Hawken School

Hawken School is an independent, coeducational, col- the main lobby and exterior remodeling. The new Hurlege preparatory day school in Northeast Ohio.
witz Halls construction nished in August 2013.[6] In late
2013, Hawken announced plans for a $24.5m renovation
Hawken currently has two main campuses, the Lower
and Middle Schools in Lyndhurst and the Upper School of the Gates Mills campus, Stirn Hall, of which construction would tentatively begin in early 2015. Designed by
in Chester Township, plus a third, an urban campus in
University Circle, The Sally & Bob Gries Center for Ex- architectural rm Westlake, Reed, Leskosky, the project
would bring the academic complex to 106,000 square
periential and Service Learning, which is utilized by all
grade levels. Hawkens motto is quoted from John Lan- feet.
caster Spalding's Education and the Higher Life: That the
better self shall prevail, and each generation introduce its
successor to a higher plane of life"; although a sign with
the secondary motto, Fair Play, hangs in every classroom on either campus. A new middle school complex at
the Lyndhurst campus was built for the 200607 school
year. D. Scott Looney is the current Head of School, having assumed the position on July 1, 2006.[1]

Hawken School is an independent, college preparatory day school serving approximately 950 students in
preschool through grade 12. Hawken has long-standing
rivalries with the three other founding members of
the Cleveland Council of Independent Schools: Laurel
School, Hathaway Brown School, and University School.

2 Student life
1

History

Students have been divided into two dierent groups: red

and gray in the middle school, and Vikings and Cyclops
in the lower school. Once they have advanced to the middle school, Vikings turn into red and Cyclops turn into
gray. In 4-6th grade, games such as capture the ag or
soccer are played and the winner receives points. All students, 4-8th grades, compete once a year at eld day.
This is competed at the Lower School. Every student
chooses a sport to compete in, along with an assigned
relay. At the Upper school, students are sorted by advisory into four houses: Ansel (derived from the name
of the original campus at Ansel Road), Bolton (derived
from the name of the lower school campus), Chester (referring to Chesterland, the location of the Upper school),
and Mather (referring to the new campus at University
Circle). The houses each have their own colors, mascots,
and crests, and compete for house points through a variety of dierent activities. The system was co-developed
by Alex Dobay '08 and Meredith Allenick '08, and the
winning house receives the Dobay Cup, named after Alex
Dobay, who died of cancer in August 2008. The school
implemented a new schedule in the fall of 2010. It replaced a oat schedule with six 50-minute classes with
4 block classes per day, ranging in length from 60 to 85
minutes. In addition, the time of day in which the block
occurs changes in a six day cycle. For example, one day
a student would have his/her A block class at 8:30 but
the next day he/she would have it at 12:15. Also, for the
last 3 weeks before Winter and Summer break students
participate in the intensive study of one course for the
entire school day. An intensive counts for one semesters

The schools founder and namesake, James A. Hawken,

opened his school for boys in Cleveland's Hough neighborhood in 1915.[4] First housed at 1572 Ansel Road, the
school later moved to 1588 Ansel Road, shortly before
relocating to its current Lyndhurst campus in 1922. Because James Hawken believed in one-on-one education
for the boys at his school, the original building on the Lyndhurst campus, now containing part of the middle school,
has many rooms designed to seat between eight and ten
boys.[5] Later, in 1961, the school added a 325-acre high
school campus in Chester Township, housing formerly
grades 10 through 12, and now also grade 9. The school
became coed in 1975.[4] In the fall of 2006, Lincoln Hall
was added on to the Middle School, adding much-needed
classroom space. In the fall of 2009, Hawken commenced a tablet computer program for grade 6 which later
spread throughout the middle and high schools. The Sally
& Bob Gries Center for Experiential and Service Learning (also called The Gries Center), located in University
Circle, opened on August 29, 2010. In the summer of
2011, the preschool underwent a renovation. Additionally, due to increased enrollment, the school has renovated the lower school building, adding 5,540 square feet
of space into the 2nd and 3rd grade area, as well renovating 8,125 square feet of space. Changes included
the addition of a new classroom to the Kindergarten and
1st grades; renovations to the performing arts classrooms
as well as the addition of a fourth classroom; relocation
and remodeling of a science classroom; restoration of
1

4 NOTABLE ALUMNI

credit. The middle school students participate in insights state championships in his 45 year career, and long time
week, where they join an all day activity of their choice football coach Cli Walton who has been at the helm of
for one week after Winter Break.
the Hawks football program since 1978.

2.1

Clubs and activities

2.2.1 Ohio High School Athletic Association State

Championships

The Academic Challenge Team won Academic Challenge Television Finals in 2008 and placed third at the Further information: Ohio High School Athletic Associregional competition the same year. Most recently, the ation
team placed 2nd as the state runners-up at the annual
NAQT state tournament. The 2011-2012 season team
Girls Golf - 2013
was ranked in the top 25 in the United States.[7][8]
The Hawken Speech & Debate Team is a member of the
National Forensic League, and has won multiple OHSSL
State Championships (most recently in Congressional Debate and Public Forum Debate, both in 2013) as well as
qualiers to the NFLs annual National Tournament.
Hawkens Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both
the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL)[9] and National
Junior Classical League (NJCL).[10]

Girls Track - 1999, 2000

Girls Swimming - 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988,
1990, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Boys Swimming - 1988, 1989
Boys Golf - 1977, 1978

2.2

Athletics

Before the 2007 football season, the football eld was updated and renamed Walton Stadium, in honor of longtime coach Cli Walton. New turf was installed, and
lights were put up. Since then, the Hawks have played
their home games under the lights on Friday nights. The
Hawks were undefeated 1965, 1985, and 1986. They
were division ve regional nalists in the 1986 season and
state runner up in the 1987 season. Former Miami Dolphins Wide Receiver O.J. McDue led the team to the
state runner up that year and then continued his career
at Penn State. Hawken also has the only turf baseball
eld in Northeast Ohio. In the 2009 season, Hawken nished 8-2 and defeated Independence in the rst round
of the playos. They nished 9-3 and had multiple all
district players and John Wilson was voted to the all-state
team. Jeremy Simmons was voted All-State in 2011. The
womens soccer team had its best nish in school history
in 2013, making it to State Championship for the rst
time. They were named CVC, district, regional champions, and State Finalists in the 2013 season. In February
2015, the Girls Varsity Swim Team won its 17th strait
state title and 25 overall. It was the rst state title under head coach Jim Bocci. In the spring of 2015 the
Boys Lacrosse team had one of their best runs in team
history making it all the way to the state nal four, beating arch rival University School to get to that point. In
2014 the school inducted its rst class of athletic hall of
famers, this group included former NFL player O.J. McDue, Olympic gold medal swimmer Melanie Valerio,
Hawken legend, and two time NCAA national champion
at Penn State Eric Hamilton, multiple time state champion and state record holding swimmer, Alyssa Kiel, legendary swim coach Jerry Holtrey who led the Hawks to 26

Boys Soccer 2000

Boys Lacrosse - 2002 (Not OHSAA sponsored)

2.3 Performing arts

The Upper School has an orchestra, a concert band, a theatrical group called the Hawken Players Society and a
Jazz Combo. The Lower and Middle Schools also run
string, band, and jazz band classes.

3 Accreditation and membership

Accredited, Independent Schools Association of the
Central States
Accredited, Ohio State Board of Education
Member, National Association for College Admission Counseling
Member, National Association of Independent
Schools
Member, Ohio Association for College Admission
Counseling
Member, College Board

4 Notable alumni
G. Armour Craig, American academic and president
of Amherst College

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William Bayer, 1953, Edgar Award-winning crime
ction writer

[7] NAQT-only Top 25 Rankings. 2012. Retrieved March

31, 2012.

William Daro, 1986, Jewish community leader

[8] Post-Nationals Rankings. 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2012.

A. Marc Gillinov, renowned heart surgeon at

Cleveland Clinic, Judith Dion Pyle Chair in Heart
Valve Research at Cleveland Clinic[11]

[9] Executive Board Pre-File Application. OhioJCL.org June 2007. Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. 2010.
Archived from the original on June 17, 2007. Retrieved
August 16, 2010.

Richard J. Green, 1983, American chemist known

for his work against Holocaust denial
Peter Harrold, 2002, professional ice hockey player
in the National Hockey League

[10] OJCL Constitution. OhioJCL.org - July 2002. Internet

Archive: Wayback Machine. 2010. Archived from the
original on July 21, 2002. Retrieved August 16, 2010. ...
by paying both OJCL annual chapter dues and any annual
chapter membership dues required by NJCL.

Tim Hayes, screenwriter

[11] A. Marc Gillinov

Scott Healy, 1978, keyboardist for The Max Weinberg 7

Arthur Laer, 1955, economist
O.J. McDue, 1988, professional football player in
the National Football League
Alan B. McElroy, screenwriter
Nick Minchin, 1971, Australian Senator and
Minister for Finance and Administration
Molly Shannon, 1983, actress
Melanie Valerio, 1987, 1996 Olympic gold medalist
in swimming
Evan Wright, 1983, writer for Rolling Stone and
Vanity Fair
Steven M. Dettelbach, 1984, United States Attorney
for the Northern District of Ohio.

References

[1] Hawken School. Meet the Head of School. Hawken

School. Accessed January 20, 2012. https://www.
hawken.edu/headofschool.
[2] OHSAA. Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
[3] NCA-CASI. NCA-Council on Accreditation and School
Improvement. Archived from the original on 2010-0620. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
[4] Hawken School. History. Hawken School. Accessed
November 25, 2012. http://www.hawken.edu/history?
rc=0.
[5] Chapel Grappel. Chapel Grapple.
Cleveland. 2011. Speech.

Hawken School,

[6] Hawken School. Announcing Hurwitz Hall. Hawken

School. Accessed May 10, 2013. https://www.hawken.
edu/LYproject.

Ellis, William Donohue; Nancy A. Schneider

(1990). The Hawken Book (1st ed.). Cleveland:
Cobham & Hatherton. ISBN 0-944125-13-1.

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