First Person Stories
Find out why students and faculty call Chatham Hall “home.”
Is it our small size? Our colorful traditions? The simple fact that everyone says “Hi” to everyone else? Whatever the reason (or reasons), Chatham Hall people are proud to call this campus “home.” Read our first-person stories, and you’ll see why.
WILLIAM BLACK
English Faculty, School Historian
A student guide first introduced me to Chatham Hall. She led me on a tour of campus and, as she did, stopped frequently to introduce me to teachers and students as if I was a new member of a family rather than an applicant for a job. I was especially interested in her stories about friends and traditions that made the buildings come alive with the personality of the school.
At the end of our tour, my guide left me but not before she had made certain that I knew my way to my next appointment. She even turned around before she left the area to check on me one last time.
I felt very much at home because I had been cared for so well. This, I would discover, is the very essence of Chatham Hall. Everyone is welcomed just as I was welcomed. Everyone is invited to participate in traditions just as I was invited. Everyone joins in the celebration or the comforting just as I have since that day when my guide turned to assure herself that I was all right.
DAVID SMITH
Chaplain, Religion Instructor
When I first arrived at Chatham Hall, I decided to conduct my own test of the school's honor code by leaving a $5 bill on a table in a very public place. I returned in several hours to find the money still there, just as it was at the end of that day and the two days that followed. But on the fourth day the money was gone. I assumed the temptation had just been too great.
At assembly that morning, the school's switchboard operator stood and said, "Someone left $5 on the big table in the drawing room a few days ago. The housekeeping staff needed to clean the table, so they brought the money to me. If this is your $5, I'll be glad to give it to you." I did not immediately claim my $5, wanting to see if someone else would do so. That afternoon, I stopped and asked if anyone had claimed the money. "Not yet," I was told. "If no one claims it by tomorrow morning, I'm going to put it in the chapel offering."
I thought that was a fine idea.
LAURA '09
Student
I am at Chatham Hall because I want to get into a good college, and I know that no co-ed boarding school or public school would give me as many opportunities. Also, because Chatham is fairly small, you don't get "lost." It's nice to know that you actually know every girl that you see in the hall and that these great girls will continue to be your good friends through life.
KATE '09
Student
I have a relationship with Chatham Mornings. I love them, and am usually up at 5:30 or so to finish work, sort through piles of things I keep putting off, and get my life in order for the day. The early mornings are slow and fresh here. There are no bells, no voices, no requirements- I am up because I choose to be up, and that is a comfort. Even when I am up to finish a lab draft or write the conclusion to an English paper that just didn't fit into my day, I can look out my window at the still-groggy sun and feel a sense of peace, because there is this prevailing sense that it is all worth it. Chatham Hall is a life, it is my life, and there's nowhere else I'd rather be.
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October 8, 2007
Day Student Open House
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December 9-10, 2007
Open House
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January 20-21, 2008
Open House
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February 10, 2008
Applications and Financial Aid materials due
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February 17-18, 2008
Open House
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March 10, 2008
Notification for Applicants
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March 29-30, 2008
Revisit Weekend for admitted students and their families
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April 10, 2008
Reply date contracts due for admitted families