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2 unusual facts about Choate


H. J. Heinz II

He was educated at Choate, graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society, and also graduated from Oxford University, but spent his summers working for the Heinz Company in the pickling and salting stations, as bookkeeper and as handyman.

James Paul Donahue, Jr.

A high school dropout, who attended the Hun School at Princeton, and Choate, from which he was expelled at age 17, Donahue was the first cousin and confidante of Barbara Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979), an American socialite.


Deerfield Academy

A short list of the best-known rivalries among American boarding schools would include AndoverExeter, GrotonSt. Mark's, LawrencevilleHill, and, perhaps tops for fierce observance, Deerfield–Choate.

Erin O'Brien-Moore

Her television career included appearances in Lux Video Theater, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Dennis the Menace, Perry Mason, The Time Tunnel, Adam-12, and for three seasons on the television version of Peyton Place as Nurse Esther Choate.

James Laughlin

An important influence on Laughlin at the time was the Choate teacher and translator Dudley Fitts, who later provided Laughlin with introductions to prominent writers such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound.

Peter S. Prescott

In January, 1970, Prescott published A World of Our Own: Notes on Life and Learning in a Boys' Preparatory School, which described his alma mater, The Choate School, (now Choate Rosemary Hall).

Rhabdomys

In mesic, grassland habitats (e.g. Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands; Wirminghaus & Perrin, 1993; Pretoria Highveld; Brooks, 1974; Zimbabwe grassland; Choate, 1972) and semi-succulent thorny scrub (e.g. Eastern Cape; Perrin, 1980a, b) animals are solitary, with females rearing their litters on their own, and both sexes maintain territories that overlap the territories of the opposite, but not the same, sex (Schradin & Pillay, 2005a).

Telegraph Avenue

The streets were named alphabetically from east to west; the third street was named Choate Street, after Rufus Choate.

William Gardner Choate

On March 14, 1878, Choate was nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by Samuel Blatchford.


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