25 - Clay V. Stites, Headmaster

Clay V. Stites, Curtis School’s fourth headmaster, served as headmaster of Friends Academy in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, for 15 years before his appointment to lead Curtis following the retirement of Mr. Badham in 1992. Our campus facilities and the school we have become owe much to Mr. Stites’s leadership. He led the school through its first major capital campaign, the Curtis 2000 Campaign, securing the funds needed to build the DK-5th Grade classroom buildings as well as the Kissick Pavilion. In addition to transforming our campus facilities, he was instrumental in supporting and developing the academic curriculum to follow best practices in independent schools.