News & Calendar

The jazz musicians of Atla DeChamplain Quartet presented a community concert in Hubbard Performance Hall and led a masterclass for music students in Loomis Chaffee’s Jazz Improv Ensemble on Tuesday, December 10

Students and faculty represented Loomis Chaffee at the 2019 People of Color Conference December 4–7 in Seattle, Washington. Junior Simone Moales led a group of young attendees in a rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

Loomis Chaffee students and faculty members rallied on Friday December 6, at the Connecticut State Capitol to demand action to address climate change.

The Loomis Chaffee Music Department will present a Winter Concert for Orchestra and Wind Ensemble on Sunday, December 15, the Hubbard Performance Hall at 4 p.m. The public is invited to attend the performance, and admission is free of charge.

A group of Loomis Chaffee Model U.N. students traveled to Lisbon, Portugal in November and won the Outstanding Small Delegation Award at the 2019 Yale Model Government Europe Conference.

Members of Five O’Clock Shadow, a professional a cappella group, conducted masterclasses with Concert Choir and Digital Music students and performed for the Loomis Chaffee community on Friday, November 15.

Exiled by installation artist Harriet Diamond opened in the Richmond Art Center’s Sue and Eugene Mercy Jr. Gallery on Thursday, November 14 and will continue through January 17, 2020.

The girls varsity volleyball team defeated St. Paul’s 3-0 on Wednesday, November 13, to advance to the New England Prep School Athletic Conference semifinals on Saturday, November 16.

Spaceship engineer Donna Grossman worked on a number of important projects during her career, but the project that attracted her family’s keen interest was the Space Shuttle toilet, which was, in fact, a feat of zero-gravity engineering.

Last week the faculty at Loomis Chaffee participated in Open Classroom Week, an opportunity for teachers to observe, and be observed by, their colleagues in the classroom. 

With a 3-0 victory over Kent on Saturday, November 9, the varsity volleyball team earned its second straight Founders League title and the third seed in the Class A New England Prep School Athletic Conference Tournament.

The Theater & Dance Department's production of Macbeth, Shakespeare's classic tale of treachery, ambition, madness, and murder, offered plenty of surprises in its successful four-performance run November 6–9 in the Norris Ely Orchard Theater.

Loomis Chaffee dancers, including students in classes and clubs, performed a sampler of the pieces they have been working on during the Fall Dance Showcase November 14–16 in the Norris Ely Orchard Theater.

Loomis Chaffee students and art teacher Christian Ryan put the finishing touches on a mural decorating Windsor's L.P. Wilson Senior Center in November. Students in Loomis' after-school Community Service Program have many opportunities to make neighborhood connections. View the story.

The Shultz Fellows led an evening conversation focused on ways to engage in civil discourse about sometimes divisive political issues in the Norton Center on November 7, 2019.

The boys cross country team captured its sixth consecutive Founders League title on Saturday, November 2, at Avon Old Farms, led by senior Matt Farrell, who won the league crown for the fourth straight time.

The Alvord Center for Global & Environmental Studies recently unveiled its first Emerging Travelers Exhibit, which showcases students’ and faculty members’ passion for international travel and raises awareness about international travel opportunities at Loomis Chaffee and beyond.

Family members joined students in classes, observed extracurricular activities, cheered on sports teams, and took part in informational programs October 24–26 for Family Weekend 2019.

Budgeting was the topic of a presentation by Dale Reese IV ’13 on October 22, in the first of five seminars on personal finance for Loomis Chaffee seniors.

Forty-nine individuals from 24 countries became naturalized U.S. citizens at a federal ceremony held at Loomis Chaffee on Tuesday, October 22, taking their oath of citizenship before an all-school audience.