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Foxcroft History

(Shown Above) Frankel Creative, Inc.'s Foxcroft School Faces and Places Campaign

Foxcroft School: Collected Stories

1930 Library of Congress Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston | Foxcroft School documented in the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South
https://www.loc.gov/item/csas200905127/
1931 Fortune Classic | Girl's Schools
https://fortune.com/2011/10/02/girls-schools-fortune-classic-1931/
1949 Library of Congress Photograph by Toni Frissill | Miss Charlotte Haxall Noland, Founder of Foxcroft School Middleburg VA
https://www.loc.gov/item/2009632163/
Thomas Balch Library | Photograph of Foxcroft School from the Audrey Windson Berger Research Collection
https://m.facebook.com/ThomasBalchLibrary/photos/a.186276258083510.54213.111467065564430/732766950101102/?type=3
2002 Haunted Places: The National Directory | Middleburg's Foxcroft School
https://books.google.com/books?id=kAK1p91zJEwC&lpg=PA432&dq=foxcroft%20school%20brick%20house&pg=PA432#v=onepage&q=foxcroft%20school%20brick%20house&f=false
2012 Foxcroft's 98th Commencement Ceremony | Lisa Kudrow Urges Foxcroft School Graduates to "Decide Who You Are"
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9548957.htm
2013 Foxcroft Wintermission | Forgotten Footprints
https://wintermission.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/the-forgotten-footprints-of-foxcroft-monday/
2014 The Gracious Posse | Educator in Residence ~ Cathy McGehee, Head of Foxcroft School
​http://thegraciousposse.com/2014/11/educator-in-residence-cathy-mcgehee-head-of-foxcroft-school/​
2014 Fox News  |  Westport Heiress Leaves $40 to VA Boarding School
http://fox61.com/2014/10/28/westport-heiress-leaves-40-million-to-va-boarding-school/
2017 National Sporting Library - Miss Charlotte's Sporting School
https://nslmblog.wordpress.com/tag/charlotte-noland/
Virginia History: Raspberry Plain Manor and connecting families | Foxcroft Built by John Kile in 1820
https://www.raspberryplainmanor.com/history/
Legends of Loudoun: An Account of the History and Homes | Foxcroft
https://books.google.com/books?id=jyEEGPIE6P4C&pg=PT196&lpg=PT196&dq=john+kile+foxcroft&source=bl&ots=HI0cGDkaSx&sig=IR1c6_NR_JqzbzhoCtGO4XJLz5Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_h5vmlrfWAhXGx4MKHYqXDMwQ6AEIMDAC#v=onepage&q=john%20kile%20foxcroft&f=false
Loudoun Times-Mirror | Foxcroft announces inaugural Hall of Fame
http://www.loudountimes.com/sports/article/foxcroft_announces_inaugural_hall_of_fame_class835
2017 Middleburg Eccentric | .Middleburg Women - Sincerely Me (Miss Charlotte)
https://middleburgeccentric.com/2017/11/middleburg-women-sincerely/

Timeline: A Brief History of Foxcroft

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  • 1883:  Charlotte Haxall Noland is born at Burrland, in Fauquier County, Virginia.
  • 1904:Noland decides on the name Foxcroft during a summer at England's Oxford University in England.
  • 1914: In October, Foxcroft opens its doors to 24 students. Noland becomes known as Miss Charlotte.
  • 1914:  Miss Charlotte holds the first Fox/Hound basketball game in November, beginning the School’s oldest and most beloved tradition.
  • 1918:  Miss Charlotte becomes sole owner of Foxcroft by buying out co-owner Major Hartley.
  • 1930:  Covert is purchased as Miss Charlotte’s home. It burned in 1933 and was rebuilt the next year.
  • 1933:  Miss Charlotte receives a gift of 80 cherry trees from the School for Christmas.
  • 1936:  The first Foxcroft scholarship fund is established.
  • 1936:  Court, the first of the modern dormitories, is completed.
  • 1937:  Miss Charlotte gives Foxcroft to its alumnae.
  • Miss Charlotte institutes military drill.
  • 1947:  Applegate and Dillon Dormitories are completed.
  • General George Marshall and General Cummings review the Foxcroft Corps at Commencement.
  • 1952:  Schoolhouse is dedicated, completing the work of the Building and Endowment Fund.
  • Van Santvoord Merle-Smith becomes the second Head of Foxcroft.
  • 1956:  Foxcroft holds a science conference.
  • Miss Charlotte receives an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Columbia University, recognizing her as one of the foremost educators in the world.
  • The “new” Orchard Dormitory is completed, replacing “Old Orchard.”
  • Bertha Adkins becomes the third Head of School, bringing a renewed commitment to the academic life.
  • 1966:  The Engelhard Activities Building is completed.
  • Alexander Uhle succeeds Adkins as the fourth Head of School.
  • 1968:  The McConnell Stable and Riding Hall is completed.
  • Audrey Bruce Currier Library is dedicated.
  • Coit Johnson becomes the fifth Head of School.
  • Foxcroft is the first girls’ school to receive a Kenan Grant for faculty professional development.
  • 1979:  Richard Wheeler becomes the sixth Head of School.
  • McClain Jeffrey Moredock becomes the seventh Head. He is followed, briefly, by Dr. Geraldine Pearson in 1988.
  • Foxcroft celebrates its 75th anniversary.
  • Mary Louise Leipheimer becomes Foxcroft’s ninth Head of School.
  • 1991:  Poet Maya Angelou electrifies her audience as Goodyear Speaker.
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, gives her Goodyear address to a standing-room-only crowd in the Engelhard Gymnasium.
  • 2003:  Interim Term trip goes to Antarctica.
  • The first building of the 2003 Campus Master Plan is completed: A maintenance building called “Sally’s Service Center.”
  • 2009:  Goodyear Fellow James Baker, III, speak to a capacity crowd in Engelhard.
  • The $14 million Athletic/Student Center, a significant renovation and expansion of the Engelhard Activities Center, is dedicated.
  • 2010:  The first Think Pink basketball tournament to benefit the Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Foundation is held.
  • Foxcroft becomes the first school in Virginia to partner with Purdue University’ EPICS engineering program.
  • 2012:  Actress Lisa Kudrow speaks at Commencement.
  • Foxcroft’s first LEED-certified building, Stuart Hall, opens its doors to 50+ students and three faculty families.
  • 2013:  Foxcroft kicks off its Centennial Celebration with a worldwide Day of Service and hosts the Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Walk, Run & Pooch Prance for the first time.
  • Foxcroft celebrates its Centennial with a weekend full of activities.
  • 2014:  Catherine Smylie McGehee is installed as the 10th Head of Foxcroft School in a September garden ceremony.
  • Ruth Bedford ’32 leaves Foxcroft more than $40 million, the largest gift ever bestowed to a girls’ school.
  • Ellen Stofan, Chief Scientist of NASA, speaks with students.
  • Dorm Renovation Project is completed with upgrades to Applegate, Dillon, Orchard, and Reynolds.
  • 2016:  Court is rededicated as a welcome center.
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