{"id":1629,"date":"2016-06-28T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T19:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2016-07-06T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:55:27","slug":"alumni-award-john-booth-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2016\/06\/28\/alumni-award-john-booth-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Award: John Booth &#8217;83"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1632\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2016\/06\/john-booth-83.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1632\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2016\/06\/john-booth-83-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Joanna Chattman\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2016\/06\/john-booth-83-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2016\/06\/john-booth-83-167x250.jpg 167w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2016\/06\/john-booth-83.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joanna Chattman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John Booth \u201983 received the Founders\u2019 Award during a Reunion award ceremony in the Phillips Stevens Chapel on May 14, 2016. Nate Gordon \u201916 presented the award.<\/p>\n<p>The Founders\u2019 Award, created by the merger of the Whitaker-Bement Award and the Samuel &amp; Emily Williston Award, honors the founders and principals of The Northampton School for Girls and Williston Academy. It is awarded annually to an alumnus or alumna whose loyalty, devotion and service to The Williston Northampton School has been outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Booth, a current trustee of the Williston Northampton School, was awarded the Class of 1941 Scholarship at graduation for outstanding service to the school and community. He was the head student representative on the Student\/Faculty Discipline Committee and played varsity soccer; ice hockey, where he was a two-time captain; lacrosse; and golf. His favorite memories of Williston include Ann Vanderburgh\u2019s Precalculus class and racing to ring the Victory Bell after hockey wins. After\u00a0graduation, he\u00a0earned a B.A. in history from Williams College in 1987 where he was a Herbert H. Lehman Scholar, and a Master\u2019s degree in American history from Fordham University in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Booth is the upper school academic dean at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brunswickschool.org\/\">Brunswick School<\/a> in Greenwich, CT, having joined the school in 1991. Before being academic dean, he\u00a0was chairman of the History\/Social Sciences Department from 2000-2013.\u00a0His first teaching assignment was in\u00a0Tokyo, Japan, where he worked for two years at the Overseas Training Corporation (OTC).<\/p>\n<p>Booth\u2019s local community efforts include serving on the Greenwich Town Board of Social Services from 2003-2006, including a year as chairman of the Board. He currently serves as a Justice of the Peace and is also a member of the Greenwich 9th District Veterans Association.<\/p>\n<p>He is married to Laura Booth and they have two children, Julia and Aimee.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, John!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Booth \u201983 received the Founders\u2019 Award during a Reunion award ceremony in the Phillips Stevens Chapel on May 14, 2016. Nate Gordon \u201916 presented the award. The Founders\u2019 Award, created by the merger of the Whitaker-Bement Award and the Samuel &amp; Emily Williston Award, honors the founders and principals of The Northampton School for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2016\/06\/28\/alumni-award-john-booth-83\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alumni Award: John Booth &#8217;83<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[291],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","tag-john-booth-83"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}