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Choate Rosemary Hall (commonly referred to as Choate) is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut. From its shared roots over a century ago as The Choate School and Rosemary Hall, through their merger in 1974, Choate Rosemary Hall is part of The Ten Schools Admissions Organization, along with several other New England-based boarding schools including Deerfield Academy, Taft School, St. Paul's School, and Phillips Academy.
Choate offers courses in English, mathematics, science, foreign languages, history, ethics, political science, economics, and a range of electives.
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Choate Rosemary Hall (commonly referred to as Choate) is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut. From its shared roots over a century ago as The Choate School and Rosemary Hall, through their merger in 1974, Choate Rosemary Hall is part of The Ten Schools Admissions Organization, along with several other New England-based boarding schools including Deerfield Academy, Taft School, St. Paul's School, and Phillips Academy.
Choate offers courses in English, mathematics, science, foreign languages, history, ethics, political science, economics, and a range of electives. In addition, the school offers a concentration program in the arts and a science research program. The Capstone Project during senior year allows students to focus on one type of academic area (such as the Capstone for Creative Writing).
Choate also offers a range of extracurricular activities, including eighty-one interscholastic teams in thirty-two sports, academic clubs, and student-run publications. Choate's athletic rival is Deerfield Academy.
The 450 acre campus encompasses a blend of architectural styles from colonial homes and Georgian buildings to dramatic modern structures designed by noted architect I.M. Pei. 119 houses, dormitories, and classroom buildings grace the large campus. As of the June 30, 2007, the school's endowment was approximately $267 million.
Traditions
There are many traditions kept by Choate Rosemary Hall. Among them are Matriculation, President's Day, Deerfield Day, the Physics Phlotilla, the Last Hurrah, the Garden Party, and Commencement.
President's Day is a day off from classes during the winter term. However, it is only declared by the headmaster on the night before and is therefore the subject of much speculation.
Deerfield Day, held during the last days of fall term, marks the end of the fall sports season. It culminates in matches between Choate and Deerfield in varsity girls and boys soccer, varsity boys' football, varsity girls' volleyball, and varsity girls' field hockey. While Choate does have a water polo team, they do not compete this weekend because it commonly falls with the New Englands Championships. Both Choate and Deerfield have strong water polo teams and likely see each other in New Englands. Sub-varsity level teams also compete. Choate hosts a bonfire and pep rally the night before.
The Last Hurrah is the year's last formal social event for seniors, which includes a reception, dinner, and ballroom dancing.
Garden Party, which is a Rosemary Hall tradition, takes place each spring. Sixth form girls invite a fifth form girl and a faculty member. They exchange flowers, take pictures, and pass on Rosemarian traditions to the class of rising senior girls. A slideshow is also presented. Boys, in turn, have created a makeshift Garden Party, known as "Parden Garty" and have recently been included for the slideshow portion of the event.
Another tradition, the Physics Phlotilla, takes place during the spring term. Students gather on the banks of the Science Center Pond to race makeshift cardboard boats, testing the principles of buoyancy—and often sinking. A student is required to sit in their respective boat and sail to the other end of the pond to the back. There are contests for speed and creativity with the boat.
Athletics
Choate offers a wide array of sports and is considered an athletic powerhouse among other prep schools. Most sports are offered in varsity, junior varsity, and thirds sections. Thirds sections are for newcomers or first-timers to a sport. Also, there is a selection of intramural sports that act as fun exercise without the hectic schedule of an interscholastic sport. Competitive fall sports consist of cross-country, field hockey, crew, football, soccer, volleyball, and boys' water polo. Competitive winter sports are basketball, ice hockey, squash, swimming and diving, and wrestling. Intramural sports include aerobics, dance, senior weight training, yoga, winter running, rock climbing, fitness and conditioning, strength training for girls, and senior volleyball. Spring sports include archery, baseball, campus golf, crew, golf, lacrosse, softball, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and girls' water polo.
Facilities and buildings
I.M. Pei designed two buildings on campus - the Paul Mellon Arts Center (known as the PMAC) and the Carl C. Icahn Center for Science (formerly the Paul Mellon Science Center).
Other main buildings include Hill House Dining Hall, Paul Mellon Humanities Center, St. John's Chapel (pictured above), St. John Hall (mathematics building), Steele Hall (language building), Andrew Mellon Library, Pratt Health Center, Worthington-Johnson Athletic Center (formerly the Winter Exercise Building, or "Winter Ex"), the John Joseph Activities Center (otherwise known as the Student Activities Center or "SAC"), The Larry Hart Pool, and Archbold (admissions building and upper form dormitory).
Third formers are generally housed in dorms next to each other, separated by gender. Girls are placed into Nichols or Squire Stanley and boys into "Mem" (Memorial Hall).
The News
The News, previously known as The Choate News, is the weekly newspaper at Choate Rosemary Hall. Now in its 101st year, The News is one of the oldest high school newspapers in the country, covering schoolwide, local, and national events.
- Christian Whitehouse, Member of Team Awesome
Notable alumni
Fictional alumni
- The fictional character of Charles Emerson Winchester from M*A*S*H* listed Choate as the prep school he attended before going on to Harvard University and Harvard Medical School.
- The fictional character of Clifford Calley from The West Wing attended Choate before going on to Brown University and Harvard Law School.
- In Jon Stewart's Naked Pictures of Famous People, the narrator in the "Breakfast at The Kennedy's" story attends Choate as the roommate of John F. Kennedy.
- The fictional character Al Pike, from Catcher in the Rye, who used to date Jane Gallagher and showoff at the swimming pool (doing the same dive over and over, wearing tight swimming trunks), went to Choate.
- The television show Family Guy had a character who, after being offered a dog that would lick peanut butter from anywhere on his body, agreed based on the fact that he had attended Choate. This took place during the episode Road to Rupert, in which Stewie and Brian traveled to Aspen, Colorado to retrieve Rupert, Stewie's stuffed teddy bear. The show's creator, Seth MacFarlane, is an alumnus of a rival Connecticut boarding school, Kent School.
- In the television show Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law one of Harvey's rival lawyers, Evelyn Spyro Archingduke, prepped at Choate before getting his law degree at Yale University.
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