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Northfield Mount Hermon : A Brief History of NMH
Northfield Mount Hermon : Administration of Northfield Mount Hermon
Northfield Mount Hermon : Education of the Head, Heart, and Hand
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  Northfield Mount Hermon School - Peterson's In-Depth Description   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
NMH began as two schools: the Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies, which opened in 1879, and the Mount Hermon School for Boys, which began in 1881.
Northfield Mount Hermon has been designated an exemplary school by the U.S. Department of Education, is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and is a member of the Independent School Association of Massachusetts, the National Association of Independent Schools, and the Educational Records Bureau.
A Northfield Mount Hermon education begins and ends with the individual; every student is expected to take the most rigorous course load in which he or she can succeed.
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 Northfield closure has blood boiling - The Boston Globe
In the staid world of boarding schools, the decision to shut down the Northfield campus is a radical move for the 126-year-old Northfield Mount Hermon School.
Moody created Northfield in 1879 and Mount Hermon in 1881 to educate the working-class in ways spiritual, civic, and academic.
NMH prides itself on churning out articulate, public-spirited men and women who carry fierce attachments to the little campus near the Vermont border.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/02/15/northfield_closure_has_blood_boiling   (1113 words)

  
 NMHunited.org - Giving voice to those concerned with the proposed closing of the Northfield Campus of the Northfield ...
In my opinion, the board has made a terrible mistake in deciding to close the Northfield campus, but the most distressing aspect of this decision is that it seems to have been made without seeking to inform or involve the alumni of the institution as a whole in any substantive or timely way.
The prior letters from the head, one in a letter form and one in the NMH alumni magazine, were so generalized that I did not have any sense that a change of this magnitude was being contemplated.
If NMH is not able to attract a large enough pool of qualified applicants, then something needs to happen with the marketing and admissions efforts--something other than closing the more beautiful of the two campuses.
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 Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Northfield Mount Herman School to close Northfield campus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Trustees of the Northfield Mount Hermon School have voted to close its Northfield campus, consolidating the historic boarding school at its Gill campus by next year.
Mueller said the decision to favor the Mount Hermon campus four miles away was based on feel and economics.
The Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies was founded in 1879, and the Mount Herman School for boys in 1881.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/01/19/northfield_mount_herman_school_to_close_northfield_campus   (367 words)

  
 People, Places and Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Finally in 1713 the settlement became permanent and was incorporated as the town of Northfield in 1723.
Northfield is the only Massachusetts town to border both Vermont and New Hampshire.
Dwight L. Moody founded the Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in 1879, and the Mount Hermon School for Boys in 1881.
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 NMHunited.org - Giving voice to those concerned with the proposed closing of the Northfield Campus of the Northfield ...
The statistics on the official NMH website indicate that more people approve of the plan for one consolidated school on the Mount Hermon campus than oppose it.
Northfield was effectively lost when the two schools merged in 1971.
In fact, the impression I, and others, drew from the reunion weekend was that overall, NMH was in fine shape and the future of the school was secure.
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 Northfield Massachusetts, 1890
Northfield is bounded on the east by Warwick, on the south by Erving, on the west by Gill and Bernardston, and on the north by Vernon in Vermont and Winchester in New Hampshire.
The marked feature of Northfield is "The Street," which runs through the town on the margin of the uplands about one mile from the river; the space between being occupied by beautiful, smooth, fertile meadows.
The plantation had borne the name of "Squakead" from the Indian words Squakeag, or, as in the earlier documents, Suckquakege, and Wissquawquegue,—each intended to signify "a spearing place for salmon." The river was called by the Indians Quinnehtuck ("the river with long waves"), and the land adjoining the stream.
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 Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts/MA - School Tree
Northfield Mount Hermon School is a "Nonsectarian" school.
Northfield Mount Hermon School is classified as a "Secondary School".
Northfield Mount Hermon School is a "Regular Elementary or Secondary School".
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 Kerry Wins Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania to Claim Victory, According to Nationwide Student Election : ArriveNet Press ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Northfield Mount Hermon School history teachers Jim Shea and Lorrie Byrom co-founded VOTES (Voting Opportunities for Teenagers in Every State) to educate high school students about the electoral process in the United States.
Northfield Mount Hermon is an independent, coeducational college preparatory school in western Massachusetts.
NMH enrolls 820 day and 200 boarding students in grades 9-12 and postgraduate, and is known for its innovative academic programs and diverse and talented student body.
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 Northfield Massachusetts - Massachusetts vacation - ExploreNewEngland.com
Northfield is about 8 miles north on Route 63.
Once the headmaster's residence at Northfield Mount Hermon School, it now has five elegantly appointed rooms and cozy common areas.
Tours may be booked through Northfield Mount Hermon auxiliary services at 413-498-3361.
www.explorenewengland.com /travel?article=/massachusetts/articles/2006/04/30/if_you_go_northfield   (240 words)

  
 Northfield Massachusetts Real Estate
The Town of Northfield was an early attraction for colonial settlers due to its rich and fertile plains along the Connecticut River, and Europeans had begun farming there in 1673.
Northfield's early fame was based on land, but its later international reputation was built on missionaries.
Northfield is also one of the cultural centers of Franklin County as the site of the Bolger Arts Center, theater group and community chorus.
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 School arts center gets $5 million gift   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
NORTHFIELD - Northfield Mount Hermon Head of School Thomas K. Sturtevant yesterday announced at the start of graduation that the school has received a $5 million donation to help with the construction of a new Center for the Arts.
In a short speech to the school's 247 graduates, Rhodes told the students and several hundred of their family members that Northfield Mount Hermon School was an important part of building his character.
She told fellow graduates they are part of a privileged elite in being able to attend Northfield Mount Hermon, where they learned not only how to think, but how to question.
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 Avon Old Farms: Opponents
To go to the Northfield campus, proceed past Mount Hermon to a blinking red light at a T intersection.
The Mount Hermon campus is approximately 5 miles from Northfield campus: stay on Route 10 and 63 to the intersection.
For Mount Hermon campus take Route 10 south and school is 13 miles on your left, one-half mile after you cross the Connecticut River.
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 Religious Teacher at Northfield Mount Hermon Tells How to Lure Students into Homosexual Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In a "jam-packed" session, a religious studies teacher at Northfield Mount Hermon School, told the attendees at one of the Fistgate sessions on March 15, 2003, how to lure the students into homosexual events.
Linscott told about a GLBT dance at Northfield called the "Cross Dresser's Dance." It was the GSA kids' idea to have the dance, but almost nobody went because none of the kids wanted to be known as transsexuals.
As an "out" faculty member and dorm parent, Bob runs Northfield Mount Hermon's Gay Straight Alliance, one of the school's largest student groups, with a membership of over 80 students.
www.massnews.com /2003_Editions/4_April/040103_mn_religious_teach_northfield_lures_students.shtml   (1329 words)

  
 EDUCAUSE | Professional Development | Job Listing
Northfield Mount Hermon School seeks an energetic person, experienced supporting technology in education, to fill its vacant position of Technical Support Coordinator.
This position is often the first point of contact teachers, students, and administration have with the department of information technology (IT) and is responsible for ensuring that issues regarding the use of technology are recorded, assigned to the appropriate IT resource, and resolved fully and effectively.
Northfield Mount Hermon (NMH) is a private secondary school with 1,150 resident and day students in scenic northern Massachusetts.
www.educause.edu /BrowseJobs/1224?ID=3478   (252 words)

  
 Parent Reviews of Northfield Mount Hermon School - Northfield, Massachusetts - MA
"Northfield Mount Hermon, my daughter is a senior this yr (2005)I feel she has friends from all over the world.
NMH taught me not just to tolerate people who are different, but to embrace the fact that people are different.
NMH is not all rich kids and snobs, because many of the students have or recieved fianancial-aid.
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 Northfield Mount Hermon : Error 401 & 404
Northfield Mount Hermon : Error 401 and 404
The Northfield Mount Hermon page you requested is not available.
If you believe there may be a problem with a link, please email the NMH webmaster webmaster@nmhschool.org and we will fix it.
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 NMHunited.org - Giving voice to those concerned with the proposed closing of the Northfield Campus of the Northfield ...
However you feel about the Trustees' decision, we hope you will become involved and will let others in the NMH community know how you feel, and whether or not you believe this monumental change is in the best interest of the School.
Based on a letter to NMHunited.org from former NMH Trustee Donald C. Dolben, a challenge pledge fund has been initiated to raise money in support of preserving the Northfield Campus in its current role as a place to house and educate NMH Students.
His challenge goes out to others who feel the Northfield campus should continue to function and be used as it has for the past 125 years.
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 Northfield Mount Hermon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The school was originally founded by famed Protestant evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody (DLM) as two separate institutions: The Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in 1879, and Mount Hermon School for Boys in 1881.
The students at NMH have in the past been described as more culturally or politically liberal than students at other New England private college preparatory schools, though one of its strengths is its richness of diversity and its students' acceptance of differing points of view.
In 2004, the trustees of Northfield Mount Hermon School decided to close the Northfield campus and to consolidate the school as of September 2005 with a smaller coeducational student body on the Mount Hermon campus.
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 Northfield Mount Hermon School
Founded in 1879, Northfield Mount Hermon School (NMH) is a private boarding school located on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, just south of the Vermont and New Hampshire state lines.
The NMH Summer Session offers a variety of classes to 400 junior and senior high school students.
NMH is about an hour and a half drive north of Hartford, CT and two hours west of Boston.
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 Scout.com: Prep Profile: Northfield Mount Hermon
In the past, Northfield Mount Hermon has had trouble fielding a team that could compete with the big boys in the NEPSAC Class A league.
This year will be different as NMH has assembled not only a talented team - but a deep one as well.
Associate coach John Carroll has done a tremendous job bringing in enough talent so that NMH will be able to stay with the Winchendon’s and Bridgton’s of the world down the stretch.
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 A dream comes true: 2/01/96   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The former New Bedford High defenseman is featured on the Northfield Mount Hermon brochure as hockey captain, student leader, and member of the Judicial Committee, which oversees student discipline.
But the decision to forego his senior year at New Bedford and repeat a year at Northfield was not an easy one for Pothier, even though that was part of the plan.
While the higher level of competition at Mount Hermon obviously helped his development as a hockey player, it was Hockey Night in Boston that opened the next door of opportunity.
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 Kerry Norman Named Women's Hockey Coach
Norman is currently the head girls' varsity coach at Northfield Mount Hermon School in western Massachusetts.
She was then hired as the head coach at Northfield Mount Hermon School.
Besides her coaching duties at Northfield Mount Hermon, she is also an instructor in the physical education department and serves as the chair for the Northfield Mount Hermon Parents' Council for Excellence in Athletics.
www.cord.edu /dept/sports/sportsbackup/02/box/winter/wh02normanhired.html   (472 words)

  
 Northfield Mount Hermon : Summer Session Programs
Northfield Mount Hermon Summer Session offers programs for students wishing to enrich, supplement, or accelerate their school-year education.
Admission is on a rolling basis, as complete application materials are received.
More than 250 students (including 40 school-year NMH students) chose to participate last summer.
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 Dwight Lyman MOODY
His birthplace in 1837 is a home built about 1823, bought from his father's cousin in 1828, which is the house in which his mother, Betsey Holton Moody, lived from shortly after her marriage to Edwin Moody in 1828 until her death in 1896.
The house is now the Moody Museum and the Faculty Guest House on the Northfield campus of the Northfield Mount Hermon School.
Betsey held the family of 9 children together on this farm in Northfield despite severe hardships in their struggle for existence.
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 The Learning Alliance Expert Detail
Prior to that, Bruce worked as director of development at The Tatnall School and as director of development and alumni relations at Northfield Mount Hermon School.
Bruce has served the firm as vice president from 1984-1988, executive vice president from 1988-1991, president and treasurer from 1991-1994, and chair and CEO from 1994-1999.
He is a member of the Advisory Board for The Kresge Foundation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative and has served as a trustee and alumni association president of Northfield Mount Hermon School, as well as a trustee of the Watkinson School.
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 Northfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Northfield Mountain is the site of Northeast Utilities' Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station, located on Route 63 near the Millers Falls town line.
Northfield's early days were marked by nearly 90 years of harrassment and danger from the French and Indian Wars.
Originally, Northfield was called Squakheag, which was allegedly derived from the Indian term that meant "a spearing place for salmon".
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