Wilbraham & Monson Academy

Wilbraham & Monson Academy (WMA) is a college-preparatory school located in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1804, it is a four-year boarding and day high school for students in grades 9-12 and postgraduate. A middle school, with grades 6–8, offers boarding for grade 8 students. The academy is located in the center of the town of Wilbraham, 75 miles (121 km) from Boston and 150 miles (240 km) from New York City.

Wilbraham & Monson Academy

42°07′20.96″N 72°25′53.67″W / 42.1224889°N 72.4315750°W / 42.1224889; -72.4315750

Monson Academy
Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy

Private, boarding, day, college preparatory school

At Home. In the World.

1804 (1804)

222400

00604261

Scott B. Jacobs

Brian Easler

9-12, including postgraduate

Coeducational

400

6:1

400 acres (1.6 km²)

Red and Blue

Titan

Titans

$75,500 - 7-day boarding
$65,500 - 5-day boarding
$45,000 - Upper School day
$35,000 - Middle School day

$ 22,102,738

www.wma.us

Athletics[edit]

In fall 2007, the Academy unveiled its $4 million expansion of the Greenhalgh Athletic Center on campus. The expansion included a fitness room, a multi-purpose dance and wrestling space, a large conference room and new central locker facilities.^[1]

educationalist

Henry Barnard

inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer

Alfred Ely Beach

ice hockey player and coach

Rick Bennett

microscopist

Mary Ann Booth

professional soccer player with Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Tyrell Burgess

member of Thailand Senate for Nakhon Ratchasima Province (2000–2006); former chairman of the Thai Senate's Foreign Relations Committee

Kraisak Choonhavan

minister and founder of Temple University - 1859

Russell H. Conwell

Senator

Winthrop Murray Crane

,^[2] mother of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson

Emily Norcross Dickinson

Duke University basketball player

Kyle Filipowski

former CEO Lehman Brothers

Richard Fuld

NBA basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans

Wenyen Gabriel

retired NHL hockey player; general manager of Minnesota Wild; four-time Stanley Cup champion^[3]

Bill Guerin

pioneering American surgeon, studied at Monson Academy for a time^[4]

William Stewart Halstead

Connecticut state legislator, industrialist, lawyer, and benefactor of the University of Connecticut

Ratcliffe Hicks

South Korean trade minister under Moon Jae-in and Roh Moo-hyun

Kim Hyun-jong

poet

Galway Kinnell

mathematician, logician and psychologist - 1865

Christine Ladd-Franklin

Served as acting President of Northwestern University twice, while also serving as a professor of natural history

Oliver Marcy

(born 1993), baseball player

Patrick Mazeika

professional soccer player for the New England Revolution

Pat Phelan

Thai Ambassador to the US (1996–2000), Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006–2008)

Nitya Pibulsonggram

first president of Mount Allison University

Humphrey Pickard

oil tycoon and founder of the Pratt Institute

Charles Pratt

band member of the Pixies

Joey Santiago

Prime Minister of Thailand (1957) secretary-general of SEATO (1958–1964)

Pote Sarasin

orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and women's rights advocate

Lucy Stone

governor of the Commonwealth 1900–1902

William Strong

first Chinese graduate of an American university (Yale) - 1854

Yung Wing

Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy

; George A. Walton (1877), "Report on Academies: Monson Academy", Annual Report...1875-76, Boston – via Internet Archive{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Wilbraham & Monson Academy