Milton Hershey School
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Originally established for impoverished, healthy, Caucasian, male orphans, while today it serves any underprivileged student.
The Milton Hershey School is a private philanthropic (pre-K through 12) boarding school in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Originally named the Hershey Industrial School, the institution was founded and funded by chocolate industrialist Milton Snavely Hershey and his wife Catherine Sweeney Hershey. The Milton Hershey School Trust, which funds the school, owns controlling interest in The Hershey Company. The school is overseen by a Board of Managers.
The school currently serves over 1400 students, and plans to grow to 2000 students by 2013.[1] A member of Coalition for Residential Education, it is the largest residential education program in the nation.
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[edit] References
- ^ January 23, 2006 press release, retrieved on September 22, 2006
[edit] External links
- Milton Hershey School official website
- themilt.com alumni run social networking website
