Sporting Schools
In 1966, Leigh Perkins launched a successful fly-fishing school in Manchester, eventually expanding into Missouri, Michigan, Virginia, Idaho and Massachusetts. As of 2006, seven Orvis schools had graduated about 40,000 students. The first Orvis shooting school, based on the long-standing British model, began training upland bird hunters in 1973. This program has also successfully grown to include schools such as Mays Pond Plantation in Monticello, Florida and Orvis's shooting preserve at Orvis Sandanona, in Millbrook, New York.
While Perkins was forthright in his primary goal for the schools to attract new Orvis customers, the schools have also become important mentors in the values and traditions of both sports.
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