Canterbury School is a college preparatory, coeducational boarding and day school for students in Forms 3 through 6 (grades 9-12 and Post Grad). It is located in New Milford, Connecticut, United States, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford.
Canterbury was founded in 1915 on the aspiration of two men: Henry O Havemeyer, the descendant of the sugar refining family, and Nelson Hume, a Catholic schoolmaster. These men desired to establish a ...
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Canterbury School is a college preparatory, coeducational boarding and day school for students in Forms 3 through 6 (grades 9-12 and Post Grad). It is located in New Milford, Connecticut, United States, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford.
Canterbury was founded in 1915 on the aspiration of two men: Henry O Havemeyer, the descendant of the sugar refining family, and Nelson Hume, a Catholic schoolmaster. These men desired to establish a school that Roman Catholics could attend, be guided in their religion and prepared to attend universities like Yale, Harvard, Duke, MIT, Stanford and Princeton..
The school was established in New Milford, CT on the location of the former Ingleside School for Girls. Nelson Hume became the first head master of the school. From its start with 16 enrolled students, Nelson Hume guided the school through two world wars and the great depression until his death in 1948. He was succeeded as headmaster by Walter Sheehan, by John Reydel in 1973, by...
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