Wilbraham & Monson Academy

Wilbraham & Monson Academy (WMA) is a private college-preparatory school in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1804, it is a four-year boarding and day secondary school. It offers grades 6–12 and a postgraduate year. The School 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
Rich Hall
Address
423 Main Street Wilbraham , Hampden , Massachusetts 01095 United States
Coordinates	42°07′20.96″N 72°25′53.67″W
Information
Former names	Monson Academy Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy
Type	Private, boarding, day, college preparatory school
Motto	At Home. In the World.
Established	1804; 221 years ago (1804)
CEEB code	222400
NCES School ID	00604261
Chair	Scott B. Jacobs
Head of School	Brian Easler
Faculty	66
Grades	9-12, including postgraduate
Gender	Coeducational
Enrollment	400
Student to teacher ratio	6:1
Campus	400 acres (1.6 km2)
Color(s)	Red and Blue
Mascot	Titan
Nickname	Titans
Annual tuition	$75,500 - 7-day boarding $65,500 - 5-day boarding $45,000 - Upper School day $35,000 - Middle School day
Revenue	$ 22,102,738
Website	wma.us

Notable alumni

• Henry Barnard (1811–1900), educator
• Alfred Ely Beach, inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer
• Rick Bennett, NHL ice hockey player and college coach
• Mary Ann Booth (1843–1922), microscopist
• Henry Billings Brown, associate justice of the US Supreme Court. Wrote majority opinion for Plessy v. Ferguson
• Tyrell Burgess, Bermudian professional soccer player with Vancouver Whitecaps FC
• Kraisak Choonhavan, member of Thailand Senate for Nakhon Ratchasima Province (2000–2006); former chairman of the Thai Senate's Foreign Relations Committee
• Russell H. Conwell, minister and founder of Temple University - 1859
• Winthrop Murray Crane (1853–1920), US Senator
• Emily Norcross Dickinson,^[1] mother of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson
• Kyle Filipowski, Duke University and NBA basketball player
• Richard Fuld, former CEO Lehman Brothers
• Wong Fun, first Western-trained doctor in China, graduated from University of Edinburgh - 1855^[2]
• Wenyen Gabriel (born 1997), South Sudanese-American basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Bill Guerin, retired NHL hockey player; general manager of Minnesota Wild; four-time Stanley Cup champion^[3]
• William Stewart Halstead, surgeon, studied at Monson Academy for a time^[4]
• Ratcliffe Hicks, Connecticut state legislator, industrialist, lawyer, and benefactor of the University of Connecticut
• Kim Hyun-jong, South Korean trade minister under Moon Jae-in and Roh Moo-hyun
• Galway Kinnell (1927–2014), poet
• Christine Ladd-Franklin, mathematician, logician and psychologist - 1865
• Oliver Marcy, served as acting President of Northwestern University twice, while also serving as a professor of natural history
• Patrick Mazeika (born 1993), baseball player
• Pat Phelan, professional soccer player for the New England Revolution
• Nitya Pibulsonggram, Thai Ambassador to the US (1996–2000), Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006–2008)
• Humphrey Pickard, Canadian first president of Mount Allison University
• Charles Pratt, oil tycoon and founder of the Pratt Institute
• William Rice (1821–1897), Methodist Episcopal minister, author, and librarian
• Joey Santiago (born 1965), band member of the Pixies
• Pote Sarasin, Prime Minister of Thailand (1957) secretary-general of SEATO (1958–1964)
• Lucy Stone, orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and women's rights advocate
• William Strong, lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
• Mark Warburton, gymnast
• Yung Wing, first Chinese graduate of an American university (Yale) - 1854

See also

• Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy