Peddie School

The Peddie School
Address
201 South Main Street Hightstown , Mercer County , New Jersey 08520 United States
Coordinates	40.264°N 74.522°W / 40.264; -74.522
Information
Type	Private, Boarding
Motto	Finimus Pariter Renovamusque Labores We finish our labors only to begin anew
Religious affiliation(s)	founded as American Baptist
Established	1864; 160 years ago (1864)
NCES School ID	00868746[2]
Head of school	Peter A. Quinn[1]
Faculty	83 FTEs[2]
Grades	9–12 and post-graduate
Enrollment	532 (as of 2021–22)[2]
Student to teacher ratio	6.4:1[2]
Campus	Suburban, 280 acres (110 ha)
Color(s)	Blue and   Gold[3]
Athletics conference	Mid-Atlantic Prep League
Team name	Falcons[3]
Rival	Blair Academy
Accreditation	Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools[7]
Publication	Amphion (literary magazine)[8]
Newspaper	Peddie News[8]
Endowment	$451 million[4]
School fees	$1,340[5]
Tuition	$63,500 day $72,800 boarding (2023-24)[5]
Website	www.peddie.org

The Peddie School is a college preparatory school in Hightstown, in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is a non-denominational, coeducational boarding school located on a 280-acre (110 ha) campus, and serves students in the ninth through twelfth grades, plus a small post-graduate class. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1928.^[7]

For the 2023–24 school year, the school had an acceptance rate of 22%.^[9]

As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 532 students and 83 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.4:1. The school's student body was 41.0% (218) White, 35.0% (186) Asian, 11.3% (60) Black, 7.3% (39) two or more races and 5.5% (29) Hispanic.^[2] Peddie had 62% of students in residence. The student body represented 26 states as well as 29 foreign countries. Peddie had an average class size of 12.

Peter Quinn succeeded John Green as head of school in 2013.^[10]

History

What is now The Peddie School was founded in 1864 as the Hightstown Female Seminary, an American Baptist school. Later that year, boys were admitted and it changed its name for the first time, to New Jersey Classical and Scientific Institute. In 1872, it became the Peddie Institute in honor of philanthropist and politician Thomas B. Peddie, who gave the school $25,000 (equivalent to $636,000 in 2023).^[11] In 1923, the school was formally renamed The Peddie School.

Peddie remained coeducational until 1908, when, for social and economic reasons, it decided to begin admitting only boys. This decision was reversed in 1970 when girls began to be admitted again. The following year, Peddie's first female African-American student enrolled in the fall term.

Beginning in the 1930s, Peddie began to attract students from other countries including China and Central America. As of 2022, 21% of Peddie's students identified as international, with top countries including China, South Korea, and Canada.

In 1983, Walter Annenberg, class of 1927, made a gift of $12 million (equivalent to $36.7 million in 2023) to Peddie, the largest donation to a secondary school at the time. Ten years later in 1993, Ambassador Annenberg topped his gift when he made the groundbreaking donation of $100 million (equivalent to $210.9 million in 2023), allowing it to expand its facilities, financial aid, and teachers' compensation and housing; prior to the Annenberg donation, the school's endowment totaled $17 million.^[12]

As of 2022, Peddie's endowment remains at over $450 million.

Headmasters

Heads of school include:

• Edgar and Edwin Haas (1865–1868)
• Hiram A. Pratt (1869–1875)
• Laroy F. Griffin (1875–1876)
• E. P. Bond (1876–1877)
• E. J. Avery (1881)
• John Greene (1882–1889)
• Herbert Ellsworth Slaught (1889–1892)
• Joseph E. Perry (1892–1898)
• Roger W. Swetland (1898–1934)
• Wilbour E. Saunders (1935–1949)
• Carrol O. Morong (1949–1964)
• Albert L. Kerr (1964–1977)
• F. Edward Potter Jr. (1977–1988)
• Anne L. Seltzer (1988–1989)
• Thomas A. Degray (1989–2001)
• John F. Green (2001–2013)
• Peter A. Quinn (2013–present). Announced in February 2024 that he plans to retire in June 2025.^[13]

Academics

Peddie Center Campus

Peddie uses a trimester program, with the academic year being divided into Fall, Winter, and Spring terms, each consisting of roughly 10 weeks. Classes run from Monday to Saturday, with Saturday classes in session every other week.

Many courses offered at Peddie are full-year courses, running from Fall to Spring term. Many electives run for one to two terms, allowing students to take multiple different courses throughout the year. The majority of students take five courses each term. A select few students take six or seven courses at a time. Students at Peddie are required to take multiple courses in English, foreign language, mathematics (through precalculus), history, social science, laboratory science, art, and music. Additionally, Peddie students are required to participate in after-school activities throughout the year, including sports, theater productions, volunteer opportunities, and clubs. Students can request to have a course formed if they have a faculty representative and have demonstrated interest in the subject.

Peddie offers 34 subjects for Advanced Placement (AP). In the 2020-2021 school year, 124 students participated in AP classes and exams. The average score on AP exams for a Peddie student is 4.4; 94% of Peddie students scored above a 3 on their AP exams.

Signature Experience

Peddie offers a signature experience to all students. The signature experience allows students to pursue their in-depth academic and co-curricular passions. Students begin to design their program during their sophomore year, with them conducting research and traveling during the summer between their junior and senior years. The program allows students to conduct research in any subject they are interested in, including STEM, English, Language, history, writing, and the arts. Many students focused on STEM conduct research in large, university labs, including University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University. Each year, students who participate in STEM-EXP present their research to students in a research fair during their senior year.^[14]

Athletics

Peddie's football team visits Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C.

All students must participate in theater, be on an interscholastic team, or be in one of the elective physical-education classes after school.

The Ian H. Graham Athletic Center houses a swimming pool; three basketball courts (surrounded by an indoor Tartan track); a wrestling room; an indoor soccer and lacrosse facility with Astroturf, a 2,000-square-foot (190- m²) fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment; a room housing thirty ergometers; and a fully equipped 6-bed training room and sports-medicine center. Outdoor facilities include fourteen tennis courts, eight multipurpose fields, a specially equipped varsity football and lacrosse training field, a softball field, an Olympic-caliber ¼-mile all-weather track, a varsity football and lacrosse field, three baseball fields. The Hovnanian Fields added another six fields, dedicated seasonally to the freshmen and junior varsity soccer and lacrosse teams.

The Athletic Center holds a replica of the Heisman Trophy donated to the school by Yale University lineman Larry Kelley (Peddie class of 1933), who won it in 1936, the second year in which it was given.

Peddie has its own 18-hole golf course, where the boys' and girls' golf teams compete. The course is a private facility of the Peddie Golf Club, but students and faculty have free access to the greens.

The school competes in the Mid-Atlantic Prep League, a sports league with participating institutions from preparatory schools in the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania area.

Peddie is a member of the New Jersey Independent School Athletic Association (NJISAA), competing in the "Prep 'A'" division with Lawrenceville School, Hun School of Princeton, Blair Academy, Saint Benedict's Preparatory School and other New Jersey preparatory schools depending on the sport. Peddie has graduates competing at the collegiate level in swimming, wrestling, basketball, track, crew, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, golf, and tennis. The school mascot is the falcon.^[3]

The girls track team won the New Jersey indoor track Non-Public / Prep state championship in 1928 and 1929.^[15]

Football rivalry

Peddie's arch-rival is Blair Academy, and the two schools compete every year during the second week of November for the Potter-Kelley Cup.^[16] The day of the football competition, which alternates yearly between campuses, is known as Blair Day at Peddie (and Peddie Day at Blair). The game between the two schools is the oldest football rivalry in New Jersey and ranks among the oldest in the country.^[17][18]

Crew

Peddie's crew team was first recognized on the national stage in 1993, when the men's midweight 4+ won a Youth National Championship title in Occaquan, VA. This feat was nearly repeated three years later, with Peddie coming in second in the same event by less than half a second. In 2006, the Peddie Girls' Varsity Four won the United States Youth National Championship, a regatta hosting the strongest club and scholastic teams in the nation. They won again in 2007, defending their U.S. Youth National Regatta title. In 2008, Peddie's Girls' Varsity Four placed third in their division at the Head of the Charles Regatta and returned to the Youth National in Ohio, placing second. The men's varsity four also traveled to Ohio, placing twelve in the Varsity Lightweight Four event. In 2009 the girls and boys returned to the National Championships. The girls regained their first place position, and the men placed sixth in the Petite Final of the Heavyweight Varsity Four. The women then continued on to the Henley Women's Regatta in England, setting a course record on their way to the final and eventually placing second.^[19]

Swimming

Peddie also boasts a nationally-acclaimed swimming program. Peddie School swimmers (students or alumni) have represented their nations in every Olympics since 1992. The team has won the Swimming World Mythical National Championships eight times, including the inaugural boys' and girls' independent-school titles in 1977 and 1982. The teams in the early 1990s were among the most-dominant high-school swimming programs in history, winning back-to-back boys' and girls' Mythical titles in 1990 and 1991. The 1994-95 team was the only team ever to lead the nation in all six relays. In 2007 both the girls' and boys' teams claimed first place at the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships held at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the 2007 championships, Peddie broke three national independent-school records in the girls' relay events. In 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017 the Peddie's boys swim team won the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships, continuing their success.^[20]

The boys swimming team won the New Jersey Non-Public state championship in 1951.^[21]

Basketball

In 2010, the girls' basketball team won the ESPN National High School Invitational, defeating Oak Hill Academy by a score of 60-44 in the tournament final and finishing the season with a 25-2 record.^[22] From 2000-2010 the girls' basketball program has been ranked one of the top 25 teams in the country seven times. During this same time period, three McDonald's All-Americans played for the Falcons including: Crystal Goring '05 (Richmond), Bridgette Mitchell '06 (Duke) and Haley Peters '10 (Duke).

Notable alumni

See also: Category:Peddie School alumni

• Walter Annenberg (1908-2002; class of 1927), former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and founder of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines^[23]
• Roberto Arias (1918–1989), former Panamanian Ambassador to the United Kingdom^[24]
• B. J. Bedford (born 1972), Olympic gold-medalist swimmer at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia^[25][26]
• Paul Benacerraf (born 1931), former philosophy of mathematics professor, Princeton University^[27]
• Heath Benedict (1983–2008), Dutch American football player^[28]
• Breland (born 1995, class of 2013), country singer and songwriter^[29]
• Matt Brown (born 1989), former professional football player^[30]
• George Case (1915–1989), former professional baseball player, Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators^[31]
• Finn M. W. Caspersen (1941-2009, class of 1959), financier, philanthropist, and CEO of Beneficial Corporation and Knickerbocker Management^[32]
• Leslie Caveny (class of 1980), film / television writer and producer known for her work on Everybody Loves Raymond^[33]
• Chingo Bling (born 1979), Mexican-American rapper and record executive^[34]
• Duane 'Dewey' Clarridge (1932–2016), CIA operative and author of the memoir A Spy for All Seasons^[35]
• Pia Clemente (class of 1989), received Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film for her film, Our Time is Up^[36]
• Oliver Crane (born 1998), rower, who set the record as the youngest person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, when he completed the 3,000-nautical-mile (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) journey in 2018^[37]
• Ronald S. Dancer (born 1949), politician who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002^[38]
• SirVocea Dennis (born 2000), linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers^[39]
• Nelson Diebel (born 1970), double Olympic gold-medalist swimmer at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain^[40]
• Colin Ferrell (born 1984), defensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts, who played collegiate football at Kent State University^[41]
• Elmer H. Geran (1875–1964; class of 1895), U.S. Congressman from New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1925 to 1927^[42]
• Max Greyserman (born 1995), professional golfer on the PGA Tour who won three state golf titles as a student at Peddie^[43]
• Erik Hanson (born 1965; class of 1983), former professional baseball player^[44]
• Richard Hooker (1924–1997), author of M*A*S*H, which spawned the film subsequent television series of the same name^[45]
• Tim Hurson (born 1946; class of 1963), speaker, writer, creativity theorist, author of Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking^[46]
• Larry Kelley (1915–2000), winner of the 1936 Heisman Trophy^[47][48]
• Howard W. Koch (1916–2001), film producer and director whose movies include Airplane! and The Odd Couple^[49]
• George F. Kugler Jr. (1925-2004), lawyer who served as New Jersey Attorney General from 1970 to 1974^[50]
• Robert B. Kugler (born 1950; class of 1968), senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey who also serves as a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court^[51]
• E. Grey Lewis (1940–2005), lawyer who served as General Counsel of the Navy^[52]
• Mike Maccagnan (class of 1985), General Manager of the New York Jets^[53]
• W. Steelman Mathis (1898–1981), politician who served in the New Jersey Senate from 1941 to 1942 and 1947 to 1966^[54]
• John J. McCloy (1895–1989), Assistant Secretary of War during World War II, president of the World Bank and U.S. High Commissioner for Germany^[55]
• Pat Miller, head coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team from 1929 to 1932^[56]
• Eric Munoz (1947–2009), physician and politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2001 until his death^[57]
• B. Russell Murphy (1889–1957, class of 1909), athlete, coach, and athletics administrator during the early 20th century, who was the first basketball coach at Johns Hopkins University^[58]
• George Murphy (1902–1992), Academy Award-winning actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild and U.S. Senator for California, 1964–1971^[59]
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr (born 1933; class of 1950), Iranian philosopher^[60]
• David Paddock (1892–1962), All-American college football player for the Georgia Bulldogs^[61]
• Coral Peña (born 1992/93, class of 2011), actress^[62]
• Fernando Perez (born 1983), coach for the San Francisco Giants and former Major League Baseball player for the Tampa Bay Rays, who is a published poet in Poetry magazine^[63]
• Haley Peters (born 1992), professional women's basketball forward with the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association^[64]
• John Plant (1877–1954), basketball player who served as head coach for the Bucknell Bison men's basketball team from 1926 to 1932^[65]
• Jules Prown (born 1930), art historian^[66]
• Myron Rolle (born 1986), Rhodes Scholar who played safety in the NFL for the Tennessee Titans^[67]
• Jacqueline Reses (born 1969/70), businesswoman, investor, author and philanthropist^[68]
• Richard Sachs (born 1953; class of 1971), custom bicycle frame maker^[69][70]
• Nat Sakdatorn (born 1983), winner of Thailand's reality-television singing contest Academy Fantasia (Season 4) and now a singer-songwriter in the Thai music industry under the label "True Fantasia"^[71]
• Billy Schuler (born 1990), soccer player for the Carolina RailHawks in the North American Soccer League^[72][73]
• Alan Shapley (1903–1973), Lieutenant General in the United States Marine Corps and a recipient of the Navy Cross^[74]
• Heather J. Sharkey (born 1967, class of 1985), Marshall Scholar, Fulbright-Hays Scholar, historian of the Middle East and Africa at the University of Pennsylvania, author^[75][76][77]
• Lloyd Spencer (1893–1981), politician who served as United States Senator from the state of Arkansas from 1941 to 1943^[78]
• Jonathan Sprout (born 1952), songwriter, performer and recording artist^[79]
• Stanley Steingut (1920–1989), New York Assemblyman (1953–1978), Minority Leader of the Assembly (1969–1974), Speaker of the New York Assembly (1975–1978), and Chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Committee (1962–1969)^[80]
• Chris Tomson (born 1984), drummer of indie rock band, Vampire Weekend^[81]
• Larry Townsend (1930–2008), author of dozens of books including The Leatherman's Handbook (1972)^[82]
• Richard Tregaskis (1916–1973), war correspondent and author of Guadalcanal Diary, the source for the 1943 film of the same name starring William Bendix, Richard Conte, and Anthony Quinn^[83]
• Lew Tucker (born 1950), computer scientist, open source advocate and industry executive^[84]
• Hakeem Valles (born 1992; class of 2011), American football player who played in the NFL for the Arizona Cardinals^[85]
• E. Norman Veasey (born 1933), Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court^[86]
• Albert L. Vreeland (1901–1975; class of 1922), U.S. Representative from New Jersey^[87]
• Davis Warren (born 2002; class of 2021), college football quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines^[88]
• Glen Everett Woolfenden (1930–2007), ornithologist, known for his long-term study of the Florida scrub jay population at Archbold Biological Station near Lake Placid, Florida^[89]

Notable faculty

• Jennifer Dore (born 1971), rower who is a two-time Olympian and World Champion^[90]
• Barbara Kirch (born 1960), Olympic rower who competed in both the 1984 and 1988 Olympic coxless pair contests^[91]
• Paul Watkins (born 1964), author^[92]
• Lew Watts (1922–2003), professional baseball player, coach and author^[93]

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11. "At 150, Peddie Readies a Party; In 1872, a Hightstown prep school was saved by the intervention of a wealthy immigrant named Thomas B. Peddie. Today the establishment, renamed for its white knight, is thriving.", New Jersey Monthly, January 30, 2014. Accessed February 10, 2022. "The year was 1872. The New Jersey Classical and Scientific Institute, a Baptist preparatory school founded just eight years earlier in Hightstown, was on shaky financial ground. Enrollment was down, and the school was suffering from a severe lack of funds. A white knight was needed—and one materialized in the person of Thomas B. Peddie..... Moved by the school’s plight and his commitment to Baptist values, Peddie stepped up with a $25,000 donation. That gave the school a new lease on life and a new name: the Peddie Institute."
12. Jordan, Mary."Billionaire Annenberg To Donate $365 Million In Cash To 4 Schools", The Washington Post, June 20, 1993. Accessed May 27, 2022. "Billionaire Walter H. Annenberg has decided to give $365 million in cash to four schools, including $100 million to his high school alma mater, a New Jersey preparatory school that calls the gift a "Cinderella story." In addition to the gift for the Peddie School, whose operating budget is $8 million, the retired publisher is giving $120 million each to the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California, where there are schools of communication in his name.... Before this gift, Peddie's endowment was $17 million."
13. "With gratitude for his distinguished years of service to Peddie, the Board of Trustees shares the following retirement announcement from Head of School Peter A. Quinn P’15 ’18 ’21.", Peddie School, February 6, 2024. Accessed February 19, 2024. "I write to tell you that I will be retiring from Peddie on June 30, 2025. Respecting the search process timeline, Board Chair Doug Davidson and I agreed that sharing the news now puts the Board of Trustees in a good position for a robust search for Peddie’s next head of school, whose tenure will begin July 1, 2025."
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17. Staff. "Hill-Hotchkiss, Peddie-Blair Battles Head Important Schoolboy Football Card Today", The New York Times, November 13, 1936. Accessed October 25, 2018. "The Blair-Peddle contest at Hightstown. NJ. will extend the oldest prep school rivalry in New Jersey. Blair and Peddle will meet for the thirty-fourth time since their uninterrupted series began in 1903."
18. Staff. "Undefeated Blair Academy football team preps for 105th contest in annual rivalry against Peddie", Warren Reporter, November 7, 2008. Accessed July 6, 2011. "Since 1903, Blair Academy and The Peddie School have competed in football - a rivalry that constitutes New Jersey's oldest continuous prep football competition."
19. Cohen, Lynda. "Egg Harbor Township girls' rowing team loses final race at England's Henley Regatta", The Press of Atlantic City, June 21, 2010. Accessed July 6, 2011. "The EHT girls lost at the Henley Women's Regatta on Sunday in a battle that pushed them and the winning crew past the finish line about 6 seconds faster than last year's record time set by the Peddie School of Princeton."
20. Staff. "Hill swimmers have record weekends" Archived March 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, The Mercury, February 15, 2011. Accessed July 6, 2011. "The Hill School swim teams closed out the season with the 111th Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Divings Championships, last weekend at the La Salle University's Kirk Natatorium.... The Hill boys' team placed 17th, and Peddie School won the boys' team title."
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22. Kallam, Clay. "Peddie School wins NHSI title: In the final game of Sean Casey's 17-year Peddie (Hightstown, N.J.) coaching career, the Belles cruise to the ESPN RISE NHSI championship."^{[dead link‍]}, ESPN.com, April 3, 2010. Accessed July 6, 2011. "Oak Hill Academy was justifiably concerned that Peddie School senior Haley Peters, a McDonald's All-American committed to Duke, might take over the ESPN RISE National High School Invitational final Saturday at Coppin State.... Jackson had 14 points in the second quarter -- en route to 21 in the game -- and it was her 3-pointer-and-one that ignited what proved the game-winning rally in the Falcons' 60-44 victory.... Early on, it appeared Oak Hill (23-4) would avenge its 75-60 defeat Jan. 9 to Peddie (25-2, No. 27 in the ESPN RISE FAB 50)."
23. Steinberg, Jacques. "Prep School Gets $10 Million From 2 Alumni", The New York Times, February 14, 1998. Accessed February 5, 2011. "When Mr. Annenberg, a member of the class of 1927, gave his gift in June 1993, it was the largest ever received by a preparatory school."
24. "Roberto E. Arias, Envoy, Writer And Panama Politician, 71, Dies", The New York Times, November 23, 1989. Accessed April 5, 2020. "Dr. Arias, who was known as Tito, was the son of Harmodio Arias, a former Panamanian President, and was educated at the Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J., and at St. John's College of Cambridge University."
25. Moylan, Kyle. "Ex-Peddie swimmer struck gold: B. J. Bedford set world record-beating pace for team, Princeton Packet, October 2, 2000, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 2, 2008. Accessed February 27, 2011. "As a member of a United States swimming relay team, it wasn't a surprise that Peddie graduate B. J. Bedford was able to win an Olympic medal."
26. Peddie School Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Swimming World Magazine. Accessed February 27, 2011. "A national swimming power, Peddie swimmers represented the U.S. in the last three Olympics including double gold medalist, Nelson Diebel in Barcelona and gold medalist BJ Bedford in Sydney."
27. Paul Benacerraf Archived September 16, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Princeton University. Accessed August 16, 2017. "Two years later, when he was 11, Paul's parents returned to Caracas, and he entered the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, as a boarding student."
28. via Associated Press. "Peddie grad, NFL prospect is found dead in Fla.", NJ.com, March 27, 2008. Accessed July 23, 2019. "Heath Benedict, a two-time Little All-American offensive lineman from Newberry College in South Carolina, was found dead Wednesday night on a couch in his home. Benedict, who played high school football at the Peddie School in Hightstown, was a 6-foot-6, 320-pound junior who had planned to enter the NFL Draft."
29. Derfner, James. "Daniel Breland ’13 Visits Peddie", The Peddie News, October 27, 2022. Accessed December 18, 2022. "In the midst of a whirlwind tour for his highly anticipated debut album, Cross Country, Daniel Breland ’13 returned to the Peddie campus in September to surprise current seniors with a meet and greet."
30. Pompey, Keith. "Temple's Matt Brown reverses field", The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 7, 2012, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 23, 2015. Accessed May 20, 2021. "But Matt Brown was on the fast track to joining the brutal Bloods street gang, so his father sent him off in 2005 to the prestigious Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J."
31. Staff. "Sport Quotes", The Miami News, April 17, 1946. Accessed July 7, 2011. "George Case, speedy Cleveland outfielder: 'Best season I ever had was when I was pitching for Peddie Prep school in New Jersey. I hit a home run in every park we played that year.'"
32. Browning, Lynnley. "Suicide Victim May Have Hidden Millions Abroad", The New York Times, September 15, 2009. Accessed August 16, 2017. "He unexpectedly resigned from the Dean's Advisory Council at Harvard Law School — he was in the class of 1966 — and quit as chairman of the board of the Peddie School, the prep school in Hightstown, N.J., from which he graduated in 1959."
33. "Peddie Names in Lights", Peddie Chronicle, Fall 2015. Accessed July 23, 2019. "Best known for her work writing and producing for the NBC sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond and for the feature film Penelope, Leslie Caveny '80 has returned to her first love."
34. Chingo Bling, MTV. Accessed February 5, 2011. "To keep him away from the city's turbulent city life, his parents sent him away to the prestigious Peddie School, a private boarding school in New Jersey, on a scholarship."
35. Staff. "Ex-CIA Operative Pleads Not Guilty A Founding Father Of The Contras, He Was Revered By Younger CIA Officers.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 7, 1991. Accessed February 5, 2011. "Born in Nashua, NH, in 1932, the son of a prosperous dentist and a homemaker, Duane Ramsdell Clarridge graduated from the Peddie School."
36. Staff. "Pia Clemente '89 Nominated for Oscar" Archived September 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Peddie School, March 1, 2006. Accessed February 5, 2011.
37. Oliver Crane, Princeton Tigers. Accessed May 24, 2020. "Hometown: Lawrenceville, N.J.; High School: Peddie School"
38. Ronald S. Dancer, New Jersey Legislature. Accessed July 16, 2019. "Education: Peddie School"
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40. "Star Swimmers", Time, July 27, 1992. Accessed February 27, 2011. "Nelson Diebel, U.S. - He lied his way into the Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J., claiming swimming prowess he didn't have."
41. Colin Ferrell Archived September 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Indianapolis Colts. Accessed August 11, 2008.
42. Elmer Hendrickson Geran, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 16, 2017. "was graduated from Peddie Institute, Hightstown, N.J., in 1895, from Princeton University in 1899, and from New York Law School in 1901"
43. Max Greyserman, Duke Blue Devils. Accessed July 16, 2024. "Hometown; Short Hills, N.J;. High School: Peddie School... attended Peddie School and led team to three state championships."
44. Moylan, Kyle "Major leaguer steps to plate for Peddie School: Pitcher, alum Erik Hanson donates $365,000 for field house upgrade", Princeton Packet, January 9, 1999, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 2, 2008. Accessed February 27, 2011. "When Erik Hanson left the Peddie School in 1983, he left behind a legacy of pitching greatness."
45. Staff. Richard Hornberger (Obituary), Variety, November 20, 1997, accessed February 27, 2011. "But in an interview last year with the Peddie News, the student newspaper of his prep school in New Jersey, Hornberger said he couldn't understand why the Robert Altman-directed film and the TV series were assailed for anti-war themes during the Vietnam War."
46. Abouts Us, Virtu.Academy. Accessed July 23, 2019. "Tim Hurson is a speaker, writer and creativity theorist living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was educated at The Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, and went to college at Oberlin College in Ohio."
47. Goldstein, Richard. "Larry Kelley, 85, a Yale End Who Won the Heisman, Dies", The New York Times, June 29, 2000. Accessed October 25, 2018. "Kelley, a native of Ohio, played high school football in Williamsport, Pa., then attended the Peddie School in Hightstown. The Princeton campus was nearby, but Kelley's football coach at Peddie was a Yale alumnus and steered him to New Haven."
48. "Heroes for Pay", Time, November 1, 1937, accessed April 15, 2007. "After being the most publicized Yale footballer since Albie Booth, Larry Kelley last summer turned down a fantastic offer from the Detroit Lions, supposedly because Yale alumni do not yet regard professional football as dignified. Instead, he went to The Peddie School at Hightstown, N. J., to teach history and coach Peddie's strictly amateur football team."
49. Howard W. Koch Collection, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 3, 2007. Accessed February 27, 2011. "Howard W. Koch (1916–2001) was born in New York City. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in New York and Peddie Preparatory School in Hightstown, New Jersey."
50. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 1973, p. 355. J.A. Fitzgerald, 1973. Accessed July 22, 2019. "Attorney General George F. Kugler, Jr., Cherry Hill - George F. Kugler, Jr., was born in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey, on March 26, 1925, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from The Peddie School, Hightstown, New Jersey in 1943."
51. A dream job Archived July 21, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Peddie School. Accessed July 22, 2019. "Patrick Sandman ’07 knew that clerking for Judge Robert Kugler '68 of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey would be a difficult job to get, so he was sure to mention his Peddie connection in his cover letter."
52. "E, Grey Lewis '59", Princeton Alumni Weekly. Accessed July 23, 2019. "Born in Atlantic City, Grey attended the Peddie School, where he was president of the student body."
53. Cosentino, Dom. "Jets general manager Mike Maccagnan's high school yearbook photo is popped-collar '80s goodness", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, January 13, 2015. Accessed August 16, 2017. "Maccagnan is a 1985 alumnus of Peddie, where he played lacrosse and was a three-year starter as a defensive lineman/linebacker on the football team."
54. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 189, p. 375. J.A. Fitzgerald, 1965. "William Steelman Mathis (Rep., Toms River) Senator Mathis was born in Tuckerton, December 1, 1898. He graduated from Peddie School and afterward took course at the Peirce Business College of Philadelphia."
55. Staff. "McCloy Gets Aldrich Post: Chase Bank Picks Successor To Ambassador-To-Be", The Baltimore Sun, December 7, 1952. Accessed February 5, 2011. "McCloy, who is 57 years old, was born in Philadelphia and educated at Peddie School."
56. "Loyola College Signs New Coach; Pat Miller Will Assist Cofall At Jesuit Institution This Fall", The Baltimore Sun, June 7, 1925. Accessed July 16, 2019. "Miller sparkled on the diamond, gridiron and cinder path while attending Atlantic City High School and Peddie Institute."
57. Staff. "Nancy Ann Foster and Dr. Eric Munoz Are Wed", The New York Times, January 22, 1984. Accessed July 16, 2019. "Dr. Munoz, an authority on health economics, is director of surgical intensive care and trauma surgery at the Queens Hospital Center in Jamaica and an assistant professor of surgery at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He graduated from the Peddie School, the University of Virginia and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business."
58. "Peddie Faculty For Next Year", Hightstown Gazette, July 2, 1914. Accessed July 23, 2019. "'O9— Miss Anna May Watson was married on Wednesday, June tenth, in Philadelphia to Mr. Benjamin Russell Murphy '09. 'Pat' is well known to all recent alumni at Peddie."
59. George Lloyd Murphy, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed February 27, 2011.
60. Sheikh, Nadia. "Islamic scholar calls GW home" Archived July 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, The GW Hatchet, February 20, 2007. Accessed February 5, 2011. "As a 12-year-old, Nasr came to the United States to study at the Peddie School, a New Jersey boarding school where he graduated in 1950 as valedictorian."
61. "National Stars of the Gridiron". St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls. 42: 1092. 1915.
62. "Coral Peña ’11: Feeling At Home Among Hollywood Elite", Peddie School. Accessed April 5, 2025.
63. Nalbone, John. "Peddie product Perez in Garza deal" Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, The Times, January 8, 2011. Accessed February 5, 2011.
64. Franklin, Paul. "Peddie School grad Peters has led Duke women into the Sweet 16", The Times, March 29, 2013. Accessed July 16, 2019. "While Haley Peters’ basketball skills have improved every year since her days at The Peddie School, what hasn’t changed is her will to win."
65. Martin, David. 100 Years Later: Peddie In World War I, Peddie School. Accessed January 30, 2023. "The most noted faculty member to serve in the war was John Plant, Class of 1906, who was Peddie’s athletic director from 1906 to 1926."
66. "Shirley Ann Martin To Wed Jules Prown", The Freehold Transcript and The Monmouth Inquirer, April 12, 1956. Accessed January 30, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Mr. Prown, who is an alumnus of the Peddle School, Hightstown, and Lafayette College, Easton. Pa., received his master's degree from Harvard University."
67. Nutt, Amy Ellis. "Jersey's Myron Rolle -- Mr. Everything", The Star-Ledger, March 19, 2009. Accessed March 16, 2012. "In fact, Rolle has to reach back to the third grade when asked about the last time he got in trouble.Instead, fame came calling at an early age, with stellar schoolboy careers at the Peddie School in Hightstown and then the Hun School in Princeton."
68. "Jacqueline Reses To Wed This Year", The New York Times, February 3, 1991. Accessed July 20, 2023. "Miss Reses, 21 years old, is a student at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of the Peddie School."
69. Brady, Patrick. "Richard Sachs Part 2" Archived October 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Peloton. Accessed November 12, 2012. "Patrick Brady: Have you held other positions in the industry? Richard Sachs: No. Actually, I have never done anything else (for pay) since I left The Peddie School in 1971."
70. Wolff-Mann, Ethan. "The 5 Things Richard Sachs Can't Live Without", Thrillist, October 22, 2014. Accessed July 16, 2019. "A quick bio, in his own words: 'I didn't set out to become a bicycle maker. I became a bicycle maker. My original Peddie School-era desire to attend Goddard College and study creative writing took a turn in 1971 and I ended up in London at a shop owned by the Witcomb family.'"
71. Staff. "Meet Thailand's New Idol" Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Peddie School, April 4, 2008. Accessed February 5, 2011.
72. Billy Schuler, North Carolina Tar Heels men's soccer. Accessed August 11, 2016. "Hometown: Allentown, N.J.... Played prep soccer at The Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J."
73. Staff. "Ex-Peddie standout is finalist for college soccer's highest honor", Examiner, December 29, 2011. Accessed August 11, 2016. "Allentown's Billy Schuler, who starred at the Peddie School before going on to the University of North Carolina, is one of three finalists for the Hermann Trophy, which is the highest award for a college soccer player."
74. Lieutenant General Alan Shapley Archived May 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, United States Marine Corps History Division. Accessed February 27, 2011. "His early schooling was received at Vallejo, California, and he was graduated from the Peddie School at Highstown, New Jersey, in 1922."
75. Sharkey, Heather J. (2017). A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East by Heather J. Sharkey. Cambridge Core. doi:10.1017/9781139028455. ISBN 9781139028455. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
76. Sharkey, Heather J. (2008). American Evangelicals in Egypt. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691168104.
77. Sharkey, Heather J. (2003). Living with Colonialism. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520235595.
78. Spencer, George Lloyd, (1893 - 1981), Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed July 23, 2019. "attended the public schools, Peddie School at Hightstown, N.J., and Henderson College at Arkadelphia, Ark."
79. Cregan, Amanda. "Making a Living: Bucks musician combines history, music in children's 'edu-tainment'", Bucks County Courier Times, April 5, 2016, as copied at JonSprout.com. Accessed July 23, 2019. "After graduating with honors from the prestigious Peddie School in Mercer County, New Jersey, he earned a degree in psychology from Bucknell University."
80. Pace, Eric. "Stanley Steingut, 69, Ex-Speaker Of New York Assembly, Dies at 69", The New York Times, December 9, 1989; corrected December 12, 1989. Accessed May 21, 2013. "Mr. Steingut was born May 20, 1920, in the Crown Heights section. He attended the Peddie School and Union College."
81. Staff. "Vampires to Appear on SNL" Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Peddie School, March 5, 2008. Accessed February 5, 2010.
82. Laird, Cynthia. "Obituaries: Leather author Larry Townsend dies", Bay Area Reporter, August 6, 2008. Accessed July 23, 2019. "Born October 27, 1930, Mr. Townsend attended the prestigious Peddie School, and was a staff sergeant with the U.S. Air Force in Germany (1950–1954)."
83. Riess, Curt. They were there: the story of World War II and how it came about, p. 655. Ayer Publishing, 1971. ISBN 0-8369-2029-5. Accessed February 27, 2011. "Richard Tregaskis was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on November 28, 1916, and educated at the Pingry Day School for Boys, Elizabeth, New Jersey, at Peddie School, Hightstown, New Jersey, and at Harvard University."
84. "Local Happenings; Asbury Park Area", Asbury Park Press, February 13, 1968. Accessed January 1, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Jonathan Vegosen, Deal Park, and Lewis Tucker, West Allenhurst, both Ocean Township, received gold keys for their membership in the honor service organization, the Gold Key, at Peddie School, Hightstown, at Founders Day exercises Sunday."
85. Hakeem Valles, Monmouth Hawks football. Accessed December 11, 2023. "Hometown: Sicklerville, N.J. High school: Peddie School"
86. Horsey, Henry R.; and Diffy, William. "The Supreme Court After 1951 The Separate Supreme Court", Delaware Supreme Court. Accessed July 23, 2019. "Born in 1933 in Wilmington, Veasey attended Wilmington schools before completing his secondary education at the Peddie School and undergraduate education at Dartmouth College."
87. Albert Lincoln Vreeland, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed February 5, 2011.
88. Davis Warren, Michigan Wolverines football. Accessed April 23, 2024.
89. Fitzpatrick, John W. "In Memoriam: Glen Everett Woolfenden, 1930–2007", The Auk, Volume 126, Issue 2, April 1, 2009, pp. 460–462. Accessed December 17, 2020. "Glen attended Westfield High School through junior year and then spent his senior year at Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey."
90. Hague, Jim. "Kearny celebrates 30 years of girls’ crew with return of Olympian Dore-Terhaar", The Observer, May 17, 2016. Accessed April 14, 2023. "The Terhaar family now resides in Cranbury, N.J., close to the Olympic training facility. Dore-Terhaar is also far removed from crew, although she helps out coaching a team from the Peddie School."
91. Barbara Ann Kirch, Olympics.com. Accessed April 22, 2023. "Kirch later became a coach at Dartmouth College and then at U Penn, before become director of rowing and women’s varsity coach at Peddie School in New Jersey."
92. Shea, Rich. "Historical Figure", Education Week, April 15, 2005. Accessed April 14, 2023. "What few in the filmmaking and publishing industries know, however, is that Watkins is also a veteran educator. This is his 15th year at Peddie, where, as writer in residence, he’s discovered that his passion for telling stories and taking readers places they’ve never been fuels his teaching, as well."
93. "Llewellyn 'Lew' Watts III, baseball, jazz author, coach". July 9, 2003. Retrieved February 12, 2024.

External links

• Official site
• Data for the Peddie School, National Center for Education Statistics