Wilbraham & Monson Academy (WMA) is a private college-preparatory school in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1804, it is a four-year boarding and day secondary school. It offers grades 6–12 and a postgraduate year. The School is located in the center of the town of Wilbraham, 75 miles (121 km) from Boston and 150 miles (240 km) from New York City.
Notable alumni
Henry Barnard (1811–1900), educator
Alfred Ely Beach, inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer
Rick Bennett, NHL ice hockey player and college coach
Mary Ann Booth (1843–1922), microscopist
Henry Billings Brown, associate justice of the US Supreme Court. Wrote majority opinion for Plessy v. Ferguson
Tyrell Burgess, Bermudian professional soccer player with Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Kraisak Choonhavan, member of Thailand Senate for Nakhon Ratchasima Province (2000–2006); former chairman of the Thai Senate's Foreign Relations Committee
Russell H. Conwell, minister and founder of Temple University - 1859
Winthrop Murray Crane (1853–1920), US Senator
Emily Norcross Dickinson, mother of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson
Kyle Filipowski, Duke University and NBA basketball player
Richard Fuld, former CEO Lehman Brothers
Wong Fun, first Western-trained doctor in China, graduated from University of Edinburgh - 1855
Wenyen Gabriel (born 1997), South Sudanese-American basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Bill Guerin, retired NHL hockey player; general manager of Minnesota Wild; four-time Stanley Cup champion
William Stewart Halstead, surgeon, studied at Monson Academy for a time
Ratcliffe Hicks, Connecticut state legislator, industrialist, lawyer, and benefactor of the University of Connecticut
Kim Hyun-jong, South Korean trade minister under Moon Jae-in and Roh Moo-hyun
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014), poet
Christine Ladd-Franklin, mathematician, logician and psychologist - 1865
Oliver Marcy, served as acting President of Northwestern University twice, while also serving as a professor of natural history
Patrick Mazeika (born 1993), baseball player
Pat Phelan, professional soccer player for the New England Revolution
Nitya Pibulsonggram, Thai Ambassador to the US (1996–2000), Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006–2008)
Humphrey Pickard, Canadian first president of Mount Allison University
Charles Pratt, oil tycoon and founder of the Pratt Institute
William Rice (1821–1897), Methodist Episcopal minister, author, and librarian
Joey Santiago (born 1965), band member of the Pixies
Pote Sarasin, Prime Minister of Thailand (1957) secretary-general of SEATO (1958–1964)
Lucy Stone, orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and women's rights advocate
William Strong, lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
Mark Warburton, gymnast
Yung Wing, first Chinese graduate of an American university (Yale) - 1854