Chatham High School (New Jersey)
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Chatham High School is an American four-year comprehensive public high school
located at 255 Lafayette Avenue in Chatham Township
, in Morris County
, New Jersey
, operating as part of the School District of the Chathams
. The school serves students in grades 9-12. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
Commission on Secondary Schools since 1989.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,061 students and 66.00 classroom teachers (on a FTE
basis, for a student–teacher ratio of 16.08.
The school has a principal, Darren Groh, and two assistant principals, Lori Gironda and George Alexis beginning with the 2010-11 school year, a change approved by the Board of Education of the School District of the Chathams on May 11, 2010.
The previous Chatham High School on Fairmount Avenue adjacent to the Chatham
train station in Chatham Borough is a historic early twentieth century Gothic Revival
building that still bears the name on its façade. Secondary level students from Chatham Township were bused to it and, later to a senior high school on Main Street, for many years under the auspices of the former, Chatham Board of Education.
From 1966 through 1988, Chatham Township students attended the newly constructed Chatham Township High School on Lafayette Avenue where Chatham High School is today. CTHS had as its mascot the Gladiator and CBHS the Eskie. The two schools were strong rivals at Homecoming games for the twenty-two years they were separate high schools. Today the school mascot for the combined Chatham High School is the Cougar.
The school and several students were featured in the PBS
program Frontline in 2008 for an episode related to a generation growing up with the internet.
During the 2007-08 school year, Chatham High School stopped giving midterm exams. Instead of midterm exams, students must complete alternate assessment projects, a move strongly supported by co-principal Michael Lasusa and backed by the School District of the Chathams. However, according to student poll data, a majority of students do not support the changes and would like to revert to midterms again. This policy continued into the 2008-09 school year.
Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education
, the highest award an American school can receive for excellence in the No Child Left Behind Act.
The school was the 8th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly
magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 10th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 12th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post
, the school was ranked 15th in New Jersey and 647th nationwide.
use in Chatham High School and the surrounding areas. They visit elementary and middle schools in the school district to discuss the dangers of tobacco use with younger students.
. Led by drum majors Dan DiSalvio and Andrew Hopen the band had one of their most successful years to date thanks to the addition of former The Cadets
member, Grant Chin. With increased technical precision, which was displayed throughout the year, the band was ranked continuously in the top 5 bands in Group 2 Open and holding an overall #1 ranking for several weeks in 2008. In 2007, led by drum majors Beth Maliszewski and Vaughn Sulit, the groups selections included music by Academy Award Nominee Danny Elfman
from his various film scores and his score to the popular videogame Fable
. In 2006 they performed Invitation to a Wedding, a story-telling performance about the day of a wedding from ceremony through the reception to a medley of songs including Here Comes the Bride
and YMCA
among others under the leadership of Peter Evans, Haley White, and Greg Bukata. Past selections from the band include a Arabian Nights inspired performance, Birdland, Touched by Fire, Rootbeer Rag composed by Billy Joel
, Estancia
, Joy and America
from Leonard Bernstein
's West Side Story.
, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
and Twelfth Night, the Frank Loesser
classic Guys and Dolls
and the Pulitzer Prize
winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
, Elmer Rice
's The Adding Machine
, The Pajama Game
, the 50s musical, Grease
, Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take it With You
, Scapino, a French play by Molière
translated into English, Andrew Lloyd Webber
's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
, Frank L. Baum's The Wizard of Oz
, Meredith Wilson's The Music Man
, Annie
, and the Disney musical sensation High School Musical
. Currently under the direction of Drama teacher Lynn Polan the theater department has won honors at the STANJ Governor's Awards at Rutgers University
in New Brunswick, New Jersey and the Secondary School Drama Festival at Bucks County Playhouse
in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The program also has, in the past, received honors from the Paper Mill Playhouse
's Rising Star Awards which are awarded every year annually and honor excellency in high school theater performances. For the 2011-12 season, the high school will perform Mary Zimmerman
's play, Metamorphoses
, a take on Greek mythology in November and The Drowsy Chaperone
in March.
groups Select Choir, an SATB
choir, and Chatham Voices, an SSAA
choir, have performed in such prestigious venues as Avery Fisher Hall
, Carnegie Hall
, Saint Patrick's Cathedral
, the Norfolk Opera House, and the Epcot
rotunda at Disney World. Both groups combined performed in a special for NJN
public television with composer Tim Janis
during the 2008-09 school year. The group completed filming a second special with Janis in 2009-10 and returned to Avery Fisher Hall
and Saint Patrick's Cathedral
in the Spring.
67-53 in the semifinals and topping Haddonfield Memorial High School
48-42 in the finals.
The boys tennis team won the North II, Group II state sectional championship with a 3-2 win over West Essex High School
.
The boys cross country team won the 2006 North II, Group II state sectional championship for the second time in three years and won again in 2008. Additionally, the team went on to win the 2006 Morris County Championship, topping both perennial powerhouses Morris Hills and Delbarton.
The girls soccer team won the 2004 Group II NJSIAA State Championship, defeating Cinnaminson High School
in the finals in double overtime by a score of 1-0.
The 2007 Girls Volleyball team won the triple crown, winning the conference, county and state championships. The team won the Group II state championship with a come-from-behind win in three games against Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest
(11-25, 25-19, 25-22). They lost in the semifinals of the Tournament of Champions
to Hunterdon Central Regional High School
by 26-24 and 29-27.
The 2008 Boys Tennis Team won the North II, Group II state sectional championship with a 4-1 win in the tournament final over Mountain Lakes High School
.
The 2008 girls Lacrosse team won the triple crown by capturing the conference, county, and state championships while being ranked the no. 3 team in all of New Jersey. They lost 16-9 to powerhouse Moorestown High School
in Chatham High School's first ever appearance in the Tournament of Champions
final game.
The 2008 Chatham golf team completed a highly successful campaign by going undefeated at 21-0 for the year. The Cougars won the conference championship as well as the NJ Group II State Championship. Chatham was named Golf Team of the Year by the Daily Record
and was ranked fifth in the state of by The Star-Ledger
by virtue of their overall finish at the Tournament of Champions event held at Beacon Hill Country Club in Atlantic Highlands.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located at 255 Lafayette Avenue in Chatham Township
Chatham Township, New Jersey
Chatham Township is a township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 10,452.Chatham Township was incorporated by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 12, 1806, from portions of Hanover Township and Morris Township, based on...
, in Morris County
Morris County, New Jersey
Morris County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about west of New York City. According to the United States 2010 Census, the population was 492,276. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. Its county seat is Morristown....
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, operating as part of the School District of the Chathams
School District of the Chathams
The School District of the Chathams is a regional public school district serving students in kindergarten through 12th grade from Chatham Borough and Chatham Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States....
. The school serves students in grades 9-12. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association dedicated to educational excellence and improvement through peer evaluation and accreditation...
Commission on Secondary Schools since 1989.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,061 students and 66.00 classroom teachers (on a FTE
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
basis, for a student–teacher ratio of 16.08.
The school has a principal, Darren Groh, and two assistant principals, Lori Gironda and George Alexis beginning with the 2010-11 school year, a change approved by the Board of Education of the School District of the Chathams on May 11, 2010.
History
The new regional high school, serving two municipalities, was dedicated at Lafayette Avenue after the creation of the School District of the Chathams on July 1, 1988, and joined the Lafayette Elementary School on its original site. The two schools share performing arts facilities.The previous Chatham High School on Fairmount Avenue adjacent to the Chatham
Chatham (NJT station)
Chatham is a railway station in Chatham, New Jersey. A commuter rail station, Chatham receives rail service from statewide provider New Jersey Transit on its Morristown Line, a branch of the Morris & Essex Lines...
train station in Chatham Borough is a historic early twentieth century Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
building that still bears the name on its façade. Secondary level students from Chatham Township were bused to it and, later to a senior high school on Main Street, for many years under the auspices of the former, Chatham Board of Education.
From 1966 through 1988, Chatham Township students attended the newly constructed Chatham Township High School on Lafayette Avenue where Chatham High School is today. CTHS had as its mascot the Gladiator and CBHS the Eskie. The two schools were strong rivals at Homecoming games for the twenty-two years they were separate high schools. Today the school mascot for the combined Chatham High School is the Cougar.
The school and several students were featured in the PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
program Frontline in 2008 for an episode related to a generation growing up with the internet.
During the 2007-08 school year, Chatham High School stopped giving midterm exams. Instead of midterm exams, students must complete alternate assessment projects, a move strongly supported by co-principal Michael Lasusa and backed by the School District of the Chathams. However, according to student poll data, a majority of students do not support the changes and would like to revert to midterms again. This policy continued into the 2008-09 school year.
Awards and recognition
For the 2004-05 school year, the high school was recognized with the Blue Ribbon SchoolBlue Ribbon Schools Program
The Blue Ribbon Schools Program is a United States government program created in 1981 to honor schools which have achieved high levels of performance or significant improvements with emphasis on schools serving disadvantaged students. The program centers around a self-assessment conducted by the...
Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education
United States Department of Education
The United States Department of Education, also referred to as ED or the ED for Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government...
, the highest award an American school can receive for excellence in the No Child Left Behind Act.
The school was the 8th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly is a monthly glossy publication featuring issues of possible interest to residents of the United States state of New Jersey...
magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 10th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 12th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, the school was ranked 15th in New Jersey and 647th nationwide.
Organizations and extra-curricular activities
CHS Political Club
The CHS Political Club is the High School's primary club devoted to student political action. The club meets to debate political issues and encourage grassroots action in the political process.PAWS
Peers Adjusting With Support is an organization of upperclassmen who help freshmen adjust to some of their new high school activities. Its members organize an annual field day, in which all freshman must participate. PAWS is a mandatory program for freshman but juniors and seniors are selected to be PAWS leaders.TATU
Teens Against Tobacco Use is an organization whose members are against any and all tobaccoTobacco
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines...
use in Chatham High School and the surrounding areas. They visit elementary and middle schools in the school district to discuss the dangers of tobacco use with younger students.
Academic Team
The Academic Team represents Chatham in “Jeopardy”-style tournaments on the regional and national level. Students match wits based on knowledge of traditional academic subjects and current events mixed with some popular culture and useless trivia. Events include after-school intramural and scrimmage matches, the international computer-based Knowledge Master Open, and travel tournaments including the New Jersey NAQT State Championship and possible national events. There are no tryouts for the team; all students are welcome to attend as many events as they can, but membership on the most competitive “A team” is selective.SADD
Students Against Destructive Decisions is an organization whose members help students cope with everyday problems and decisions.Marching Band
Chatham High has an award-winning marching band led by Brian Conti. This past season the 58 member band fell under the Group 2 open classification. Past repertoire includes selections from the Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde in 2008 with music by Frank WildhornFrank Wildhorn
Frank Wildhorn is an American composer known for both his musicals and popular songs. He is most known for his musical Jekyll & Hyde, which ran four years on Broadway, and for writing the #1 International Hit song "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?" for Whitney Houston.-Early years:Wildhorn was born in...
. Led by drum majors Dan DiSalvio and Andrew Hopen the band had one of their most successful years to date thanks to the addition of former The Cadets
The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps
The Cadets are a Drum Corps International World Class drum and bugle corps based in Allentown, Pennsylvania...
member, Grant Chin. With increased technical precision, which was displayed throughout the year, the band was ranked continuously in the top 5 bands in Group 2 Open and holding an overall #1 ranking for several weeks in 2008. In 2007, led by drum majors Beth Maliszewski and Vaughn Sulit, the groups selections included music by Academy Award Nominee Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...
from his various film scores and his score to the popular videogame Fable
Fable (video game)
Fable is an action role-playing video game in the Fable series. It was developed for Xbox, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms, by Big Blue Box, a satellite developer of Lionhead Studios, and was published by Microsoft. The game shipped for Xbox on October 14, 2003...
. In 2006 they performed Invitation to a Wedding, a story-telling performance about the day of a wedding from ceremony through the reception to a medley of songs including Here Comes the Bride
Bridal Chorus
The "Bridal Chorus" "Treulich geführt", from the 1850 opera Lohengrin, by German composer Richard Wagner, is a march played for the bride's entrance at many formal weddings throughout the Western world...
and YMCA
YMCA (song)
"Y.M.C.A." is a song recorded by American disco group Village People. It was released in 1978 as the only single from the album Cruisin. The song reached No. 2 on the U.S. charts in early 1979 and reached No.1 in the UK around the same time, becoming the group's biggest hit...
among others under the leadership of Peter Evans, Haley White, and Greg Bukata. Past selections from the band include a Arabian Nights inspired performance, Birdland, Touched by Fire, Rootbeer Rag composed by Billy Joel
Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...
, Estancia
Estância
Estância is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Sergipe. Its population was 62,218 and its area is 642 km². The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Estância....
, Joy and America
America (West Side Story song)
"America" is a well-known song from the musical West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein composed the music; Stephen Sondheim wrote the song's lyrics...
from Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
's West Side Story.
Theater
Chatham High School contains an active theater program that performs two productions a school year, a play in the fall and then a musical in the Spring.Past productions include Thorton Wilder's endearing American classic Our TownOur Town
Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives...
, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
and Twelfth Night, the Frank Loesser
Frank Loesser
Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...
classic Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably...
and the Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name....
, Elmer Rice
Elmer Rice
Elmer Rice was an American playwright. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1929 play, Street Scene.-Early years:...
's The Adding Machine
The Adding Machine
The Adding Machine is a 1923 play by Elmer Rice; it has been called "... a landmark of American Expressionism, reflecting the growing interest in this highly subjective and nonrealistic form of modern drama." The story focuses on Mr. Zero, an accountant at a large, faceless company. After 25 years...
, The Pajama Game
The Pajama Game
The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are going unheeded...
, the 50s musical, Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
, Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take it With You
You Can't Take It with You
You Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances...
, Scapino, a French play by Molière
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
translated into English, Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
, Frank L. Baum's The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz may refer to:*The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a 1900 book by L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow*The Wizard of Oz , a musical by L...
, Meredith Wilson's The Music Man
The Music Man
The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with...
, Annie
Annie (musical)
Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...
, and the Disney musical sensation High School Musical
High School Musical
High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and...
. Currently under the direction of Drama teacher Lynn Polan the theater department has won honors at the STANJ Governor's Awards at Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
in New Brunswick, New Jersey and the Secondary School Drama Festival at Bucks County Playhouse
Bucks County Playhouse
The Bucks County Playhouse is the State Theater of Pennsylvania, and is located in New Hope, Pennsylvania.When the Hope Mills burnt in 1790, the grist mills were rebuilt as the New Hope Mills by Benjamin Parry. ....
in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The program also has, in the past, received honors from the Paper Mill Playhouse
Paper Mill Playhouse
Paper Mill Playhouse is a regional theatre with approximately 1200 seats, located in Millburn, New Jersey, less than 25 miles from Manhattan. Due to its location, it can draw from the pool of actors who live in New York City. Its location, as well as its focus on producing large-scale shows, makes...
's Rising Star Awards which are awarded every year annually and honor excellency in high school theater performances. For the 2011-12 season, the high school will perform Mary Zimmerman
Mary Zimmerman
Mary Zimmerman is an American theatre director and playwright, born in Lincoln, Nebraska.-Career:Zimmerman is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BS, MA and PhD from Northwestern University, where...
's play, Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses (play)
Metamorphoses is a play by American playwright Mary Zimmerman adapted from the classic Ovid poem, Metamorphoses. The play premiered in 1996 as Six Myths at Northwestern University and later the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago...
, a take on Greek mythology in November and The Drowsy Chaperone
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Drowsy Chaperone is a musical with book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison. It debuted in 1998 at The Rivoli in Toronto and opened on Broadway on 1 May 2006. The show won the Tony Award for Best Book and Best Score. It started as a spoof of old...
in March.
Music Department
The Chatham High School music department has had many achievements. Recent ones include a music trip to Virginia Beach to participate in a music festival winning high honors from all adjudicators for each of its five ensembles. Chatham's two a cappellaA cappella
A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
groups Select Choir, an SATB
SATB
In music, SATB is an initialism for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, defining the voices required by a chorus or choir to perform a particular musical work...
choir, and Chatham Voices, an SSAA
SSAA (choir)
SSAA refers to a choir composed of two distinct Soprano sections and two distinct Alto sections, or music composed for such an ensemble. In an SSAA choir, First Sopranos sing the highest musical line, followed by Second Sopranos, First Altos, and Second Altos on the lowest line....
choir, have performed in such prestigious venues as Avery Fisher Hall
Avery Fisher Hall
Avery Fisher Hall is a concert hall, in New York City and is part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. It is the home of the New York Philharmonic, with a capacity of 2,738 seats.-History:...
, Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, Saint Patrick's Cathedral
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
The Cathedral of St. Patrick is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral church in the United States...
, the Norfolk Opera House, and the Epcot
Epcot
Epcot is a theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort, located near Orlando, Florida. The park is dedicated to the celebration of human achievement, namely international culture and technological innovation. The second park built at the resort, it opened on October 1, 1982 and was initially named...
rotunda at Disney World. Both groups combined performed in a special for NJN
New Jersey Network
The New Jersey Network, or NJN, was a network of public television and radio stations serving the U.S. state of New Jersey. NJN was a member of the Public Broadcasting Service for television and the National Public Radio for radio, broadcasting their programming as well as producing and...
public television with composer Tim Janis
Tim Janis
Tim Janis is an American composer with 10 Billboard charting CDs, over one million albums sold, four National Public Television Specials, and a constant touring presence.-Career:...
during the 2008-09 school year. The group completed filming a second special with Janis in 2009-10 and returned to Avery Fisher Hall
Avery Fisher Hall
Avery Fisher Hall is a concert hall, in New York City and is part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. It is the home of the New York Philharmonic, with a capacity of 2,738 seats.-History:...
and Saint Patrick's Cathedral
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
The Cathedral of St. Patrick is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral church in the United States...
in the Spring.
Athletics
The boys basketball team won the 2007 Group II NJSIAA State Championship, defeating Pascack Hills High SchoolPascack Hills High School
Pascack Hills High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, one of two high schools that are part of the Pascack Valley Regional High School District in Bergen County, New Jersey. PHHS serves the residents of both Montvale, where the campus is located, and the neighboring community...
67-53 in the semifinals and topping Haddonfield Memorial High School
Haddonfield Memorial High School
Haddonfield Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Haddonfield, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Haddonfield Public Schools....
48-42 in the finals.
The boys tennis team won the North II, Group II state sectional championship with a 3-2 win over West Essex High School
West Essex High School
West Essex High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in North Caldwell, New Jersey in the United States. The high school is part of the West Essex Regional School District, which serves students from four municipalities in western Essex County. Communities served by the district's...
.
The boys cross country team won the 2006 North II, Group II state sectional championship for the second time in three years and won again in 2008. Additionally, the team went on to win the 2006 Morris County Championship, topping both perennial powerhouses Morris Hills and Delbarton.
The girls soccer team won the 2004 Group II NJSIAA State Championship, defeating Cinnaminson High School
Cinnaminson High School
Cinnaminson High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Cinnaminson Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Cinnaminson Township Public Schools. The grounds are approximately , including the land...
in the finals in double overtime by a score of 1-0.
The 2007 Girls Volleyball team won the triple crown, winning the conference, county and state championships. The team won the Group II state championship with a come-from-behind win in three games against Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest
Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest
Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest is a comprehensive four-year regional public high school serving students from several municipalities in Bergen County, New Jersey. The high school serves students from the suburban communities of Closter, Demarest and Haworth...
(11-25, 25-19, 25-22). They lost in the semifinals of the Tournament of Champions
Tournament of Champions (NJSIAA)
The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Tournament of Champions is the sports tournament for New Jersey high schools that determines which high school will be crowned as the #1 overall team in the state for each sport...
to Hunterdon Central Regional High School
Hunterdon Central Regional High School
Hunterdon Central Regional High School is a comprehensive, regional, four-year public high school, and school district that serves students from five municipalities in east central Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States...
by 26-24 and 29-27.
The 2008 Boys Tennis Team won the North II, Group II state sectional championship with a 4-1 win in the tournament final over Mountain Lakes High School
Mountain Lakes High School
Mountain Lakes High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Mountain Lakes, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Mountain Lakes Schools...
.
The 2008 girls Lacrosse team won the triple crown by capturing the conference, county, and state championships while being ranked the no. 3 team in all of New Jersey. They lost 16-9 to powerhouse Moorestown High School
Moorestown High School
Moorestown High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Moorestown Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Moorestown Township Public Schools...
in Chatham High School's first ever appearance in the Tournament of Champions
Tournament of Champions (NJSIAA)
The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Tournament of Champions is the sports tournament for New Jersey high schools that determines which high school will be crowned as the #1 overall team in the state for each sport...
final game.
The 2008 Chatham golf team completed a highly successful campaign by going undefeated at 21-0 for the year. The Cougars won the conference championship as well as the NJ Group II State Championship. Chatham was named Golf Team of the Year by the Daily Record
Daily Record (Morristown)
The Daily Record is a seven-day morning daily newspaper located in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. Sometimes called the Morristown Daily Record because of its historical ties to nearby Morristown, New Jersey, the paper serves the greater Morris County area of northern New Jersey. It is owned by...
and was ranked fifth in the state of by The Star-Ledger
The Star-Ledger
The Star-Ledger is the largest circulated newspaper in the U.S. state of New Jersey and is based in Newark. It is a sister paper to The Jersey Journal of Jersey City, The Times of Trenton and the Staten Island Advance, all of which are owned by Advance Publications.The Newark Star-Ledgers daily...
by virtue of their overall finish at the Tournament of Champions event held at Beacon Hill Country Club in Atlantic Highlands.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:- Darren Groh, Principal
- George Alexis and Lori Gironda, Assistant Principals
Notable alumni
- Ben BaileyBen BaileyBenjamin Ray "Ben" Bailey is an American comedian, licensed taxi cab driver, and game show host and executive producer for Discovery Channel's Cash Cab in New York City.-Early life:...
(born 1970, class of 1988), host of Cash CabCash Cab (U.S. game show)Cash Cab is an American game show that began airing on the Discovery Channel on December 5, 2005. The program is hosted by stand-up comedian Ben Bailey. While Bailey's show takes place in New York City, some episodes of Season 6 take place in Las Vegas...
. - Craig BensonCraig BensonCraig R. Benson is an American politician and businessman. He served as Governor of New Hampshire from 2003 to 2005...
(born 1954), Governor of New HampshireGovernor of New HampshireThe Governor of the State of New Hampshire is the supreme executive magistrate of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.The governor is elected at the biennial state general election in November of even-numbered years. New Hampshire is one of only two states, along with bordering Vermont, to hold...
from 2003-2005. - Peter Fleming (born 1955), former professional tennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
player who won the New Jersey high school individual championship in 1972, during his junior year. - James G. MadisonMad Hatter (Bank Robber)James Madison was the Mad Hatter who robbed 17 banks while wearing a variety of hats. He was apprehended on July 17, 2007 in Newark, New Jersey, shortly after police tracked his license plates. His modus operandi was to wear a different hat for each robbery.-References:...
, bank robber, class of 1975. - Billy WalshBilly Walsh (American soccer)Billy Walsh is a former American soccer player and coach.Walsh did played high school soccer at Chatham High School. In 1999, he was named by The Star-Ledger as one of the top ten New Jersey high school soccer players of the 1990s....
(born 1975), U.S. Olympic and professional soccer player. - David Williams (born 1967, attended 1981-1983, ultimately graduated from Choate-Rosemary Hall), ice hockey player for the San Jose SharksSan Jose SharksThe San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
External links
- Chatham High School website
- Data for the School District of the Chathams, National Center for Education StatisticsNational Center for Education StatisticsThe National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...
- Chatham High School Reunions Website