Media and News Archive

The Dalton Chess Team broke national and Dalton records as the leading and largest school team in history at the recent National Scholastic Chess Tournament in Orlando (Grades K-12). Special congrats to individual National Champions Gus Huston '24, Nate Shuman '24, Sumit Dhar '23, and Marcus Miyasaka '21 and to the Grade 7, Kindergarten, K-12 Blitz Championship teams. As a fellow coach from California said, "It's very hard to be in the top ten, but to have nine in the top three is staggering."

Read about some of the great performances and highlights from the past week. This week features Squash and Girls Basketball.

Congratulations to Art teacher Linda Sirow on her "Multi is the Media" work featured in The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY until December 30.

Read about some of the great performances and highlights from the past week. This week features Boys Basketball and Squash.

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gregory Pardlo taught a Master Class for the Advanced Poetry Writing students and then participated in an event with Coordinator of Creative Writing Program Chris Hood titled "The Third Rail: Writing about Fatherhood and Race."

The ISMA Jazz Festival Concert was held on Sunday, November 18, at The Trinity School. Two Dalton students played with the High School Honors Big Band: Avi Mehta '21 and John-Shaw Moazami '20. Dalton students participating in the Middle School Honors Big Band were Kai Mawhinney '23, Alana Taylor '23, and George Porteous '23.

Read about some of the great performances and highlights from the past week including Dalton Basketball Invitational, Wrestling, and Swim.

Dalton's five Robotics Teams worked hard to design and build robots in this year's First Tech Challenge, with "Atomic Theory" and "Quantum Mechanics" forming a winning alliance to set a new world record of 340 points.

Get ready for the Winter season as we preview all of the teams: Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Squash, Swimming, Indoor Track, and Wrestling.

Read about some of the great performances and highlights from the past week. This week features Volleyball and Boys Soccer.

Congratulations to the Boys Soccer, Girls Soccer, and Volleyball teams as they qualified for the NYSAIS Tournament.

Read about some of the great performances and highlights from the past week. This week features Boys Soccer, Girls Soccer, Volleyball, and Cross Country.

Dalton Grade 4 students transformed into tired, poor, huddled masses to experience what it was like to emigrate to the United States in the early 1900s.

Read about some of the great performances and highlights from the past week. This week features Volleyball, Football, and Cross Country.

Read about some of the great performances and highlights from the past week. This week features Boys Soccer, Girls Soccer, and Volleyball.

Read about some of the great performances and highlights from the past week. This week features Boys Soccer, Girls Soccer, Cross Country, and Tennis.

The following is a summary of expected construction activities for October and November including relevant information about the exterior, interior work, and DOB permitted construction hours.

Anyone who has moved knows that it is a perfect time to take stock of stuff that is necessary and stuff that is not, which leads to deciding what to do with the leftovers. When the Science department moved from the 4th Floor to 11 and 12, they faced that same dilemma. They had perfectly good stuff that they no longer needed. That's when Science Teacher Evie Harrison spear-headed a resourceful initiative to donate items no longer needed by the Science department to schools in greater need.

Please join Dalton's Head of School, our architects, and project manager to receive an update on the upcoming construction schedule and planned building activities in October.

As the Dalton varsity football team opens up their 2018-19 season, you will notice a shiny new addition to their uniforms. Dalton is equipping all members of the team with the VICIS ZERO1 helmet. The decision to equip the entire team in the ZERO1 is part of a larger commitment to protect Dalton student-athletes with the safest and most technologically advanced equipment. Dalton joins over 1000 high school programs in addition to a significant number of professional and college teams that have made equipped their players in the ZERO1 helmet for the 2018 season.

As part of the run-up to Homecoming, high school students traditionally participate in Spirit week with each day dedicated to a different dress-up theme (e.g., Blue & White day, grade dress up, House dress up)

Amidst the high energy that characterizes the first day of school, the Dalton community also enjoyed a visual treat -- one-of-a-kind Centennial exhibits displayed in all three buildings.

The High School Library has new temporary digs -- on the east end of the 2nd floor.
Our space may be smaller, but our services are the same.  Stop by for a tour to see our new space and learn how the library can support you this year.

The Jewish Journal interviewed Dalton senior Koby Bernstein ’19 in the article, "The Power of Positivity: How Did One Teenager Handle Having Multiple Concussions?" Koby, this year’s youth honoree of the Brain Injury Association of New York and his team, are raising funds for The March On-Long Island 5K.

Dalton Dance teachers and alums made a long journey to Tambacounda, Senegal, West Africa in early 2018 to join an artistic, agricultural and cultural center named "Thread." Director Nick Murphy collaborated with filmmaker Josh Izenberg to create a beautiful short video, released early this summer and included in the story details below.

Please be advised of upcoming crane work and street closure on 89th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, on Saturday August 18 from 7:00 AM - 8:00 PM.  

In order to complete renovation work on the existing 11^th and 12^th floors, mechanical work, and façade work, we will be working extended construction hours.  Please see below for the extended construction hours beginning Sunday, August 5 and running through the beginning of September.

Please be advised of upcoming crane work and street closure on 89th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, on Saturday, August 4 from 7:00 AM - 8:00 PM. 

The following is a summary of expected construction activities for June including relevant information about the exterior, interior work, and DOB permitted construction hours.

Congratulations to Dalton Girls Varsity Basketball seniors Caleigh Ryan, Ema Schumer, and Elise Bousquette for earning all-state recognition from the New York State Sportswriters Association.

In an innovative unit, Teacher Flor Berman's 7th and 8th Grade students completed their study on Ecotourism in Central America by creating publicity -- in Spanish -- to promote the 17 UNESCO world heritage sites in Central America.

Third graders had the opportunity this past month to create manuscript paintings using techniques and materials from the Age of Exploration. On behalf of Dalton’s Museum Program, artist and materials consultant Patricia Miranda showed the students how to grind their own pigments from malachite, saffron, cochineal, and clay. Each two-day workshop was designed to support the 3rd grade social studies and archaeology curriculum. The students in House 37, for example, who study Mexico City, made Aztec-style manuscript paintings on bark paper.

Wishing you all a fabulous summer -- full of fun, free time, and good books!
Click HERE for a list of summer reading suggestions.

Dalton joined forces with Cornell Tech NYC & Cornell-Ithaca to create the first statewide high school programming competition on April 9. For the past five years, Dalton has frequently traveled to Ithaca to participate in their contest. This travel and competition time represented a substantial time commitment for both the students and faculty. Last summer, meetings began with both Cornell campuses on how we could jointly build a concurrent contest where upstate and downstate team could compete against one another in a "north versus south" event.

On a beautiful and sunny Tuesday in May, our Mandarin 3HS class took a field trip to Flushing, Queens. Our first stop was the Hua Lian Tsu Hui Temple where we were lucky to witness the morning rituals and prayers performed by members of the temple’s clergy. The temple was beautifully decorated with intricate gold decor and sculptures of important gods and goddesses. During our tour of the temple, we learned about which god corresponds to the year we were born (like a horoscope). The temple provided us, as a class, with a more realistic understanding of Chinese culture because we were able to witness everyday people in their religious environment.

It was a record-breaking weekend for the Track and Field team at the Loucks Games. Zachary Love '19 broke the school mark in the long jump with a leap of 22-3.5 on Friday, May 11. It was nearly a foot farther than he had jumped before this season and helped him finish in third place. His finish was the best for a Dalton male athlete at the prestigious meet that brings together the best track and field runners from the East Coast.

Dalton community members celebrated Head of School Ellen C. Stein's 24 years of leadership on Thursday evening, May 10 at the American Museum of Natural History. During this lovely, memorable night — the largest gathering in Dalton's history with almost 1,200 people — speakers and attendees toasted the many accomplishments and legacy of Dalton's first Alumna Head of School.

Dalton Softball is having an excellent season with a 6-3 record in their first nine games. They are currently in second place in the Ivy League after an exciting comeback against Riverdale. Trailing in the bottom of the 7th, Dalton scored 5 runs to tie the game. Dalton held Riverdale scoreless in extra innings before finally breaking through when Lulu Saghie ’19 hit a walk-off single RBI for the winning run in 10 innings.

The Spanish Language and Culture class celebrated its annual Frida Day. Students and faculty come together to celebrate Frida Kahlo. Frida represented endurance and determination to many because she lived true to herself rather than conforming to the status quo. Dalton students commemorated an individual who, against all odds, significantly impacted society as an artist, a woman, and a person. Unafraid to express herself through her art, her clothing, and her words, Kahlo portrayed raw, controversial, and authentic sides of herself in ways that were uncommon for a woman of her time.

Dalton Science Research Program (DSRP) participants Kevin Won '19 and Eeshan Tripathii '19 submitted their original research to the New York City Science and Engineering Fair. Kevin's poster was titled "Oxidative Stress-Mediated Anticancer Effect of Mushroom Extract on Renal Cell Carcinoma," and Eeshan's was titled "Managing Indoor Air Quality In Child Breathing Zone: Risk Analysis And Mitigation."

High School Language and Culture classes engaged in two recent authentic experiences; practicing their Spanish by teleconferencing with their San Juan, Puerto Rican counterparts and cooking together to compete in Taco Wars in the 89th Street Cafeteria.

Dalton girls achieved another great success for the Dalton Chess Program. From April 20-22, sixteen Dalton girls traveled to Chicago to participate in the 15th Annual All-Girls National Chess Championship. The Dalton team included girls from Kindergarten to Grade 7, who competed over three days against almost 500 other accomplished girls from throughout the U.S. Dalton competed with three teams at the Under 8, Under 10, and Under 14 categories, playing nearly 100 games collectively.

Please be advised of upcoming crane work and street closure on 89th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, on May 5 from 6:00 AM - 8:00 PM.

For the third year students in Yom Fox’s Activism and Global Citizenship class attended the Women in the World Summit (April 12-14). This year, students from African American History joined. “It’s a tremendous opportunity for them (students) to see and hear from a range of voices who are advocating not only for issues that impact women and girls but ultimately everyone,” Fox said. The three-day summit included speakers such as Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee, actress Viola Davis, former deputy attorney general Sally Yates, Hillary Clinton, and March for Our Lives organizers and other international activists.

Students from Grades 6-12 took the National Latin Exam. The NLE, a multiple choice exam, tests entrants on vocabulary, syntax and translating skills as well as their knowledge of Roman geography, history, mythology, culture, and institutions. Each year, over 130,000 Latin students worldwide sit for this exam. Of Dalton's 109 participants, 90 students received awards in this exam.

Zach Love '19 became the first Dalton student to win an event at the NY Mayor's Cup. He captured the triple jump title Saturday with a jump of 43'8". Love won the event by 3.5 feet over his next closest competitor. He was so dominant that any of his six jumps would have easily won the contest. His winning jump was the fifth highest in the past eight years since 2015. Zach also placed second in the long jump, just narrowly getting beat out for first on the winner's final attempt. The junior's performance capped a record-setting day for the Dalton boys team, which placed second among private schools at the meet. Arjun Prasad '18 came in fifth in the pole vault, clearing 12'6", a foot better than his previous school record. Ari Eaton '20 broke the school record in the steeplechase. This was the first time the sophomore had competed in the event.

Congratulations to all.

Story and photo provided by Doug Feinberg, Sportswriter, Athletics Coach

Both the Girls and Boys Lacrosse teams are off to auspicious starts, picking up wins in their play this week.

After a quarter-final upset of top seed player and a semi-final rematch at the Junior National Championships, Daelum Mawji '18 won his first national title defeating a well-matched fellow New Yorker. "He's a great player," Mawji said of his final opponent. "We've been playing each other almost every single tournament over the past two years, so I knew how fit and strong he was. I just had to stick to my game plan and get the job done."

Please be advised of upcoming crane work and street closure on 89th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, on April 7 from 6:00 AM - 8:00 PM.

Varsity and JV Baseball, Boys Varsity Lacrosse, Girls Varsity Lacrosse, and Varsity Softball traveled to Orlando, Florida during Spring Break to prepare for their upcoming season games. The teams trained at ESPN World Wide Sports Complex, a 220-acre athletic complex, located in the Walt Disney World Resort. In addition to daily practices and competitions against schools from across the country, the teams enjoyed many of the nearby attractions and theme parks, including Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Hollywood Studios.

Story and photos provided by Sam Bergen

Junior and Middle Division Teams, and Junior Division Individual Competitor Advance to Internationals

Middle and High School Music Teachers Jazz Glenn Makos and David Morgan led Dalton music students to perform in the Honors Jazz Band concert of the Independent School Music Association of NYC. The MS and HS Honors bands were composed of students from multiple independent NYC schools and featured four Dalton students selected from student auditions.

The following summarizes expected construction, including relevant work in front of the 89th Street building. Saturday work is planned for 3/10, 3/17, 3/24 and 3/31.

After a long season of building, testing and iterating, Dalton's High School Robotics teams faced off against 32 teams from across the city at the NYC Championship. One of the Dalton teams (General Relativity) went 8-0 throughout the day and defended their title as NYC Champions! Next up is the Eastern Super-Regional tournament, where they will compete against 72 teams coming from across the Eastern seaboard. Two other Dalton Robotics teams will be joining them after earning their own wins in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Dalton will be the only school that earned multiple spots at the competition, and this will be the second year in a row sending three teams. We wish the team good luck and congratulate them on their accomplishments!

Story and photos provided by Michael Sloan Warren - Middle and High School Robotics and Computer Science Teacher

For the first time, Girls Varsity Basketball won both the Ivy Preparatory League and the New York State Association of Independent Schools in the same season. William Bousquette ('21) recaps the Tigers' thrilling victory in the NYSAIS Championship this past Monday.

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday and Black History Month, Dalton's Office of Progressive and Inclusive Practice and the High School administration sponsored the visit of Dalton Alumna Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely '60.  During the most recent High School assembly, Ms. Preacely offered an autobiographical narrative highlighting her recruitment to Dalton as an African American student in the late 1940s and her emergence as a Civil Rights Activist.

Congratulations to the Girls Basketball team for winning the NYSAIS Championship, defeating Masters 49-34 at School of the Holy Child. The Tigers trailed at halftime before coming back and winning the game, holding their opponent to just nine points in the second half. The team finished the season with a 24-2 record. The victory gives the Tigers their second NYSAIS championship in three years. Go Tigers!

Photos courtesy of Josh Dunst '18

The Girls Basketball team celebrated a remarkable accomplishment this season as Elise Bousquette '18 became the third member of the team to record 1,000 points in her career. Fellow seniors Caleigh Ryan and Ema Schumer reached the milestone achievement earlier this season with Ryan breaking 1,000 points against Packer Collegiate on December 2 and Schumer scoring her 1,000th point on Senior Day against Fieldston on February 9. The three captains have played together since their freshman year, guiding the team to three league championships in four years.

Krithi Ram-Junnarkar '18 co-presented a paper at the International Neuropsychology Society Conference in Washington, DC. She presented as a member of a neuropsych team from Mount Sinai where she has interned. She's listed as first author on the abstract. Krithi has participated in the Dalton Science Research Program (DSRP) for the past three summers doing neuroscience internships.

Kindergarten parents visited classrooms to talk about Lunar New Year celebrations, customs and traditions. Students were shown typical clothing worn by children their same age; they counted in Chinese, made lanterns and learned how everyone is wished good luck, long life and wisdom.

The two classes of Architecture I students went on the annual all-day field trip to the World Trade Center site organized by Architecture and Visual Arts Teacher Emily Wilson. The Architecture I students had a private tour of the Skyscraper Museum and gave presentations on their research projects of early NYC skyscrapers.

Lotus Do's Watercolor class and Emily Wilson's Art History class joined together to take a field trip to Philadelphia to see the Barnes Collection and the Terracotta Soldiers exhibit at the Franklin Institute. The students learned about Barnes' collection and viewed his vast collection of Impressionist and Modern Art in the relatively new museum designed by NYC Architects Williams and Tsien. The students enjoyed a private tour of the Barnes Collection and independent time to view and sketch the impressive collection. After the Barnes, the students enjoyed the exhibit/IMAX theater on the Terracotta soldiers at the Franklin Institute.

Story and photos submitted by Architecture and Visual Arts Teacher Emily Wilson

Dalton Squash capped off its best season in school history with an impressive showing at Nationals.

Congratulations to both the Boys Basketball and Girls Basketball teams for winning Ivy League Championships.  The Boys Basketball team is enjoying one of their best seasons, finishing 13-1 in the Ivy League.  This is the first league title in 25 years for the team. The Girls Basketball team finished 11-1 in the Ivy League. This is third Ivy League Title in four years for the Tigers.

Please join Dalton's Head of School, our architects, and project manager to receive an update on the upcoming construction schedule and planned building activities expected to begin on March 12 and continue over the summer. 

The Dalton Parliamentary Debate (Parli) Team attended the Ivy League Championship Tournament, hosted by Columbia University. All nine debaters from Dalton participated in the Varsity division, which comprised a competitive group of students from across the tri-state area. Team heads Davey Morse '18 and Grant Gordon '18 advanced to the Varsity semifinals, and Gordon was recognized as the 7th best speaker.

The Science Olympiad team finished 6th out of 62 teams at the NYC Regional Science Olympiad competition. This finish earned the team an invitation to the State Tournament. Three Dalton teams competed in 26 different science and engineering events. Fifteen students medaled (top 10) in 12 different events.

Dalton Swimming exceeded expectations in its final meet of the winter season. The performance was highlighted by the girls' second place finish overall in the 200 Yard Freestyle Relay and by the boys' fourth place finish in the Ivy Meet. 

Every year, Dalton students submit artworks and various forms of writing to the NYC Scholastic Art & Writing Awards achieving outstanding results. 2018 was no exception, with six Gold Keys and eight Silver Keys awarded in Art, and seven Gold Keys and ten Silver Keys in Writing categories. 67 students in all won awards including 35 Honorable Mentions.

10 Dalton Middle School Math Team students were selected to compete in the NYC tournament based on their Mathcounts school competition and AMC8 scores. They competed with a total of 400 students city-wide, from public and independent schools. The team earned the right to advance to the State tournament in March. Eighth-grader Jake Berg came in third individually in the combined Sprint and Target rounds, and in second place individually in the Countdown round.

Joseph Fins, MD -- Professor of Medical Ethics; Chief, Division of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medicine; Professor of Medical Ethics in Neurology and Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Co-Director, CASBI-Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury at Weill Cornell and Rockefeller University -- treated eleventh and twelfth graders in Ron Schollenberger's Bioethics class to a lively, thought-provoking discussion. Dr. Fins shared the experiences and insights he gained from his many years of research studying the nature of human consciousness and various medical disorders of consciousness such as the Vegetative State, the Minimally Conscious State and Locked-In Syndrome. 

After a unit study on foods, Dr. Campos’ 6th grade Spanish class put on a puppet performance of La Tortilla Corredora/The Runaway Tortilla for Sra. D’Ecclesiis Grade 2 Spanish class. This story is a folktale similar to the Gingerbread Man. The Grade 6 students studied the importance of tortillas in Latin American cultures as well as its history. House 25 read "La tortilla de Burro" and discussed the ingredients and the process of making fresh tortillas, to get ready for a puppet show prepared by the Grade 6 Spanish students. As a culminating project, students also presented cooking videos with tortillas as their inspiration for their recipe! 

The students from the Advanced Poetry Writing classes shared some of their work from the semester. In the words of Mr. Hood, as he introduced the event, "The poetry...is relentlessly honest about the human condition. It is sometimes poets speaking from their own lives, with a very raw personal honestly, it's sometimes the poet creating a character." He further explained that both methods are ways of trying to access feeling for the reader. The appreciative audience was sizable and included a number of Creative Writing Program alums. Twelve poets shared their work.

Story and photos provided by High School English Teacher and Creative Writing Program Coordinator Chris Hood

Please be advised of upcoming crane work and street closure on 89th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, on February 17 from 6:00 AM - 8:00 PM.

The following summarizes expected construction work in front of the 89th Street building over the next two Saturdays (January 20 and 27).

Senior Carisa Shah was selected as a 2018 National winner of the NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) Award for Aspirations in Computing given each year to tech motivated girls with outstanding achievements. The award was based on her bullying curriculum and website designed to help keep motivated girls in tech.

Microscopes are a staple in the world of science. Instead of using them in the traditional capacity, where one student at a time peers into the eyepiece to observe a specimen, Grade 9 Biology teachers in conjunction with New Lab for Teaching and Learning (Dalton's Technology Department) have moved to a collaborative microscopy experience using a microscope coupled with a digital camera and iPad.

In late January or early February, we anticipate a one-day street closure on 89th Street between Lexington and Park Avenue for necessary crane work.  Please review the recap of our December Neighborhood Meeting if you were unable to attend.