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Horace Dutton Taft (December 28, 1861 – January 28, 1943) was an American educator, and the founder of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, United States.
In 1936, after 46 years as head of school, Horace Dutton Taft retired. Since his inauspicious start at Pelham Manor he had come to be regarded as one of the most revered head of schools in New England.
In drafting the school motto, Mr. Taft sought not only to articulate a guiding principle for school life, but for life beyond Taft's bounds. One member of the alumni community is recognized each year with the school's highest alumni honor, The Horace Dutton Taft Alumni Medal, celebrating their dedication to a life of service.
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The school was founded in 1890 as Mr. Taft's School (renamed to The Taft School in 1898) by Horace Dutton Taft, the brother of U.S. President William Howard Taft. Horace Taft's friend Sherman Day Thacher (the founder of California's Thacher School) inspired Taft to start his own boarding school.
2018 Horace Dutton Taft Alumni Medal Honoree "America needs to radically simplify its operating system and give people—officials and citizens alike—the freedom to be practical," writes author, lawyer, and philanthropist Philip Howard '66.
Horace Dwight Taft, professor of physics at Yale University and former dean of Yale College, died of a heart attack Saturday while working in his office at the Josiah Willard Gibbs Laboratories on the Yale campus. He was 57 years old and lived in New Haven.
