Millbrook School

History

Millbrook School was founded in 1931 by Edward Pulling. Pulling was a graduate of both Princeton University and Cambridge University, and he taught at Groton School and Avon Old Farms as well as private schools in the United Kingdom. While at Avon, Pulling began to think of creating his own school. After searching for suitable grounds to house the school, Pulling and his wife decided on the Stephenson farm five miles (8 km) outside Millbrook in nearby Stanford, New York.

Trevor-Lovejoy Zoo

Trevor-Lovejoy Zoo is the only zoo in the United States inside a high school. The founder of the zoo was Frank Trevor, the first biology teacher at the school who started in 1936 and founded the zoo with his students. The zoo houses 170 exotic and indigenous animals representing 70 different species, 10 of them endangered. It is accredited by the AZA, the Associations of Zoos and Aquariums. Millbrook students are involved with care of the wildlife.

Notable alumni

• Serena Altschul, journalist
• Francisco L. Borges, Connecticut State Treasurer
• William F. Buckley, Jr., author and editor
• Schuyler Chapin, commissioner of cultural affairs for New York City
• Frederic C. Hamilton, businessman
• John Dawson, musician
• Alistair Horne, author, class 1943
• Del Water Gap (Samuel Holden Jaffe), musician
• Robert Wood Johnson IV, Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, owner of the New York Jets, and US Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• Nicholas Kazan, writer, producer, and director
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, Environmental law attorney (expelled 1970)
• David Guy Levy, producer
• Thomas Lovejoy, conservation biologist, former director of the World Wildlife Fund, class of 1959
• Josh Newman, California state senator
• Christopher Ross, sculptor, designer and collector
• Whit Stillman, writer and director
• Rachel Uchitel, nightclub manager, class of 1992
• Rufus Wainwright, musician

References

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19. (8 December 2009). "Thomas Lovejoy '59: The Earth is Crying Out for Help".
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23. (19 January 2021). "Rachel Uchitel Bio, Age, Family, Tiger Wood's Mistress, Husband, Net Worth - Fact Files".
24. (7 December 2009). "Rufus Wainwright '91 is Coming to Town".