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The Birch Wathen Lenox School is a college preparatory K-12 school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Birch Wathen Lenox comprises approximately 500 students from all around New York City. The Birch Wathen Lenox School is one of 322 independent schools located in the city.

History

Birch Wathen Lenox was created in 1991 through the merger of the Birch Wathen School (founded in 1921 by Louise Birch and Edith Wathen), and The Lenox School (founded in 1916 by Jessica Garretson Finch).

The Lenox School had been an all-girls school until 1974, when it went co-educational.

Between 1962 and 1989, Birch Wathen was located in the Herbert N. Straus House, an ornate French-style building at 9 East 71st Street across from the Frick Collection

Sports

Birch Wathen Lenox fields teams in soccer, volleyball, swimming, basketball, baseball, cross country, track and field, golf, tennis, hockey and roblotics.

Athletic teams play under the auspices of the Independent Schools Athletic League (New York) or the Girls Independent School Athletic League, which are leagues in the NYSAISAA (New York State Association of Independent Schools Athletic Association).

The robotics team plays in the FIRST Robotics Competition, more commonly referred to as FRC.

Notable alumni

• Kathy Acker, writer
• Hope Cooke, last Queen of Sikkim
• Barbara Costikyan, food writer
• Joel Crothers (BW '58), actor
• Viola Essen, dancer
• Robert Gottlieb, president of Knopf Publishing.
• John Katzman, edupreneur, CEO of Noodle
• Alfred A Knopf, Jr., publisher
• Judith Krantz (BW '44), novelist
• Wendy Mogel, psychologist and author
• Murray Rothbard (BW '42), Founder of anarcho-capitalism
• Edwin Schlossberg, designer
• Mary Stolz (BW '36), novelist
• Gardiner L. Tucker (BW '43), former director of IBM Research, Assistant Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary General of NATO
• Barbara Walters, journalist, writer, and media personality

References

1. ^ The Birch Wathen Lenox School – School Overview. Peterson's. March 12, 2007.
2. "New York State Association of Independent Schools: Birch Wathen Lenox School". Nysais.org. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
3. McBride, Jason (2022). Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker (1st ed.). New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-9821-1703-0.
4. Claridge, Laura (2016). The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire (First ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 68. ISBN 9780374114251. OCLC 908176194.
5. Ruark, Liz (February 13, 2001). "Person of the Week: Judith Krantz Archived September 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine". Wellesley College.
6. "Wendy Mogel Is Married to Michael Tolkin". New York Times. June 26, 1978. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
7. "Caroline Bouvier Kennedy To Wed Edwin Schlossberg". New York Times. March 2, 1986. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
8. Mary Stolz Biographical Sketch Archived July 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
9. "Gardiner Luttrell Tucker Obituary (2021) New York Times". Legacy.com. Retrieved May 2, 2022.
10. "Can Barbara Walters's Career Survive Rosie and Donald's War?- New York Magazine". Nymag.com. March 5, 2007. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
11. "And Now Back To You, Barbara". New York Times. March 25, 1990. Retrieved January 8, 2013.

External links

• Birch Wathen Lenox School website
• Birch Wathen Lenox School at Private School Review
• The Birch Wathen Lenox School listing in the Bunting & Lyon Blue Book
• Architectural essay on the midcentury BW building.
• Architectural essay on the midcentury Lenox building.

• Private K–12 schools in Manhattan
• Birch Wathen Lenox School alumni