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The Harvey School is a highly selective, co-educational, college preparatory school near Katonah, New York, for students in grades 6 through 12.〔(National Association of Independent Schools website ) accessed 13 September 2007〕 It is located on a wooded, 100-acre (40 ha) campus and has an annual budget (2005) of $10.9 million.〔(The Harvey School Form 990 Tax filing )〕 AP courses in biology, American history, calculus, chemistry, computer science, English, European history, Latin and Spanish are available. Technology is integrated throughout the curriculum, and three Internet-accessible labs are available for student use. Basketball, cross-country, dance, football, ice hockey, rugby, lacrosse, and soccer are among the sports offered at Harvey. An optional five-day residential program is available for students in grades 7 through 12.〔Westchester Magazine, ''Private School Report Card'', published Sept 2007 US〕 == History == The Harvey School was founded in 1916 in Hawthorne, New York by Dr. Herbert Carter 〔(School web site ) accessed 12 September 2007〕 as a residential school for boys, enrolling students through the secondary grades. Dr. Carter, a New York City pediatrician, built the school on his farm with the intention of providing a country environment and an educational program for his physically handicapped son, Herbert Swift Carter, Jr. He named the school for Sir William Harvey (1578–1657), personal physician of King Charles I who is considered one of the fathers of modern medical science.〔William Harvey, An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings, 1628〕 John L. Miner was appointed as the school's first headmaster when its doors opened in October 1916, with an enrollment of twelve boys. Mr. Miner served the school for ten years before leaving to establish Greenwich Country Day School,〔(Miner starts new school ) accessed 12 September 2007〕 originally known as The Harvey School of Greenwich. Herbert Carter, Jr. graduated from Harvey in 1919, and from Princeton University in 1923. Following a year at Oxford he returned to Harvey to teach English. In 1926, he succeeded Mr. Miner as headmaster, serving in that position until 1938. After Dr. Carter's death 1927, the school shifted its purpose from caring for the physically handicapped to preparing boys from grades four through eight for enrollment in the leading eastern secondary boarding schools. In 1938, the school came under the leadership of Mr. Leverett T. Smith, who served until 1963.〔 In 1947 the school established a Board of Trustees and became a not-for-profit organization. In 1959, the school lost its Hawthorne campus due to construction of a cloverleaf highway interchange on the Taconic and Sprain Parkways, and moved to its current campus on the former Sylvan Weil Estate in Katonah. The new campus could accommodate 60 boarding students and a growing day student population. When Harry A. Dawe became headmaster in 1969 the school began a transition to being primarily a day school, while retaining the residential environment. In 1970 the school added ninth grade, and between 1979 and 1981 it added grades nine through twelve. Harvey began admitting girls as day students when it began operating as a full high school. The fourth and fifth grades were eliminated in 1983 and 1984, and girls were admitted to the middle school beginning in 1984. The current headmaster, Barry W. Fenstermacher, has served the school since 1986.〔 In March 2005 a new arts center was completed〔(New arts center completed ) accessed 12 September 2007〕 to provide an environment for studio, music and dramatic-arts education, as well as a flexible performance theater. The architecture of the $6m theatre gained a silver prize for its design.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Harvey School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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