St. Timothy's School
| St. Timothy's School | |
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| Address | |
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8400 Greenspring Avenue Stevenson, Maryland 21153 United States |
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| Coordinates | 39°24′27″N 76°41′10″W / 39.40750°N 76.68611°WCoordinates: 39°24′27″N 76°41′10″W / 39.40750°N 76.68611°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Private girls' boarding school |
| Established | 1882 |
| Head of school | Randy S. Stevens |
| Faculty | 44 teachers and staff |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 200 students |
| Campus size | 111.9 acres (0.453 km2) |
| Color(s) | Carolina blue and White |
| Website | www.stt.org |
St. Timothy's School is a four-year private all-girls boarding high school in Stevenson in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The school is located just north of Baltimore City in Baltimore County less than a mile north of I-695, the Baltimore Beltway.
The school is a boarding school for girls and is run under the guidance of the Episcopal Church. The school promotes building young women to achieve their full potential. The motto of the school is "Vérité Sans Peur", which, translated from the original French, means "Truth Without Fear".
St. Timothy’s offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. The IB program is a demanding pre-university course of study that is completed in the span of two years. The IB diploma is geared towards highly motivated students aged 16 to 19. An IB diploma opens a window of opportunities. Leading universities around the world recognize this diploma. In some instances students can earn college credit for courses taken in high school. It is at the discretion of a university to accept any or all of the IB credits a student has earned.
At St. Timothy's, basketball dates to 1896. Co-headmistresses (and sisters) Polly and Sally Carter were looking for an activity to keep boarders busy during the Thanksgiving break. They divided up the girls into two teams—named "Brownie" (after Palmer Cox's popular book series about the Brownies) and "Spider" (after the University of Richmond's mascot, where the Carter sisters' father attended) -- and the court into three areas, such that three forwards and three guards from each team covered the opposite ends while three centers roamed the middle. The Brownie vs. Spider game became a lasting tradition, and for over 100 years girls have continued to don 19th-century tunics and play by the old-school rules. Beyond the basic rules, almost everything about the intra-school game—from the selection of the players to the cheers, songs, and ceremonial dinners—is shrouded in secrecy.
This game is more famously known as the oldest ongoing basketball competition between women's schools - St. Timothy's School and the Bryn Mawr School have held a game each year since 1901. As for the St. Timothy's/Bryn Mawr rivalry, credit goes to Edith Hamilton, the latter school's first formally appointed headmistress (hired in 1896, she ran the school for 26 years) and author of the definitive textbook Mythology. Hamilton arranged for the first game to be played between the two schools, on Nov. 25, 1901 on an outdoor "field" at the Garrett Estate in Catonsville, home of the family of Bryn Mawr co-founder Elizabeth Garrett.
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