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John Hubert Christian Corlette (21 June 1911- 9 December 1977) was an English architect and the founder of the Aiglon College in Switzerland. Prior to founding Aiglon, Corlette was a teacher at Gordonstoun , a private school in Scotland .
Website. aiglon .ch. Aiglon College is a private co-educational boarding school in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Founded in 1949 by former Gordonstoun teacher John C. Corlette, it occupies a scenic location in the alpine village of Chesieres, close to the ski resort of Villars-sur-Ollon, 58 kilometers from Lausanne .
- 1949
- "The balanced development of mind, body and spirit."
- 8 boarding houses
- John C. Corlette
In 1949 John Corlette conceived Aiglon on foundations that have ensured our school and its students continue to evolve and thrive. For over seventy years Aiglon has benefitted from a founder whose classical ideas, joined with progressive philosophies, continue to inspire our development. From the school’s very beginning with just six pupils ...
Memories of John Corlette By Norman Perryman (Head of Art, 1966-73) My first meeting with John Corlette was in December 1966, in Clairmont, at that time the rather gloomy, overcrowded administrative centre of Aiglon. After taking up residence in Leysin I was looking for a teaching job.
John Corlette started a school called Aiglon College. You can see his philosophy in a speech www.TINYURL.com/jcspeechWes Green has written about www.OurA...
Aiglon College was founded by an eccentric (or crackpot) Englishman called John Corlette – he liked to be referred to as JC – with an educational philosophy (if it can be graced with such a term) made up, in equal parts, of self-improvement, mysticism, social responsibility and the like on the one hand, and fascist regimentation on the other.
Colette is a 2018 biographical drama film directed by Wash Westmoreland, from a screenplay by Westmoreland, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Richard Glatzer, based upon the life of the French novelist Colette. It stars Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Denise Gough .
