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The Record is a student-run bi-weekly print newspaper with daily digital presence on pressing issues and events inside the Hotchkiss community and around the globe.

The Hotchkiss Record

The Record is a student-run bi-weekly print newspaper with daily digital presence on pressing issues and events inside the Hotchkiss community and around the globe.

The Hotchkiss Record

The Record is a student-run bi-weekly print newspaper with daily digital presence on pressing issues and events inside the Hotchkiss community and around the globe.

The Hotchkiss Record

“Taftie,” published in The Record Vol
CVI, No. 4 in 2008.
Archives Column
Katharine Ellis '26, Ira Burch '25 • November 14, 2024

News Editors Ira Buch ’25 and Katharine Ellis ’26 take us back to the inaugural Taft Day in 1980. With assistance from Ms. Rosemary Davis,...

The set for Chicago brought the band onstage.
Behind the Scenes with HDA Theatre Tech
Amina Wang '27 November 14, 2024

Students in the theatre tech cocurricular work alongside the Hotchkiss Dramatic Association (HDA) to make mainstage productions happen. Led...

Meet the Characters of Chicago
Meet the Characters of Chicago
Mark Zhu '26, Staff Writer • November 14, 2024

Addie Cirulis ’25 Playing Roxie in Chicago has been very different from playing Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors last year. Audrey was a very...

Students performed in multiple rounds of Black Box plays last spring.
Black Box Productions Showcase Short Plays
Cadence Fasano '27 November 14, 2024

Black Boxes—short plays traditionally performed in small, minimalist theatres with black walls— offer students unique opportunities for...

Chicago received standing ovations at all three performances.
HDA Presents Chicago
Keven Luiru '27, Staff Writer • November 14, 2024

“This trial...the whole world...it’s all show business,” crows flashy lawyer Billy Flynn near the end of Chicago. From November 8-10, the...

College Aspirations Only Fuel Our Fire for Clubs Program
Daniel Zhang '26, Staff Writer • November 14, 2024

I read an article in the recent issue of The Record [“Admissions Mania Harms Clubs” by Sofia Clark ’27 in Vol. CXXVI, Issue No. 7] about...

Why Aren’t We Talking About the Election?
Executive Board November 14, 2024

The U.S. presidential election occurs every four years. That’s once in every students’ time at the school. For many people, Donald Trump’s...

Don’t Forget to Look Up
October 24, 2024
Boys Varsity finished second and Girls Varsity finished fifth overall at Founders.
XC Finishes Season With Founders & NEPSTA
Deven Patel '27, Staff Writer • November 14, 2024

On Saturday, November 2, Boys and Girls Varsity Cross Country traveled to Taft to compete in the Founders League Championships. The boys placed...

Hotchkiss Wins Taft Day for Second Consecutive Year
Hotchkiss Wins Taft Day for Second Consecutive Year
November 14, 2024

For the second year in a row, the Bearcats triumphed over Taft, winning eight out of 15 games. Hotchkiss swept all three volleyball contests,...

Ottley was selected as a WNEPSSA All-Star for the 2023 season.
AOI: Jaden Ottley ’25
Shaan Patel '27, Staff Writer • November 14, 2024

Jaden Ottley ’25 is a two-year Senior from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and co-captain of Boys Varsity Soccer. He is the starting goalkeeper...

The Bearcats had a costly fumble after entering the the fourth quarter up 19-15.
Football Loses Narrowly to Taft
Alex Choi '27 November 14, 2024

On a chilly Saturday afternoon in Watertown, Connecticut, Boys Varsity Football fell before rival Taft, 19-21. In a back-and-forth game, Taft...