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Chatham Hall is an all-girls college-preparatory boarding school located in Chatham, Virginia, United States. Graduating classes are fewer than forty students each year. The school was founded as Chatham Episcopal Institute in 1894, Chatham Hall. The athletics teams play in the Blue Ridge Conference. Chatham Hall is accredited by the Virginia Association of Independent Schools (VAIS) and is a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). ==Traditions== The Honor Code is a vital tradition at Chatham Hall and is strictly followed. It states ''"I will not lie. I will not cheat. I will not steal. I will report all infractions of honor."'' Any honor infraction will result in a "council case" held by the student council, a group of 12 seniors elected by the students and faculty. The lantern ceremony and ring ceremony are held by the junior and senior classes the night before graduation when the junior class members officially receives their class rings and assume leadership of the school from seniors. Each senior girl seals the back of her junior ring-sister's ring with melted wax from her lantern. Since the inception of Chatham Hall, the class ring has not changed; it is a simple white or yellow gold band with the school's crest engraved into an oval red sardonyx stone. "Senior Night in the Well" takes place when the senior class puts on a Christmas play for the rest of the school the night of Decoration Day, when everyone in the school is assigned a part of the school to decorate. Juniors are in charge of decorating the lunch hall (Yardley Hall), the Sophomores are in charge of decorating St. Mary's Chapel, and the Freshman make wreaths to hang on the doors of the school. Cookie Break is a long-standing tradition where every Wednesday morning the girls gather in the Arcade to eat cookies, fruit and beverages. The New Girl picnic starts off the school year traditions every year with a picnic and the first athletic rivalries among the purple and gold teams. This is also when the new girls are placed on either the Purple Team or Gold Team. Additionally, there are many "underground" societies that are composed of senior girls, taken in at the end of their junior year by graduating members. As part of the tradition, the meaning of the titles of these societies is known to only the senior girls and those who have already graduated. The administration has sought without success to dismantle these societies. "Wills" are items that are passed on from student to student. The criteria for who these items are passed down to is pre-determined. The items that are willed can range from posters to t-shirts. For example, a humorous sign is willed from a Junior student to a Freshman student. The Freshman would then hold on to the will until she reached her Junior year at which point she would then will the sign to a new Freshman girl. This tradition, like most, promotes relationship-building between the girls of differing graduating classes. For the past nine years during the summer, Chatham Hall has hosted Jacob's Ladder, an enrichment program for AIG (Academically Intellectually Gifted). Students from North Carolina and Virginia board on campus for about a month and a half. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chatham Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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