Forbes House
Forbes House
Students
27 residents
Rooms
11 singles; 8 doubles; three floors, Garden View, 2nd floor West, 3rd floor West
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Distinguishing Characteristics
Forbes House is on the main campus, next to the dining hall. The house has a main common room; a game room with a pool table and ping pong table; a state of the art kitchen with a microwave, stove and refrigerator that was constructed in the summer of 2022; and a faculty duty office.
The dormitory has three floors and three separate residence hallways, each of which has its own smaller common room and bathroom facilities. All floors have a mixed balance of students from Classes III-I, and all floors have a Senior Floor Leader.
Two faculty and their families live in apartments within or attached to Forbes House. Forbes House is one of the original dormitories on campus.
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Forbes Traditions:
House Council, led by an elected House Monitor and Class representatives;
Hanging out on the Forbes porch;
Partnership with Robbins House – Forbes/Robbins dinners;
House trips out to Boston, skyzone, the movie theater; cooking together
Students’ achievements celebrated with “shout-outs” at weekly dorm meetings;
Trips into Boston by Forbes floor “families;”
Holiday dorm caroling;
Exam Week snacks
Dodgeball;
Pool and ping pong tournaments;
Pizza-feeds;
Forbes “Spirit Award;”
Forbes lapel pin;
Senior Honors Dinner (where seniors pass on the Forbes lapel pin)