During the winter season, Dining Services holds three holiday meals to celebrate and unite the school community—the Feast of St. Nicholas, Holiday Dinner, and Hanukkah Dinner. In preparation for each...

Each year, St. Luke’s Society offers a variety of holiday service opportunities, including Salvation Army bell-ringing, the toy drive, and the food and clothing drive. These annual events help the school...

Callum Rodin '25 I celebrate Hanukkah with my immediate family, grandparents, and closest friends. We light the menorah, say prayers, and eat good food. At the beginning of Hanukkah, we go to our friends’...

Students in the theatre tech cocurricular work alongside the Hotchkiss Dramatic Association (HDA) to make mainstage productions happen. Led by Mr. Derek Brashears, resident designer, and technical director,...

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 timid character, and Roxie takes up a whole lot of space!...

Black Boxes—short plays traditionally performed in small, minimalist theatres with black walls— offer students unique opportunities for creativity and collaboration. When Mr. Parker Reed, head of...

On October 17, Demz hosted CT District 30 State Senate candidate Justin Potter for a meet and greet in the Faculty Room.   What led you to run for CT state Senate? In January, I was approached...

Repubs Head Max Salzinger ʼ25 What meetings has Repubs held this year? Repubs recently co-hosted an open discourse forum about campus protests with Hotchkiss Political Union (HPU) and Demz. We also...

The MacArthur fellowship was founded in 2023 by Andrew MacArthur P ’23 in honor of his father, Bill MacArthur ’59. The fellowship provides recipients with funds for international gap year projects....

Yixi Zou ’25—Bogotá, Colombia I had been in the Hotchkiss bubble for a long time, and I wanted to experience a new world, along with a chance to practice my Spanish skills! Everything felt...

The newly established Matthiessen Scholars environmental science program will kick off with a field research program in the summer of 2025 and a year-long course during the 2025-26 school year. Named...