Millbrook School

Millbrook School was founded in 1931 by Edward Pulling. Pulling was a graduate of both Princeton University and Cambridge University, and he taught at both Groton School and Avon Old Farms as well as private schools in the United Kingdom. While at Avon, Pulling began to think of creating his own school. His philosophy for a school was heavily influenced by the traditional setting he experienced at Groton and in the UK as well as the progressive ideology that Avon possessed. After searching for suitable grounds to house the school — including an offer from then Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to build in Hyde Park, New York — Pulling and his wife decided on the Stephenson farm just 5 miles (8 km) outside Millbrook, NY in nearby Stanford, NY.

After the purchase of the property, Pulling drafted his first board of trustees, which included Endicott Peabody Sr., who was headmaster at Groton, and Henry Harkness Flagler, who became the first President of the Board of Trustees. With the generous support of the Flagler family and Pulling's father-in-law Russell Leffingwell the campus increased from the original farm buildings to include much of the current campus infrastructure.

Environmental Stewardship is one of the five core values of Millbrook School and the school has contributed in many ways with having Trevor Zoo on campus, building solar panels that will source and generate electricity for the entire campus, and building school's architecture with LEED certification.[1]

Trevor Zoo is the only zoo in the United States that is located inside of a high school. The founder of the Trevor Zoo was Frank Trevor, who was a first biology teacher in Millbrook School. The Trevor Zoo houses 180 exotic and indigenous animals and represents 80 different species. The Zoo is accredited by the AZA (the Associations of Zoos and Aquariums).

With Trevor Zoo being placed in a high school, high school students can actively participate with taking care of the wildlife and 180 exotic and indigenous animals that Trevor Zoo houses. One of the ways that a student can participate in the Zoo is by the curriculum called Zoo community service (that is mandatorily given to freshman class) and this opportunity encourages students to have experiences in animal husbandry, diet preparation, and veterinary medicine.[2]

• S. Holden Jaffe, singer-songwriter and record producer known as Del Water Gap, class of 2012[3]
• Serena Altschul, journalist, class of 1989[4]
• Francisco L. Borges, Connecticut State Treasurer, class of 1970[5]
• James L. Buckley, U.S. Senator and Federal Judge, Class of 1939
• William F. Buckley, Jr., author and founder of The Tamarack and National Review, class of 1943[6]
• Schuyler Chapin, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for New York City, class of 1940[7]
• Frederic C. Hamilton, businessman, class of 1945[8]
• John Dawson, musician, associate of the Grateful Dead, co-founder of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, class of 1963[9]
• Alistair Horne, author, class 1943[10]
• Robert Wood Johnson IV, Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, owner of the New York Jets, and US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, class of 1965[11]
• Nicholas Kazan, writer, producer, and director, class of 1963[12]
• David Guy Levy, producer, class of 1999[13]
• Thomas Lovejoy, Conservation biologist, former Director of the World Wildlife Fund, class of 1959[14]
• Will Rayman (born 1997), American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Haifa in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, class of 2015
• Whit Stillman, writer and director, known for 1990s comedies Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco, class of 1969[15]
• Rachel Uchitel, nightclub manager, class of 1992[16]
• Rufus Wainwright, musician, class of 1991[17]

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