Detroit Country Day School
Address
22305 West Thirteen Mile Road Beverly Hills, Michigan, 48025  United States
Information
Founder	F. Alden Shaw
Headmaster	Glen Shilling
School type	Private
Endowment	$9 million[citation needed]
Grades	PreK 4-12
Motto	Mens Sana in Corpore Sano
Mascot	Yellow Jacket
Color(s)	Blue and gold
Newspaper	The Day Times
Established	1914
Homepage	http://www.dcds.edu

Detroit Country Day School (also known as DCDS, DCD, or Country Day) is a private, secular school located in Beverly Hills, Michigan, northwest of Detroit. DCDS was founded in Detroit in 1914, inspired by the Country Day School movement. In addition to the Beverly Hills main campus, which includes the Middle and Upper School, the school consists of campuses for the Lower and Junior schools, both located in nearby Bloomfield Hills. Mr. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... This article is about the colour. ... GOLD refers to one of the following: GOLD (IEEE) is an IEEE program designed to garner more student members at the university level (Graduates of the Last Decade). ... Beverly Hills is a village located in Oakland County, Michigan, United States. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The Country Day School movement is a movement in progressive education which originated in the United States in the late 19th century. ... Bloomfield Hills is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan. ...

The school's motto is 'Mens Sana in Corpore Sano' or 'Sound Mind in a Sound Body'. DCDS is considered one of the top college preparatory schools in the Midwest, maintaining a tradition of both athletic and academic excellence^{[citation needed]}.

Academics

In addition to a series of honors and Advanced Placement courses, students at Detroit Country Day may pursue an International Baccalaureate Diploma. Most graduating classes consist of 140 to 180 students. 100% of DCDS graduates are accepted at accredited four-year colleges and universities.^[1] DCDS holds the highest percentage of National Merit Scholar semifinalists and finalists in Michigan.^[2] Advanced Placement (AP) is the term used to describe high school classes that are taught at a college level. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into International Baccalaureate Organization. ... The PSAT/NMSQT, or Preliminary-SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, is a multiple choice standardized test generally taken by high school juniors, sophomores, and freshmen in the United States. ...

Athletics

Unlike most public and many private schools, extracurricular activities are required at DCDS. Under the "points system," these requirements are tracked by the accumulation of blue points (athletics), gold points (clubs) and white points (service).^[3] All students must play two competitive sports (one point may come from strength training, varsity debate, science fair, robotics, drama, or extracurricular activities deemed appropriate), join one club, and perform ten hours of volunteer work per year. Students attending DCDS on scholarship may face more stringent requirements depending on the terms of the scholarship.

Detroit Country Day School participates in Class B Michigan High School Athletic Association athletics, frequently sending teams to regional and state finals in soccer, basketball and tennis. Additionally, the school fields teams in many other sports, notably football, golf, lacrosse, field and ice hockey, baseball, softball, volleyball, skiing, bowling, mountain biking and track and field. Intramural teams include ultimate frisbee and snowboarding. In total, DCDS offers more than 30 athletic programs. The DCDS mascot is the Yellow Jacket. The Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) sanctions the vast majority of high school athletic competition in Michigan and is headquartered in East Lansing. ...

While at Country Day, basketball players Chris Webber and Shane Battier each won the Naismith Prep Player of the Year Award, making Country Day the nation's only school to have multiple Naismith award winners. Webber and Battier are also the only Naismith winners from the state of Michigan. For the Canadian-born former BBL basketball player, see Chris Webber (Canadian basketball player). ... Shane Courtney Battier (born September 9, 1978 in Birmingham, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player with the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association and the U.S. national team. ... The Naismith Prep Player of the Year award, named for Canadian basketball inventor James Naismith, is given annually by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to high school basketballs top male and female player. ...

In March 2004, the Michigan High School Athletic Association recommended that DCDS voluntarily forfeit three state basketball championships won between 1989 and 1991, claiming that former DCDS star Chris Webber had violated his amateur status via his relationship with University of Michigan athletic booster Ed Martin. DCDS declined to follow the MHSAA's suggestion.^[4] The Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) sanctions the vast majority of high school athletic competition in Michigan and is headquartered in East Lansing. ... For the Canadian-born former BBL basketball player, see Chris Webber (Canadian basketball player). ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM, U-M or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ... Peter Edmund (Ed) Martin (born Wallaceburg, Ontario 1888, died Detroit, Michigan, 1944) was a leading early production executive of the Ford Motor Company. ...

Arts

Detroit Country Day School offers an active fine and performing arts program, celebrated every April through "Celebrate the Arts" weekend at the Upper School campus.^[5] Visual arts are part of the student experience at the Lower and Junior Schools, becoming formal academic curriculum at the Middle and Upper Schools. Similarly, general music and keyboard is part of the student experience at the Lower School, but not formal curriculum. Band, orchestra and choir classes begin at the Junior School level, where they are taken as electives during or after school hours. At both the Middle and Upper Schools, multi level performing classes for band, orchestra and choir meet during school hours. These Upper School classes compete at MSVMA and MSBOA festivals. Bella Voce, a 20 voice mixed ensemble auditioned from the Upper School's Concert Choir, performed in Austria and Germany in 2001 as well as Italy in 2006.

The Seligman Family Performing Arts Center, which opened in 2000, houses state-of-the-art digital sound, lighting and projection equipment, allowing for the production of all forms of performing art, including films and lectures. However, due to building height restrictions in the Village of Beverly Hills, the PAC lacks a fly system. The PAC has housed Off Broadway shows such as "The Stoop on Orchard Street" and is the home venue for the Detroit Chamber Music Society. The PAC is frequently used for school assemblies and three major school productions, typically two dramas and one musical per year. Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...

History

The Detroit Preparatory School was founded in 1914 by F. Alden Shaw, based on an educational philosophy espoused at the Country School for Boys in Baltimore, MD. The original school opened with four pupils, was briefly taught out of Mr. Shaw's mother's dining room, and stressed both academics and athletics. By 1923, the school had acquired a new name - Detroit Country Day School - and moved to a new campus on Seven Mile Road in the upscale neighborhood of Palmer Park.

During the immediate pre-war era and World War II, DCDS took on some aspects of a military academy. The school brought in Army instructors to teach physical education, and students were encouraged to enlist upon graduation. The school reverted to a civilian footing with the end of the war.

The period 1950-1980 marked a large expansion in DCDS' student body and facilities. By the mid-1950s, the school had outgrown its Palmer Park campus, and the school's directors designed plans to expand into the northern suburbs. In 1957, the school moved into a considerably larger new campus on Thirteen Mile Road in the suburb of Beverly Hills. Shortly thereafter, further growth necessitated the split of the school into three (later four) campuses: the Lower School at Fifteen Mile and Lahser, and the Middle and Upper Schools at the 13 Mile campus. In 1986, DCDS added a fourth (Junior School) campus, and the Middle School moved into its own building behind the Upper School in 1991.

Until 1940, DCDS was strictly a boys' school. Girls were first admitted to Grades K-6 in 1940, but were not allowed admission to the Upper School until 1972.

With the completion of the World Campus capital campaign in 2000, the 13 Mile Campus underwent a comprehensive program of expansion and upgrading. Improvements included a larger, renovated library, a new computer laboratory, two new wings of classrooms, a renovated Common Room, and a new Performing Arts Center (previously, morning assemblies were held in the gym and dramatic productions staged in the cafeteria). Other upgrades included new landscaping, restoration of the River Rouge watershed that borders the campus, and improved student and faculty parking. Additionally, the building was completely wired for Ethernet and partially for Wi-Fi connectivity in preparation for the pioneering "Knowledge Technologies" student computing program, which kicked off in the 1999-2000 school year. DCDS was one of the first K-12 schools in the nation to require every Middle School and Upper School student to own a laptop PC, and remains at the forefront of technological integration in the classroom. The Rouge River, sometimes incorrectly called the River Rouge, is a river in the Metro Detroit area of southeastern Michigan. ... Ethernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs). ... Official Wi-Fi logo Wi-Fi (pronounced wye-fye, IPA: ) is a wireless technology brand owned by the Wi-Fi Alliance intended to improve the interoperability of wireless local area network products based on the IEEE 802. ...

Former Assistant Headmaster, Glen Shilling became the school's new Headmaster in July, 2007. Former Headmaster Gerald Hansen retired from the Headmaster position to take over as President of the Country Day Fund, where he now concentrates on fund raising for Country Day. Shilling is the school's fifth Headmaster in its 93 year history.^[6]

Notable Alumni

Notable alumni include^[7]:

• Steve Ballmer - Microsoft CEO
• Shane Battier - Basketball player
• Clarence Black - WDFN personality; appeared on Survivor Africa; currently assistant basketball coach
• Javin Hunter - Football player
• Paul Kalas - Astronomer
• Kate Markgraf - Soccer player (née Sobrero)
• Pooneh Mohajer - Creator of Hard Candy (cosmetics) and owner of tokidoki (née Arnold)
• Schoolboy Rowe - Baseball player
• Courtney B. Vance - Actor
• Chris Webber - Basketball player
• Robin Williams - Actor. Williams left DCDS prior to graduation

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External links

• Detroit Country Day School official site

References