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Alcuin Alumni Search
As we prepare for Alcuin’s 45th anniversary, we want to locate past Alcuin families so that we can invite you to share in the celebration. Please let us know how to reach you, as well as the names of any other former Alcuin families you know. We appreciate any help and information you can offer. We will add this information to our database of alumni, and hope to expand the alumni program this year. Among our goals are a web page with information about graduate accomplishments and testimonials from past students and parents about what Alcuin has meant for them. Thank you for your assistance!
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Famous Montessorians:
| Anne Frank |
Author of The Diary of Anne Frank |
| Elizabeth Berridge |
Actress (Constanze in Amadeus) |
| Friedensreich Hundertwasser |
Austrian painter and architect |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Nobel Prize winner for literature |
| Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis |
Editor, former first lady (John F. Kennedy) |
| Jeffrey Bezos |
Founder of Amazon.com |
| Julia Child |
Famous chef, star of many TV cooking shows and author |
| Kami Cotler |
Actress (youngest child on long-running series The Waltons) |
| Katharine Graham |
Owner/editor of the Washington Post Newspaper |
| Larry Page and Sergey Brin |
Co-founders of GOOGLE.COM |
| Melissa and Sarah Gilbert |
Actors |
| Peter Drucker |
Management guru |
| Prince William and Prince Harry |
English royal family |
| Sean ‘Diddy ’ Combs |
Hip-hop impresario |
| T. Berry Brazelton |
Noted pediatrician and author |
The Montessori method—learning by doing— once again became my stock in trade... from Personal History by Katharine Graham
Famous people who chose Montessori schools for their own children:
| Bill and Hillary Clinton |
Former President and New York Senator |
| Cher Bono |
Singer and Actress |
| Dick Ebersol and Susan St. James |
Television executive and actress |
| Jennifer Granholm and Daniel Mulhern |
Governor of Michigan |
| John Bradshaw |
Psychologist and Author |
| Marcy Carcy |
TV producer |
| Michael Douglas |
Actor |
| Patty Duke Astin |
Actress |
| Shari Lewis |
Puppeteer |
| Stephen J. Cannell |
TV writer-producer-director (The Rockford Files and many others) |
| Yo Yo Ma |
Cellist |
| Yul Brynner |
Actor |
Others with a Montessori Connection: Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel, provided financial support directly to Dr. Montessori. They founded the Montessori Education Association in 1913. They also helped establish the first Montessori class in Canada and one of the first in the United States. Alice Waters, restaurateur and writer, is a former Montessori teacher. Bruno Bettelheim, noted psychologist/ author, was married to a Montessori teacher. Erik Erikson, noted anthropologist/author, had a Montessori teaching certificate. Jean Piaget, noted Swiss psychologist, made his first observations of children in a Montessori school. He was also head of the Swiss Montessori Society for many years. Mister Rogers, children’s TV personality, was a strong supporter of Montessori education. President Wilson’s daughter trained as a Montessori teacher. There was a Montessori classroom in the basement of the White House during Wilsons presidency. Thomas Edison, scientist and inventor, helped found a Montessori school.
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