Tower Hill School
Tower Hill School | |
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2813 West 17th Street Independent Conference(DISC) Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA) | |
Mascot | White Tiger and Hiller |
Publication | The Dial |
Website | www |
Tower Hill School is a
12th grade
.
History
Tower Hill was founded in 1919.Brown & Whiteside and completed in 1920.[6] The school is situated at the high point of Wilmington's neighborhood, The Highlands, where the dominant landmark is Rockford Tower, erected in 1901 to control the city's water supply. Tower Hill, in London, is the birthplace of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, who landed in Delaware, in 1682.[citation needed]
Recognition
The school is a member of the
better source needed] The school offered US$2,000,000 a year of need-based financial aid to 28% of its students for the 2016–2017 school year.[3] The Wall Street Journal ranked Tower Hill 24th in the nation and 1st in Delaware, in percentage of students attending eight top colleges.[8] Tower Hill School is ranked 47th in the nation for best private day schools.[9]
Notable alumni
This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. (November 2022) |
- Adrienne Arsht, philanthropist and attorney
- Governor of Delaware (1985–1992) and US Congressman (Delaware) (1993–2011)
- Alfred D. Chandler, distinguished and innovative historian, Harvard University
- Chris Coons, US Senator (Delaware)
- Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr., leading archaeologist University of California, Berkeley
- Kathryn Day, opera singer
- (1969–1973)
- Deborah Kean, former First Lady of New Jersey (1982–1990)[10]
- Orin Kerr, law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law
- Ellen J. Kullman, former chief executive officer of DuPont and vice chair of the Tower Hill School board of trustees
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Mehmet Oz, host of The Dr. Oz Show, cardiologist, Republican Party nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania[11]
- Virginia A. Seitz, former assistant attorney general and distinguished appellate lawyer
- John A. H. Sweeney, museum curator and author
- Pat Williams, Orlando Magicsenior vice president
References
- ^ a b c "Forever Green: A Commemorative History of Tower Hill School". Our History. Tower Hill School Association. 1994. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ "Meet Our Head of School." Towerhill.org. Tower Hill School, n.d. Web. 09 Sept. 2015. <http://www.towerhill.org/Page/About/Meet-Our-Head-of-School>.
- ^ a b c d "Tower Hill at a Glance". Tower Hill School. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ^ Tower Hill School. "Student Directory." TowerNet. Last modified July 2018. https://towerhill.myschoolapp.com/app/parent#directory/778.
- ^ "Tower Hill School Homepage". Tower Hill School. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ^ W. Barksdale Maynard, Buildings of Delaware (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008): 144.
- ^ "Athletics at Tower Hill". Tower Hill School. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- Wall Street Journal. December 28, 2007. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ^ "Top 50 Private day schools/accessdate=October 25, 2015". 13 September 2017.
- MyCentralJersey.com. Archivedfrom the original on 2020-04-29. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
- ^ Oz, Mehmet (5 October 2011). "Delaware Today Health and Wellness: Closing Thought with Dr. Mehmet Oz, a Tower Hill School graduate, about cholesterol, blood pressure and heart health". Delaware Today. Retrieved 18 December 2011.