Bancroft School
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Bancroft School is a private, K-12 preparatory school, located in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Bancroft School’s current 30-acre campus overlooks Indian Lake in Worcester. There are separate facilities for the Lower School (Kindergarten - 5th grade), Middle School (6th - 8th grades) and Upper School (9th - 12th grades).
History
Bancroft was founded in 1900 by a group of Worcester parents interested in providing a rigorous education for their daughters, the school started out as an all female day-school. The School was named for George Bancroft, 1800-1891, educator, diplomat and writer. He helped to found the U.S. Naval Academy and wrote the first comprehensive history of the United States.From 1902 until 1922, under the leadership of its first headmaster, Frank Robson, Bancroft School taught its students in a converted house at 93 Elm Street in Worcester. In 1922, with the student body growing too large for its small space on Elm Street, the school built new facilities on Sever Street in Worcester. By 1958, the school needed to expand its space and facilities in order to remain accredited by the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The Norton Company donated 27 acres of land on Shore Drive in Worcester, where the school was constructed and stands today.
Headmasters & Headmistresses
- 1900 - 1915: Frank Robson
- 1915 - 1926: Miriam Titcomb
- 1926 - 1938: Hope Fisher
- 1938 - 1943: Bradford Kingman
- 1943 - 1959: Henry Tiffany
- 1944 - 1946: Edith Jones (interim)
- 1959 - 1960: Elizabeth Vandemoer (interim)
- 1960 - 1981: Wyatt Garfield
- 1981 - 1992: Marigolden (G-G) Tritschler
- 1992 - 1998: Theodore G. Sharp
- 1998 - 1999: Wyatt Garfield & Edgar Gauthier (interim-heads)
- 1999 - present: Scott R. Reisinger
Notable alumni
Notable alumni of Bancroft School include:- Esther Forbes, Class of 1908, winner of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for History for a biography on Paul Revere and the 1944 Newbery Medal for the famous book, Johnny Tremain
- Eleni Gage, writer for the New York Sun and author of North of Ithaka[link]
- Dan Kenary, Class of 1978, founder and owner of Harpoon Brewery
- Robert Waring Stoddard, Class of 1923, former editor of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and one of the founders of the John Birch Society[link]
- Matthew Scannell, lead vocalist for Vertical Horizon.
References
Edgar A. Gauthier, Bancroft School, Centennial History (1999)External links
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