By Sabrina Wang ’23 and Stephanie Chen ’23 When English teacher Mr. Ed McCatty came to Choate in 1992, he had not expected to end up spending the next 28 years of his life at the School. However, when he attended his very first School Meeting, he was deeply movedRead More

My love for Choate came slowly — an unhurried, tentative process that ebbed and flowed like waves. On more than one day during these last three years, I would have done anything to see Jakarta’s jumbled skyline instead of the order of red-brick academic buildings. I felt suffocated by theRead More

By Alexis Lien ’23 and Renee Jiang ’22 Since his arrival at Choate, in 1970, Faculty Marshall Mr. Phil Ventre has rebuilt the School’s music program from the ground up, developing it into one of the best in the nation. Today, Choate is the only secondary school in the U.S.Read More

By Angel Guo ’22 and Jessica Wu ’22 Mrs. Beth Peters was introduced to Choate by Mr. Charlie Long, a Spanish teacher at Choate, whom she met while working on her master’s degree one summer at Middlebury College, in Vermont. A year later, while she was living in Spain, Mr.Read More

What’s the hardest part of being home this term, rather than in Quantrell? I feel a sense of being lost after 12:00 a.m. In the dorm, I would usually be chugging through all of the work I had procrastinated on until a hoard of dorm-mates either barged through my doorRead More

Coming to Choate as a new sophomore, I had no idea what to expect. I didn’t expect that I would spend three years living above the Andrew Mellon Library with advisers who would become my second moms or that I would meet friends and teachers who would help me growRead More

No forewarning could have prepared me for the moment I heard the news that the last term of my Choate career would occur only remotely. As it happened, I was shopping at Target in Miami when the fateful Outlook notification popped up on my screen. An intense vertigo overwhelmed meRead More

Favorite spot on campus? The PMAC when it’s raining. —Peter Loiselle  The grass above the track — perfect sunset view. —Haley Strom  What was the best course you took at Choate? International Relations. —Lambert Perkins  Reverse Engineering. —Jamie Shin  What would you change about your Choate career? Come to ChoateRead More

By Heidi Li ’23 and Linda Phan ’22 Mr. Charlie Long, who will retire this year after 44 years at the School, has loved languages nearly his entire life. Before entering Oberlin College, from which he graduated with a triple major in Spanish, German, and the Teaching of English asRead More