Talk:Princeton Day School

Sports
Upper School Boys football was removed as stated, but the middle school boys football team still exists. M0N57R0517Y (talk) 18:18, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Article Cleanup
This article needs to be cleaned up. The traditions section could easily be compressed into a single or double paragraph section, trivia is discouraged in wiki articles, etc.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by GuidedByPavement (talk • contribs) 00:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I graduated from PDS in 1971. Here are three corrections/clarifications: 1. Jackets and ties were still required for boys in 1971. 2. There was always an honor code and an honor pledge. On the bottom of every test and homework paper, we were required to write and sign this statement: "I pledge my honor I have neither received nor given help on this paper." 3. Mrs. Shepherd and the Social Service club did organize the annual wreath-making. The finished wreaths were put on sale to the parents, etc. to raise money. I don't remember whether the money was given to charity or to the school.VeryPicky (talk) 17:35, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Alumni

 * See Alumnus for the definition showing that it means "former student", not "graduate". Alansohn 21:44, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty certain that Kara Swisher is a PDS alumnus, probably early 1980s sometime. jeremyleader (talk) 23:30, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Julie Roginsky? She graduated the school in the 90's, I'll look up when tomorrow morning, and is a consultant at Fox News. I feel like if she would fit here she would already be here, but I figured I'd throw her name out there. Sorry, I'm new to Wikipedia editing. M0N57R0517Y (talk) 01:27, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Clubs
I love the tradition & history edits. Very amusing. 1/23/06

Patrick Kerney is in the Athletic Hall of Fame of Princeton Day School - isn't that enough criteria for an alum? Also Chris Conley, lead singer of Saves the Day did go to Princeton Day School but I'm not sure how to document it - I have the yearbook from the year he graduated it and I have his graduation speech but I'm not sure how to present this evidence. (I'm a student at Princeton Day School) --User:LaxPlayer21 8 March 2006

Patrick Kerney is not an alumnus of the school, he graduated from the Taft School in New England-thats where he played his high school football. Kerney attended Princeton Day for a while but is not a alum. --User:Wangster 3 March 2006

An alumnus is a person, especially a boy or man, who has attended or is a graduate of an educational institution. --GuidedByPavement 19:35, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I made this revert due to lack of sources for the added alums. Normally, I would wait for citations, but given the quality of recent edits by the same anon ip, I want to see to proof of any claims upfront. I have found some Google associations of the names with the school, but no proof they are students. --Rob 00:55, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

He is indeed an alum, even if he did not graduate. See above section. --Dool325 01:06, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 00:58, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

school shooting?
the wikipedia page for School Shootings lists a shooting here in 1975 in which there was one wounded. Any particular reason that this tidbit isn't mentioned in the school article? Canine virtuoso (talk) 00:33, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

I think this took place the year before I entered PDS as a freshman (so it would have been during the 1974-1975 school year), here's what I remember hearing. An upper-school French teacher felt he was being mistreated or passed over by the school. I heard that he was part black, and felt that his race was a factor in his perceived mistreatment. He went to the office of the headmaster, Mr. McClure (for a meeting?), where he threatened Mr. McClure with a pistol and a knife, and shot Mr. McClure in the arm. Mr. McClure recovered, and continued as PDS headmaster for many years; I don't know what happened to the teacher (he didn't return to PDS).

I could only find one reference on the web, on page 3 of the |October 1991 issue of "The Spokesman" (the school newspaper) in a box on page 3: "Did You Know? ...that Mr. Doug McClure, PDS's first head-master, was shot in his office by an enraged faculty member, and that Mr. Sandy Bing, who came to his aid, was stabbed with the perpetrator's dirty dagger?" This mostly matches my recollection of the story I'd heard. Sanford Bing was the head of the upper school. I'd never heard the knife described as a "dirty dagger" before; I'd had the impression it was a switchblade. jeremyleader (talk) 18:20, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

I was at PDS at the time as well, a classmate of Doug Jr., and remember the following about the shooting. The teacher was named Francois Rieux, and as I recall he was African by origin, not Haitian or French. He advanced upon Headmaster McClure at a little after 4:00 on a late-week afternoon, a Thursday or the like, and I remember hearing that Mr. McClure had heroically striven (successfully) to shield his secretary from Rieux's attack. After Rieux fled, Mr. McClure--mindful that students might still be in the building library or athletic fields, and wanting to spare them a traumatic memory--covered his bullet wound with a blazer as he left his office to go to the hospital. -Keith Sabin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbsabin (talk • contribs) 01:29, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

I can tell you a little bit about this - I'm Mr. McClure's son. The teacher in question was a french teacher, and indeed he was black. He was had a very volatile personality, and had actually physically reprimanded some students for not doing homework, etc. After a number of complaints, my father decided to terminate his contract. The teacher was furious, and threatened my family - for the week before the shooting, my brother and I were not allowed to leave the house (we lived at Pretty Brook Farm, on school property) without my mother knowing where we were going (we had a lot more freedom back in those days), and the doors of the house were locked, which never happened before. The shooting occurred after school. The teacher came into my father's office and pushed the sofa in front of the door (there was a second door to the office, which he didn't notice. He pulled out the gun and started yelling at my father, but my father was convinced the gun was filled with blanks - he was more concerned about the knife in the teacher's belt.  The teacher proceeded to fire six shots (it was a revolver) at my father, but being a poor marksman, only one shot actually hit Dad - in the arm. The others went in the ceiling, the floor, the bookshelf behind my father's desk... At this point my father made his way out the second door to the office.  The teacher moved the sofa, and fled, holding his knife. As he passed Mr. Bing he cut Mr. Bing's arm. My father didn't notice he's been hit until somebody pointed out his arm was bloody.  The teacher was later arrested, but fled to France after he made bail. McCArch