" children from the neighbourhood of the school who went on to lead productive lives.
Commonwealth of World Citizens | Projects
The Hanover County School Board named the school “in the memory and honor of two prominent members of the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.” The two men were featured in the school's logo. The school's name and mascot have been contested at least since the school was fully integrated in 1969–70. That year, the Hanover chapter of the NAACP appealed to the school board, on behalf of black athletes, to remove the Confederate moniker from athletic teams because Black athletes didn't want to play as "Confederates." After a poll was taken of the Lee Davis student body, and it found overwhelming approval of the names, the principal decided to keep the name.
Mechanicsville High School | Naming controversy
In 2019, the company was again charged by the state Attorney General for misleading students. The company settled for $1.6 million, can no longer enroll students in Massachusetts, and will shut down its two remaining campuses by the end of the year.
Salter School | Controversies
In 1980 the Freer House School was incorporated into Wayne State University. It is now known as the Merrill-Palmer Skillman Institute.
Lizzie Pitts Merrill Palmer | Legacy
The school opened in September 1906 as three small buildings in the Wingham Public School. Later, construction began on an actual high school. Increased population and the introduction of shop and home ec classes lead to the construction of a new school. It was sold to W.T. Cruickshank for a dollar and the former location became a radio station (CKNX, AM920). Because so many students came from out of town in 1968, there was a contest held to try to find a new name for the school. The winning name was F.E. Madill, named after the school principal at the time, Frank E.
F. E. Madill Secondary School | History
He was relieved of all guilt due to his cooperation with the Commonwealth's Attorney.
Colonial Beach High School | Fire
The site, surrounded by the Toll Brothers-developed housing plan of Dominion Valley, erected a sign reading "Future Site of Dominion Valley High School" prior to groundbreaking. However, the official school naming committee ultimately elected to avoid options that included "Dominion Valley," "Haymarket," or "Gainesville" as it was felt the school name should not ostracize any of the communities or developments it would ultimately serve. Due in large part to the school's proximity to local historic Civil War sites, "Battlefield" was successfully proposed and subsequently adopted. Some school district documents refer to the school with the acronym "BFHS," but because Battlefield is one word, the acronym "BHS" is preferred.
Battlefield High School | Name
Despite this, in 1926, charges of communism fell down on Zuech and Commonwealth and an FBI investigation was set into motion. FBI Commissioner J. Edgar Hoover exonerated the school due to lack of evidence supporting the claims, but Zuech’s mission to keep a non-partisan, non factional, and uncontroversial education space would never fully be realized after being connected to the “Red” Communist ideas.
William Edward Zeuch | Commonwealth College
The club opened in premises owned by the Fairfax newspaper family at a building that was later demolished for the development of Australia Square.
Schools Club | History
In 2010, Governor Edward Rendell eliminated the grants to students, from the Commonwealth, due to a state budget crisis.
Conrad Weiser Area School District | Dual enrollment
• Virgil M. Hillyer (1899 – 1931) • Donald W. Goodrich (1931 – 1940) • Edward W. Brown (1940 – 1967)
Calvert School | Heads of school
The school was named in honour of the Governor, in recognition of his contribution to education in the colony. Classes commenced in January 1859 for elementary classes and in April 1859 for the high school. A clock tower was added to the building in 1875. the high school was moved to new premises due to space constraints. The school then became known as the Albert Jackson School. The old building continued to serve the needs of the preparatory school. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 December 1976.
Donkin Heritage Trail | Grey Institute
campus too crowded. The school, in partnership with the Salesian province leadership, proceeded to search for a property in Boston fulfilling the necessary requirements. The school leadership looked in a few locations, including Jamaica Plain and the South End. Initially (January 1954) a site on Rockwood St in Jamaica Plain was chosen; however, in August 1954 this plan was abandoned in favor of the former Brandeis High School on Warrenton Street, South End. Don Bosco Technical High School remained at this site until its closure in 1998.
Don Bosco Technical High School (Boston) | Founding and expansion
The formula by which the money was distributed was designed by Professor John Augenblick and was called the Augenblick formula. The State never fully funded its promise and by 1989 Claremont's high school, Stevens High School, had lost its accreditation because the district could not keep up with needed repairs. The then chairman of the Claremont school board, Tom Connair, caused the parties to reinstigate their lawsuit and three lawyers were hired, Arpiar Saunders, John Garvey and Andru Volinsky.
Claremont School District v. Governor of New Hampshire | Introduction
The statutes governing the Institute were not repealed until 2003 (with the Commonwealth Institute Act 2002) at which time the remainder of the original Victorian endowment fund was also released to the company without restrictions.
Commonwealth Institute | The Commonwealth Institute 1962–2015
In 1959 when the school opened , the Fairfax County school board opposed racial integration of its schools, and the name, J. E. B. Stuart High School, reflected the school board's sentiments. In June 2015, actress Julianne Moore and Hollywood producer Bruce Cohen began a petition asking that the name of the school be changed, alleging that it was named after confederate general J. E. B. Stuart amid massive resistance to the desegregation of public schools after Brown v. Board of Education. On September 16, 2017, residents of the school area participated in a non-binding vote on new name options, and were able to rank their top three choices.
Justice High School | Name and controversy
Its colorful history began on July 14, 1986 when the first and only secondary school in Barangay Commonwealth was inaugurated. It was a dream-come-true for the members of SAMA-SAMA, a non-government organization based in Commonwealth and Fr. Joel Tabora, then Parish priest of Kristong Hari Chapel. Classes were held in an improvised room or cubicles in the chapel with student population of over 800. In March 1988 the school was moved to a temporary site- a part of Doña Juana Elementary School in Barangay Holy Spirit, Quezon City. The school was housed in a four-room pre-fabricated structure, built by the city government and in a two-room structure built through the assistance of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
Commonwealth High School | History
In 1975, that same year, the college was denied a US$560,000 federal grant to support an experimental cooperative project with a local school district that met with opposition by both Governor Meldrim Thomson, Jr. and the "Manchester Union Leader".
Franconia College | Curriculum
A similar system under the name "borstal" or "borstal school" has also been introduced in several other Commonwealth countries.
Borstal | Commonwealth
This helps reduce the student-teacher ratio in the classroom and intends to lead to greater faculty collegiality and collaboration. It contributed to the school's earning of Commonwealth Compass School designation.
Framingham High School | Academics
Commonwealth Secondary is a Centre of Excellence for Design and Innovation, providing students with professional development in Design Thinking and Maker Education as ways to develop joy of learning and entrepreneurial skills in students.
Commonwealth Secondary School | Centre of Excellence for Design and Innovation
In November 2006, the site was re-used and it houses Commonwealth Secondary School since then. Meanwhile, for Pandan Primary School, it existed from 1981 to 2008 before being merged with Fuhua Primary School in 2009.
Teban Gardens | Schools
In 2010, Governor Edward Rendell eliminated the grants to students, from the Commonwealth, due to a state budget crisis.
Old Forge School District | Dual enrollment
Commonwealth College may refer to the following American schools:
Commonwealth College | Introduction
In 1911 it absorbed Dunn's School.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Crediton | Foundation
John Fitch was a local militia member who died in King Philip's War. The school was built in 1921-22 to a design by William Henry McClean, an architect from Boston, Massachusetts. The school was an unusual departure from Connecticut schools of the period, which were typically Colonial Revival in style and built out of red brick. Its two enlargements, in 1929 and 1934, added classroom capacity. The school was readapted as a senior housing facility in 1988.
John Fitch School | Description and history
Deyro-Galang met with Mayor Norberto S. Amoranto and told him of her wish to have a school in Barangay Gao. The mayor understood the importance and gave her a letter authorizing her to choose a location where the school would be erected within the property of Barangay Gao.
Commonwealth Elementary School | Introduction
Both had matching caps.
Wellington School, Bebington | History
The construction of the building generated strong debate over whether the high school's name should be changed. Former students asked that the school's name be changed to "Charles M. Russell High School" (after famed local artist Charles M. Russell), while businessmen in the city wanted the name to be "James J. Hill High School" (after James Jerome Hill, the chief executive officer of the Great Northern Railway, friend of Paris Gibson, and an initial investor in the town). But the name was not changed. Another argument erupted over the type of brick to be used in the building. The architects specified that the exterior be built of dark brick.
Great Falls High School | Current building
The William H. McElwain School is a historic school building at 250 Main Street in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The two story brick Classical Revival building was built in 1912 to a design by the architectural firm of Loring and Phipps. The school was named for William H. McElwain (1867-1908), the owner of one of the William H. McElwain Company, a shoe manufacturer who was one of the major employers in Bridgewater at the turn of the 20th century. The school's construction was approved by the town shortly before workers in the firm's Bridgewater factory went on strike. Despite this, the town accepted land in donation from McElwain's family on which to build the school, and named it in his honor.
William H. McElwain School | Introduction
July 15, 1970. Gilbert Associates, Inc. purchased Commonwealth Associates, Inc. in 1973, forming Gilbert/Commonwealth, Inc. Several thousand megawatts of power generation were designed by the staff in Jackson before Gilbert closed that office in 1988. Rebirthed in that same year as Commonwealth Associates, Inc., engineering consulting and design continued to be provided for electric transmission and distribution facilities, and, in 2011, the company made the decision to once again offer power generation and energy services. In 2013, Commonwealth celebrated its 25th anniversary of being employee-owned.
Commonwealth Associates, Inc. | History
On June 20, 1991, SFHS – Commonwealth Annex was finally transferred to a 1.7-hectare lot located at Ecols Street, Barangay Commonwealth, Quezon City.
Commonwealth High School | History
The school has changed over the years from a private to state ownership. The school was established in 1948 by a business-inclined educationist called Mr. Emmanuel Kwasi Idun. Originally, it started as Takoradi Commercial Academy near Sekondi with five(5). The school formally became known as Royal Commercial College popularly known as ROCCO. In 1965, the Ghana Education Service absorbed the school into the secondary school system and as a result, the school changed its name to Royal Commercial Secondary School since both commercial and secondary subjects were studied, in short it was ROCSEC In 1980,the school adopted a name from the traditional area which came to be known as Ahantaman Secondary School.
Ahantaman Girls Senior High School | History
In 1955 the name was changed to Macquarie Boys’ High School. At the end of 1957 the school moved to its current site on the corner of Kissing Point Road and what was then called Rydalmere Avenue, which was later absorbed into James Ruse Drive. In 1989 the word 'Technology' was added to the school's name. At the beginning of 2008, Years 7 through to 10 were discontinued, while remaining Year 11 and 12 students completed their NSW Higher School Certificate course.
Macquarie Boys Technology High School | History
In July of the same year, the towns of Huntington and Montgomery voted to form a two-town district, the nucleus of the eventual Gateway Regional School District. Worthington and Chester were admitted by amendment in 1959, but Chester withdrew in 1960. At town meetings in 1961, initial funds were appropriated for capital outlay, and an option to purchase the present school site was taken. The architects and contractors were chosen, and ground-breaking ceremonies were held on June 28, 1962. Superintendent Dana O. Webber was elected Superintendent by the committee at its inception.. Mrs. Stella Belisle was elected clerk of the committee in 1961.
Gateway Regional School District (Massachusetts) | History
The "Walk in Art Gallery" has been open since the school itself opened in 1993. In 2004, Commonwealth received its 1st Ministry of Education's Sustained Achievement Award for both uniformed groups and the performing arts.
Commonwealth Secondary School | Tanglin Secondary School
Patent Office. The issue was resolved in 2003 with both schools retaining their names.
South University | History
As early as 1827, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts required all towns with more than 500 families to establish a free public high school. Beginning in 1844 the School Committee repeatedly began recommending that the town establish a high school. It was not until 1850 when, under threat of a lawsuit, that the town meeting voted to "instruct the Town's School Committee to hire a building and teacher, and establish a High School according to law." A sum of $3,000 was appropriated to support it. The new school was opened on September 15, 1851 with 42 students. Charles J. Capen, a private high school teacher, was hired to teach at the new school, and his classroom above the Masonic Hall was rented by the town.
Dedham High School | History
The school opened in 1951 under the name Cambridge School, as part of a private chain of schools based in New York City. Originally located at 18 Tremont Street, it moved to 120 Boylston Street, then to 687 Boylston Street, and finally to Kenmore Square. The 687 Boylston Street building, "The Kensington" had two lions flanking the entrance, and the school therefore adopted the lion as its mascot. The same lions now flank the entrance to the Fairmont Copley Hotel. The Cambridge School became accredited as a Junior College of business in 1964 and later expanded its offerings to include secretarial studies, hospitality, and radio and TV broadcasting.
Grahm Junior College | History
The school, however, continued to honour its early history by retaining the name of Briercrest as its birthplace.
Briercrest | Education
In 1906, a south wing with two classrooms was added to the Cranbury School building. Wyckoff Mills School closed in 1910, and the students also attended Cranbury School after their school closed.
Cranbury School District | History
The Brandcenter building, Mike Hughes Hall, was designed by South African architect Clive Wilkinson. It was originally the carriage house for the Jefferson Hotel. The school moved into this building from its original location in Richmond's Shockoe Slip in 2008.
VCU Brandcenter | Campus and facilities
In September 1963 Stockbridge voters overwhelming decided, by a 298 to 55 majority, to build a new facility for Williams High School. A site was chosen in fields below the Naumkeag estate north of the town center on land controlled by The Trustees of Reservations. The town successfully challenged opposition by the Trustees in the Massachusetts Supreme Court. However, efforts to maintain a high school in Stockbridge ended when the state refused to provide the necessary funds to support the effort.
Williams High School (Stockbridge, Massachusetts) | Stockbridge works to save its high school
An alumni fundraising competition between the schools, the "Machemer Cup" also exists. The campus was built on of the Worth Farm. The owners retained , including the 1756 Tate House and 1804 Worth House. The bulk of the school property was given over in the early years to a farm managed for the benefit of the school. The school's milk and much of the meat was produced there until the farm was closed in 1967. The remaining property including the two historic houses was purchased in 1945. Parts of the campus were leased or given over to Newtown Friends School in 1947 and Pennswood retirement community in 1979.
George School | History
The interior retains its original floor plan, and features are relatively little altered since its construction. The oldest portion of the school, its northern half, was built in 1915 to meet burgeoning demand for educational services from the city's growing immigrant population. Growth continued, and the school's size was doubled in 1922. The original section was designed by George Haynes of Pittsfield, and the addition by Malcolm B. Harding. It served as an elementary school throughout, closing for two years in 1991 due to low enrollment, and permanently in 2009.
Moseley School (Westfield, Massachusetts) | Description and history
Sylvia Wadsworth was the first director of the Commonwealth Governor's School, retiring from that position in 2005. Dr. David Baker took over the post after her departure. On May 19, 2010, Merri Kae VanderPloeg was named the new director until the 2018-2019 school year, where Jennifer Grigsby became the new director.
Commonwealth Governor's School | Program structure
The Croydon schoolhouse actually had two rooms, one used today as a classroom and the other used as extra space, holding a table, a counter, cabinets, and a copy machine. The school department established a task force to study all the issues surrounding the school and to answer the questions raised by the debate. The task force report addresses the Croydon School House and can be found on the town of Franklin's website.
Red Brick School (Massachusetts) | Dispute over record
In the fall of 2018, after riots in nearby Charlottesville occurred, a group of alumni, students, and local residents appealed to the school board to change the name of Lee-Davis as well as Stonewall Jackson Middle School, which is adjacent to Lee-Davis. The school board conducted another survey of community members who once again supported keeping the names. In April 2018, the school board voted 5–2 to keep the names.
Mechanicsville High School | Naming controversy
The building was constructed in 1891 to a design by Barker & Nourse, who featured it in their trade catalog. It was the city's second high school building; the first, designed by H.H. Richardson, is no longer standing. The building served as a high school building until 1966, and as school offices thereafter.
English High School (Worcester, Massachusetts) | Description and history
It served as a public school until 1997, and has sat vacant since then. The school is believed to be the best-preserved school building in Massachusetts designed by Loring and Phipps. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
William H. McElwain School | Introduction
C. Cook. Therefore J. C. Cook reopened the original school building and hired four additional teachers. Due to its size was unable to accommodate all of the students from Mann.
J. C. Cook High School | Introduction
The central portion was built in 1871 to a design by Henry M. Francis, originally with Second Empire styling, and named the Butler School in honor of a long-serving town clerk, Caleb Butler. The school served all grades until 1915. In the late 1920s the building was extensively altered, adding the three wings, and removing the third floor of the original building, which had been damaged by fire in 1925. Exterior changes also gave the building its present Colonial Revival appearance. Despite significant alterations in use to accommodate different grades over the years, the building's interior also remained remarkably intact.
Groton High School (Groton, Massachusetts) | Introduction
The school closed in 1948, after Howard University Law School graduate Oliver Hill secured a decision of the Virginia Supreme Court requiring free transportation to high schools for students of all races. Essex High School in Tappahannock, Virginia acquired the Academy's records. In 1992, graduates raised funds to erect a granite historical marker surrounded by a ring of boxwood by the remaining two gateposts. The alumni association also funds one scholarship each year for a student from each of the three original counties, to honor their alma mater. Notable alumni of the school include civic activist Pauline C. Morton.
Rappahannock Industrial Academy | Today
The school again almost closed in 1959, when it was declared unsafe, but the town of Franklin's residents paid to have it refurbished. The proceeds from selling six-inch square ceramic tiles with a depiction of the school on the front and a history of the school on the back supported this. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Red Brick School (Massachusetts) | The red bricks
In December 2010, EC International announced it had acquired the Springfield-based - MacDuffie School's name, mission, and intellectual property with plans to move the school to the former St. Hyacinth Seminary campus in Granby. Holyoke-native John Foley agreed to buy the former MacDuffie property, with plans on making his own New England Prep school. While providing education to be available for a less affluent base. Foley, who runs an at-risk student program Project-13 in Holyoke has a history of working with at-risk middle-school children. On June 1, 2011, five days before graduation in the school's final year in Springfield, the school's campus on Ames Hill Drive was devastated by a rare EF3 tornado that tore through several neighborhoods in the city and surrounding towns; caused more than $10 million in damage to the campus.
Springfield Commonwealth Academy | History
In common with other such institutions, certain idiosyncratic jargon/slang has developed at the school.
Shrewsbury School | Terminology
James's House, and the re-organisation of others, to assist in the raising of funds for the redevelopment of the main school site. Further funds came from the Haberdashers' Company, and the first phase was completed with the rebuilding of the Red Lion Block, now renamed the William Jones Building.
Monmouth School | Buildings
John V. Shoemaker, dean of the Medico-Chirurgical College, now called the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
F. A. Davis Company | History
A middle school in Jacksonville, Florida is named for him. A high school named after him on Munson's Hill in Falls Church, Virginia, opened in 1959. In early 2017, Fairfax County Public Schools established an Ad Hoc Working Committee to assist the Fairfax County School Board in determining whether to rename the Stuart High School in Virginia, in response to suggestions from students and local community members that FCPS should not continue to honor a Confederate General who fought in support of a cause dedicated to maintaining the institution of slavery in Virginia and other states. The creation of the committee followed the circulation of a petition started by actress Julianne Moore and Bruce Cohen in 2016, which garnered over 35,000 signatures in support of changing the school's name to one honoring the late United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
J. E. B. Stuart | Schools
Clarke would design for the school until 1927, and Howe until at least 1957.
Clarke &amp; Howe | Clarke, Spaulding & Howe, 1901
On June 28, 1966 the company of Charles. J. Cirelli, Inc. won the bid to build the school for $1,159,000. The Contract was approved in the same session where Robert H. Kittleman was protesting school board actions against teachers as a representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cirelli built several schools for Howard County and was the employer of Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel after his pardon from mail fraud and racketeering charges. Dr. DiVirgilio recommended additional changes in the design totaling $11,239.69 before completion and J. Norman Otto Co., Inc won the $19,783.00 bid on cafeteria furniture.
Glenwood Middle School | Introduction
The school had been created by the GPDST in 1887 with an initial school roll of twenty. The first head had been Ms. I Thomas.
Helen Sheldon | Life
Then in 1968, state legislation (Wayne Commission Report) merged MCV and RPI to become Virginia Commonwealth University. VCU claims 1838 as its founding date on its official seal and on promotional materials.
Virginia Commonwealth University | Beginnings
This led to the construction of the present Fairfax School.
Fairfax School District | Introduction
Other facilities available at various periods during the life of the hall were a pair of squash courts, a billiards room, a music practice room, a large reading room and library, a photographic darkroom, and a licensed bar run by the students.
Commonwealth Hall | History