In The News

On Saturday April 26, Choate Rosemary Hall hosts the WSO’s 50th Anniversary celebration concert in Ann & George Colony Hall. The public is invited to the celebratory music of Golden Sounds—A Magical Night. A pre-concert reception includes music, drinks, and hors d’oeuvres at 5 p.m., followed by the concert. Limited tickets are available. 

Choate’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance (SPECTRUM) recently gathered 60 students from 10 schools throughout the northeast for the 16th Annual Interschool Gender & Sexuality Conference entitled “Out to Win: How Queer Athletes are Changing the Game On and Off the Field.” The event included a keynote speech by Jamie Lee Twist Schroeder ’99 MD, DPhil.  

Emmy Award-winning writer and New York Times bestselling author Seth Meyers, host of NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” since 2014, will deliver the Commencement Address for the Choate Rosemary Hall Class of 2025. Head of School Alex Curtis made the announcement to sixth form students and the School community today.  

Themes of opportunity, identity, and belonging dominated the winning entries of this year’s Pratt Packard Declamation Contest. The 24th annual contest concluded with the Choate community hearing the four winning student orators deliver their speeches in Ann and George Colony Hall recently. 

In continuation of a tradition running for over 16 years, Wallingford agencies are receiving gently used Choate technology equipment to help serve the local community.  This year 18 organizations are giving second homes to over $86,400 worth of Choate technology.  

Recently, Choate partnered with Wallingford Center Inc., a local non-profit organization dedicated to Downtown Wallingford's economic growth and vitality, to launch several new programs.  

Choate took home a 2024 Bronze InspirED School Marketers “Brilliance Award” for its alumni Bulletin “Teaching Excellence” series. The entries were evaluated by a volunteer panel of 72 marketing experts from across the globe—all professionals in private schools or businesses that focus on private school marketing.

On February 4, the School welcomed back guest speakers Drs. Ethan Kross and Laurie Santos for a fireside chat about Kross’s new book, Shift, which provides a myth-busting, science-based guide to managing emotional lives.  

This year’s Diversity Day celebration, themed “Keeping the Torch Lit: Athletes as Advocates for Justice,” featured a keynote program with gold medalists Tara Davis-Woodhall and her husband, Hunter Woodhall, along with a full slate of workshops, hands-on research, and films related to the topic of social justice and sports. Davis-Woodhall won the gold medal for the women’s long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and Woodhall won the gold medal in the men’s 400M race at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.