On Tuesday, February 13, this year’s Pratt-Packard Declamation finalists shared their speeches with the Choate community during school meeting. This year’s winner was Medina Purefoy-Craig ’20, followed by Samantha Stevenson ’19, Hannah Huddleston ’19, and Sabastian Chacon ’19. The four finalists were chosen by a group of faculty members afterRead More

Makeup is a beautiful and awe-inspiring art form. It is a tool in which one’s body is a canvas. Choate’s opportunities for visual artistic creativity such as Art Club, In Moda, and of course the visual art classes are treasured among the visual artists. What about those whose medium isRead More

At the end of her second term at Choate, Camille Grant ’21 has kick-started two new student groups: Origins, a campus publication about race and ethnicity, and Mixed Heritage Association, a club centered around those who identify as having a mixed heritage. While focused on racial and ethnic diversity, bothRead More

Almost a month and a half after the Gregorian calendar announced the arrival of 2018, the people of China celebrated Lunar New Year, the beginning of the Year of the Dog. In Chinese culture, it is the most important holiday culturally, and it gives families a time and reason toRead More

Along with the additional entrance tests for Choate applicants, starting this fall, students matriculating at Choate will experience new diploma requirements. The requirements will ask students to complete ten hours of community service each year, not, as it is now, a total of thirty hours throughout their career. Director ofRead More

Winter term is coming to an end, and the longer and warmer days of spring mean that it’s time to check out the new course catalogue if you’re not a sixth former. Each year, the catalogue is reviewed by a panel  of faculty members, including Academic Department Heads; the DirectorRead More

Choate is soon to be surprised by a unique and entertaining yet simple work of theatre that will grace the stage this April, introducing something new to the community at large. It will be a children’s performance of The Wizard of Oz played by Choate students. Ms. Carol Jones, Choate’sRead More

It can be difficult to get every one of the nearly 900 students at Choate to read the required summer-reading book. The Wallingford Public Library (WPL) has taken on an even tougher task: it’s invited all of the more than 45,000 Wallingford residents to pick up a copy of TheRead More

Hi, readers, if you exist. What you’re currently reading is my column, A La Mode. More specifically, however, it is its 18th and very last article. My time as Choate’s fashion reporter has come to an end, for I will soon become this wonderful page’s editor. Although a slightly selfishRead More