Roeper School (Michigan)
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History
The Roeper School was founded in 1941 by George and Annemarie Roeper,[1] who were forced to flee Nazi Germany. At the time the Roepers fled Europe, Annemarie had been invited by Anna Freud to be her protégé and had completed her first year of medical school.
Together the Roepers founded the school intending it to be a place that, by teaching personal motivation and encouraging critical thinking skills and analysis, would educate children who would not follow leadership blindly as they believed had happened to many people in interwar Germany. It was also hoped the children would come to recognize the inherent dignity of every individual and not harbor prejudice.[2]
The school first moved to the Bloomfield Hills campus (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) in 1946. It was designated a school for gifted children in 1956. In 1965, the Upper School (high school) program was added. In 1981, the middle and upper schools moved to the former Adams Elementary School in Birmingham, Michigan, (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".), thereby creating two campuses.[3] The Capital Campaign fundraising initiative began in the mid-nineties and has provided the school with its largest investment in new facilities, including a new elementary school classroom building that sits adjacent to the new community center that houses the school's first full-size gymnasium, and the lower school's first large choir and band rooms.
Notable alumni
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- Sharon LaFraniere (class of 1973), journalist[4]
- Dwayne McDuffie,[5] comic book and animation writer
- Richard R. Murray, founder of Equity SchoolsScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Susan Shapiro, author and writing teacherScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Angela V. Shelton, actress and comedianScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
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- Matt Wayne, television and comic book writerScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Kayden Pierre, professional soccer playerScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Charlie White (class of 2005), Olympic ice dancerScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Mark Zbikowski (class of 1974), Microsoft programmer, designer of the DOS executable file formatScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
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References
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External links
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- Official school history website
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