Find more resources on The Social Dilemma’s website.
Watch senior Eamon Moylan’s soccer training videos at the “Footy at Home” website.
Read the obituary for Bill Stevenson ’70 that appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of Loomis Chaffee Magazine.
Read about Fred Seebeck’s career at Loomis Chaffee.
Read the obituary for Lena M. Chen ’87, in whose honor the new prize was created.
View the “Ruthie Davis – A Design Warrior” online exhibit and watch Ruthie’s webinar for students.
Learn more about guest speakers Dustin Liu and Carolyn Finney and about Alvord Center for Global & Environmental Studies programs.
Enjoy “Blues,” the Fall 2020 edition of The Loom.
See a list of books discussed in the first 20 years of the Chaffee Book Club.
Watch a video about the maple sugaring project.
Listen to the Loomis Chaffee Orchestras’s performances of “An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave” by Carlos Simon and “Fear” by Ameen Mokdad.
Watch the Renaissance Ensemble’s “Key to Change” virtual concert on YouTube.
Visit the Renaissance Ensemble website.
View other artifacts and photographs from Mary Hunt Loomis’s life, from the Loomis Chaffee Archives.
Mary Hunt Loomis with her daughter, Mary. Chicago, IL, circa 1856-1857. This is probably the photograph mentioned in Mary’s 1910 will as part of her bequest to the Loomis Institute: “a small colored picture of myself holding my little daughter in my arms, now hanging on the end of a book-case in the library-room.” Young Mary passed away in 1860.
Loomis Barracks, Hannibal, MO. Mary accompanied John when he held the commanding post with the 26th Illinois Infantry at Hannibal from the fall of 1861 to February 1862. Mary led a company of nurses there while John oversaw Union soldiers guarding the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad line against bushwhackers, pro-Confederate, secessionist guerilla fighters active in Missouri.
Mary Hunt Loomis and John Mason Loomis, Jekyll Island, GA, 1889. John and Mary joined the Jekyll Island Club in the mid-1880s and vacationed there about once a year. Women were encouraged to participate in all outdoor activities and sports, and Mary is seen here riding side saddle, as was the convention for women at the time, alongside John, a former Civil War cavalry officer.
Mary Hunt Loomis, John Mason Loomis, and possibly their coachman, Fred Levy. 1890s. The Chicago Tribune noted in 1910 that “the list of Chicago people faithful to the horse is a short one” and included Mary Hunt Loomis in that group. She and John enjoyed leisurely carriage parades on the broad Lake Side Drive near their home and preferred horse-drawn transportation as their choice for local travel.
Soup Tureen, Porcelain, 1880s. Mary and John owned a full set of porcelain dishes and silverware decorated with a pelican derived from the Loomis family coat of arms. These objects were used for entertaining. They spoke of their devotion to the family’s philanthropic purpose and suggest how significantly a sense of belonging in the family shaped their own identities.
