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72-551: Michael DeSisto, after being dismissed as director of the Lake Grove School on Long Island, New York, raised $ 180,000 in advance tuition fees and donations from the parents of students who supported his vision, and encouraged him to open a new school "where he could put his philosophy into practice". In 1978, Mike DeSisto was able to get approximately one-third of all the Lake Grove student body, and faculty to leave with him after he

144-694: A "Free Heather" movement. They sought to sue the DeSisto School for illegally detaining Burdick, but the action failed. Heather Burdick's parents then sued their neighbors for invasion of privacy, libel, and slander. The DeSisto School subsequently successfully counter sued, and after recovering $ 550,000 in legal expenses, was awarded $ 41,000 for damages. The group of parents then attempted to sue Burdick for misrepresenting her circumstances. In 1990 Burdick's parents were awarded $ 259,000 in damages for emotional distress and invasion of privacy. On November 15, 1988, The Boston Globe reported that Michael DeSisto , and

216-1058: A US federal court to seven counts of making threatening communications in interstate commerce. Appearing in the Sunday paper almost every week is The Boston Globe Magazine . As of 2018 , Veronica Chao is the editor, and contributors include Neil Swidey and Meredith Goldstein . Since 2004, the December issue features a Bostonian of the Year . Past winners include Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein (2004), retired judge and Big Dig whistleblower Edward Ginsburg (2005), governor Deval Patrick (2006), Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America founder and CEO Bruce Marks (2007), NBA champion Paul Pierce (2008), professor Elizabeth Warren (2009), Republican politician Scott Brown (2010), U.S. attorney Carmen Ortiz and ArtsEmerson executive director Robert Orchard (2011), Olympic gold medalists Aly Raisman and Kayla Harrison (2012), three people who were near

288-508: A blog made up of posts from the paper's opinion writers. In September 2011, The Boston Globe launched a dedicated, subscription-based website at bostonglobe.com. Starting in 2012, the Globe provided a printing and circulating service for the Boston Herald , and by 2013, was handling its rival's entire press run. This arrangement remained in place until 2018, ending after the acquisition of

360-421: A boy put off campus mid-winter, froze to death on an icy Berkshire Hill". Mr. Kahn's son committed suicide in 1987 shortly after leaving school without graduating. Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff and 2012 Republican Congressional candidate Paul Babeu is embroiled in controversy concerning events that occurred at the DeSisto School while he was its executive director and headmaster from 1999 to 2001. Following

432-415: A contract to be general manager of the paper for two years. He would serve as the first publisher of The Boston Globe until his death in 1921, and was succeeded by four of his descendants until 1999. Originally a morning daily, the Globe began its Sunday edition in 1877. A weekly edition called The Boston Weekly Globe , catering to mail subscribers outside the city, was published from 1873 until it

504-533: A coordinated campaign for newspapers nationwide to respond to President Donald Trump's "enemy of the people" attacks and " fake news " rants against the media by publishing locally produced editorial responses on Thursday, August 16. Within a couple of days, an estimated 100+ newspapers had pledged to join the campaign, jumping to roughly 200 a few days later. On August 13, the Radio Television Digital News Association and its Voice of

576-876: A faculty member at Elmira College , in Elmira, New York, and at Adelphi University , in Garden City, New York, when he had never had been a faculty member at either institution. DeSisto also claimed he had worked as a consultant for the Free University of New York at Stony Brook. According to Jeremy Weis, an official with the New York Bureau of Academic Information and Reports, the state agency with which all universities must register, "I've never heard of this university". Elmira payroll supervisor Mary Fetyko said, "DeSisto never worked there." At Adelphi, administrator Margaret Elaine Wittman said, "there are no records of DeSisto having been

648-578: A faculty member, the man is completely foreign to us, the fact that he would say this on his vita is incredible." On November 15, 1988, the Orlando Sentinel ran an article, titled "Reports Raise Questions About Desisto [ sic ] Drug Policy". The article charges that "critics say drugs have been handed out in an almost capricious manner". The school responded that, "that all drugs used are prescribed and carefully monitored and that no problems have surfaced". Nevertheless, as early as, March 1981

720-454: A follow-up article titled "New Information On The Desisto [ sic ] Schools". It is the Sentinel 's policy to review all such complaints "in a spirit of fairness". The Sentinel found that "the presentation of one story in the three-day series may have led to the unintentionally misleading conclusion that his entire career was built on false credentials." During the late 1980s,

792-460: A future anthropologist, had attended the school in 1957. She later wrote in her memoir about the experience: "Stockbridge School was also used as a sort of 'holding tank' for teenagers who, for one reason or another, were living in an unsympathetic environment at home and whose parents could afford to send them away to school. Much of the revenue used to pay for the school came from this source". Maeder retired as headmaster of Stockbridge in 1971, and

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864-404: A group of students under the aegis of the DeSisto School sued Howey-in-the-Hills over zoning issues related to the incipient DeSisto College. The town of Howey-in-the-Hills was awarded $ 203,279.27 in attorney fees and $ 17,194.12 in costs. The case of DeSisto College, Inc. v. Town of Howey-in-the-Hills , 718 F.Supp. 906 (M.D.Fla. 1989), and its appeals, are often cited and used as precedent where

936-515: A letter, Commonwealth officials charged the school had "an environment that endangers the life, health, and safety of children enrolled". Frank McNear, DeSisto's executive director, told The Boston Globe at the time, that the school could not run properly without its customary admissions process. "They did us grave financial damage when they closed our admissions", McNear said. "We can no longer fight this. They've been saying they want to close us, and they succeeded." The DeSisto at Stockbridge School

1008-600: A long legal fight with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over licensing and allegations of child abuse , a Commonwealth-imposed enrollment freeze, and accusations of failing to create a safe environment for its students, the DeSisto at Stockbridge School chose to voluntarily close in June 2004. A month previously, officials from the state Office of Child Care Services ordered DeSisto administrators to suspend their admissions process. In

1080-560: A master's degree in psychology from the University of Massachusetts, as he claimed. DeSisto later admitted to not possessing the master's degree, and said the error was due to a "low-level assistant", who had mistakenly placed it on his résumé. In 1993 Alfonso Saiz a DeSisto dorm parent was sentenced to four to five years in state prison for sexually molesting six DeSisto students. A 1996 DSS investigation found three cases of abuse and neglect of nine students. On January 29, 1999, two workers at

1152-549: A period in which many similar schools were comparatively insular and ethnically exclusive. Beginning in 1948, three years after the United Nations was established, the school flew the United Nations flag just below the United States flag . The credo of the school was stated on a plaque installed at the entrance to a new classroom building in the mid-1950s, "All Men are created equal in dignity and rights". For some years,

1224-482: A practice ended by editor Thomas Winship in 1966. In March 1980, the Globe published an editorial about a speech by President Jimmy Carter , which included the accidental headline " Mush from the Wimp " during part of the press run, drawing national attention. Since 1981, the editorial pages of the Globe have been separate from the news operation, as is frequently customary in the news industry . Editorials represent

1296-651: A prominent former Boston ad executive, to be CEO. As of January 2017 , Doug Franklin replaced Mike Sheehan as CEO, then Franklin resigned after six months in the position, in July 2017, as a result of strategic conflicts with owner Henry. In July 2016, the 815,000-square-foot headquarters in Dorchester was sold to an unknown buyer for an undisclosed price. The Globe moved its printing operations in June 2017 to Myles Standish Industrial Park in Taunton, Massachusetts . Also in June 2017,

1368-474: A regional paper of national distinction. He served as editor until 1984, during which time the paper won a dozen Pulitzer Prizes , the first in the paper's history. The Boston Globe was a private company until 1973 when it went public under the name Affiliated Publications . It continued to be managed by the descendants of Charles Taylor. In 1993, The New York Times Company purchased Affiliated Publications for US$ 1.1   billion, making The Boston Globe

1440-562: A second campus in Howey-in-the-Hills Florida named the DeSisto at Howey School. DeSisto originally envisioned a string of schools nationally and internationally based on the principles of Gestalt psychology , and his own therapeutic model. DeSisto stated that the Stockbridge campus would be his "flagship". The DeSisto School would develop a reputation as the place that the wealthy could send their children. However, about 20% of

1512-581: A story about two cancer patients, and Barnicle was forced to resign. Columnist Jeff Jacoby was suspended by the Globe in 2000 for failing to credit non-original content used in his column. In 2004, the Globe apologized for printing graphic photographs that the article represented as showing U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women during the Iraq War from a city councilor's presentation before they were verified. The photos had already been found by other news organizations to be from an internet pornography site. In

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1584-508: A very limited number of faculty, who provided brief commentary. On Saturdays, selections were chosen by a student, and were typically popular music. For a brief period in the 1970s immediately following Maeder's retirement in 1971, and during the directorship of Thomas Newman, the Berkshire Folk Society performed monthly on winter evenings. During this period, visiting artists included Malcolm Cecil , as well as both Joseph Jarman of

1656-652: A wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times ' parent. The Jordan and Taylor families received substantial The New York Times Company stock, but by 1999 the last Taylor family members had left management. Boston.com , the online edition of The Boston Globe , was launched on the World Wide Web in 1995. Consistently ranked among the top ten newspaper websites in America, it has won numerous national awards and took two regional Emmy Awards in 2009 for its video work. The Boston Globe has consistently been ranked in

1728-479: Is quoted as proposing an additional hypothesis for the school's demise: the then-radical ideals upon which the school was founded in the 1940s, notably racially integrated coeducation, had become mainstream by the 1970s. The school had fulfilled its founder's goals, and therefore was no longer needed. The campus later became the site of the DeSisto School , an unrelated organization, also now defunct. In April 2009

1800-567: The Boston Herald , whose circulation is smaller and is shrinking faster. The newspaper is "one of the nation's most prestigious papers". In 1967, The Boston Globe became the first major paper in the U.S. to oppose the Vietnam War . The paper's 2002 coverage of the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal received international media attention and served as the basis for the 2015 American drama film Spotlight . Since February 2023,

1872-677: The Philadelphia Bulletin , to form the Associated Newspapers syndicate. In the early 1900's Charles H. Taylor was responsible for making the Globe the most used Newspaper in New England. He went into greater details regarding social movements such as the Women's Suffrage Movement . While other competitors such as The Boston Post did not shine as much light on these social movements. In

1944-402: The 1940 Massachusetts gubernatorial election , the Globe correctly projected the re-election of Republican incumbent Leverett Saltonstall , using methods first established by Taylor; rival The Boston Post called the race incorrectly for Democrat Paul A. Dever . In 1955, Laurence L. Winship was named editor, ending a 75-year period of the role being held by the paper's publishers. In

2016-534: The 2020 presidential election , but has sometimes endorsed Republicans in state and local elections, such as Charlie Baker for governor. Describing the political position of The Boston Globe editorial page in 2001, former editorial page editor Renée Loth told the Boston University alumni magazine: The Globe has a long tradition of being a progressive institution, and especially on social issues. We support woman's rights; We are pro-choice; we're against

2088-629: The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Richard Abrams , each noted for their early connection with the Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians . Throughout the school's history, there were frequent gatherings of the student body modeled on the New England town meeting , during which open discussions were held, and votes taken on matters of interest. The school director held veto power over decisions. Esther Newton ,

2160-504: The Boston Marathon bombing , Dan Marshall, Natalie Stavas, and Larry Hittinger (2013), Market Basket employees (2014), and neuropathologist Ann McKee (2017). On October 23, 2006, The Boston Globe announced the publication of Design New England: The Magazine of Splendid Homes and Gardens . The glossy oversized magazine was published six times per year. The magazine ceased publication in 2018. The Globe uses "editor" as

2232-616: The Globe in January 1884, hired by Charles H. Taylor. Source: In 1998, columnist Patricia Smith was forced to resign after it was discovered that she had fabricated people and quotations in several of her columns. In August of that year, columnist Mike Barnicle was discovered to have copied material for a column from a George Carlin book, Brain Droppings . He was suspended for this offense, and his past columns were reviewed. The Boston Globe editors found that Barnicle had fabricated

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2304-472: The Globe moved its headquarters to Exchange Place in Boston's Financial District . In July 2022, James Dao, a senior editor with 30 years of experience at The New York Times, was named the editorial page editor, succeeding Bina Venkataraman. In November 2022, The Boston Globe announced that NPR news chief Nancy Barnes would replace Brian McGrory as editor. From September 1, 2022, to August 31, 2023,

2376-592: The Herald by Digital First Media . In February 2013, The New York Times Company announced that it would sell its New England Media Group , which encompasses the Globe ; bids were received by six parties, including John Gormally, then-owner of WGGB-TV in Springfield, Massachusetts , another group included members of former Globe publishers, the Taylor family, and Boston Red Sox principal owner John W. Henry , who bid for

2448-496: The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting . On April 2, 2009, The New York Times Company threatened to close the paper if its unions did not agree to $ 20 million of cost savings. Some of the cost savings include reducing union employees' pay by 5%, ending pension contributions, ending certain employees' tenures. The Boston Globe eliminated the equivalent of 50 full-time jobs; among buy-outs and layoffs, it swept out most of

2520-440: The Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in 2001–2003, especially in relation to Massachusetts churches. The Boston Globe was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their work and the work of other staff, one of several the paper has received for its investigative journalism, and their work was dramatized in the 2015 Academy Award-winning film Spotlight , named after the paper's in-depth investigative division. The Boston Globe

2592-709: The editor has been Nancy Barnes . The Boston Globe was founded in 1872 by six Boston businessmen who jointly invested $ 150,000 (equivalent to $ 3,815,000 in 2023). The founders included Eben Dyer Jordan of the Jordan Marsh department store, and Cyrus Wakefield of the Wakefield Rattan Company and namesake of the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts . The first issue was published on March 4, 1872, and sold for four cents (equivalent to $ 1.02 in 2023). In August 1873, Jordan hired Charles H. Taylor as temporary business manager; in December, Taylor signed

2664-649: The DeSisto School had been sued 23 times for breach of contract and fraud . The same Globe article also reported that Michael DeSisto denied falsifying records of the Howey campus' graduation rates. In 1988 the Orlando Sentinel reported that the DeSisto School's claim of accreditation by the National Association of Independent Schools was false. Michael DeSisto responded that "low-level staff members were responsible". Mike DeSisto's résumé also stated he had been

2736-570: The DeSisto at Stockbridge school were arraigned in Berkshire Superior Court on a single count each for abuse or neglect of a disabled patient taking the drug lithium , resulting in the student's hospitalization. Investigation resulted in the charges being dropped for these two staff members, and the blame affixed to higher ranking staff and licensed medical personnel. In 1999, DeSisto produced an off-off-Broadway musical titled Inappropriate with Lonnie McNeil and Michael Sottile based on

2808-534: The DeSisto parcel was sold at auction to Sheehan Health Group (a nursing home concern) for about $ 1.35 million, while extensive areas to the north and south of the former campus that were previously held by the Maeder family as forest and meadows had been subject to residential subdivision and development. The alumnus most closely associated with Stockbridge School is Arlo Guthrie , whose arrest for littering by Stockbridge police shortly after graduation in 1965 inspired

2880-562: The First Amendment Task Force encouraged its 1,200 member organizations to join the campaign, while other media organizations also helped spread the call to action. Even as some right-leaning outlets portrayed the Globe ' s campaign as an attack on the president, rather than his rhetorical attacks on the Fourth Estate , some newspapers got a head start, releasing content on August 15, while 350 newspapers participated in

2952-405: The Globe ' s combined print and digital circulation for weekdays increased by 2.7%, to 346,944, and for Sundays it rose by 1.3%, to 408,974. There are more than 245,000 digital-only subscriptions, an increase of about 10,000 since February 2022. Starting with the Sunday edition in 1891, and expanded to weekday editions in 1913, each lead editorial in the Globe was signed "Uncle Dudley",

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3024-524: The Globe , is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts . The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes . The Boston Globe is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston and tenth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the nation as of 2023. Founded in 1872, the paper was mainly controlled by Irish Catholic interests before being sold to Charles H. Taylor and his family. After being privately held until 1973, it

3096-487: The Massachusetts Office for Children cited school staff members in Stockbridge for permitting untrained dormitory parents to distribute prescription drugs. In November 1988, the Orlando Sentinel ran an unflattering three-part exposé on DeSisto. In response to complaints made by Michael DeSisto that the articles "presented an unfair picture of him and his schools", on October 7, 1990, the Orlando Sentinel published

3168-447: The college to continue its operations. The annual tuition for the DeSisto School in 1978 was $ 10,000 for room and board excluding costs of therapy and other miscellaneous fees, and expenses. The DeSisto School was a 365-day-a-year program. Some students were offered trips during the summer months both domestically and to Europe, as well as an academic summer school, a performing arts program, or manual work program on campus. At its peak in

3240-657: The curriculum included a junior year abroad, and Stockbridge briefly operated a branch in Corcelles, Bern , Switzerland. Maeder was a socialist and had egalitarian aspirations, but his school also attracted numerous students from wealthy New York area families. Maeder did a significant amount of student recruitment from an apartment he maintained in midtown Manhattan . Six days per week, students, whose number never exceeded about 200, were required to assemble after breakfast and listen to 20 minutes of recorded music. Selections were mostly European romantic and classical music, chosen by

3312-418: The death penalty; we're for gay rights. But if people read us carefully, they will find that on a whole series of other issues, we are not knee-jerk. We're for charter schools ; we're for any number of business-backed tax breaks. We are a lot more nuanced and subtle than that liberal stereotype does justice to. James Dao became the editorial page editor in 2022. In August 2018, the editorial board launched

3384-454: The event on August 16. From August 10 to 22, approximately 14 threatening phone calls were made to Boston Globe offices. The caller stated that the Globe was the "enemy of the people" and threatened to kill newspaper employees. On August 30, California resident Robert Chain was arrested by an FBI SWAT team and charged with a single count of making a threatening communication in interstate commerce. In May 2019, Chain pleaded guilty in

3456-704: The forefront of American journalism. Time magazine listed it as one of the ten best US daily newspapers in 1974 and 1984, and the Globe tied for sixth in a national survey of top editors who chose "America's Best Newspapers" in the Columbia Journalism Review in 1999. Under two editors, Martin Baron and then Brian McGrory , the Globe shifted away from coverage of international news in favor of Boston-area news. Globe reporters Michael Rezendes , Matt Carroll, Sacha Pfeiffer and Walter Robinson , and editor Ben Bradlee Jr. were instrumental in uncovering

3528-431: The government 60 days' notice that it intended to close the paper. Despite the cuts helping to "significantly [improve]" its financial performance by October of that year, the Globe 's parent company indicated that it was considering strategic alternatives for the paper, but did not plan to sell it. As of 2010, the Globe hosted 28 blogs covering a variety of topics, including Boston sports , local politics, and

3600-467: The highest title; other newspapers may call this role editor-in-chief . The role of editor was held by three people in the earliest years of the paper, then from 1880 to 1955 by the publishers. The extended period of a publisher-editor ended in 1955, when Laurence L. Winship was named editor by publisher William Davis Taylor. Winship became the paper's top editor following the death of James Morgan, longtime de facto executive editor. Morgan had joined

3672-493: The journals and life experiences of the student performers. The show also had a run in Los Angeles in the year 2000 with an eye on turning it into a film. This, however, did not pan out. The Cult Awareness Network placed the DeSisto School on its list of cults it kept records on. Author Roger Kahn claimed in his memoir Into My Own (2006) (p. 261) that the school's tough love policy, "led to at least one fatality, when

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3744-421: The lake known as Stockbridge Bowl . The property had previously been named Bonnie Brier Farm. The Maeders' purchase occurred shortly after the failure of Liberal Arts, Inc. to establish a Great Books -based college associated with St. John's College , Annapolis, Maryland, on the same site. Only a portion of this extensive, largely forested property, which ranged from the summit of West Stockbridge Mountain to

3816-491: The late 1980s, the DeSisto School had a combined enrollment of approximately 300 students on the Stockbridge and Howey campuses. By 2004 tuition had ballooned to $ 71,000, and enrollment had dropped to below 30 students before the school's closure. Quite early on, the school had problems with the Massachusetts Commonwealth Department of Education which withdrew its accreditation after questions arose about

3888-468: The next decade, the Globe rose from third to first in the competitive field of what was then eight Boston newspapers. In 1958, the Globe moved from its original location on Washington Street in downtown Boston to Morrissey Boulevard in the Dorchester neighborhood. In 1965, Thomas Winship succeeded his father as editor. The younger Winship transformed the Globe from a mediocre local paper into

3960-458: The official view of The Boston Globe as a community institution. The publisher reserves the right to veto an editorial and usually determines political endorsements for high office. The Globe made its first political endorsement in 1967, supporting Kevin White in that year's Boston mayoral election . The Globe has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates, such as Joe Biden in

4032-663: The paper through the New England Sports Network , which was majority owned by Fenway Sports Group and the Boston Bruins . However, after the NESN group dropped out of the running to buy the paper, Henry made his separate bid to purchase the Globe in July 2013. On October 24, 2013, he took ownership of the Globe , at a $ 70   million purchase price, and renamed the venture Boston Globe Media . On January 30, 2014, Henry named himself publisher and named Mike Sheehan,

4104-508: The part-time employees in the editorial sections. However, early on the morning of May 5, 2009, The New York Times Company announced it had reached a tentative deal with the Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents most of the Globe 's editorial staff, that allowed it to get the concessions it demanded. The paper's other three major unions had agreed to concessions on May 3, 2009, after The New York Times Company threatened to give

4176-422: The plaintiff's claim is frivolous because it has no basis in law, the plaintiff rejects any reasonable offer to settle, the trial court dismisses the case without trial, and the plaintiff does not offer any novel legal theories. In 1993, after years of pursuing the defunct DeSisto at Howey School, the town council of Howey-in-the-Hills agreed to accept a cash and property settlement worth about $ 80,000, much less than

4248-450: The school's treatment of " special needs " students. The school sued in 1983 and won back its accreditation. In 1986, the DeSisto School received national media attention with the case of Heather Burdick from Old Bridge, New Jersey . Burdick had been sent to the Stockbridge campus and she told people from her hometown disturbing stories about the school. A group of parents from Burdick's hometown tied yellow ribbons around trees, and started

4320-488: The shore of the Stockbridge Bowl, was developed as the school campus. The Maeders retained title to the remainder of the land at the time of their purchase. Following the school's closure, some of this other property was subdivided for residential development. The school was unusual for being racially integrated from its inception, as well as for Maeder's successful efforts to recruit an international student body during

4392-590: The song " Alice's Restaurant ". Alice Brock had been the school librarian before opening a lunch counter in Stockbridge. Ray Brock, husband of Alice, was a shop teacher at the school. Other notable alumni include comedian Chevy Chase , physician Kenneth C. Edelin (who later taught at the school), and political theorist Benjamin Barber . 42°19′47″N 73°19′57″W  /  42.32972°N 73.33250°W  / 42.32972; -73.33250 The Boston Globe The Boston Globe, also known locally as

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4464-417: The spring of 2005, the Globe retracted a story describing the events of a seal hunt near Halifax , Nova Scotia , that took place on April 12, 2005. Written by freelancer Barbara Stewart, a former New York Times staffer, the article described the specific number of boats involved in the hunt and graphically described the killing of seals and the protests that accompanied it. In reality, weather had delayed

4536-550: The students were not from wealthy families and received funding from their local school districts as special needs students, or their parents/guardians endured financial hardship to send their children to the school. In the late 1970s, and the early 1980s, DeSisto and the DeSisto School were favorably featured in articles in Life , Time , and People magazines. DeSisto made a number of appearances on national television with his students, including The Today Show . The DeSisto School

4608-559: The total judgment amount of approximately $ 250,000. In 1989 the United States Department of Labor brought a $ 1 million lawsuit against the school on behalf of former staff members demanding back wages and damages. In 1991, DeSisto authored his only book: Decoding Your Teenager: How to Understand Each Other During the Turbulent Years . After its publication, some journalists published articles questioning whether DeSisto held

4680-492: Was absorbed by the Sunday edition in 1892. In 1878, The Boston Globe started an afternoon edition called The Boston Evening Globe , which ceased publication in 1979. By the 1890s, The Boston Globe had become a stronghold, with an editorial staff dominated by Irish American Catholics . In 1912, the Globe was one of a cooperative of four newspapers, including the Chicago Daily News , The New York Globe , and

4752-660: Was fired by Lake Grove's management. These original staff and students served as the nucleus of the new DeSisto at Stockbridge School. The school was then established on the 300-acre (1.2 km) former campus of the old defunct Stockbridge School (a.k.a. The Hanna Estate and Bonnie Brier Farm), in the Berkshires region of Massachusetts , near Tanglewood Music Center, and the Stockbridge Bowl . The DeSisto school's program placed heavy emphasis on discipline, structure, and psychological therapy. On April 14, 1980, DeSisto opened

4824-434: Was followed in relatively quick succession by headmasters Thomas Newman and Richard Nurse. The school closed in 1976 largely due to difficult U.S. demographic and economic trends of the era, which resulted in declining enrollment and debt, and the shut-down of many small boarding schools in New England. In the introduction to Gunter Nabel's "A Fight For Human Rights - Documents of The Stockbridge School," alumnus Benjamin Barber

4896-571: Was founded by the World War II German refugee Hans Maeder and his American wife Ruth, who paid $ 60,000 to acquire the 1,100-plus acres of the former Gilded Age estate of Daniel Rhodes Hanna, son of Mark Hanna , businessman and politician. Maeder was a socialist and the couple wanted to establish a school based on egalitarian principles. At the time of the Maeders' purchase, the property contained 18 buildings and 2,500 feet (760 m) of frontage on

4968-435: Was often mentioned on Joey Reynolds 's radio show. Michael DeSisto was a regular guest. Reynolds was also a fundraiser for the school, and had one of his children enrolled there. In 1987 DeSisto opened a college on the Howey campus, named DeSisto College. The experiment was short-lived though when the local government objected. The DeSisto School, and some of its students, sued and appealed in federal court unsuccessfully for

5040-637: Was renamed the Cold Spring Academy, and opened a campus in Sarasota, Florida . The Cold Spring Academy permanently closed in 2005. 42°19′47″N 73°19′57″W  /  42.32972°N 73.33250°W  / 42.32972; -73.33250 Stockbridge School Stockbridge School was a progressive co-educational boarding school for adolescents near the Interlaken section of Stockbridge, Massachusetts . It operated from 1948 to 1976. The school

5112-399: Was sold to The New York Times in 1993 for $ 1.1   billion, making it one of the most expensive print purchases in United States history . The newspaper was purchased in 2013 by Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C. owner John W. Henry for $ 70   million from The New York Times Company , having lost over 90% of its value in 20 years. The chief print rival of The Boston Globe is

5184-566: Was the paper that allowed Peter Gammons to start his Notes section on baseball, which has become a mainstay in many major newspapers nationwide. In 2004, Gammons became the 56th recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing, given by the BBWAA ; he was honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 31, 2005. In 2007, Charlie Savage , whose reports on President Bush 's use of signing statements made national news, won

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