Notable Graduates of Paradise Academy

Many graduates of the Paradise Academy went on to make great contributions to Nova Scotia and other places.

University professors, doctors of medicine, political leaders of stature, railway commissioner, activists for human rights, many university-trained and ordained clergy, musicians, artists, teachers, lawyers, a Minister of Education, historian, wealthy philanthropist, Member of the British Empire, engineers, and an Acadia and Harvard MA who began the first Tourism Department of Nova Scotia! 

The following is a list of some of our notable graduates from the Paradise Academy.

• Rev. Gilbert Bent, Boston
• Hon. Avard Longley, M.P.P., M.P.
• Rev. Edward Balcom
• Theodore H. Vidito, Esq. of Framingham, Mass., teacher and lecturer
• Dr. Samuel Bentley
• Prof. Frank Starratt, Colgate University
• Rev. C.K. Morse, Winnipeg
• Rev. R.O. Morse, Prince Edward Island
• Rev. W.I. Morse, Rector of St. Johns Episcopal, Lynn, MA
• Thomas Freeman Porter of Lynn, Mass., a poet of renown
• Dr. Clarendon Foster, New Jersey
• Prof. Rg. Boehner of Germany
• Rev. Stewart Kinley, Maine
• Mary Kinley Ingraham, teacher at Spellman Seminary, Georgia
• Prof. W.H. Longley, BA, PhD, instructor in Biology at Yale University
• Rev. Robie Longley, missionary in China
• Dr. Frank Freeman, Faculty Temple Medical University, Philadephia, PA
• Dr. Aubrey Durling, D.D.S., Middleton, NS
• Williard G. Longley, Prof of Algebra in Minnesota
• R.I. Balcom, BA
• Dr. Louis H. Morse, Digby
• Prof. Bradford Daniels
• Rev. Ritchie Elliot
• Percy Elliot, Barrister at Law, Waters, SK
• Edward J. Morse, Barrister, Windsor
• Charles Durling, Bank Manager, Cuba and Nova Scotia
• Donald P. Starratt, a successful businessman
• J.A. McArthur, Lynn, Mass.
• Rev. J.C. Morse of Digby
• Prof. Fred C. Hart, Geologist
• Howard Marshall, founder of Harmonic Society of Music, Boston, Mass.
• Rev. George Armstrong, D. Div.
• Col. W.E. Starratt
• Dr. Bruce, Lawrencetown
• Prof. James Trueman, Toronto
• Dr. George Balcom
• L.S. Morse, Inspector of Schools
• J. Wilberforce Longley, M.P.P., Attorney General of Nova Scotia
• Dr. J. B. Hall, Lawrencetown
• Guilford P. Morse, Surgeon
• Joseph Bancroft, M.P., Round Hill
• Rev. James Bancroft, Yarmouth
• Mr. Bohaker, editor of the St. Paul Press of the Middle West
• Dr. Melbourne Balcom, Aylesford
• Dr. Parker Balcom, Aylesford
• Helen A. Vidito taught school in Bridgetown for 35 years
• Ella Longley Harlow, principal of several leading education institutions
• Caleb S. Phinney, public school teacher
• Miss L. Bent Cohoon, Wolfville, educator and teacher
• Miss Sophie Bent, noted teacher
• Dr. Carey Marshall
• Bessie Brown, Halifax, a distinguished artist
• Miss Annie Longley, Cambridge, Kings Co., a famous telegraph operator
• Minetta A. Longley, music teacher
• Rev. Stanley, Leonard
• Dr. Fred Leonard
• Dr. Charles Leonard, Philadelphia, PA
• Rev. Alfred Morse, Denver, CO
• Dr Irving S. Balcom, Younkers, NY
• Rev. J.H. Balcom, Paradise, NS
• Broderick Hall, M.A., Inspector of Schools
• Prof. Ernest Morse, Kansas University, Kansas
• Prof. Charles Morse, Kansas University, Kansas
• R.S. Leonard, M.A., President Paradise Literary Society
• Rev. J. Willard Fitch, Vancouver, BC
• T.D. Ruggles, Civil Engineer, Winnipeg, MB
• Rev. H.H. Roach
• Arther Roach, Esq., Inspector of Police, Worcester, MA
• H.A. Whitman, PhD, Barrister, Saskatchewan
• Edwin Lilly, Dominion Geologist and Prof. of Physics at Yale
• Dr. Ronald S. Longley, Prof. History, Acadia University
• Frederick W. Bishop, M.B.E. for contribution to horticulture
• Dr. Willard H. Longley, Director of Agricultural College, Truro, NS
• Albert & Richmond Longley, “Who’s Who” in American Science
• Robert Longley, Dominion Experimental Station, Kentville, NS
• Malcom S. Leonard, Barrister, M.P.P., Minister of Education, Health & Welfare
• Prof. Norman H. Morse
• Prof. Arnold Tingley
• Major Ewart C. Longley, instructor, officer’s training, England, and Principal, Dartmouth, NS

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