Articles by: Joy Bang '22

With Anxious Eye, Choate Watches Election Returns

With Anxious Eye, Choate Watches Election Returns

November 13, 2020 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

Photo courtesy of Katie Jewett In light of the 2020 U.S. presidential election and its possible impacts on the members of the diverse Choate community, student groups and the administration both arranged a number of special programs on and after Tuesday, November 3, Election Day. On election night , theRead More

Readers United Holds Virtual Classes for Students in Japan

Readers United Holds Virtual Classes for Students in Japan

September 25, 2020 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

Graphic by Sesame Gaetsaloe/ The Choate News On May 10, Readers United began hosting weekly online conversation classes with middle school students in Japan in response to school closures caused by Covid-19. The club, founded in 2016, was originally created to explore reading with younger students in Wallingford, but asRead More

Trista LeBlanc-Serbyn Wins Pratt-Packard Speech Contest

Trista LeBlanc-Serbyn Wins Pratt-Packard Speech Contest

May 15, 2020 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

The finalists, including winner Trista LeBlanc-Serbyn ’22, shared their speeches via Zoom instead of at a school meeting. Photo by Gretchen MacLean/The Choate News On May 5, the finalists of the annual Pratt-Packard Declamation Contest, Sakura Hayakawa ’21, Joe Monti ’21, Adrienne Chacón ’22, and Trista LeBlanc-Serbyn ’22 delivered theirRead More

Choate Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

Choate Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

May 1, 2020 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

On April 8, Head of School Dr. Alex Curtis notified Choate’s faculty and staff of Mr. Patrick Durbin’s appointment as the School’s next Chief Financial Of- ficer (CFO), effective July 1. Mr. Durbin currently serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer at theRead More

Online Learning Challenges Students and Faculty

Online Learning Challenges Students and Faculty

April 17, 2020 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

Students, faculty, and special programs are presented with the challenges of adapting to remote learning due to the novel Coronavirus making a physical spring term impossible.

Choate Ethics Bowl Wins Big at Regionals

Choate Ethics Bowl Wins Big at Regionals

February 14, 2020 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

On Saturday, January 25, Choate’s Ethics Bowl team won first place out of the 13 teams participating in the Connecticut Regional High School Ethics Bowl at Yale University. The Ethics Bowl team began rigorously preparing for this tournament at the start of the school year. The team initially worked withRead More