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February 2, 2022
Super Bowl-Bound Von Miller Visits Cate School
Less than 48 hours after defeating the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game and punching a ticket to Super Bowl LVI, Los Angeles Rams linebacker Von Miller made a special appearance at Cate School to kick off its celebration for Black History Month. The eight-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl 50 Most Valuable …
May 20, 2021
Introducing the Jack Ballard Recording Studio
The Cate School music department is proud to unveil the brand-new Jack Ballard Recording Studio. Located in Booth Commons, the state-of-the-art studio includes equipment used by professional musicians and features a 32-channel SSL console, Warm-Audio compressors, EQ, Shure, and Neumann microphones, and more. “Since my arrival nine years ago, more and more students have arrived …
June 1, 2018
Commencement 2018
Cate School held its traditional Commencement exercises Sunday, May 27, 2018, marking the School’s 105th graduation ceremony. With the assistance of the school’s President of the Board of Trustees, J. Wyatt Gruber ’93, Head of School Ben Williams conferred diplomas upon the 72 members of the Class of 2018. In true Cate fashion, Williams recognized …
May 14, 2018
Inquiry Day 2018: From Bigfoot to Big Data
| A deep dive for Inquiry Day. |
April 9, 2018
Convocation | Hon. Colleen Sterne
“The truth will out,” said Judge Sterne, holding her audience silently entranced as she brought her presentation to a close. Colleen Sterne, Superior Court judge, Episcopal priest, and humanist, spoke to the Cate community on Monday evening. Bringing to the occasion her years on the bench and in the pulpit, Judge Sterne addressed this year’s …
February 13, 2018
Convocation | Harriet Washington
Accurate history will not be spoon-fed to you. You have to go look for it. Harriet Washington’s talk on Monday night in the Hitchcock Theatre was a call to action. Dr. Washington is a well-known medical ethicist who is currently a fellow at the University of Nevada’s Black Mountain Institute. She has been a research …
December 4, 2017
Why Cate? | Ari ’18
Ari is a senior from Santa Clara, CA Before Cate, I didn’t know what boarding school was. I always identified school as the place you went to study during the day, where teachers taught, and only students who really cared about their education learned in class. At Cate the word ‘school’ has a different connotation …
October 24, 2017
Why Cate? | Biba ’19
Biba ’19 Santa Barbara, CA From an early age I had heard amazing stories about Cate. When I arrived to attend the school I got to learn for myself that all of the stories of community, safety, beauty and a general tone of happiness were in fact true. Entering my junior year, Cate has only …
May 28, 2017
Cate’s 104th Commencement
| Cate celebrates 103rd Commencement. |
May 1, 2017
Ellis Jones ’72 Headmaster’s Chair
On April 26, 2017, a newly endowed faculty chair, the Ellis Jones ’72 Headmaster’s Chair was awarded to Paul Denison ’79. Read the transcript from Head of School Ben Williams’s presentation below. We have the great good fortune at Cate to have alumni who long after their experience on the Mesa choose to invest in …