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April 6, 2023

Cate Students Attend Performance of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

On March 28, students from English 11, Staging Activism, and Theatre Performance classes traveled to the Mark Taper Forum in Downtown LA to attend a performance of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Originally performed as a one-woman show by playwright and scholar Anna Deavere Smith, Twilight is a work of verbatim theatre that uses first-person accounts …

February 17, 2022

Keeping it Local: Ocean Ranch Organics and Cate Dining

From Lucky Llama açaí bowls to the aisles of Pacific Health Foods and now Booth Commons, if you have had breakfast in Carpinteria in recent years, chances are you’ve encountered Ocean Ranch Organics granola. A local woman-owned and operated business founded by Kim Redman, Ocean Ranch Organics is dedicated to creating nutritious products with organic and …

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 …

September 20, 2019

Cate Launches #InYourCorner – Mental Health Resource

At Cate, we hope to provide the best care possible for each and every student. Nothing is more important than your health and well-being. As mental health challenges are on the rise across the country, we know that Cate is no exception. In addition to offering mental health education through our Human Development department and …

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 …

June 2, 2017

Student Commencement Speech | Fran Duffy-Boscagli ’17

Since my sophomore year, I’ve been writing for our school newspaper, the El Batidor, or as we like to call it affectionately, El Bat. My three-year career in journalism began my sophomore year during which I was placed in the opinion section. I gave Cate my pointed opinions on pressing topics like our response to …

May 28, 2017

Cate’s 104th 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 …