RPS History (Chinese Translation)

Rutgers Preparatory School is the oldest independent, college preparatory school in New Jersey. Founded in 1766, RPS today is a coeducational day school with programs from pre-kindergarten through grade twelve. In its origin, RPS represented the joint aspirations of Dutch and English colonists and it has sustained this remarkable tradition of multiculturalism throughout its history. This diversity is a strength celebrated at RPS.

罗格斯预备学校是新泽西州最古老的独立大学预备学校。1766建立，现在是提供从学前班到12年级课程的男女混合走读学校。罗格斯预备学校最初代表了荷兰和英国移民的共同理想，并在此后历史中一直保持着这一多元文化传统。这种多元文化正是罗格斯预备学校优势所在。

There was quite a competition between the Newark area and New Brunswick during the 1760’s to obtain a charter for a college. Ultimately, New Brunswick succeeded in chartering Queen’s College and Queen’s College Grammar School (Rutgers Prep) because only here did both the Anglican and Dutch Reformed congregations join together in their petition to the crown. As advertised on August 15, 1768, the first master to give instruction was Caleb Cooper of Nassau Hall (Princeton).

纽瓦克和新布朗斯维克在17世纪60年代为得到学院许可证展开激烈竞争。最终新布朗斯维克由于英国圣公会和荷兰改革宗教会共同提出申请而赢得了开设女王学院和女王学院语法学校 (罗格斯预备学校）许可。1768年8月15日普林斯顿的科伯‧库珀（Caleb Cooper）被提名为第一任校长。

A boys’ boarding school throughout most of its history, RPS has strong international connections, especially with Japan. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the first Japanese students to come to America studied at the prep school before attending Rutgers University and hundreds would follow them by the turn of the twentieth century.

罗格斯预备学校在大部分历史中是一所男子寄宿学校，有很强的国际联系，特别是与日本联系密切。在19世纪中期，第一批日本学生在罗格斯预备学校学习，然后进入罗格斯大学就读。进入20世纪，已经有上百名日本学生在此学习过。

During the Progressive Era, Rutgers Preparatory School was an innovator, being among the first schools in the nation to institute laboratory sciences, extracurricular activities, student publications and community service. This leadership was also reflected in an expansion of the curriculum and the inclusion of female students from 1892 through the 1920’s. It was during this period that poet A. Joyce Kilmer ’04 attended the school.

随着时代进步，罗格斯预备学校作为创新者在全国第一批创立科学实验室，开展课余活动，发行学生出版物及开展社区服务。从1892年至19世纪20年代，这种创新还体现在课程的扩充及招收女生中。在这一时期，诗人乔伊斯‧基尔默（A. Joyce Kilmer‘04）在学校就读。

1952 was a pivotal year during which the school ended its boarding program, admitted women to the high school and eliminated the football team. When Rutgers University became the state university in the 1950’s, the Board of Trustees decided to divest itself of the preparatory school. Between 1958 and 1962 RPS re-established itself as an independent school, taking its present form on the Somerset campus. The new Board of Trustees, lead by Headmaster David Heinlein, recreated the school with the support of current parents by purchasing the Wells Estate. In 1983 a fire destroyed the Upper School building on the new Somerset campus. This tragedy brought the school community together and classes resumed only three days later in improvised classrooms and trailers. In the last fifteen years RPS has added a new high school building as well as a second gymnasium, multi-purpose room, library/technology center, and music building.

1952年是重要一年，学校终止了住宿项目，开始招收高中女生并且解散了足球队。19世纪50年代罗格斯大学成为州立大学，董事会决定放弃预备学校。1958至1962年，罗格斯预备学校作为一家独立学校以现在的形式在萨默塞特校区重建。大卫‧黑勒林（David Heinlein）带领新的董事会在家长帮助下买下威尔士地产，重建学校。1983年，一场火灾毁掉了萨默塞特新校区高中部大楼。灾难使学校成员团结在一起，仅3天之后大家又在临时教室及拖车里上课。最近15年，罗格斯预备学校建设了新高中大楼和第二个体育馆、多功能房、图书馆、技术中心以及音乐楼。

Rutgers Prep typically enrolled about one hundred students in the high school in the early 1950’s, and twenty-eight seniors made up the graduating class of 1962. By the 21st century the school had grown to almost seven hundred students with a graduating class of eighty-four in 2010. RPS will open a new Dining Commons in 2011 and will complete eleven new classrooms for the fall of 2012.

19世纪50年代初，罗格斯预备学校一般招收大约100名高中生，1962年毕业生有28名。进入21世纪，学校发展到700名在校生，2010年毕业生达到84名。罗格斯预备学校将在2011年建设一间新食堂，并在2012年秋完成11间新教室建设。