BULLETIN | WINTER 2016 5
Choate
WALLINGFORD
Liz Mitchell Honored
Posthumously
Elizabeth Mitchell, former Campus Visit Coordinator and founding director of the Wallingford Symphony Orchestra, was honored posthumously at Quinnipiac Chamber of Commerce’s Women’s Achievement Awards Luncheon in October. Mitchell served as Board President of the WSO and was instrumental in establishing the Annual Children’s Concert Series, which has exposed hundreds of Wallingford elementary school students to classical music for the past three decades. She died of cancer last year. Liz’s son, Edward Mitchell ’79, accepted the Chamber’s award on behalf of the family.
Choate Celebrates Wallingford As part of the town’s annual Celebrate Wallingford Weekend in October, Choate sponsored a booth near Town Hall featuring a display of our 125-year history. The School also hosted an Open House, featuring the Andrew Mellon Library, Hill House Dining Hall, the Seymour St. John Chapel, and a guided tour by Dr. Curtis of the Cameron and Edward Lanphier Center for Mathematics and Computer Science.
Wallingford Schools and Choate Host Screening of Most Likely to Succeed
Front row, from left, Sarah Tankoos, Director of Operations/National Tour Manager, The Future Project; Katie Jewett, Director of Curricular Initiatives, Choate Rosemary Hall; Kevin Rogers, Director of Studies, Choate Rosemary Hall; center row, from left, Shawn Parkhurst, Director of Curriculum, Wallingford Public Schools; Ted Dintersmith, Executive Producer of Most Likely to Succeed; Katie Levesque, Dean of Faculty, Choate Rosemary Hall; Dr. Sal Menzo, Superintendent, Wallingford Public Schools; back row, from left, George Levesque, Dean of Academic Programs, Yale University; Dick Hersh, Senior Advisor to Education Studies at Yale University; Travis Feldman, i.d.Lab Facilitator, Choate Rosemary Hall.
In conjunction with the Town of Wallingford school system, Choate Rosemary Hall hosted a screening of the documentary Most Likely to Succeed in Ruutz-Rees Commons on January 7. The movie, produced by Ted Dintersmith and directed by Greg Whiteley, critiques the model of schooling prevailing in the United States since the 19th century, and depicts one high school’s vision for an alternative. Following the film, Katie Jewett, Choate’s Director of Curricular Initiatives, moderated a panel of educators and fielded questions and comments from the audience. The panel consisted of the film’s Dintersmith; Wallingford Superintendent of Schools Salvatore (Sal) Menzo; Choate Rosemary Hall Associate Head Kathleen Wallace; and Lecturer and Senior Advisor to Yale’s Education Program Richard (Dick) Hersh. More than 100 educators, students, and parents attended.