auditorium/theater, a black box, an art gallery, and a complete workshop for technical theater. The Academy has performed exceedingly well in recent Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards competitions, ranking first in total awards in 2010 and second in 2011. In 2012, Academy students won 39 awards in the competition in 4 different art disciplines: ceramics, studio art, photography and film. Governor's artists won 15 Gold Keys, 10 Silver Keys, and 14 Honorable Mentions, making the Academy the most winning independent school in Massachusetts. Traditions Every member of the school signs a book, located in The Little Red School House, upon arrival. This tradition dates back to the school's early years under the first Headmaster, Samuel Moody. After commencement, every member of the graduating class jumps over the mansion house wall. Notable alumni Wentworth Cheswell (1765), the first African American elected to public office in the United States Theophilus Parsons (1765), Chief Justice of Massachusetts Eliphalet Pearson (1769), first headmaster of Phillips Academy Andover, interim President of Harvard University, 1804-1806 Samuel Phillips, Jr. (1771), founder of Phillips Andover Samuel Tenney, scholar, judge, physician/surgeon who treated wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill, attached to the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, encamped at Valley Forge, PA, designated acting Surgeon General of the Army by General Washington, delegate to New Hampshire's Constitutional Convention, U.S. congressman Samuel Sewall (congressman) (1772), U.S. congressman, Chief Justice of Massachusetts Rufus King (1773) delegate to Constitutional Convention, United States Senator and 1816 Federalist candidate for President Samuel Osgood (1776), first U.S. Postmaster, Speaker New York State Assembly; first President, City Bank of New York Edward Preble (1776), U.S. Naval officer during Revolutionary War and thereafter, commanded USS Constitution during war with Barbary Pirates Tobias Lear (1779), personal secretary to George Washington Benjamin Pickman, Jr. (1780), Massachusetts state legislator, U.S. congressman Sir David Ochterlony, American "Tory" officer in the British Army who served in India from 1777 until his death in 1825, rising to the rank of general while helping to consolidate British colonial rule there Joseph Willard, President of Harvard University (1781–1804) Samuel Webber, President of Harvard University (1806–1810) Parker Cleaveland (1795), professor of mineralogy at Bowdoin College, leading early American authority on this subject, known as the "Father of American Mineralogy" Frederick W. Lander, Brig. Gen. USA, killed in action during the Civil War Reuben D. Mussey, Jr. (1846), Brig. Gen. USA, later private secretary to President Andrew