Methodist
Meeting House erected Wilbraham, Massachusetts |
1793 |
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Wesleyan
Academy Catalogue 1837
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1797 |
President
John Adams inaugurated |
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1801 |
President
Thomas Jefferson inaugurated |
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1803 |
Louisiana
Purchase |
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1804 |
Academy
at Newmarket 1817
(Rich Hall Mural) |
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1806 |
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Rev.
Levi Collins - Monson Academy Headmaster 1807 -1813 |
1807 |
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1809 |
President
James Madison inaugurated |
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1812 |
War
of 1812 begins |
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Wesleyan
Academy opens at Newmarket, New Hampshire, as a coeducational
institution |
1817 |
President
James Monroe inaugurated |
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Wesleyan
Academy Postcard |
Wesleyan
Academy incorporated by New Hampshire |
1818 |
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Monson
Academy erects its first dormitory |
1819 |
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Moses
White - Wesleyan Academy Headmaster 1820 -1825 |
1820 |
Missouri
Compromise |
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Rev.
Simeon Colton - Monson Academy Headmaster 1821 -1830 (2nd
administration) |
1821 |
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Wesleyan
Academy decides to relocate |
1823 |
Monroe
Doctrine |
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Wesleyan
Academy - Old Academy undated photo
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Wesleyan
Academy moves to Wilbraham and incorporated
by MA
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1824 |
Wesleyan
Academy Student 1887 |
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1825 |
Erie
Canal completed
President John Quincy Adams inaugurated |
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Warriner
Tavern purchased by Wesleyan Academy for dorm
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1826 |
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Wesleyan
Academy erects Headmaster’s house on Main Street |
1828 |
Noah
Webster compiles the first dictionary |
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1829 |
President
Andrew Jackson inaugurated |
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Rev. David Patten, D.D. - Wesleyan Academy Headmaster
1834 -1841 |
1834 |
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1837 |
President
Martin Van Buren inaugurated |
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Wednesday Evening Socials
Inaugurated by Wilbur Fisk During His Administration
(Rich Hall Mural) |
Girls'
dorm erected opposite head’s house at Wesleyan Academy |
1838 |
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Rev.
Charles Hammond - Monson Academy Headmaster 1839 -1841
Stage run from North Wilbraham train station to center
of town |
1839 |
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Wesleyan
Academy -
Chapel 1890 photo |
1841 |
President
William Henry Harrison inaugurated |
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1844 |
First
telegraph put to use - Samuel F.B. Morse sent the first
message "What hath God Wrought?" |
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Rev.
Charles Hammond - Monson Academy Headmaster 1845-1853
(2nd administration) |
1845 |
President
James Polk inaugurated |
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Monson
Academy first in U.S. to enroll Chinese students |
1847 |
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Rev. Miner Raymond D.D. - Wesleyan Academy Headmaster
1848 -1864 |
1848 |
California
Gold Rush begins
Mexican-American War Ends |
Wesleyan
Academy - Old Academy, Fisk, Binney 1890 photo |
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1849 |
President
Zachary Taylor inaugurated |
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Fisk
Hall erected at Wesleyan Academy |
1850 |
President
Millard Fillmore inaugurated
Compromise of 1850 |
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Girls'
dorm added to Warriner Tavern at Wesleyan Academy |
1853 |
President
Franklin Pierce inaugurated |
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1854 |
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Wesleyan
Academy - Main Street looking South
at head's House and Rich Hall 1890 photo |
Original
head’s house moved onto Faculty Street at Wesleyan
Academy |
1855 |
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Warriner
Tavern at Wesleyan Academy burns
New head’s house erected on Main Street at Wesleyan
Academy
Methodist stone church begun (now Alumni Memorial Chapel) |
1856 |
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1857 |
President
James Buchanan inaugurated
Dred Scott decision |
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1859 |
Harpers
Ferry raid by John Brown |
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Rich
Hall completed at Wesleyan Academy
Monson Academy temporarily closed due to Civil War |
1861 |
President
Abraham Lincoln inaugurated
Outbreak of U.S. Civil War |
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Monson
Academy reopens with enlarged building
Rev.
Charles Hammond - Monson Academy Headmaster 1863 -1878
(3rd administration) |
1863 |
Emancipation
Proclamation |
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North
Wilbraham Train Station undated |
Rev. Edward Cooke D.D. - Wesleyan Academy Headmaster 1864
-1874 |
1864 |
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Wesleyan
Academy Postcard |
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1865 |
President
Lincoln assassinated
President Andrew Johnson inaugurated |
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1869 |
First
transcontinental railroad
President
Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated |
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Memorial Chapel Completed |
1870 |
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Tower for Alumni Memorial Chapel Completed |
1872 |
Monson
Academy - Cushman Hall during Centennial |
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Rev.
Nathaniel Fellows A.M. - Wesleyan Academy Headmaster
1874 -1879 |
1874 |
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Wesleyan
Faculty |
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1877 |
President
Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated |
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1879 |
Incandescent
light bulb invented by Edison |
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First
Wilbraham telephone line from North Wilbraham to Wesleyan
Academy |
1880 |
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1881 |
President
James Garfield inaugurated
President
Chester Arthur inaugurated |
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1885 |
President
Grover Cleveland inaugurated |
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Wesleyan
Women's Basketball Team 1893 photo |
Dana
Marsh Dustan -
Monson Academy Headmaster 1887- 1893 |
1887 |
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Dr.
Hammond’s house purchased by Monson Academy and
renamed Hammond Hall |
1888 |
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1889 |
President
Benjamin Harrison inaugurated |
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Rev.
William R. Newhall, D.D. - Wesleyan Academy Headmaster
1892 -1908 |
1892 |
Free
Public Library established |
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Arthur
N. Burke - Monson Academy Headmaster 1887- 1893 |
1893 |
President
Grover Cleveland inaugurated |
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Smith
Memorial Gymnasium Built at Wesleyan Academy |
1896 |
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Wilbraham
Academy - Smith Hall 1922 photo
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1897 |
President
William McKinley inaugurated |
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1898 |
Spanish-American
War begins |
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Monson
Academy - Academy Hall 1909 photo |
James
F. Butterworth - Monson Academy Headmaster 1899- 1909 |
1899 |
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Holmes
Gymnasium erected at Monson Academy |
1900 |
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1901 |
President
Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated |
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Monson
Academy - Hammond Hall 1909 photo |
Cushman
Hall erected at Monson Academy
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1903 |
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100th
Anniversary of Monson Academy
Electricity
comes to Wilbraham |
1904 |
Monson
Academy Baseball Team
circa 1909-1916 |
1908 |
Model
“T” introduced by Henry Ford |
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Henry
F. Dewing - Monson Academy Headmaster 1909 - 1916
Town of Wilbraham gets its
first street lights |
1909 |
President
William H. Taft inaugurated
NAACP Founded |
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Wilbraham
Academy - Fisk Hall Tennis Court 1919 photo |
Wesleyan
Academy closes for
one year to reorganize
Gaylord W. Douglas -
Wilbraham Academy Headmaster 1911 - 1929
Cushman Field developed at Monson Academy |
1911 |
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Wesleyan
Academy opens as Wilbraham Academy – all-male college
prep school |
1912 |
Titanic
Tragedy |
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1913 |
1913
President Woodrow Wilson inaugurated |
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Fisk Hall Classroom
1919 photo |
1914 |
World
War 1 1914 - 1918
1914 Panama Canal opens |
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1915 |
1915
Luisitania sunk off Irish coast |
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1920 |
19th
Amendment is passed and women can vote
League of Nations |
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1921 |
President
Warren Harding inaugurated |
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Monson
Academy closes for three years |
1923 |
President
Calvin Coolidge inaugurated |
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100th
Anniversary of Old Academy at Wilbraham Academy |
1925 |
Scopes
"Monkey" Trial |
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Wesleyan
Academy - Rich Hall Entrance 1923 photo |
Monson
Academy reopens as all male college prep school
Bertram Strohmeier - Monson Academy Headmaster 1926 -
1935
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1926 |
Monson Academy - Flynt
Park 1910 photo |
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1927 |
First
sound film produced
Lindberg's first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
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Ralph
E. Peck -
Wilbraham Academy Headmaster 1929 - 1935
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1929 |
President
Herbert Hoover inaugurated
Stock
Market Crash, the beginning of the Great Depression |
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Wilbraham
Academy - Old Academy 1939 photo
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1933 |
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt inaugurated and launches his New
Deal |
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George E. Rogers - Monson Academy Headmaster 1935 - 1966
Charles L. Stevens -
Wilbraham Academy Headmaster 1935 - 1955
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1935 |
Monson
Academy Bell
and Senior Stones 2003 photo |
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Holmstead
deeded to Monson Academy |
1937 |
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Hurricane
devastates both Wilbraham and Monson campuses
Holmes Gym at Monson Academy enlarged |
1938 |
Wilbraham
Academy Sundial
Presented October 12, 1940 |
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1939 |
World
War II 1939 - 1945 |
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Wilbraham
Campus 1943 photo |
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1944 |
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1945 |
President
Harry Truman inaugurated |
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Wilbraham
Academy - Detail of Senior Stones |
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1947 |
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1948 |
Cold
War begins |
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1950 |
Korean
War 1950-1953 |
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Academy
Hall at Monson Academy burned |
1953 |
President
Dwight Eisenhower inaugurated |
New
Academy Hall at Monson Academy built
Wilbraham Academy and Monson Academy founding schools
of WNEPSSA |
1954 |
Brown v Board of Education
Monson
Academy - Flynt House 1969 photo |
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W. Gray Mattern -
Wilbraham Academy Headmaster 1955 - 1971 |
1955 |
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Flynt
House purchased by Monson Academy |
1958 |
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Smith
Gymnasium converted to a dormitory
Greenhalgh Gymnasium Completed
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1959 |
Monson
Academy Class Ring 1959 photo |
Monson
Academy
Class of 1964 Class Officers
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1963 |
President
Lyndon Johnson inaugurated
Betty
Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique |
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1965 |
Medicare
created
Voting Rights Act |
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Arthur
F. Tuttle - Monson Academy Headmaster 1966 - 1971 |
1966 |
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Wilbraham
Academy
Class of 1968 laying Senior Stones |
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1967 |
First
Heart Transplant |
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1968 |
Martin
Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy are murdered |
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1969 |
President
Richard Nixon inaugurated
US Defense Department creates ARPANET, precursor to the
internet |
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Wilbraham
& Monson Academy - Old Academy
2003 photo |
Girls
admitted to Wilbraham Academy Trustees of Monson Academy
and Wilbraham Academy vote to merge |
1970 |
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Wilbraham
& Monson Academy returns to co-education
Arthur
F. Tuttle - Wilbraham & Monson Academy Headmaster
1971 - 1973
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1971 |
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First
Wilbraham & Monson Academy graduating class in June
Mattern Science Center Completed
Athletic
Championships |
1972 |
Wilbraham
& Monson Academy - Graduation,
Crossing the Senior Bridge, 1973 |
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1973 |
Roe
v Wade |
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1974 |
President
Gerald Ford inaugurated |
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Wallace
Blake Dormitory Completed |
1976 |
United
States Bicentennial |
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1977 |
President
Jimmy Carter inaugurated |
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Wilbraham
& Monson Academy
Coachmen |
The
Academy Historic District named to the National Register
of Historic Places |
1979 |
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1980 |
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1981 |
President
Ronald Reagan inaugurated
IBM
introduces first personal computer
MTV debuts
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Wilbraham
& Monson Academy -
Varsity Football 2003 |
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1982 |
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1983 |
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1985 |
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1986 |
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1987 |
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1988 |
PLO
proclaimed state of Palestine |
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1989 |
President
George H.W. Bush inaugurated
The
Berlin Wall comes down |
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Wilbraham
& Monson Academy -
Binney Fine Arts Center 2003 photo |
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1991 |
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Founders
Hall In Fisk Hall renovated as a "Black Box"
theater |
1992 |
Academy
Repertory Company
USA Show 2002-2003 |
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1993 |
President
William Clinton inaugurated |
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1994 |
Nelson
Mandela becomes South Africa's first black President |
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Wilbraham & Monson Academy - Greenhalgh
Gymnasium and Field House 2003 photo |
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1995 |
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1996 |
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1997 |
Wilbraham
& Monson Academy - Chamberlin Hall -
Blake Middle School 2002 photo |
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Patio
outside Campus Center dedicated to Richard Levy,
Smith Dorm Head and Math Department Chair |
1998 |
English
Scientists clone sheep named Dolly |
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1999 |
Wilbraham
& Monson Academy - Mattern
Science Center 2003 photo |
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2000 |
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2001 |
President
George W. Bush inaugurated |
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Wilbraham
& Monson Academy - Old Academy
& Fisk Hall, March 2004 photo |
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2002 |
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2002 |
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