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The Westminster community inspires young men and women of promise to cultivate a passion for learning, explore and develop diverse talents in a balanced program, to reach well beyond the ordinary, to live with intelligence and character, and to commit to a life of service beyond self.

毅力 & 格蕾丝, More Than a Motto

These words define and distinguish 皇冠有钱手机app. They represent a tradition, 一种文化, 一种态度, 一个愿望, a way of life for our students and faculty, an advantage for our graduates.
 
毅力 characterizes the effort students make to meet our high expectations for academic work, 皇冠有钱手机app, and community involvement. 格蕾丝 speaks to the way they negotiate these responsibilities with generosity of spirit, good manners and respect for all. The unique and powerful combination of grit and grace is what makes Westminster people successful, 不仅在这里, but also later in life. 
 
Derived from our motto 美德与美德, "grit and grace" encapsulates in one phrase our culture, 我们的承诺, a commitment to ourselves and others. Westminster students and faculty strive for excellence – and humility, personal success – and service to others, lofty goals – and common human decency. Blending the ethics of grace with the competition and effort of grit, Westminster encourages its students to test the boundaries of their abilities, to try something new, and to win and lose with grace.
 
Where grit and grace come together, where excellence meets opportunity, almost anything is possible.

历史

皇冠有钱手机app was founded by William Lee Cushing in 1888 as a boys’ school in Dobbs Ferry, 纽约. 耶鲁大学的毕业生, and a firm believer in the traditional form of English boarding school education, Mr. Cushing was strongly influenced by the Reverend Edward Thring, headmaster of Uppingham School in England. Thring believed in “education as training for life.” 
 
Mr. Cushing’s formula for education was endorsed by many in the emerging influential American families, who sent their sons to Westminster, 包括约翰·海, Advisor to Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State to Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

4项清单.

  • The Move to Simsbury

    In 1900, as enrollment increased, Mr. Cushing moved the school to its current location in Simsbury, Connecticut. The move to Simsbury provided more land, which had been donated through a trustee of the school, Arthur M. Dodge, a member of an old Hartford family. 威廉姆斯山, the site of the school, offered more than 230 acres, with commanding views of the Farmington River. The Simsbury location also provided train service for students to 纽约 and Boston, a boon to families from those areas.
     
    Mr. Cushing remained as headmaster until his death in 1921. Along with his educational philosophy, he also left the school its inspiring motto. The Cushing family coat of arms bears the Latin motto 美德与美德 (“by human righteousness and Divine grace”), which is translated liberally as “grit and grace.”

  • 现代时代

    在70年代早期, 皇冠有钱手机app opened its doors to day students and also became a leader among independent schools in active recruitment of minority students. In 1972, girls were admitted for the first time as day students, and in 1977 as boarding students.

    As the school celebrated its first century in 1988, it saw a significant enhancement to the arts program with the completion of 沃纳 Centennial Center, named for its long serving sixth headmaster, 唐纳德·H. 沃纳.

    1996年，沃尔特. 边,小., a member of the Class of 1935, bequeathed $30 million, the largest benefaction to the School in its history, 允许, 除此之外, the construction of Edge House.

  • Women at Westminster

  • Distinguished 校友, Leading in Careers and Service

    Westminster graduates have gone on to achieve eminent positions in industry, 军事, 政府, 社会服务, the arts and 皇冠有钱手机app, thanks to the outstanding teachers and headmasters who followed in the tradition of William Cushing’s teaching ideals: “performing daily tasks cheerfully, fostering an ambition to learn lessons well, playing fair in sports, being clean in thought and word, and cleaving to that which is good.”

我们的核心价值观

4项清单.

  • 社区

    Westminster is a small, caring, cohesive, residential community firmly committed to the "common good."

  • 字符

    In addition to prizing intellect, Westminster insists upon and fosters integrity, high ethical standards, 领导, 相互尊重, tolerance and teamwork.

  • 平衡

    Westminster maintains, through high expectations and a structured environment, a balance among challenging academic, 运动, artistic and extracurricular 项目.

  • 参与

    Westminster believes that students learn best through active participation in all aspects of school life.
皇冠有钱手机app was founded by William Lee Cushing in 1888 as a boys’ school in Dobbs Ferry, 纽约. 耶鲁大学的毕业生, and a firm believer in the traditional form of English boarding school education, Mr. Cushing was strongly influenced by the Reverend Edward Thring, headmaster of Uppingham School in England. Thring believed in “education as training for life.”

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Notice of Nondiscriminatory Policy as to Students
In keeping with our support for a diverse community, Westminster abides by all applicable federal and state laws and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, 包括种族, color, 宗教信仰, 性, 性取向, gender identity or expression, national and ethnic origin, ancestry and/or disability in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan 项目, and 运动 and other school-administered 项目. Westminster admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, 特权, 项目, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School. 
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