# Wilbraham & Monson Academy

Wilbraham & Monson Academy (WMA) is a college-preparatory school located in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1804, it is a four-year boarding and day high school for students in grades 9-12 and postgraduate. A middle school, with grades 6–8, offers boarding for grade 8 students. The academy is located in the center of the town of Wilbraham, 75 miles (121 km) from Boston and 150 miles (240 km) from New York City.

## Athletics

In fall 2007, the Academy unveiled its $4 million expansion of the Greenhalgh Athletic Center on campus. The expansion included a fitness room, a multi-purpose dance and wrestling space, a large conference room and new central locker facilities.

## Notable alumni

* Henry Barnard (1811–1900), educator
* Alfred Ely Beach, inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer
* Rick Bennett, NHL ice hockey player and college coach
* Mary Ann Booth (1843–1922), microscopist
* Henry Billings Brown, associate justice of the US Supreme Court. Wrote majority opinion for Plessy v. Ferguson
* Tyrell Burgess, Bermudian professional soccer player with Vancouver Whitecaps FC
* Kraisak Choonhavan, member of Thailand Senate for Nakhon Ratchasima Province (2000–2006); former chairman of the Thai Senate's Foreign Relations Committee
* Russell H. Conwell, minister and founder of Temple University - 1859
* Winthrop Murray Crane (1853–1920), US Senator
* Emily Norcross Dickinson, mother of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson
* Kyle Filipowski, Duke University and NBA basketball player
* Richard Fuld, former CEO Lehman Brothers
* Wong Fun, first Western-trained doctor in China, graduated from University of Edinburgh - 1855
* Wenyen Gabriel (born 1997), South Sudanese-American basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Bill Guerin, retired NHL hockey player; general manager of Minnesota Wild; four-time Stanley Cup champion
* William Stewart Halstead, surgeon, studied at Monson Academy for a time
* Ratcliffe Hicks, Connecticut state legislator, industrialist, lawyer, and benefactor of the University of Connecticut
* Kim Hyun-jong, South Korean trade minister under Moon Jae-in and Roh Moo-hyun
* Galway Kinnell (1927–2014), poet
* Christine Ladd-Franklin, mathematician, logician and psychologist - 1865
* Oliver Marcy, served as acting President of Northwestern University twice, while also serving as a professor of natural history
* Patrick Mazeika (born 1993), baseball player
* Pat Phelan, professional soccer player for the New England Revolution
* Nitya Pibulsonggram, Thai Ambassador to the US (1996–2000), Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006–2008)
* Humphrey Pickard, Canadian first president of Mount Allison University
* Charles Pratt, oil tycoon and founder of the Pratt Institute
* William Rice (1821–1897), Methodist Episcopal minister, author, and librarian
* Joey Santiago (born 1965), band member of the Pixies
* Pote Sarasin, Prime Minister of Thailand (1957) secretary-general of SEATO (1958–1964)
* Lucy Stone, orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and women's rights advocate
* William Strong, lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
* Mark Warburton, gymnast
* Yung Wing, first Chinese graduate of an American university (Yale) - 1854