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36-500: As of 2023, Cranbrook Schools had an endowment of $ 217 million, among the fifteen largest held by America's boarding schools. In addition, the Cranbrook Educational Community, of which the schools is a member, had an endowment in excess of $ 300 million in 2007. As of 2021 it had 1,656 students, making it Michigan's largest private school by enrollment in a single campus. In 1915, George and Ellen Booth opened

72-1315: A bird is tethered to a cord, and there are four archers. The first three in turn miss, then hit the bird, while the fourth, Acestes, instead shoots his arrow into the air, where it bursts into flames. For this miracle, Acestes is declared the victor. The design was chosen by William Oliver Stevens, the first headmaster of Cranbrook School, who sketched it. The actual logo was designed by Eero Saarinen. Cranbrook has many notable alumni, including designer Florence Knoll , former U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson , Heisman Trophy winner Pete Dawkins , Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg , Utah Senator and 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Ann Romney (née Davies) , Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin , columnist Michael Kinsley , Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy , co-founder of Pandora Radio Tim Westergren , former professional soccer player Alexi Lalas , Lisa Frank , actress and Tony award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry and actress Selma Blair . Cranbrook Kingswood participates in MHSAA Division 3 Midwest Champions: 2009 Eliel Saarinen Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen ( / ˈ s ɑːr ɪ n ə n / , Finnish: [ˈelie̯l ˈsɑːrinen] ; August 20, 1873 – July 1, 1950)

108-523: A commuting option is available for New York City residents. Fall Regional Conference (held during the first Monday in November) This one-day conference helps student publications prepare for the new academic year, and covers all aspects of student publishing. The conference is open to student editors and faculty advisers to student magazines, newspapers, yearbooks and online media. The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and its affiliate for teachers,

144-648: A portion of their property to the general public with the construction of a small Greek Theatre. In 1918, the Booths built the Meeting House, which became the Bloomfield Hills School, opening for local children in 1922 (grades 1–12). Subsequently, the Booths decided to build a middle school and a college preparatory school. Cranbrook School for Boys, which began operations in 1927, was designed by world-renowned Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen . Completed in 1928, it

180-758: A sculptor in Helsinki , and the younger sister of Herman Gesellius . They had a daughter Eva-Lisa (Pipsan) on March 31, 1905, and a son Eero on August 20, 1910. Eliel Saarinen moved to the United States in 1923 after his competition entry for the Tribune Tower in Chicago, Illinois, won second place. While it was not built, the streamlined design inspired the architecture of many other skyscrapers. Saarinen first settled in Evanston, Illinois , where he worked on his scheme for

216-596: A soccer clinic, a filmmaking seminar, a compensatory educational program for students from low-income families, a jazz ensemble, ice hockey, lacrosse, and tennis camps as well as the Cranbrook Theater School . The actor Robert Englund taught one summer at the theater school. The Archer, the symbol of Cranbrook school, is based on an episode in Book V ( Latin ) of the Aeneid , by Virgil , line 519: In an archery contest,

252-551: Is given by the Association for sustained achievement by a teacher of student editors or faculty advisers. The CSPAA began its James F. Paschal Award in 1986. Named for the late director of the Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association and editor of The CSPAA Bulletin, this honor is given for meritorious service to a state scholastic press association by one of its officials. The Edmund J. Sullivan Award

288-503: Is given by the CSPAA for student journalists who have fought for the right to speak their minds while in pursuit of the truth on behalf of their audiences. The award may be given to an individual or to a group of students. Founded in 1927, the CSPAA is a professional organization of teachers/advisers devoted to the development of the student press in accordance with educational practices. Its purposes include: to function as an autonomous unit of

324-486: Is not a contest although it does provide one of several ratings to student media. The critique is a teaching tool to provide detailed guidance on how well a student print or online media is currently progressing, and how it could improve during the following year. Spring National Convention (held in mid March) This three-day convention is open to student editors and faculty advisers to newspapers, yearbooks, magazines, video productions and online media from schools throughout

360-640: The Columbia Scholastic Press Association . The robotics and forensics team have also won several state and national awards. Their Model United Nations team has also been placed in the top 75 in North America as of Spring 2012. Total enrollment at Cranbrook during 2007–08 was 1626, with 780 enrolled in the upper school, 333 in the middle schools, and 513 at the lower school Brookside. (Brookside's numbers include children enrolled in pre-kindergarten, junior kindergarten, and kindergarten at

396-597: The Cranbrook Educational Community . In 1985, Cranbrook and Kingswood schools were merged to create a co-educational upper school institution. The middle school did not become co-educational; it was divided into gender-specific campuses in 1984. The Community acquired Vaughan School to house the boys' middle school. The basement of Kingswood was at one point the girls' middle school. A new Middle School building opened in 2010. For boys and girls of grades 6–8, all classes are separate. The exceptions are those for

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432-1076: The Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970. Eliel received the AIA Gold Medal in 1947. Columbia Scholastic Press Association The Columbia Scholastic Press Association ( CSPA ) is a student journalist program of the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University . It was founded in 1925, whose goal is to unite student journalists and faculty advisers at schools and colleges through educational conferences, idea exchanges, textbooks, critiques and award programs. CSPA memberships for student media are offered for print publications or online media, but not by school or chapter. The CSPA accepts newspapers, yearbooks, magazines and online media edited and produced by students in middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities for membership. Schools and colleges may be public, private or church-affiliated institutions located in

468-575: The Vlasic Early Childhood Center , which opened in 1996.) Approximately 11% of Cranbrook Kingswood's students are international students. Traditionally, Cranbrook School also has an exchange program with Cranbrook School, Kent , a boarding school in Cranbrook, Kent , England in honor of George Booth's heritage. During the summer months Cranbrook Schools conducts a variety of day and boarding programs on their campus. These include day camps,

504-789: The Wilcox Silver Plate Co. / International Silver Company in Meriden, Connecticut . His iconic tea urn (c. 1934) was first exhibited in 1934–35 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Over the years, the tea urn has been widely exhibited, including in St. Louis Modern (2015–16) at the St Louis Art Museum, Cranbrook Goes to the Movies: Films and Their Objects, 1925–1975 at

540-535: The Booths and Saarinen, the conception and design of the Cranbrook and Kingswood schools were greatly influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement , which began in 19th-century England. In 1923, Booth founded an Episcopal church to serve the nascent Cranbrook community, as well as surrounding communities. He chose the firm of Goodhue Associates to design the church. Groundbreaking took place in 1925, and Christ Church Cranbrook

576-491: The CSPA; to foster the interests and promote the professional status of advisers to student publications; to encourage sympathetic teamwork between faculty advisers (as the official representatives of their publications) and the school administrators and the community; to inaugurate and publish studies of problems relative to students' publications as well as pamphlets, bulletins and monographs for advisers. Meetings are held annually at

612-643: The Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association, offer awards to celebrate contributions by distinguished people in education, the media and public life. These awards are given in recognition of assistance and encouragement to student editors and faculty advisers working with them on student newspapers, magazines, yearbooks and online media in schools and colleges. With the Gold Key, the CSPA recognizes educators and others for their support of excellence in teaching journalism and in advising

648-788: The Cranbrook Art Museum (2014–15)., and in 2005–07, in the touring exhibition Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design , organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, which also traveled to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. In 1951–52, the tea urn was featured in the Eliel Saarinen Memorial Exhibition which traveled to multiple venues across the United States. In addition to Cranbrook,

684-802: The Cranbrook School for Boys, which has several buildings, the Kingswood School has only one building, which includes supporting facilities. It houses dormitories, a dining hall, an auditorium, classrooms, lounge/common areas, a bowling alley, and a ballroom. The education at Kingswood School Cranbrook was initially primarily viewed as a " finishing school ". Today, Students take classes in English, History, Religion, and Art at Kingswood. The art classes available are Foundations in Design, Sculpture, Drawing, Weaving, Ceramics, Fashion Design, Painting, and Photography. For

720-605: The Crown Awards for top publications will be presented at the Awards Convocation on Friday afternoon. Summer Journalism Workshop (held during the last full week of June) This six-day live-in workshop helps staffs map out the upcoming academic year for their newspaper or online staff. The program offers newspaper and online publication courses from beginners to advanced students and faculty advisers. Most students and advisers reside on campus in air-conditioned Columbia dorms but

756-722: The Dallas Museum and the St Louis Museum, The British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art also hold tea urn-related Eliel Saarinen designs. Eliel Saarinen became a professor in the University of Michigan 's Architecture Department. His son, Eero (1910–1961), became one of the most important American architects of the mid-20th century, as one of the leaders of the International style . Saarinen's student Edmund N. Bacon achieved national prominence as Executive Director of

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792-490: The United States and Canada, as well as overseas schools following an American plan of education. Convention delegates can choose from separate seminars, lectures and workshops featuring professional journalists, award-winning advisers and leading student editors as presenters. Advisers can partake of three different luncheons. Students will have swap shops for networking and exchanges. And face-to-face on-site critiques will be available each day for interested staffs. The winners of

828-432: The United States, Canada, or overseas schools following an American plan of education. Memberships for student media are offered in two forms: Regular (with critique) and Associate (without critique). Both forms of media membership include eligibility for the Crown Awards and eligibility for the first 30 prepaid entries in the individual Gold Circle Awards. "To make good writing the basis of successful student publications"

864-668: The development of the Chicago lake front. In 1924 he became a visiting professor at the University of Michigan . In 1925 George Gough Booth asked him to design the campus of Cranbrook Educational Community , intended to be an American equivalent to the Bauhaus . Saarinen taught there and became president of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1932. Among his student-collaborators were Ray Eames (then Ray Kaiser) and Charles Eames ; Saarinen influenced their subsequent furniture design. During 1929–34, Saarinen contributed product designs for

900-437: The extensive city-planning project of Munksnäs-Haga and later published a book on the subject. In January 1911 he became a consultant in city planning for Tallinn , Governorate of Estonia and was invited to Budapest to advise in city development. In 1912, a brochure written by Saarinen about the planning problems of Budapest was published. He was runner up behind Walter Burley Griffin in an international competition to design

936-767: The firm, the Finnish pavilion at the Paris 1900 World Fair , exhibited an extraordinary convergence of stylistic influences: Finnish wooden architecture, the British Gothic Revival , and the Jugendstil . Saarinen's early manner was later christened the Finnish National Romanticism and culminated in the Helsinki Central railway station (designed 1904, constructed 1910–14). From 1910 to 1915 he worked on

972-540: The most selective 25% of preparatory schools in the United States. Several programs offered at Cranbrook have won awards and recognition. The student newspaper The Crane-Clarion has been recognized by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the National Scholastic Press Association . In 2009, the Upper School's student literary arts magazine, Gallimaufry , received a Gold Crown award from

1008-604: The new Australian capital city of Canberra in 1912, but the following year he received the first place award in an international competition for his plan of the city of Reval , now known as Tallinn. From 1917 to 1918 Saarinen worked on the city-plan for greater Helsinki . He also designed a series of postage stamps issued 1917 and the Finnish markka banknotes introduced in 1922. After the divorce from his first wife, Mathilde (who then married Herman Gesellius), on March 6, 1904, Saarinen married his second wife, Louise (Loja) Gesellius ,

1044-498: The performing arts (Symphonic Band, Orchestra). Architecture critic Paul Goldberger of The New York Times called the Cranbrook campus "one of the greatest campuses ever created anywhere". In 1985, Cranbrook School and Kingswood School were merged to create a coeducational upper school, the Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School. Classes are taught on both the original Cranbrook and Kingswood campuses. Frequently,

1080-456: The school is referred to as "CK" by its students, faculty, and alumni. Cranbrook Kingswood now lays claim to 70 athletic teams; both men and women's teams earned state championship titles in hockey, tennis, lacrosse, golf and swimming. As of 2011, there were 795 students, approximately one-third of which were boarding students who live in single-sex residence halls. Cranbrook Kingswood accepts slightly fewer than half of all applicants, placing it in

1116-569: The student press. The Gold Key also recognizes professionals in the media for significant contributions to student-practiced journalism. Gold Keys were first publicly presented by the CSPA in 1930. The Joseph M. Murphy Award is given by the CSPA for outstanding service to the Association over many years. Named for the CSPA's founding director, the Murphy Award is generally given only once per year. The Charles R. O'Malley Award for Excellence in Teaching

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1152-619: The technology of communications expands from print into cyberspace. The CSPA offers several contests and a critique service for student media. The contests, including the annual Crown Awards and the Gold Circle Awards, select the best from among many entries. The Crown Awards signify overall excellence among student print and online media. The Gold Circle Awards [1] honor the best work completed by student reporters, editors, designers, photographers, artists, poets, fiction writers, and other staff members of all types. An annual Medalist Critique

1188-435: Was Saarinen's first executed architectural work in the United States. The name "Cranbrook" was chosen since Cranbrook, England was the birthplace of George Booth's father. Kingswood School Cranbrook (for girls), also designed by Saarinen, opened in 1931. Cranbrook and Kingswood enrolled students from grades 7–12. The Bloomfield Hills School became an elementary school and was renamed Brookside School Cranbrook in 1930. Unlike

1224-536: Was a Finnish and American architect known for his work with Art Nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century. He was also the father of famed architect Eero Saarinen . Saarinen was educated in Helsinki at the Helsinki University of Technology . From 1896 to 1905 he worked as a partner with Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren at the firm Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen . His first major work with

1260-465: Was consecrated on September 29, 1928. Originally Cranbrook and Kingswood schools were affiliated with the Episcopal Church, but they have since secularized. However, special occasions are still celebrated at Christ Church Cranbrook. Cranbrook School, Kingswood School, and Brookside School operated separately until 1970, when it was decided to govern them together. This was followed by the creation of

1296-484: Was one of the earliest goals for the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. From its beginnings in 1925, the CSPA sponsored annual contests to seek out and publicize the best practices in student writing, editing and publishing. Student newspapers and magazines were the earliest formats chosen for these competitions. Student yearbooks were added in 1935. Today, online student media have been added as

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