Burgundy Farm Country Day School
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Burgundy Farm Country Day School is an independent school on a Script error: No such module "convert". campus in the Rose Hill census-designated place of Fairfax County, Virginia, United States,[1] with an Alexandria postal address, and Script error: No such module "convert". in West Virginia.[2][3] It serves students in grades Junior Kindergarten through Eighth Grade.
History
The school was founded in 1946 by a group of concerned parents, which included some Quakers and also included noted CBS broadcast journalist Eric Sevareid[4] and his wife Lois. In 1950, Burgundy became the first school in the Commonwealth of Virginia to racially integrate and worked actively to attract non-white students.[5] Camay Calloway Murphy, daughter of Jazz bandleader and singer Cab Calloway, became one of the first African-Americans to teach at a white school when she accepted a position at Burgundy in the early 1950s.[6][7]
Campus
The school's main campus is located on a former dairy farm just outside the Washington, DC/Northern Virginia beltway. In 2018, the school renovated the commons and added an arts building known as The Loft.[8]
Center for Wildlife Studies
Burgundy's second campus, a Script error: No such module "convert". wildlife preserve in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia called the Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies, is commonly referred to as "the Cove."[9] All classes, beginning with first grade, visit the Cove for intensive study in science and natural history biannually.
The Cove recently acquired another Script error: No such module "convert"., from landowners surrounding the property. The funding for the purchase of these extra 24 acres came from "The Big Hike", in which a Burgundy teacher, sometimes accompanied by students, hiked from his home in Alexandria to The Cove.
Summer Camps
The two campuses both offer a summer camp with open enrollment. The main campus is a summer day camp for 3 years, 8 months to 12 years old. The Burgundy Center campus hosts primarily sleep-away nature-oriented summer camp programs for 8 to 15 year olds and adults.
Notable alumni
- Alex Albrecht, television personality, actor and podcaster
- Robert C. Michelson '65, Principal Research Engineer Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology; Recipient of the 2001 Pirelli Award and the first €25,000 Top Pirelli Prize; progenitor of the field of aerial robotics[10][11][12][13]
- Jim Sanborn '59, sculptor best known for creating the Kryptos sculpture at the CIA headquarters[14]
- Samira Wiley '01, actress known for Orange is the New Black[15]
References
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