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No. 18 - Best Private K–12 Schools in America, Niche.com (2019–20)
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No. 23 - Top 25 Private High Schools in the Country, Town & Country (2016)
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No. 7 - The 50 Smartest High Schools in the U.S., Business Insider (2016)
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St. John's received media attention during the U.S. presidential campaign of 2000 as part of the
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press's reporting on the academic background of then-candidate George W. Bush when it was
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reported—and confirmed by Bush after he had consulted with his parents, former President George
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H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush—that he had applied to SJS as a child and had been rejected.
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Rushmore
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In 1998, Wes Anderson '87 directed the loosely autobiographical Rushmore, based on a screenplay
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co-written with Owen Wilson. In directing the film, Anderson based the fictitious Rushmore Academy
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on St. John's. As reported in The Atlantic, "When Wes Anderson scouted locations for the all-boys
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prep school..., he looked as far as the U.K. in search of the perfect location. It wasn't until he
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saw some photos of St. John's, his own high school, that he realized the places he had been
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imagining were the ones he knew from going to school there." Like protagonist Max Fischer,
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Anderson as a child had staged numerous epic action plays, with titles like The Five Maseratis and
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The Battle of the Alamo. Seen in Rushmore are the North Campus's Quadrangle and circle driveway,
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the Upper School library, and chapel service at the Church of St. John the Divine. Anderson also
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used a number of students and alumni as extras in the film.
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Clinger
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Much of the 2015 horror comedy Clinger, directed by Michael Steves, was filmed on the middle school
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campus at St. John's. Clinger premiered at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. It
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was announced during July that Clinger would premiere in theaters in October.
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Notable alumni
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Wes Anderson (1987), writer, film director
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William Curtis Bryson (1963), Jurist, Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States
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Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
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Katherine Center (1990), New York Times bestselling author
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William Stamps Farish III (1957), former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
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Lizzie Pannill Fletcher (1993), United States Representative (D-TX)
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Christy Haubegger (1986), founder of Latina magazine and film producer
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Elizabeth Holmes (2002), currently indicted founder of Theranos
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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (1964), anthropologist
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Molly Ivins (1962), journalist and pundit (who described herself as feeling like a "Clydesdale
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among thoroughbreds" in comparing herself to her fellow students at SJS)
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Ken Keeler (1979), mathematician and television writer, Late Show with David Letterman, The
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Simpsons, and Futurama
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Benjamin Moser (1994), Pulitzer Prize-winning author
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Laura Moser (1995), author and political activist
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Michael Naaman (2000), Statistician, he invented almost sure hypothesis testing, for all practical
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purposes, resolved Lindley's paradox, and proved the multivariate DKW inequality had a beautiful
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functional form, which was thought to be impossible until 2021; he also described the world's first
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fully nonparametric test for multivariate probability distributions.
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Indy Neidell (1985), historian, host of The Great War
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Peter Roussel (1960), former deputy press secretary to U.S. President Ronald Reagan and media
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commentator
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Sidney Shlenker, businessman Ashlee Vance (1996), business journalist, author
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Carl W. Vogt (1954), 15th President of Williams College
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Justise Winslow (2014), professional basketball player for the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies
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Wesley Hunt (2000)
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Ryan Funk (2002), chaos theorist and mathematician who proved the Liszt-Krugendorf Conjecture
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through advanced statistical application of double inverse plotting and Poincaré retro-mapping. He
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currently serves with distinction as the Chair of the Metamathematics Department at the Sorbonne.
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Heads of School Alan Lake Chidsey, 1946–1966 Elwood Kimball Salls, 1966–1976
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Thomas Read, 1976–1981 James R. Maggart, 1981–1991
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E. Philip Cannon, 1991–1998 (1991–1992 as interim headmaster)
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John Allman, 1998–2009 (followed by interim headmaster Jim Hendrix, 2009–2010)
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Mark Desjardins, 2010–2021 Daniel J. Alig, 2021 - present
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References - Profile Notes External links History of SJS Satellite photo of campus
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Private K-12 schools in Houston Independent Schools Association of the Southwest
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Educational institutions established in 1946 1946 establishments in Texas River Oaks, Houston
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Forth Dimension Displays (ForthDD) is a British optoelectronics company based in Dalgety Bay, Fife,
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United Kingdom.
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Company overview
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Founded in 1998 as Micropix and known later as CRL Opto and CRLO Displays, ForthDD makes high
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resolution microdisplays and spatial light modulators (SLM). The microdisplays are used in
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near-to-eye (NTE) applications for the military training and simulation, medical imagery, virtual
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reality and high definition image processing industries. The SLMs are used for structured light
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projection in 3D optical metrology and 3D super resolution microscopy. Headquartered in Dalgety
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Bay, Scotland, ForthDD also operates sales offices in the United States, Germany and Japan, and a
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customer support office in Germany. Previously funded by venture capitalists, in January 2011
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ForthDD was acquired by Kopin Corporation, a NASDAQ listed company based in Taunton, Massachusetts,
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USA.
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Technology
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ForthDD's microdisplays and SLMs are based on a proprietary, high-speed, ferroelectric liquid
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crystal on silicon (LCOS) platform, protected by a number of patents. For the generation of colour
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and greyscale, ForthDD's microdisplays use a process called Time Domain Imaging (TDI™). This
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process involves rendering the red, green and blue colour components which make up an image
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sequentially over time at high speed. This happens so fast that the human visual system integrates
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the components into a single, full colour image. This enables the microdisplays to use the same
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pixel mirror for all three colour components, and avoids the artifacts associated with sub-pixels.
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LCOS Technology History
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The first LCOS device originated in 1973, followed by a development of a liquid-crystal light valve
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ten years later. It was not until 1993, that a microdisplay with a resolution sufficient for use as
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a display was reported by DisplayTech (now Citizen Finedevices). It was capable of full
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red–green–blue image generation, enabled by the use of a fast-switching ferroelectric liquid
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crystal.
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During the early part of the 21st century, many microdisplay manufacturers focused on applying the
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technology to rear-projection-based high-definition television (HDTV) systems. However, due to
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developments in the manufacturing process of large-panel Liquid Crystal Display Televisions (LCD
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TVs) and resulting drops in the cost of components, LCD based TVs matured into the more popular
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consumer choice. By late 2007 almost all microdisplay Rear Projection Television (RPTV)
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manufacturers had withdrawn their TVs from production.
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As a result, a number of microdisplay manufacturers either disappeared completely or started
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working on other technologies. Some companies diversified, whilst others concentrated on a niche
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market instead.
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Products
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ForthDD is a supplier of microdisplays for Near-To-Eye (NTE) applications and spatial light
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modulators for fringe projection systems.
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ForthDD supplies full colour, all digital QXGA (2048 × 1536), SXGA (1280 × 1024) and WXGA (1280 ×