His daughters, not so much. But they were pretty. His son ended up being roommates with the son of some rich banker from Geneva, Switzerland. The Swiss family ended up having their whole family over to their place in Zermatt for a New Years/ski vacation. All they had to do was pay for the plane tickets.
Freepers love to disparage all the rich kids prep schools and Ivy league colleges. However, IF your kid can get into one of these schools they might end up roommates with some future CEO or mover/shaker of government or industry.
Way back, before the flood ( hahahahaha), in the early-mid 1960s, when I knew about Holderness, it was still was still ALL BOYS, as it had always been. When they went co-ed, I don't know.
Yes, sadly a LOT of posters here disparage these schools as well as IVIES and the "little IVIES"! many of them are the same ones who boast about how little their weddings cost and such, and revel in just how little they spend on other things. It's reverse SNOBBERY and is just as stupid as the opposite kind.
And then there are the ones who slam major cities ( they were doing this BEFORE such places were ruined! ), poo pooing amazing museums, theatre, opera, etc.!
Yes, one never knows who one's roommate/s will be, nor who will be in one's class or team. And this is also true re the elite private day schools.
Does the above "help" when one is an adult?
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't; that's something one won't know until later in life; however, it IS all a valuable learning experience. Well, it used to be! Now? I'm not so sure.
Two of it's early pupils were two brothers whose last name was Phillips. One founded Exeter and the other founded Andover! :-)