We sit down with Archives Director, Karen Parsons, to talk about a fascinating paiting by one of Loomis Chaffee's founders.

Faculty member Ludmila Zamah and senior Anika Bhargava drop by to talk about Loomis Chaffee's innovative Arabic program.

We updating our programming to a monthly, long-form podcast.  We hope you enjoy!

Rebecca Pacheco leads the Loomis Chaffee community on a guided meditation at a recent Convocation.

This is part 2 of our program covering the naturalization ceremony which took place at Loomis Chaffee’s all-school convocation on November 1, 2016.  For more context on this event, please listen to part one of this podcast, which features an interview with Molly Pond and Eric LaForest explaining the event’s background and the planning that went into convening the U.S. District Court on campus for the occasion.

On Tuesday November 1, Loomis Chaffee hosted a Naturalization Ceremony for 39 new American citizens as part of and all-school convocation hosted by the Norton Family Center for the Common Good. A special session of the U.S. District Court was convened in the Olcott Center for the occasion, with U.S. District Court Judge Alfred Covello Loomis Chaffee ’50 presiding. The 39 candidates for citizenship representing 22 countries were awarded certificates of citizenship. As each individual received his or her certificate, the crowd of students, faculty, staff, and invited guests erupted in cheers.

Loomis is only the second high school in Connecticut history to host a Naturalization Ceremony, according to Molly Pond, history teacher and associate director of the Norton Center, and in her opening statement, she said hosting the event fit the school’s mission to advance the development of spirit, mind, and body in students from diverse cultural backgrounds, and to inspire in them a commitment to the best self and the common good.

Today’s podcast features an interview with Molly and Eric LaForest, Director of the Norton Center. This is a two part podcast. Part one is this interview.  Part two will be the ceremony in its entirety, including keynote speaker Richard Wright, Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs and geography professor at Dartmouth college, who specializes in the study of immigrant populations and migration and who is himself a naturalized U.S. citizen. Mr Wright is also married to our Head of School, Sheila Culbert, also a naturalized citizen.

The Pelican Scoop is a student-hosted, student-oriented digest of what’s happening around the Loomis Chaffee School campus.

Today's episode features Rebecca Pacheco '97, who visited campus last week as part of the Hubbard Speakers Series during which we are focusing on this year's school theme, Mind Over Matter.

Ms. Pacheco is the author of Do Your Om Thing, published by HarperCollins in 2015. She is an award winning yoga and meditation teacher, public speaker, and creator of OmGal.com – one of the first and most popular yoga blogs on the Internet. A lifestyle expert and content creator for Women's Health Magazine, Runner's World Magazine, and more, Rebecca has been practicing yoga for more than 20 years. Today, she shares her knowledge, experience, and warm personality with students of all levels.

Summer Program Director Jim O'Donnell stops by the studio to talk about the summer program at the Loomis Chaffee School.

A student-hosted, student-oriented digest of what’s happening around the Loomis Chaffee School campus and what’s coming up.

Loomis Chaffee Archivist Karen Parsons stops by the studio to talk about the history of Holiday celebrations at the school.