Some students rose to the challenge with spectacular homemade works of art, including a giant and very realistic Nutella jar. A few aspired to the Middle School's friendly challenge to create costumes drawn from literary and historical works. One student carried a loaf of bread and wore a baseball uniform complete with chest protector and chin-guards, stuffed with beautiful arrangements of wheat chaffs projecting up and behind him. He was, of course, The Catcher in the Rye.

89th Street featured two major Halloween-inspired installations: High School Arts Club students decorated the front lobby display at 89th Street, including a giant soft-sculpture spider. On the 10th floor, Dalton librarians, Roxanne Feldman and Joe Quain, along with the assistance of a few nostalgic High School students, invited students to enter their haunted Middle School library, which is an annual tradition. The nearly pitch-black room, dimly and cleverly lit to show glimpses of skulls, gobs of cobwebs and other scary stuff, is a perfect place for gathering middle school students to read classic ghost stories.

The ever-spritely Peter Pan (alias, Ellen Stein) extended her farewells to Annie (alias, Lisa Waller) Captain Hook (alias, Jim Best), Smee (alias, Jim Zulakis) and "flew" over to House 91 to read spooky stories to the First Program students and teachers, concluding Dalton's Halloween celebration of warmth, community, creativity and starting another busy day at Dalton.