Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School Blog: Take Charge

CH-CH is excited to announce that the GwinnLandry Family Challenge, supported by the Landry Family Foundation, has pledged to match up to $250k in leadership gifts to the Growing Minds, Growing Community Capital Campaign.

The Alumni Office recently got wind of an exciting project brewing not in a galaxy far far away, but just down the road at Olin College, where alumnus Aaron Codrington '21 was hard at work on a real retractable lightsaber. We caught up with Aaron, and learned he's up to a lot more than that, too!

Pictured from left to right: Aaron Codrington '21, Madie Tong and Jacob Uy

Anyone who walks into my Morgan Hall office will immediately be struck by a life-size cardboard cutout of landscape painter and childhood favorite Bob Ross, a giant campus master planning map, CH-CH family gifts from travels across the globe, leadership lessons from Ted Lasso, and a rainbow of colored sticky notes adorning a large section of wall space reserved for our annual SWOT analysis derived from the Parent Satisfaction Survey.

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In many ways, Tim Seston can claim to have been on campus longer than most current faculty and staff. “I remember this building when it was the Head of School’s house,” he muses when we connect in East Hall, harking back to the era when Tim first taught on campus from 2000 to 2005. Although Tim’s path meandered over the ensuing two decades - raising his children, founding a children’s music company, coaching and teaching at other local independent schools -  it feels almost inevitable that he came full circle back to the beginning.

On Tuesday, May 21st, Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School ceremoniously broke ground on their newest teaching and learning space. The 4,000+ square-foot academic building will include indoor and outdoor space that will connect the classroom to nature. It will also include a solar array, and environmental improvements to the Chester Brook.

On Tuesday, May 14th, Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School recognized the work of twenty-two students with membership into the CH-CH chapter of the National Honor Society. The National Honor Society is the nation’s premier organization established to recognize outstanding high school students. More than just an honor roll, NHS serves to honor those students who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of Scholarship, Leadership, Service, and Character. 

On Wednesday, May 15, the CH-CH community gathered in the Assembly Hall for the Spring Athletics’ Awards.

It has been an eventful year for Raney Aronson-Rath P’27, as the documentary she produced with FRONTLINE, 20 Days in Mariupol, took home the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2024 Academy Awards in March. Aronson-Rath recently visited campus to host a screening of the film, along with a panel discussion, and is excited to return on June 1st to deliver the Commencement Address to the Class of 2024.

 Luke DiOrio '10 is not only a Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School alumnus, but he's also a faculty member in our Visual and Performing Arts department. Recently, Luke took advantage of Spring Break to attend a photography conference in Northern Ireland, but we (CH-CH) were able to steal a few moments of his time for some questions (and obligatory Ireland pics!)