PHILLIPS ACADEMY HISTORY
Notable Alumni
Short List
Long Lists
1700s
1800s
1900s
2000s
Fuess Award Winners
Named in honor of Phillips Academy’s 10th headmaster, Claude Moore Fuess, the Fuess Award, which acknowledges distinguished contribution to public service, is Andover’s highest honor. (Archived site)
Fact Sheets 1976/77-2022/23
These annual fact sheets include basic demographic information about students and faculty as well as information about cost of tuition and financial assistance, campus resources, and outreach programs.
Related Sites
Trustees, 1778- (Phillips Academy)
Andover and the Military (Phillips Academy)
Alumni in the Civil War (research by David Chase, 2022)
Andover in the Civil War (town of Andover)
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the Town of Andover, 1600-1850 (site built by Joan C. Patrakis, 2022)
Swimming and Diving, 1912-, at Andover
Andover Crew, 1954-.
Andover Theological Seminary: history exhibit by Yale University Library
The Girls of Abbot, a 2014 film by Charles Stuart, class of 1962 (39 minutes).
Chinese students at Andover, 1878-2000
Alumni in the Peace Corps (as of 2022)
Regular Guys: a film about the Phillips Academy class of 1965 by Kevin Rafferty
The Story of Brian Gittens, a 2015 film by Jack McGovern, class of 2015, about the history of Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Phillips Academy.
Phillips Academy History Association (student club) includes Covid-19 oral history journal.
State Library of Massachusetts: state documents, Acts & Resolves, transportation-related records including real estate atlases, canals, railroads, harbors
Principals and Heads of Phillips Academy
1778-1786 Eliphalet Pearson
1786-1793 Ebenezer Pemberton
1794-1809 Mark Newman
1810-1833 John Adams
1833-1837 Osgood Johnson
1837-1871 Samuel H. Taylor
1871-1873 Frederic W. Tilton
1873-1901 Cecil F. P. Bancroft
1903-1933 Alfred E. Stearns
1933-1948 Claude M. Fuess
1948-1971 John M. Kemper
1972-1981 Theodore R. Sizer
1981-1994 Donald W. McNemar
1994-2012 Barbara Landis Chase
2012-2019 John G. Palfrey
2020- Raynard Kington
Principals of Abbot Academy
1829-1831 Charles Goddard
1832-1834 Reverend Samuel Lamson
1835-1838 Reverend Samuel Gilman Brown
1838-1839 Reverend Lorenzo L. Langstroth
1839-1842 Reverend Timothy D.P. Stone
1842-1852 Reverend Asa Farwell
1854-1856 Nancy Judson Hasseltine
1856-1857 Maria Jane Bancroft Brown
1857-1859 Emma L. Taylor
1859-1892 Philena McKeen
1892-1898 Laura Sophia Watson
1898-1911 Emily Adams Means
1912-1935 Bertha Bailey
1936-1955 Marguerite Capen Hearsey
1955-1966 Mary Hinckley Crane
1968-1973 Donald Gordon
Seal
The Phillips Academy seal was designed and engraved by Paul Revere in 1782. The central feature, a beehive with a flowering plant and bees flitting between the two, has been attributed to Judge Phillips, to symbolize a group of industrious scholars. The unclouded sun above may represent the light of learning. The motto “Non Sibi” is translated as “Not for Self,” and this call to serve others continues as the school’s motto today. The phrase “finis Origine Pendet” translates as “The End Depends upon the Beginning.”
