Thursday Thirteen

Here are some fast facts about Middlebury College.

1. Founded in 1800, Middlebury is a top-tier liberal arts college.
2. About 2,350 undergraduate students
3. Located in the Champlain Valley of central Vermont, with Vermont’s Green Mountains to the east and New York’s Adirondacks to the west
4. Renowned for leadership in language instruction and international studies
5. Graduate and summer programs: Summer Language Schools (10 languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish), Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Monterey Institute of International Studies
6. More than 850 courses in 44 majors
7. 9:1 student-faculty ratio
8. Most classes are small; the mean class size is 16
9. All courses are taught by faculty members (rather than graduate assistants)
10. 29 NCAA championship teams since 1995: men’s hockey-8 titles (’95, ’96, ’97, ’98, ’99, ’04, ’05, ’06), women’s lacrosse-5 (’97, ’99, ’01, ’02, ’04), men’s lacrosse-3 (’00, ’01, ’02), women’s cross country-5 (’00, ’01, ’03, ’06, ’08), women’s hockey-5 (’00, ’01, ’04, ’05, 06), field hockey (’98), men’s tennis (’04), men’s soccer (’07)
11. Hubby graduated in 1961 with a Bachelors Degree in Economics.
12. He ran track, played soccer, participated in cross country and downhill skiing, and ski jumping.
13. In Hubby’s sophomore year he lettered in three sports, Track, Soccer, and Skiing.

So we will stay at the historic Middlebury Inn, and enjoy this golden celebration of Hubby’s graduation from college!