Institut Le Rosey

Institut Le Rosey

Infobox high school


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name=Institut Le Rosey
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motto ="Une École pour la Vie", "A School for Life"
schoolmaster =
headmaster = Mr. Michael Gray
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principal =
director = Mr. Philippe Gudin
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type = Private, International boarding school
established = 1880 [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/histoire.html
title=A Rich History
accessdate=2007-07-26
]
faculty = 90 [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/esprit.html
title=Essential Character
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]
staff = 70 [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/esprit.html
title=Essential Character
accessdate=2007-08-03
]
students = Primary and Secondary
enrollment = ~400 [cite web
date=September 21, 2007
url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1/7401162c-6690-11dc-a218-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=eeb79658-6054-11dc-8ec0-0000779fd2ac.html
title=No ifs, no buts: keep bodyguards off campus
accessdate=2007-08-02
]
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city = Rolle and Gstaad
state = Canton of Vaud and Canton of Berne
country =Switzerland
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nickname = Le Rosey or Rosey
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affiliations = Secular
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authorizer = NEASC, IBO, CIS, & ECIS
information = (+41) 21 822 5500
website = [http://www.rosey.ch/ www.rosey.ch]

Institut Le Rosey, established in 1880, is the oldest private boarding school in Switzerland and one of the most exclusive educational institutions in the world. [cite web
date=February 17, 1993
url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/02/17/swis.php
title=In Switzerland, Democracy at the Summit
accessdate=2007-07-14
] [cite web
date=July 5, 1999
url=http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a.html
title=Where you learn to be a billionaire
accessdate=2007-07-14
] More commonly known as Le Rosey or just Rosey, the school was founded by Paul-Émile Carnal on the site of the 14th-century "Château du Rosey" near the town of Rolle in the Canton of Vaud.

The school also owns a campus in the exclusive ski resort village of Gstaad in the Canton of Bern's Bernese Oberland, where the student body, faculty, and staff move to during the Winter months of January through March. Institut Le Rosey is currently owned by its fourth generation of Directors, Philippe and Anne Gudin, who assumed ownership of Le Rosey in 1980. Mr. Michael Gray is the current Headmaster of the school. [cite web
date=April 12, 2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlInfos/whosWho.html
title=Who's Who
accessdate=2007-07-16
]

During most of the 20th century, Le Rosey was referred to by the media as the "School of Kings", as heirs apparent and European royals have frequently attended the school. [cite web
date=March 11, 2007
url=http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_simple_life
title=Taki's Top Drawer
accessdate=2007-07-17
] More recently, the school has been reported to be the educational choice of the international jet set. [cite web
date=February 17, 1993
url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/02/17/swis.php
title=In Switzerland, Democracy at the Summit
accessdate=2007-07-14
] Le Rosey is currently in the planning stages of constructing the CHF 45 million (estimated $43 million USD) Carnal Hall, an Arts and Performance Centre for Le Rosey and the La Côte region currently scheduled for completion in 2012. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/pdfWeb/20062007/carnalHallJuin07.pdf
title=Carnal Hall at Le Rosey
accessdate=2007-07-17
format=PDF
] [cite web
date=October 11, 2007
url=http://www.24heures.ch/layout/set/print/(contenu)/143998
title=Le Rosey plans massive art center
] The school is also planning the sale of its high value Gstaad winter campus, and a move to a location that can accommodate more personnel and students. [cite web
date=January 30, 2008
url=http://www.bilan.ch/pdf/lerosey.pdf
title=Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad
accessdate=2008-02-02
format=PDF
]

Overview

Le Rosey's philosophy is inspired by what Harvard educationalist Howard Gardner has called "multiple intelligences": "its aim is to develop all Roseans’ talents through academic, sporting and artistic programmes." [cite web
date=
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/originalites.html
title=A School unlike any other
accessdate=2007-07-16
] The school offers a demanding bilingual and bicultural education with the language of instruction being French or English depending on the student's academic program; however, students may take up to four language classes while at Le Rosey. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/bilinguisme.html
title=Bilingualism and Biculturalism
accessdate=2007-08-02
] Students may sit either the International Baccalaureate, the most widely recognized pre-university educational program, [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.ibo.org/school/001212/
title=IB: Institut Le Rosey
accessdate=2007-07-16
] or the Francophone-oriented French Baccalaureate. To sustain an international atmosphere at Le Rosey, there exists a quota where no more than 10% of the students may come from a single country. The student body, ages 7 through 18, is composed of pupils from approximately 58 different countries, with 60% of the students being European. [cite web
date=May 10, 2006
url=http://www.ecis.org/directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=LEROS1
title=European Council of International Schools: Le Rosey
accessdate=2007-07-14
] The school's current enrollment, over 400 pupils, is equally divided male/female. The majority of students are between the ages of 14 and 18. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.weltwoche.ch/artikel/?AssetID=16556&CategoryID=91
title=Geschlossener Planet
accessdate=2007-07-16
] The Student-teacher ratio is 5:1 with the average class size being less than 10 students, and the average teacher's length of stay at Le Rosey is over ten years. [cite web
date=
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/originalites.html
title=A School unlike any other
accessdate=2007-07-16
] Students at Le Rosey are nicknamed "Roséens" (in French) or "Roseans" (in English), and former students are labeled "Les Anciens Roséens". [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlEcole/esprit.html
title=The Rosey Spirit
accessdate=2007-07-17
]

The Le Rosey campus at Rolle is, in terms of area, the largest boarding school in Switzerland, [cite web
date=February 17, 1993
url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/02/17/swis.php
title=In Switzerland, Democracy at the Summit
accessdate=2007-07-14
] with 28 hectares (approximately 70 acres) of landscaped grounds. The school's sailing center, the "Fleur d’Eau", is situated along 100 meters of shoreline on Lake Geneva. Le Rosey is reportedly the only boarding school in the world to change campuses seasonally. [cite web
date=December 6, 2004
url=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/dec/1099103.htm
title=Trapeze Networks Provides Campus-Wide WLAN for Exclusive Swiss School
accessdate=2007-07-16
] In spring and autumn, classes are held at the Château du Rosey campus in the village of Rolle in the Canton of Vaud, located between Geneva and Lausanne in southwestern Switzerland. For the winter months of January through March, the entire student body moves to a group of chalets in the ski resort town of Gstaad in the Canton of Berne.

Le Rosey offers a wide range of sports, including: Football (Soccer), Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton, Equestrianism, Rugby union, cross-country running, Tennis, Beach Volleyball, Golf, Sailing, Rowing, Competitive swimming, and Water skiing during the spring and autumn terms. During the winter term, sports options are Skiing, Snowboarding, Ice-hockey, Curling, Snowshoeing, and Sledging. [cite web
date=
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlArtsSports/sportsPhilo.html
title=Sporting Philosophy
accessdate=2007-07-16
]

History

Château du Rosey (depicted at left), a Feudal chateau located on Le Rosey's main campus at Rolle, dates to the Middle Ages and presently houses Le Rosey's central reception area. [cite web
month=May | year=1997
url=http://www.swisscastles.ch/Vaud/chateau/bursinsrosay.html
title=Le château du Rosey
accessdate=2007-07-14
] In 1880, the site of the Le Rosey campus was chosen by the school's founder, Paul-Emile Carnal, "a lover of nature, history and the countryside". The Le Rosey campus at Rolle is situated adjacent to the famous Lake Geneva. In 1911, the founder passed the ownership of Le Rosey to his son, Henri-Paul Carnal. In 1917, the school began to go to Gstaad in the German-speaking Canton of Berne for the winter months to escape the dense fog that settles in on Lake Geneva. [cite web
date=
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/histoire.html
title=A Rich History
accessdate=2007-07-14
] In 1947, the third generation of directors, Louis Johannot and Helen Schaub, assumed ownership of Le Rosey. Under the same ownership, in 1967, Le Rosey admitted girls for the first time and opened a separate girls' campus. In 1980, the current owners, Philippe and Anne Gudin de la Sablonnière, became the fourth generation of Directors at Le Rosey. Louis Johannot, in an interview with Life Magazine in 1965, made a comment that received considerable attention: "The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children." [cite web
date=May 7, 1965
url=http://www.bartleby.com/63/64/2564.html
title=Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations
accessdate=2007-07-18
]

Prior to the introduction of the 10% quota, wherein no more than 10% of the student body may come from one country, different nationalities made up the majority of students at Le Rosey. [cite web
date=July 5, 1999
url=http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a.html
title=Where you learn to be a billionaire
accessdate=2007-07-14
] In the 1950s and 1960s, the majority of students were Americans, Italians, and Greeks, in the 1970s came the Arabs and Iranians, in the 1980s came the Japanese and Koreans, and in the 1990s came the Russians. [cite web
date=July 5, 1999
url=http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a.html
title=Where you learn to be a billionaire
accessdate=2007-07-14
] The children of the Russian oligarchs, which made up 1/3 of the student body in the 1990s, [cite web
date=October 23, 1995
url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n40_v11/ai_17625033
title=The bubonic plague of international crime
accessdate=2007-08-08
] began to "terrorize" the other students at Le Rosey, and at least one non-Russian family withdrew their son in consequence. [cite web
date=July 5, 1999
url=http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a.html
title=Where you learn to be a billionaire
accessdate=2007-07-14
] [cite web
date=February 17, 2007
url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200702/ai_n18621914
title=Russian Invasion
accessdate=2007-08-08
]

Academic curriculum

Institut Le Rosey's academic curriculum is designed to "provide education of breadth, depth and quality for an international student body." [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/esprit.html#
title=Fundamental Aims
accessdate=2007-08-02
] Le Rosey offers a rigorous bilingual and bicultural education with the principal language of instruction being French or English depending on the student's academic program. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/bilinguisme.html
title=Bilingualism and Biculturalism
accessdate=2007-08-02
] Beginning in Class 9 (US 3rd grade; UK year 4) and ending in Class 7 (US 5th grade; UK Year 6), Junior students at Le Rosey follow the Primary Bilingual Programme. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/programmeJunior.html
title=Primary Bilingual Program
accessdate=2007-08-02
] The Programme follows the French national curriculum for classes taught in French and the National Curriculum of the United Kingdom for classes taught in English, which are both complemented by the International Primary Curriculum to create an international education. [cite web
date=
url=http://www.internationalprimarycurriculum.com/
title=International Primary Curriculum
accessdate=2007-08-02
] [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/programmeJunior.html
title=Primary Bilingual Program
accessdate=2007-08-02
]

Le Rosey students in Classes 6-2 (US 6th-10th grade; UK Year 7-11) choose their principal language and continue their studies in French or English. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/programmeBilingue.html
title=Secondary Bilingual Programme
accessdate=2007-08-02
] If possible, students may study their mother tongue and a third or even a fourth language in addition to their principal language of instruction. Over 20 different languages have been taught at Le Rosey in the past five years. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/bilinguisme.html
title=Bilingualism and Biculturalism
accessdate=2007-08-02
] During the Secondary Bilingual Programme, English and French classes are obligatory, and upon entering Class 3 (US 9th grade), students begin the two-year "Pre-Bac" Programme to prepare the students for either the internationally recognized International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme or the Francophone-oriented French Baccalaureate. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/programmeBilingue.html
title=Secondary Bilingual Programme
accessdate=2007-08-02
] At Le Rosey, the IB Diploma Programme and the French Baccalaureate cover the last two years of schooling (Class 1 and Class t). [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlScolaire/bacInter.html
title=International Baccalaureate
accessdate=2007-08-02
]

tudent life

Students at Le Rosey follow the "CASC" Programme, which aims to nurture all the talents of its students, through Creativity, Action, Service in the community, and Culture. Creativity includes performances, celebrations, and exhibitions, Action includes sport and physical competitions, Service in the community includes community service and projects, and Culture includes the attendance of music and drama performances, special trips, and conferences. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlArtsSports/espritCasc.html
title=Principles and the "CASC" Programme
accessdate=2007-12-02
] Activities on offer to students include sports clubs, including airplane flying lessons, horse-riding, golf, sailing, karting, scuba diving, and shooting. On certain weekends a variety of activities are made available, including mountain expeditions, theatre trips to London, visits to Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna, and Madrid, athletic challenges (Rolle-Gstaad by bicycle), trips to watch football (soccer) matches, Formula One racing, equestrian events, tennis tournaments, and school balls. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlVieRoseenne/vie.html
title=Campus Life
accessdate=2007-12-02
] During the Mid-October cultural trips, students are given the opportunity to visit countries and cities further afield, with recent destinations including university visits to the East Coast of the United States and to Great Britain, humanitarian trips to participate in a Habitat for Humanity project in Romania, to teach in the Rosey-Abantara School in Bamako, Mali, or a humanitarian mission to India, and cultural, leisure trips to Cuba, Egypt, Vietnam, Mexico, Kenya, Iceland, and Aruba. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlArtsSports/expeditions.html
title=Expeditions
accessdate=2007-12-02
]

Facilities

At the Rolle campus

Le Rosey's main campus, near Rolle, is situated on 28 hectares of land adjacent to Lake Geneva. It is divided into two campuses, one for boys situated on the main campus and one for girls called La Combe. The boarding houses contain a total of 179 bedrooms with en suite bathrooms, and all together the academic buildings contain: 53 classrooms, 8 science laboratories, 14 specially-equipped rooms, 48 apartments for Le Rosey teachers, 2 infirmaries, a library/media centre with over 17,000 literary and reference works, a theatre, 3 dining rooms and 2 cafeterias, an auditorium, 2 gymnasiums, and an ecumenical chapel. Sports and arts facilities at Le Rosey include: 10 clay Tennis courts, a 25-meter indoor pool and wellness centre, a 25-meter outdoor pool, 3 Football pitches, 1 Rugby pitch, 1 wood chip running track, a shooting and archery range, an open-air theatre, and a computer-regulated greenhouse. Off-campus Le Rosey owns: a private Equestrian centre housing 30 horses, 1 indoor riding school, 1 Dressage area, and a clubhouse. Also off-campus is the Le Rosey sailing centre equipped with: 10 dinghies, 3 motorboats, 3 yawls and a convert|38|ft|m|sing=on yacht. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlVieRoseenne/infrastructures.html
title=Facilities
accessdate=2007-07-16
]

At the Gstaad campus

The school's Winter campus, at the exclusive ski resort of Gstaad in the Bernese Oberland, is composed of several traditional chalets within the town. The girls' campus, at Schönried, is situated a 10-minute train ride away from Gstaad and is composed of 5 chalets used solely for boarding and dining. The students utilize local facilities, including: swimming pools, fitness centres, tennis courts, ice-hockey rink, a bowling alley, Curling, 250 kilometers (approximately 156 miles) of Alpine ski slopes and 120 kilometers (approximately 75 miles) of Cross-country ski tracks, 65 kilometers of Snowshoeing trails, climbing walls, and Via Ferratas. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlVieRoseenne/campusGstaad.html
title=The Gstaad Winter Campus
accessdate=2007-07-16
]

Tuition

As of 2007, the annual boarding and academic fees are CHF 81,000 (approximately $77,000 USD). [cite web
date=2007-2008
url=http://www.rosey.ch/pdfWeb/20072008/inscription0708.pdf
title=FORMULE D’INSCRIPTION 2007-2008
accessdate=2007-07-16
format=PDF
] Other services, both mandatory and optional, add up to approximately CHF 20,000 ($19,000 USD). Many international publications consider Le Rosey the most expensive boarding school in the world. [cite web
date=July 5, 1999
url=http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a.html
title=Where you learn to be a billionaire
accessdate=2007-07-14
] Since 1981, the Guinness Book of World Records has listed Le Rosey as the most expensive school in the world, initially publishing the annual fees to be "at least CHF 25,000 (about $15,000 USD)". [cite web
year=1981
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=TuGxCHuBoaoC&q=Le+Rosey&dq=Le+Rosey&pgis=1
title=Guinness Book of World Records, 1981
accessdate=2007-07-27
] The Rosey Foundation, which oversees the financing of Le Rosey's Carnal Hall, makes scholarships possible to "particularly deserving" students, and the four-member Rosey Scholarship Committee allots them to the approved students. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.aiar.ch/history.htm
title=passé, son présent, son avenir
accessdate=2007-08-02
] However, Institut Le Rosey does not directly offer scholarships to any person, as scholarships are only made available through the Rosey Foundation. [cite web
date=September 21, 2007
url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1/7401162c-6690-11dc-a218-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=eeb79658-6054-11dc-8ec0-0000779fd2ac.html
title=No ifs, no buts: keep bodyguards off campus
accessdate=2007-08-02
]

Associations

l'Association Internationale des Anciens Roséens (AIAR), the International Association of Former Roseans, is Le Rosey's alumni association, the members of which have been major contributors to 20th-century world history. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.swiss-schools.ch/index.php?SL_Key=20&subpage=E
title=The Swiss Federation of Private Schools
accessdate=2007-07-17
] [cite web
date=July 11, 2007
url=http://www.cois.org/directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=LEROS1
title=Council of International Schools: Le Rosey
accessdate=2007-07-17
] The AIAR, a prestigious network of former students, has alumni representatives in most countries and in many major cities across the world. Le Rosey's first alumni association, the "Old Rosey Association", was created on July 21, 1922 by a small group of alumni in the presence of the son of the school's founder, Henri Carnal. In 1926, the "Belgian Old Rosey Association" was founded; however, like the Old Rosey Association, it was declining due to slow international communication between alumni. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.aiar.ch/history.htm
title=Son passé, son présent, son avenir
accessdate=2007-07-17
] The current alumni association, the AIAR, was established in 1964. The school's list of alumni is not published and access to AIAR events and meetings is exclusive to former students. [cite web
date=July 11, 2007
url=http://www.cois.org/directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=LEROS1
title=Council of International Schools: Le Rosey
accessdate=2007-07-17
]

Institut Le Rosey is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the International Baccalaureate Organization, the Académie Francaise of Grenoble, the Minister of National Education of France and the Council of International Schools. [cite web
date=May 10, 2006
url=http://www.ecis.org/directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=LEROS1
title=European Council of International Schools: Le Rosey
] Le Rosey is also a member of the European Council of International Schools.

Carnal Hall

Carnal Hall, a planned CHF 45 million (estimated $43 million USD) Arts and Performance Centre, will be situated on Le Rosey's main campus at Rolle. Carnal Hall, named in honor of the founder Paul Carnal, his wife Marguerite, and their son Henri-Paul, will serve as a day-to-day arts centre for the students of Le Rosey and also serve as a cultural link between the students and the people of the La Côte region. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/pdfWeb/20062007/carnalHallJuin07.pdf
title=Carnal Hall
format=PDF
] The plans and designs for Carnal Hall were created by a former Rosean, Japanese architect Paul Noritaka Tange, of Tange Associates in Tokyo. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.tangeweb.com/english/info/home.html
title=Tange Associates
] Carnal Hall will be owned by the Rosey Foundation, a State-approved non-profit organization established in 1999; however, Institut Le Rosey will operate the Centre and will be responsible for organizing performances and functions. Separating ownership of Carnal Hall from Institut Le Rosey and granting it to the Rosey Foundation allows the public to contribute to the financing of the project. Institut Le Rosey will be the principal donor of the project. At the center of Carnal Hall there will be a performance hall seating up to 800 people with a modular balcony capable of seating an additional 800 people. The surrounding buildings will be composed of Carnal Hall's "Learning Centre", which will include 15 sound-proofed music classrooms, an additional 50-seat theatre, and 2 large art studios. Carnal Hall will also feature a conference room seating between 150 and 200 people, a professional kitchen for culinary instruction, and a 100-seat restaurant with an outdoor terrace for an additional 200 people. According to the Vaud regional newspaper, 24 Heures, construction of the Carnal Hall project will begin in 2010 and will be completed in 2012. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/pdfWeb/20062007/carnalHallJuin07.pdf
title=Carnal Hall
format=PDF
] [cite web
date=October 11, 2007
url=http://www.24heures.ch/layout/set/print/(contenu)/143998
title=Le Rosey plans massive art center
]

The Rosey-Abantara Project

In 2004, Institut Le Rosey's Charity Committee undertook a humanitarian program to construct and maintain a private school, the Rosey-Abantara School, in the suburbs of Bamako, the capital city of Mali, in Saharan Africa. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/en/htmlRosey/programmesHum.html
title=Humanitarian Programs
] Rosey-Abantara is considered the most important charity project in Le Rosey's history. The project is entirely financed by the Le Rosey Charity Committee, with costs amounting to CHF 1,200,000 (approximately $1 million USD). An additional CHF 200,000 (approximately $167,000 USD) will be needed to purchase additional land for sports fields. By summer of 2007, primary construction work on the school was completed. By autumn of 2007, an estimated 1,500 Malian children will attend Rosey-Abantara. An independent construction report, by Alfrique Expertises, was published in May 2007, with the report finding the Rosey-Abantara school's structure to be solid. Le Rosey students and teachers undertake humanitarian missions throughout the year to the Rosey-Abantara project to teach Malian students. [cite web
month=May | year=2007
url=http://www.rosey.ch/pdfWeb/20062007/maliMai2007en.pdf
title=A School in Bamako: History & Future
format=PDF
]

Notable alumni

Institut Le Rosey, with over 5,000 former students, [cite web
date=July 5, 1999
url=http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a.html
title=Where you learn to be a billionaire
accessdate=2007-07-14
] has one of the most prestigious alumni registries in the world. [cite web
date=May 10, 2006
url=http://www.ecis.org/directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=LEROS1
title=ECIS: Le Rosey
accessdate=2007-08-02
] Le Rosey has educated generations of dynastic families, including Hohenzollerns, Rothschilds, Metternichs, Borgheses, Hohenlohes, and Radziwiłłs. [cite web
date=October 28, 2000
url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/archive/features/8502/part_3/the-lesson-we-can-learn.thtml
title=The Lesson We Can Learn
accessdate=2007-07-26
] [cite web
date=March 11, 2007
url=http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_simple_life
title=The Simple Life
accessdate=2007-08-03
] The school has also famously educated royalty from around the world, particularly the deposed royal family members of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty of Egypt, the House of Karađorđević of Yugoslavia, the House of Glücksburg of Greece, and the House of Savoy of Italy. [cite web
date=July 5, 1999
url=http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a.html
title=Where you learn to be a billionaire
accessdate=2007-07-14
] Le Rosey has educated several monarchs, including Aga Khan IV, King Albert II of Belgium, King Baudouin I of Belgium, King Fuad II of Egypt, King Ntare V of Burundi, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, and Prince Rainier III of Monaco. [cite web
date=February 17, 1993
url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/02/17/swis.php
title=In Switzerland, Democracy at the Summit
accessdate=2007-07-14
] The future Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Prince Guillaume, was also educated at the school. [cite web
date=
url=http://www.geocities.com/luxroyalty/hgdguillaume.html
title=The Hereditary Grand Duke
accessdate=2007-07-26
] Famous parents of past students at Le Rosey, who often visited the Rolle and Gstaad campuses, include: Elizabeth Taylor, David Niven, John Lennon, Diana Ross, King Leopold III of Belgium, Aristotle Onassis, and Sir Winston Churchill, a Rosean's grandfather. [cite web
date=July 9, 1999
url=http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0705/6401214a_2.html
title=Where you learn to be a Billionaire
accessdate=2007-07-26
] Rainier III once commented on Le Rosey: "The students were much friendlier because they were from such diverse, international backgrounds. I felt, for once in my childhood, that I could take a breath." [cite web
date=
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=uLN9bMlaXdsC&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=prince+rainier+le+rosey&source=web&ots=syodhzF0HH&sig=jnRMoH9EfqxAJBt6yXMASHH9YJE#PPA53,M1
title=Once Upon a Time
accessdate=2007-08-02
]

The sons of high society playboy William Woodward, Jr., William "Woody" Woodward III and James "Jimmy" Woodward, were sent to Le Rosey after their father was accidentally shot and killed by his wife in 1955 in what "Life Magazine" called the "Shooting of the Century". [cite web
date=
url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/celebrity/woodwards/8.html
title=The Woodwards, Tragedy in High Society
accessdate=2008-09-11
] [cite web
date=July 1, 2008
url=http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/kaiser-roll
title=Kaiser Roll
accessdate=2008-09-11
] Their disowned mother would commit suicide years later in 1976. The same year, after returning from the Vietnam War and becoming a heroin addict, Jimmy Woodward committed suicide. In 1999, after divorcing his wife, Woody Woodward committed suicide as well. [cite web
date=
url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/celebrity/woodwards/8.html
title=The Woodwards, Tragedy in High Society
accessdate=2008-09-11
] In his autobiography, "An Arc to Triumph", Rosey alumnus Richard René Silvin wrote of the school's encounter with Charlie Chaplin. After moving to Vevey, near Le Rosey's main campus, Chaplin called the administration requesting to enroll his children, but was turned down due to the 2-year waiting list. [cite web
date=
url=http://www.rrsilvin.com/bio/index.html
title=Richard René Silvin
accessdate=2008-09-11
] Musicians Julian Casablancas and Albert Hammond, Jr. met at Le Rosey and later went on to form the garage rock revival band The Strokes in 1998. [cite web
date=August 5, 2006
url=http://artists.letssingit.com/strokes-the-8hhpv/biography
title=The Strokes Biography
accessdate=2008-01-26
]

In fiction and popular culture

Due to Institut Le Rosey's widespread reputation as one of the most exclusive educational institutions in the world, [cite web
date=February 17, 1993
url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/02/17/swis.php
title=In Switzerland, Democracy at the Summit
accessdate=2007-07-14
] the school has often been mentioned in novels, television programs, biographies, magazines, and other forms of mass media. In fiction, the school is most commonly mentioned in novels relating to the rich and famous, and usually takes the role of being the choice of education for different characters. [cite web
year=1984
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0tiVwuuiMBQC&q=Le+Rosey&dq=Le+Rosey&num=100&pgis=1
title=In Switzerland, Democracy at the Summit
accessdate=2007-08-20
] Le Rosey has been mentioned in Judith Krantz's novels "Princess Daisy" (1980) and "Till We Meet Again" (1988), [cite web
year=1984
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0tiVwuuiMBQC&q=Le+Rosey&dq=Le+Rosey&num=100&pgis=1
title=Princess Daisy
accessdate=2007-08-20
] as well as in several romance novels by Karen Robards. [cite web
year=2001
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=EkMi9buPwSoC&pg=PA139&dq=Le+Rosey&num=100&sig=Ws5BWx33ApavDLwipUVxIyj50Nw
title=Paradise County
accessdate=2007-08-20
] The school is also mentioned in "" (1975) by Truman Capote, [cite web
year=2001
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=EkMi9buPwSoC&pg=PA139&dq=Le+Rosey&num=100&sig=Ws5BWx33ApavDLwipUVxIyj50Nw
title=Answered Prayers
accessdate=2007-08-20
] "Any Woman's Blues" (1990) by Erica Jong, [cite web
year=1990
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OhflWjf4PMwC&q=Le+Rosey&dq=Le+Rosey&num=100&pgis=1
title=Any Woman's Blues
accessdate=2007-08-20
] "For Love Alone" (1992) by Ivana Trump, [cite web
year=1992
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IIJw0aqj55AC&q=Le+Rosey&dq=Le+Rosey&num=100&pgis=1
title=For Love Alone
accessdate=2007-08-20
] and "What Became of Her" (2002) by Marijane Meaker. [cite web
year=2002
url=http://books.google.com/books?q=Le+Rosey&lr=&num=100&sa=N&start=300
title=What Became of Her
accessdate=2007-08-20
] Similarly, Le Rosey is mentioned in Bret Easton Ellis' novel "American Psycho" (1991), as the alma mater of Evelyn Williams, who is the protagonist's fiancée for most of the novel. In a 2002 episode of , affluent character Martha Strick, played by Veanne Cox, says she attended Le Rosey. [cite web
year=2007
url=http://imdb.com/name/nm0185274/
title=Veanne Cox
accessdate=2007-08-20
]

In non-fiction, alumni Michael Korda and James Laughlin have written about their experiences and memories at Le Rosey. [cite web
year=2002
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rvw92SaEpyQC&pg=PA234&dq=Le+Rosey&sig=a-tgqgtRMM_DfTY2n8jGKhGJYcc
title=Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
accessdate=2007-08-20
] [cite web
year=2005
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YIkU3xonqWAC&pg=PA291&dq=Le+Rosey&sig=Hl4_uMlnLCW3qwnOMR4F7h2nzQo
title=Byways: A Memoir
accessdate=2007-08-20
] Columnist Taki Theodoracopulos has written extensively on the school and its alumni, [cite web
year=1984
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=u8IiAAAAMAAJ&q=Le+Rosey&dq=Le+Rosey&pgis=1
title=Princes, Playboys & High-Class Tarts
accessdate=2007-08-20
] and was in the middle of a mild controversy when in 1998 he jokingly wrote in the "The Spectator" that Osama bin Laden had attended Le Rosey. [cite web
date=March 3, 2004
url=http://www.gstaadlife.ch/archive/documents/gl04_05.pdfid=u8IiAAAAMAAJ&q=Le+Rosey&dq=Le+Rosey&pgis=1
title=Have you seen Harry Bin Laden lately?
accessdate=2007-08-20
] [cite web
year=1996
url=http://www.terra.com.br/istoedinheiro/266/estilo/266_colegios_elite.htm
title=Colegios da Elite
accessdate=2007-08-20
] The story resulted in an outcry from American readers, inquiries from several magazines, and the school publicly and "vehemently" denying that bin Laden had attended Le Rosey. [cite web
date=March 3, 2004
url=http://www.gstaadlife.ch/archive/documents/gl04_05.pdfid=u8IiAAAAMAAJ&q=Le+Rosey&dq=Le+Rosey&pgis=1
title=Have you seen Harry Bin Laden lately?
accessdate=2007-08-20
] In 1999, Russian journalist Paul Klebnikov (murdered in 2004) wrote an exposé on Le Rosey in "Forbes Magazine" detailing the problems the school was experiencing with its majority Russian student body. [cite web
date=May 7, 1999
url=http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a_2.html
title=Where you learn to be a billionaire
accessdate=2007-08-20
]

Plans to leave Gstaad

In January 2008, Swiss economics magazine "Bilanz", a subsidiary of Groupe Edipresse, published an interview with Le Rosey Director-General Philippe Gudin that revealed the school is currently seeking the sale of its Gstaad winter campus and the construction of a new campus in another location. [cite web
date=January 30, 2008
url=http://www.bilan.ch/pdf/lerosey.pdf
title=Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad
accessdate=2008-02-02
format=PDF
] Gudin is currently in negotiations with the local authorities in Schönried, a ski resort village adjacent to Gstaad, to construct a new main campus on an undeveloped piece of land, but has run into difficulties due to zoning restrictions. [cite web
date=January 30, 2008
url=http://www.bilan.ch/pdf/lerosey.pdf
title=Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad
accessdate=2008-02-02
format=PDF
] Reasons for moving to a new campus, according to the Director-General, include the fact that the school's personnel, who typically live on campus, are at maximum capacity, and that the student body can no longer increase in size due to the lack of space. [cite web
date=January 30, 2008
url=http://www.bilan.ch/pdf/lerosey.pdf
title=Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad
accessdate=2008-02-02
format=PDF
] Gudin stated that for the moment the new winter campus location will be in Switzerland, but he has not ruled out the French Alps. [cite web
date=January 30, 2008
url=http://www.bilan.ch/pdf/lerosey.pdf
title=Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad
accessdate=2008-02-02
format=PDF
] The 100,000m² (approximately 25 acres) of prime real estate that the school occupies on Ried Hill in the centre of Gstaad is estimated to be worth several hundreds of millions of USD, considering the "International Herald Tribune" reports that the price per square meter in Gstaad starts at 20,000 CHF and can rise to 45,000 CHF. [cite web
date=November 18, 2005
url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/17/news/regstaad.php
title=Gstaad's precious, pastoral appeal
accessdate=2008-02-02
] Gudin asserts that the high value of the Gstaad winter campus has nothing to do with its planned sale. [cite web
date=January 30, 2008
url=http://www.bilan.ch/pdf/lerosey.pdf
title=Le Rosey songe à quitter Gstaad
accessdate=2008-02-02
format=PDF
]

References

External links

* [http://www.rosey.ch/ Official Website]
* [http://www.aiar.ch/ Official Alumni Website]


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