Welcome, parents! And welcome, former Choate students! Parents’ Weekend allows alumni parents to relive their Choate experiences. Many alumni parents (most of whom have already attended their 25th reunion) are awed by how much Choate has changed — for better and for worse — since their time here. The mostRead 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

The Summer Programs Office, which is currently located at Gables House on Memorial Circle, is set to  move to Carrington House in the near future. Before moving to Gables, the four faculty members who work at the Summer Programs Offices were settled in the basement of the old St. JohnRead More

For six class days in the winter term, one Latin 350 student’s to-do list looked like this: 1) Pass a consultum on at least one of the large issues for debate. 2) Take office as planned on January 1. 3) Gain as much power as possible. This was the missionRead More

At Choate, the term “Freaky Friday” does not refer to the popular 2003 movie starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis ’76. Rather, Freaky Friday is an event of singing, skits, and fun that will take place tonight, January 26, in St. John Hall. Freaky Friday was developed in theRead More

The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics recently released a documentary on President John F. Kennedy ’35 entitled This Is The House That Jack Built. The production team for this documentary sought to uncover “untold stories” about JFK 100 years after his birth and more than 50 after his assassination.Read More

You’ve probably caught a glimpse of the enormous taxidermic moose head perched above the senior section of Hill House Dining Hall — it’s pretty hard to miss — but have you ever wondered how it ended up there, or even how it got in Choate’s possession? Serena Sandweiss ’20 hasRead More

  The Mailroom, which last summer was relocated underneath the Dining Hall, is a means for students and faculty members to send and receive packages and mail. All of the students have their own mailboxes, and faculty members also receive packages from this space. It might seem shocking that theRead More

You may be familiar with the histories behind The Choate School and Rosemary Hall, which were founded in 1896 and 1890, respectively, but have you ever stopped to wonder how the town of Wallingford came to be? Wallingford’s origins lie in 1667, 350 years ago, when 38 planters and freemenRead More