Choate Rosemary Hall
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Choate Rosemary Hall is a prep school in Wallingford, Connecticut in the United States. It is a four year program, with both boarding and day students totaling approximately 850, as well as 120 faculty members. Its endowment was $213 million as of fall of 2005. The 400 acre campus has more than 100 buildings, including two I.M. Pei-designed buildings: the Paul Mellon Arts Center and the Carl C. Icahn Center for Science. The school's mascot is the Wild Boar.
Choate is also part of an organization known as The Ten Schools Admissions Organization. This organization was founded more than forty years ago on the basis of a number of common goals and traditions. Member schools include Choate, Deerfield Academy, The Lawrenceville School, The Taft School, The Hotchkiss School, The Hill School, St. Paul's School, Loomis Chaffee, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Phillips Academy Andover.
History
In 1890, the Choate family started the Rosemary Hall School for girls, which moved to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1906. The Choate School for boys was founded in 1896. In 1971, Rosemary Hall moved back to Wallingford, and the two schools formally merged to form Choate Rosemary Hall in 1974.Overview
Choate offers courses in English, mathematics, science, foreign languages, history, ethics, political science, economics, and a range of electives. In addition to the standard curriculum, Choate offers a concentration program in the arts. Choate also offers a range of activities, including 81 interscholastic teams in 32 sports (including the state's only interscholastic Archery team); two I.M. Pei-designed buildings: the Paul Mellon Arts Center (for music, drama, and visual arts) and the Carl C. Icahn Center for Science; academic clubs; student run newspapers (The News) and magazines; and many other activities. It has a traditional athletic rivalry with Deerfield Academy.Prominent alumni
- Edward Albee, playwright
- Lauren Ambrose, actress (Six Feet Under)
- Adam Bonfanti, film director
- Chester Bowles, U.S. politician and diplomat, Governor of Connecticut
- Arne H. Carlson, Governor of Minnesota
- Julie Chu, Olympic athlete, 2006 U.S. Women's Ice Hockey Team
- Glenn Close, actress
- Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
- Bruce Dern, actor
- Michael Douglas, actor
- John Dos Passos, writer
- Caterina Fake, entrepreneur
- John Frizzell, film score composer
- Paul Giamatti, actor
- Amanda Hearst, model/heiress
- Buck Henry, comedian
- Michelle Icahn, heiress
- Carl Icahn, financer
- Bob Kasten, Senator
- John F. Kennedy, U.S. President
- Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
- Sarah Kernochan, screenwriter, director, singer/songwriter
- Herbert Kohler, head of Kohler Company
- Alan J. Lerner, songwriter
- Alan Lomax, folk musicologist
- Ali McGraw, actress
- Paul Mellon, philanthropist
- Tift Merritt, singer/songwriter
- Nicholas Negroponte, founder and ex-director of MIT's Media Lab, Chair of "One Laptop Per Child."
- Angela Ruggiero, hockey player, US Women's Olympic Team
- Bill Simmons, sportswriter
- Adlai Stevenson, U.S. presidential candidate, Governor of Illinois
- Ivanka Trump, model/heiress
- Benjamin Walton, heir, grandson of Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart.
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