Biography of robert e peary school
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Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920) was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania on May 6, 1856. His parents, Charles and Mary, originated from Maine. Charles died when Robert was three and Mary decided to move her only child back home to Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Peary attended Bowdoin College, joining the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, before graduating with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1877.
After college, Peary worked as a county surveyor and a cartographic draftsman. In 1881, he was selected to become one of the Navy’s first civil engineers with the rank equivalent of lieutenant (USN). His first assignment was to inspect a new iron pier being built in Key West. His following assignment, assisting the chief engineer of a canal project in Nicaragua, sparked his thirst for Arctic exploration.
Perhaps his dissatisfaction with being a “workhorse” in the jungles of Central America and the inspiration of an 1886 paper “on the inland ice of Greenland,” prompted Peary to set off to explore the Arctic by way of Greenland. In May of 1886, he embarked on his journey, “making a deeper penetration of the Greenland interior than anyone before him, and discovering, once the crevasses and meltwater lakes had been passed, a truly ‘imperial highway’ for the explorer
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Aspen High School received the name Robert E. Peary from the sixth graders at Aspen Hill Elementary School during the 1959-60 school year.
Because the high school was located on Arctic Avenue, the sixth graders researched the Arctic area for prominent persons and themes associated with it. They made their choice and received permission from the Peary family to name the school after the famous Arctic explorer.
Those same students, who entered the seventh grade at Peary in September of 1960, were the first graduates of the school they had named who attended the school from opening day through graduation (the first actual graduates of Peary were the Class of ’63, who were sophomores when the school opened).
Due to declining enrollment, Montgomery County closed the school in 1984 and the building sat, deteriorating for almost 16 years. The building was renovated and leased by the Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington, opening in fall 1999.
The Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy assumed full ownership of the former Robert E. Peary High School in 2010. Vistors are welcome, and facilities may be rented if available. Please call in advance: 301-962-9400, www.mjbha.org.
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Robert E. Peary
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