5 Years Ago

The Pratt-Packard Declamation Contest shifted from its traditional role as the climactic event in the Public Speaking elective to a school-wide competition held in Getz Auditorium in which any student could submit a five-minute speech.

10 Years Ago

Two Choate faculty members, English teacher Martha Perkins and physics and chemistry teacher Fran O’Donoghue, ran in the Boston marathon. O’Donoghue had prepared for it for the previous seventeen weeks.

25 Years Ago

A newly formed Curriculum Review Committee, led by Latin and Greek teacher Joanne Sullivan, began reviewing the school’s curriculum. There had been no formal study of Choate’s curriculum since 1970.

50 Years Ago

New York Governor Averall Harriman spoke on “United States Foreign Policy and Communism” under the auspices of the Choate Current History Club. Harriman was a 1913 Yale graduate, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Great Britain, Secretary of Commerce, and one of the leading candidates for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination at the time.