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 Western Reserve Academy - Peterson's In-Depth Description
Reserve is a traditional college-preparatory school committed to maintaining academic excellence and to offering its students a well-rounded program so that they may develop into interesting, knowledgeable, and sensitive adults.
Western Reserve Academy is governed by a board of 30 trustees who supervise the school’s $81-million endowment.
Western Reserve Academy has 68 full- and part-time faculty members, of whom all but a few live on campus in school houses or in apartments in dormitories.
www.petersons.com /pschools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=670365-3&inunId=2530&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1   (2085 words)

  
 western reserve academy (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The blogs on the main Reserve Blogs page are ranked by activity.
Some are western reserve academy blogs; others resemble newsletters or columns.
Although most early western reserve academy weblogs were manually updated, tools to automate the maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of western reserve academy "blogging".
www.reserveblogs.com.cob-web.org:8888 /blog/western_reserve_academy/p2   (889 words)

  
 Alumni Relations: Case Western Reserve University
The first race was held in 1910 and was run from Western Reserve College in Hudson, OH, to the Adelbert Rocks behind Adelbert Hall.
In 2001 and 2002, students from Western Reserve Academy ran this commemorative route.
The runners carry a message from the headmaster of Western Reserve Academy to the President of Case.
www.case.edu /alumni/events/hudsonrelay.html   (131 words)

  
 Western Reserve Academy - News & Events - Archives
Award-winning poet Sharon Olds visited Western Reserve Academy on Wednesday, April 19, 2006, speaking to the student body, reciting her poetry, leading a creative writing class, and meeting informally with members of the English department and the school.
Western Reserve Academy has announced the establishment of a major annual competition to recognize outstanding student writing in the field of history.
WRA alumnus Watts Wacker is scheduled to appear on CNN Sunday Morning on October 7 at 8:30 a.m.
www.wra.net /newsevents/archives.cfm   (6446 words)

  
 Welcome to OAIS
Western Reserve Academy is a medium-sized coeducational boarding and day school with a challenging curriculum, 12:1 student/teacher ratio, 20 AP courses offered, required daily athletics, $2.5 million in financial aid, 1230 combined average SAT scores, 100% college placement, and a superb fine arts program.
The Academy benefits from a sizable endowment and has recently completed two new dorms, a state-of-the-art library, and renovated its science center.
In 2004 a new, state-of-the-art athletic center was completed that houses a competition gymnasium, field house, indoor track, medical trainer's facilities, and a 4,600 square-foot fitness center equipped with an array of cardio-vascular equipment, Nautilus machines and free weights.
www.oais.org /memberinfo.asp?int_memberid=32   (154 words)

  
 Western Reserve Academy - News & Events - Highlights
On Sunday, November 12, 2006, Music from the Western Reserve continues their fifth season at Western Reserve Academy's Chapel with a 5 p.m.
WRA's fine arts department will stage The Scarlet Pimpernel, one of Broadway's most popular musicals with its Tony Award-winning score, on November 10-12, 2006.
The public is invited to hear Dr. William Durham's presentation on rainforest ecology and the Gálapagos Islands on October 27, 2006, at 7:30 p.m.
www.wra.net /newsevents/highlights.cfm   (213 words)

  
 The Lancaster News
Kyle Archer, left, and Alistair Firth, both students at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, carry posts for a new canoe dock at the lake at TreeTops camp near Van Wyck.
But that wasn't the case for six students from Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, an international boarding school part of Case Western Reserve University system.
Western Reserve junior Kate Hollnagel of Ballantyne, N.C., said her father, a TreeTops board member, suggested she recruit some schoolmates to do some volunteer work at the camp.
www.thelancasternews.com /articles/2006/03/31/news/news03_treetops.txt   (669 words)

  
 TIME.com: No Geniuses -- Sep. 2, 1946 -- Page 1
A Yaleman, crossing Ohio's Western Reserve Academy in the twilight, would find the surroundings familiar; sons of Eli, who founded the school 120 years ago,† modeled its architecture after their memories of Yale.
Western Reserve's 28th headmaster, John W. Hallowell, 37, has a lot in common with a fellow Harvardman, Phillips Exeter's new Principal William G. Saltonstall, 40 (TIME, June 17).
The Academy was endowed with $4 million in 1925 by the late James W. Ellsworth, coal-mining father of Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,803948,00.html   (546 words)

  
 James Ellsworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He attended the Western Reserve College and Preparatory School (now known as Western Reserve Academy) and, upon graduation in 1868, he took a job working as a clerk for a wholesale drug company in Cleveland, Ohio.
A series of fires at the turn of the century had destroyed many buildings downtown and his beloved Western Reserve Academy had closed its doors in 1903 due to financial problems.
Ellsworth vowed to restore the town to its former glory by reconstructing downtown, overhauling utilities, re-opening Western Reserve Academy (as an all-boys institution) and beginning construction of new academic and dormitories on campus (including 'Ellsworth Hall').
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Ellsworth   (462 words)

  
 Western Reserve Academy - Boarding School Profile (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Our 380 students, drawn from 23 states and 15 countries, have chosen Reserve for its fine academic, art, and athletic programs, and for the school's commitment to a set of fundamental values: excellence, integrity, compassion.
Western Reserve Academy's Merit Scholar Program offers a full scholarship for tuition, room, and board for one ninth-grade male boarding student and one ninth-grade female boarding student, as well as a $10,000 scholarship for one ninth-grade male day student and one ninth-grade female day student.
Each scholar will be given this scholarship for the entire tenure of his or her enrollment, as long as the student annually functions at a high level of achievement academically and in his or her extracurricular endeavors.
www.boardingschoolreview.com.cob-web.org:8888 /school_ov/school_id/33   (433 words)

  
 user.websites.wra.ltrhyde
Western Reserve Academy, for the purpose of qualifying for a conditional gift from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation, now seems rather intent on placing The Burton D. Morgan Building squarely on College Park.
The Academy's efforts honored the past and gave it and the larger community a wonderful treasure.
The Academy has recently been on a course that would turn its back on an earlier donor (the Baldwins) for the sake of complying with the wishes of a current would-be donor, The Morgan Foundation.
www.gulker.com /wra/morgan_project/ltrhyde.html   (650 words)

  
 Remembering the Boys : Lynna Piekutowski
In these eloquent letters, most of them written to the Academy’s headmaster, Joel Hayden, the story of the loneliness of war is told by the men serving on the front lines as well as by those waiting anxiously at home in Hudson, Ohio.
Under the leadership of headmaster Joel B. Hayden, a patriotic WRA modified its curriculum to accommodate early graduation for those approaching draft age and turned over its machine shop classes to fulfill war contracts for local companies.
Illustrating these letters is a wealth of photographs of the men and boys of Western Reserve Academy.
upress.kent.edu /books/Piekutowski.htm   (178 words)

  
 Western Reserve Academy - Hudson, Ohio - OH - school overview
Western Reserve Academy - Hudson, Ohio - OH - school overview
Student-teacher ratio and ethnicity breakdown for Western Reserve Academy.  
An opportunity for the principal at Western Reserve Academy to speak about curriculum, special programs, activities, goals and more.
www.greatschools.net /cgi-bin/oh/private/3334   (144 words)

  
 Home
A big thank you to Western Reserve Academy for use of the courts as well as to Western Reserve Racquet Club for accommodating us on the rainy days.
Two tennis enthusiasts, Tom Seelye and Jack Bennett, persuaded John to permit Hudsonites to use the Academy’s clay courts under the auspices of a group known as the Hudson Tennis Club which would be responsible for the maintenance and discipline.
When the Academy hard-surfaced the courts the Club worked out an arrangement to supply the nets and a more realistic dues structure was established.
www.hudsontennisclub.net   (655 words)

  
 Western Reserve Academy - Student Review
Reserve perpared me to work hard to attain my goals.
Reserve kids are allowed to walk downtown (a few blocks away).
Reserve provides transportation to movies, bowling at the mall and other activities on the weekends.
www.boardingschoolreview.com /student_rev/stid/285   (757 words)

  
 HABS/HAER/HALS: Titles: 359
Western Canal, Pawtucket & Merrimack Canals vicinity, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA
Western Canal, Tremont Gatehouse, Western & Lawrence Canals, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA
Western Reserve Academy, Loomis Observatory, Western Reserve University, Hudson, Summit County, OH
memory.loc.gov /pp/hhhtml/hhTitles359.html   (1165 words)

  
 Benevolent fund information for Western Reserve Academy flash fire victim | wkyc.com
Calais Weber, age 15, a bright and promising student at the Western Reserve Academy was severely burned in a flash fire occurring in her chemistry class on January 23, 2006.
She is the daughter of Larry and Valerie Weber and is a resident of Green.
There is an insufficient amount of undamaged skin for all of the grafts that are needed, and she will have to await re-growth of her own donor skin to complete grafting.
www.wkyc.com /news/news_print.asp?id=48166   (297 words)

  
 Conservation Reserve Program | NRCS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) provides technical and financial assistance to eligible farmers and ranchers to address soil, water, and related natural resource concerns on their lands in an environmentally beneficial and cost-effective manner.
The Conservation Reserve Program reduces soil erosion, protects the Nation's ability to produce food and fiber, reduces sedimentation in streams and lakes, improves water quality, establishes wildlife habitat, and enhances forest and wetland resources.
It encourages farmers to convert highly erodible cropland or other environmentally sensitive acreage to vegetative cover, such as tame or native grasses, wildlife plantings, trees, filterstrips, or riparian buffers.
www.nrcs.usda.gov /programs/crp   (171 words)

  
 SJC: News and Events: Announcement
Thomas is a 2003 graduate of Pike High School in Indianapolis, and is wrapping up a year at Western Reserve Academy, a prep school in Hudson, Ohio.
He was a part of an undefeated Class 4A State Championship team at Pike in 2003, and the Red Devils were 24-4 and state runners-up in 2002.
At Western Reserve Academy, he averaged 19.3 points and 7.4 rebounds and led his team to a conference championship.
www.saintjoe.edu /news/announcements.html?id=2467   (445 words)

  
 Alibris: WesternReserve
A Pictorial History of the Western Reserve 1796 to 1860
Large quarto, 152pp+, A pictorial history of the Ohio Western Reserve area up to the Cicil War.
Western Reserve is made up of ten complete counties and four partial counties, Mostly located on the Southern shores of Lake Erie.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/WesternReserve   (134 words)

  
 WRA Capital Campaign Case Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Already a year into the quiet phase of a $40-million capital campaign, Western Reserve Academy engaged Davis Design Partners to develop, design and produce all of its needed materials for their upcoming public phase.
This capital campaign would be the school's largest in its storied 177-year history.
A beautiful campus, dedicated teachers and staff, and an extremely talented student body demanded a unique visual and verbal attitude that would befit their top 10 national preparatory school ranking.
www.davisdp.com /case_studies/cs_wra_capcampaign/wra_campaign.html   (85 words)

  
 Community Profile Network
In addition, Hudson schools are home to many award-winning performance groups and have won numerous athletic competitions, including Western Reserve Conference, District, Regional and State Title Championships.
Western Reserve Academy, founded in 1826, is one of the nation’s oldest and most respected private, coeducational schools.
Founded as a college and preparatory academy by Hudson’s early settlers, Western Reserve Academy enrolls students in grades nine through 12 and a postgraduate year.
www.villageprofile.com /ohio/hudson/10edu/topic.html   (472 words)

  
 Pioneer Women of Reserve Antiques Festival :: Overview
Founded in 1826, Western Reserve is the ninth oldest boarding school in the United States and features beautiful 19th century architecture.
Held outdoors rain or shine, the festival takes place on Western Reserve Academy's historic campus, which provides the perfect backdrop for the exhibitors' wares.
This event is sponsored by the Pioneer Women of Reserve, which is comprised of mothers of present and former students, alumnae, and other friends of Western Reserve Academy.
www.antiquesfestival.com /pages/overview.html   (437 words)

  
 MWBS Online - Western Reserve Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Western Reserve Academy is a medium-sized coeducational boarding and day school with a challenging curriculum, 12:1 student/teacher ratio, AP courses offered in all disciplines, required daily athletics, $2.3 million in financial aid, 1280 combined average SAT scores, 100% college placement, and a superb fine arts program.
The Academy benefits from a sizable endowment and has recently completed two new dorms, a spectacular state-of-the-art library, and renovated its science center.
A new field house is presently under construction.
www.mwbs.org /schools/westernReserveAcademy.html   (102 words)

  
 Friends of the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Explore Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, a natural refuge for plants and animals adapted to live at the edge of the ocean.
Here at our website, please come in, look at an example of the rich biodiversity of marine life found at the Reserve.
Provided by the Friends of Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, an environmental organization dedicated to education and conservation of our marine resources.
www.fitzgeraldreserve.org   (154 words)

  
 Private Boys Boarding School in Pennsylvania - The Kiski School
Handsomely decked out in blue and white, the comfortable new Kiski School bus is a wonderful addition to round out the School’s fleet of vans and busses used for transporting students to their various athletic and extracurricular activities.
With ample storage in undercarriage bins and seating for 36, the “Cougar Bus” is more than ready to take the football team to Western Reserve or chauffer a dorm full of kids to the movies in Delmont.
The new Kiski bus is a safe and secure way to have our kids travel to other schools and trek the roads of western PA and beyond.
www.kiski.org /news/detail.asp?newsid=125753&from=alumni   (184 words)

  
 Cleveland Institute of Music
ENCORE School for Strings is held on the campus of Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio.
The Sergei Babayan International Piano Academy accepts exceptionally talented pianists from around the world to study with Mr.
The Academy features public master classes and concludes with a marathon recital performed by the participants.
www.cim.edu /specialPrograms.php   (692 words)

  
 Western Reserve Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bicknell House, which opened in 2004, is the newest boarding house for boys.
In 2006, Reserve's team won the Midwest Championship.
Each year several students matriculate into well-known NCAA lacrosse programs at schools such as Syracuse University and Loyola College (MD).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Reserve_Academy   (794 words)

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