Landon School
| Landon School | |
|---|---|
 Virtute et non vi By virtue, not by force | |
| Address | |
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6101 Wilson Lane Bethesda, Maryland 20817 United States | |
| Coordinates | 38°59′26″N 77°07′31″W / 38.9905°N 77.1254°WCoordinates: 38°59′26″N 77°07′31″W / 38.9905°N 77.1254°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Private, College-prep |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Nonsectarian |
| Established | 1929 |
| Headmaster | Jim Neill |
| Teaching staff | 85.9 (on a FTE basis) |
| Grades | 3–12 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Enrollment | 672 (2013-2014) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 7.8 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Campus size | 75 acres (30 ha) |
| Color(s) |
Brown and White |
| Athletics | 20 interscholastic sports |
| Athletics conference | Interstate Athletic Conference |
| Nickname | Bears |
| Website |
www |
| [1] | |
Landon School is a private, nonsectarian, college preparatory school for boys in grades 3–12, with an enrollment of approximately 680 students, in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.
Background
Paul Landon Banfield and his wife, Mary Lee, founded Landon School in 1929. The school’s first location was a former residence in the Sheridan-Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C., now home to the Embassy of Estonia. Banfield moved Landon to its present 75-acre (300,000 m2) campus in Bethesda in 1935. The farmhouse, stables, and barn from the previous use of the Bethesda property still stand on the campus and are used today.
The Landon School's headmasters have been:
- Paul Landon Banfield: 1929–1970
- Hugh Riddleberger: 1970–1981
- Malcolm Coates: 1981–1989
- Damon F. Bradley: 1990–2004
- David M. Armstrong: 2004–2015
- Jim Neill: 2015–present
Demographics
The demographic breakdown of the 672 boys enrolled for the 2013-2014 school year was:[1]
- Native American/Alaskan - 0.3%
- Asian/Pacific islander - 8.3%
- Black - 17.6%
- Hispanic - 4.0%
- White - 67.0%
- Multiracial - 2.8%
Athletics
The school offers 26 athletics options, including varsity interscholastic sports such as soccer, water polo, football, cross country, ice hockey, wrestling, basketball, baseball, track, tennis, golf, rugby and lacrosse. Landon also offers interscholastic club sports such as riflery, sailing, fencing, squash and ultimate Frisbee, as well as intramural sports and strength and conditioning.
Campus and Facilities
Bethesda, Maryland, is just outside the U.S. capital, Washington, D.C..
The Barton Alumni Athletic Center — the home of Landon’s basketball and wrestling programs, as well as physical education and strength-and-conditioning classes — includes two gymnasia, a wrestling room, a team room, a fitness room with weight and cardio equipment, locker rooms, and an atrium that is often used for events.
Landon’s lacrosse and football teams play at Triplett Field, while four other grass fields provide the setting for varsity soccer and rugby matches, as well as junior varsity, Middle School, Lower School and intramural sports.
Notable alumni
- Darion Atkins - basketball player for Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Ligat HaAl
- Alan Brinkley - Historian and Columbia University provost
- Ryan Curtis - NCAA Lacrosse All-American, member of USA Lacrosse national team, head coach of Vermont lacrosse[2][3]
- Donald Dell - Former Davis Cup player and coach, and subsequently, a prominent sports agent
- Bill Eacho - former US Ambassador to Austria (2009-2012)[4]
- Ahmet Ertegun - Pioneering producer of R&B and Rock and Roll music and founder of Atlantic Records; founder of America's first professional soccer team, the New York Cosmos; founder of and 1987 inductee into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; 2003 inductee into the National Soccer Hall of Fame and Landon's first student not to play football.[5]
- Ian Healy (lacrosse) - NCAA Lacrosse, member of the University of Maryland Men's lacrosse team.
- Fred Hetzel - Southern Conference Hall-of-Famer, former #1 NBA draft pick, played six seasons in NBA[6]
- Rush Holt - Physicist and former Congressman (1999 - 2015) (D-NJ)
- Ken Jenkins - NFL running back from 1983 to 1986 with Detroit Lions and Washington Redskins; finished third in league in combined return yards in 1985 [7]
- Rufus G. King III - Chief Judge, DC Superior Court, 2000-2008[8]
- Knight Kiplinger - Editor-in-Chief of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine
- Anthony Marra - fiction writer, author of acclaimed novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013), and collection of short stories, The Tsar of Love and Techno (2013)
- Gregory S. Martin - Retired U.S. Air Force four-star general, Defense Distinguished Service Medal recipient, former Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe[9][10]
- Nick Martin - Founder and CEO of TechChange and frequent speaker at the United Nations and the United States Department of State on issues related to technology and global development.[11]
- James McEwan - World class whitewater canoeing specialist, bronze medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics[12]
- Doug McKelway - television journalist, currently a general assignment reporter for the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Fox News Channel
- Fred McNair - Former #1 ranked Professional Tennis Doubles player[13]
- Sam Potolicchio - educator, one of Princeton Review's "America's Best Professors"[14]
- Maury Povich- Host of Maury, a syndicated talk show
- Danny Rubin (born 1991) - American-Israeli basketball player for Bnei Herzliya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Teddy Sears - actor, played Richard Woolsley on the TNT series Raising the Bar and Dr. Austin Langham on the Showtime series Masters of Sex [15][16]
- Topper Shutt - Chief Meteorologist, WUSA-TV
- Thomas Tamm - US Justice Department Attorney, illegal wiretapping whistleblower[17]
- Matt Ward - Tewaaraton Trophy winner and NCAA Lacrosse All-American, played for the Washington Bayhawks, currently an ESPN Lacrosse analyst.[18][19]
References
- 1 2 "Search for Private Schools - School Detail for Landon School". ed.gov. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ↑ "Landon Lacrosse History". Landon School. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ University of Virginia Athletics Men's Lacrosse. "Player Bio: Ryan Curtis". UVA Athletics. University of Virginia. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ "austria.usembassy.gov".l
- ↑ "Ahmet Ertegun, Music Executive, Dies at 83". New York Times. 15 December 2006.
- ↑ Bijan C. Bayne (7 July 2010). "Landon's Fred Hetzel Named to Southern Conference Hall of Fame". DC Basketball Blog. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ "Ken Jenkins Career Statistics". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- ↑ Superior Court of the District of Columbia. "The Honorable Rufus G. King, III, Chief Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia" (PDF). (Official Biography). Retrieved 14 July 2010.
- ↑ "General Greg Martin '66". Landon School. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ "General Gregory S. Martin". (Official Biography). U.S. Air Force. Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ "When and How to Scale: DC Startup at a CrossRoads". Forbes. Forbes. May 27, 2014. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
- ↑ Free, Bill (18 May 1992). "In a splash, Olympics disappear for paddlers - Final U.S. berths won on Savage River". Baltimore Sun.
- ↑ "Junior USTA Interscholastic Championships". USTA Yearbook. United States Tennis Association. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ "Best 300 Professors Press Release". princetonreview.com. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ↑ Lowell Davis (19 August 2008). "Summer '08 - Lowell in the Big City". Lowell's Blog. Landon School. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ Katherine Thurston (October 2002). "Teddy Sears". About One Life to Live Fans Guide. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ "US Civil Liberties". historycommons.org. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ↑ University of Virginia Athletics Men's Lacrosse. "Player Bio: Matt Ward". UVA Athletics. University of Virginia. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ "Spring 2002 All-Met Lacrosse". The Washington Post.