Hopkins School history

Hopkins, one of 11 children, made his fortune in the wholesale business and by investing in emerging industries, notably the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, of which he became a director in 1847.

The recently founded debate society disbanded, with seven young members forming the secret society known as "The Club". Though this club grew no larger and tried to remain quiet, parents grew so annoyed with this supposedly "rough-housing" club that it was forced to disband in 1851.

By 1854, when the trustees hired James Whiton, another Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale, the school’s situation had become quite dire.

Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876 with the inauguration of our first president, Daniel Coit Gilman.

The first medical school class graduated in 1897.

Then for four years, she taught in Montana before returning east to open her own school in New Haven in 1907.

Having been on the faculty when the school was nearly absorbed by the New Haven public school system in 1911, Lovell took the reins offered him by the Trustees and reimagined the school as more than simply the college admission test tutoring school it had somewhat become.

The School was founded in 1916 as the world’s first independent degree-granting school of public health.

A graduate of the school of medicine, Florence Sabin was the first woman appointed full professor in the school of medicine, in 1917.

Whiton left to become a pastor of a church in Massachusetts, but he participated in Hopkins alumni events until his death in 1920.

Headmaster George Lovell convinced the Board of Trustees to buy land on the western edge of New Haven for a new campus atop a hill in 1925.

The school opened at the new premises, the present campus, in 1926.

The Welch Library opened on December 1, 1928, named after William H. Welch, a pathologist, the first dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and one of Hopkins' founding physicians.

In 1960, Lovell Hall was named in his honor.

Trustees and alumni/ae most closely associate him with the decision to merge Hopkins Grammar School with Day Prospect Hill School to create a modern, coeducational school in 1972, now known as Hopkins School.

Trustee president Vince Calarco and headmaster Tim Rodd led Hopkins to buy a further 50 acres (20 ha) of land at its current location to establish playing fields in 1992.

Using small mannequins, pediatric neurogureon Benjamin Carson and his surgical team rehearse for a 2006 operation to separate siamese twins joined at the head.

In 2016, the school of medicine developed that concept even further by rolling out a Primary Care Leadership Track designed to bring medical students face to face with patients and community doctors.