Talk:St. Mark's School of Texas

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[edit] Alumni

Yorke, Baker, van dorn, and bryson all seem to be made up.

I seriously doubt the guy from radiohead in Britain went to this school: Thom Yorke. Can anyone confirm this?

I'm currently a student at St. Mark's, and I can assure you Thom Yorke did not go there. jodan2007

Owen Wilson got deleted from this list along the way, but he did attend until he was expelled. This ranks him as an alumnus, and he is one whose attendance at the school has had a clear impact on his career (his early work was clearly based on his experience at the school).

Does Robert Hoffman rate as "famous?" prior to becoming a successful businessman and civic leader in Dallas (he ran Coca Cola Bottling Southwest for something like 25 years, he co-founded the Harvard Lampoon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon


Boz Scaggs definitely attended St. Marks. Here's a link (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:kx5zUz0HS-IJ:musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/S/Scaggs,_Boz/Biographies/+boz+scaggs+biography+%22st.+marks%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)


As requested, quick google searches turn up sources for alumni:

--Laura Scudder | Talk 01:29, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)


I went back in the history of this article and found and readded a few more alumni who were deleted along the way. This should solve any problems in this respect. Monsieur Bartolomeo 19:37, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

ello yall. my dad [Eric Miller Reeves] attended St. Marks [wrestler in high school with Doug Mankoff]. while he is not famous, he was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly from 1996 to 2004ish. he also won the Texas State Championship for his weight class while attending St. Marks.Twiggythealchemist 03:01, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Some joker keeps adding the following "Walter 'Tres' Francis Evans III '03. Venture Capitalist, Maxim Magazine's Millionaire under 30 of the Year." Please provide a source (I can't find one). Until then, I am going to keep deleting it. Whr4th (talk) 03:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Boosterism and POV

I made an attempt to fix the POV and boosterism that was rampant in this article. Make sure to read Wikipedia's Point of View Policy before writing.

maybe you should read it, there's nothing wrong with noting commonly attended colleges --68.95.227.250 02:50, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

However, the previous article stated that the "curriculum was one of the most diverse in the state." Is there a news source for this? If there is, then it's fine to put up. Next, the previous article did not list commonly attended colleges. The paragraph was:

"In recent years, the most frequently attended colleges have been Harvard, Duke, Dartmouth, Emory, Brown, Georgetown, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, and the University of Texas at Austin."

I followed the link, and these were not listed as the "most frequently attended colleges," just as colleges that alumni attended. Again, if you have a source that says that these are the most frequently attended colleges, it's okay. But unsourced statements arent'.Bwabes

http://www.smtexas.org/campus/counseling/matriculation.asp On that page, another link appears that gives the breakdown for the colleges that alumni have attended for the past five years.

So from that, between 2000 and 2002 the top two destinations for grads were UT and U Penn. The next at 11 students were Yale, Vanderbilt, Stanford, NYU, and Harvard. Between 1992 and 2002 the top 20 in order were:
  1. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
  2. STANFORD UNIVERSITY
  3. EMORY UNIVERSITY
  4. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
  5. SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
  6. DUKE UNIVERSITY
  7. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  8. HARVARD UNIVERSITY
  9. TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY
  10. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN-PLANII
  11. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
  12. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  13. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  14. RICE UNIVERSITY
  15. TULANE UNIVERSITY
  16. YALE UNIVERSITY
  17. CORNELL UNIVERSITY
  18. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
  19. TRINITY UNIVERSITY
  20. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
So the sentence in question is a bit misrepresenting, but it seems to me that Bwabes is still being rather over-enthusiastic in interpreting NPOV. — Laura Scudder ☎ 21:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

You're right. If someone wants to put back up a list of the first few, that seems okay. Bwabes 23:19, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

well 11 students is about 10% of the senior class....

[edit] Infobox

I added Template:Infobox School2 to the page. This is the first page to use that template.

Also I found a picture of the crest. madh 22:23, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Alumni

--Mcdonaldlyle 20:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Dr. Alan Stern '75, NASA scientist and head of the New Horizons mission to Pluto

This should be added to the Notable Alumni section as soon as the page is unlocked for editing.

[edit] GA Review

Hey, saw this on WP:GAC. I'd like to give the article writers some suggestions on how to improve it, as althoguh it's not GA quality, the article can be improved to it (hopefully) relatively easily.

  1. The article must be expanded per WP:LEAD.
  2. There is no information on the academics or any description of the school buildign itself.
  3. The external links are good, but it you can turn them into references per {{cite web}}, that would be great.

This has potential, but it's not ready there yet.--Wizardman 00:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Neutral Point of View

While I'm sure the school that this article discusses is a fine school, the article should not read like a recruiting brochure. Many of the sections need to be re-written to simply convey the verifiable facts about the school. 219.25.41.201 (talk) 11:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

the first paragraph seems to have been rewritten by someone in the school administration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.251.214.120 (talk) 20:12, 9 January 2008 (UTC)