This year, the School transferred to a new notification system, RAVE Alert, recognizing the importance during emergency situations for every member of the Choate community to not only receive some type of notification but to take correct action. During the year’s first school meeting, students were asked to download theRead More

Every weekend at Choate, after five long days of quizzes, tests, and sports practices, dozens of students head to restaurants and movie theaters in town to relax. With only a small percentage of day students able to drive and rules against  boarding students having cars on campus, the demand forRead More

Last week, Jonathan Geller ’20 was selected to be a member of the US National Physics Team. Every year, the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) sponsors a competition for high school students to represent the United States at the International Physics OlympiadRead More

  Ms. Laney Teaford began working at Choate Summer Programs as a Teaching Assistant whilst still studying at Williams College. She joined winter school as a teaching fellow in 2017. Having taught math at Choate for the past two years, Ms. Teaford will now return back to school to studyRead More

After a 25-year career at Choate, Ms. Elizabeth Droel will retire from teaching. Over the years, Ms. Elizabeth Droel has taught a variety of math courses, and devoted herself to coaching a host of athletics, including field hockey, basketball, volleyball, running, and tennis. Likewise, her dorm-advising has taken her onRead More

  Before coming to Choate in 1992, Mr. Joel Backon worked at technology and financial management positions in the printing and publishing industries. As his career became threatened by the industry’s shift toward desktop publishing, the use of personal computers to design print publications, he turned to teaching. “I hadRead More

After the conclusion of this school year — and more than forty years at Choate, —Mr. Bob Mellon will retire from teaching. Mr. Mellon has held countless roles on campus, from being the Theater Section Head to teaching a plethora of courses involving theater, design, art, photography, and film. Mr.Read More

After six years as Choate’s Director of Global Programs, Ms. Sara Boisvert is leaving the position to work at the Collegiate School in Richmond, Virginia as the Director of Collegiate’s Institute for Responsible Citizenship. Ms. Boisvert came to Choate in July of 2013, as the School’s second Director of GlobalRead More

Few faculty members have made as large an impact on campus life as Mr. Jim Yanelli. After coming to Choate from Berlin in the early ‘80s, he quickly took on an instrumental role in transforming the old Student Activities Center into a lively hub of entertainment. He has pioneered campusRead More