Spring 2016 Issue

Mark Hilgendorf

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Mark Hilgendorf

Mark Hilgendorf History and Social Sciences Department Member of the Faculty, 1982–2016 Of Mark Hilgendorf, one history department colleague said, “He is a master at inviting our connection with each other around the table,” of encouraging “a radical sense of shared humanity.” I’ll begin there, as perhaps there’s no higher praise for a career educator. For Mark, though, such connection was, from the beginning, the goal. He arrived at Milton 34 years ago, in 1982, with his wife, Cindy, and their two, very young children in...

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Doug Fricke

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Doug Fricke

Doug Fricke English Department Member of the Faculty, 1987–2016 Stroll. Amble. Meander. Stride. When we think of Doug, he is always walking with steady purpose—never haste—seeking out two things: good company and new experiences. Young and old alike marvel at his 500-mile walks across Spain’s Camino de Santiago, but with postal regularity Doug takes to the hallways between classes, always popping in to his colleagues’ rooms, a story, a recipe, a follow-up comment on the tip of his tongue. Just the other day, he walked to Cambridge to...

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Let Us Snap Your Style!

Posted by on Mar 25, 2016 in 2016 Spring Issue, Across the Quad | Comments Off on Let Us Snap Your Style!

And they did. During a break between classes, on a game day, in the depths of winter, Milton students shared the looks that make them feel good. Predictably, denim makes a solid showing, along with khakis — but so does so-called “elevated activewear,” neat and comfortable pants, tees and jackets that work for class and field, and tout the Milton logo. On their feet: Converse and Vans, iconic L. L. Bean boots, work boots unlaced just so, and classic black high boots topped by socks. Plaid is the rage and “groutfit” is the...

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Hungry? Here’s One Solution. Helson Taveras ’14 and Israel Moorer ’16

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Hungry? Here’s One Solution.  Helson Taveras ’14 and Israel Moorer ’16

Helson Taveras, a sophomore at Columbia University, strides along West 116th, the heart of campus, passing students whose lives he has already helped to change. At an institution with a $9.6 billion endowment, students are hungry, and Swipes is a solution. Last spring, Helson and his friend Julio Henriquez watched classmates turn to Facebook to connect with other students who had extra meals on their meal plans, asking for an opportunity — coordinating times and locations — to be “swiped” into a campus dining hall. The two were...

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The Big (Green) Room Ophelia Wilkins ’97

Posted by on Mar 24, 2016 in 2016 Spring Issue, Features | Comments Off on The Big (Green) Room Ophelia Wilkins ’97

The Big (Green) Room  Ophelia Wilkins ’97

“I have always loved making things, craft-y sorts of things,” Ophelia says, “clothes, furniture, pottery — I was really into ceramics at Milton, for instance.” Slight and strong, both understated and definitively stylish in a textured black-on-black dress (“I wish I’d made it, but I didn’t,” she says), Ophelia explains how and why every detail matters in what she’s “making” today. An architect with the firm Kuth Ranieri in San Francisco, Ophelia is working on creating a space where ideas will ignite, and moving...

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In Sight, Spring 2016

Posted by on Mar 24, 2016 in 2016 Spring Issue, InSight | Comments Off on In Sight, Spring 2016

Photo by John Gillooly

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Taking Risks and Keeping Cool, Jennie Dundas ’89

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Taking Risks and Keeping Cool,  Jennie Dundas ’89

Making ice cream can be messy, albeit delicious, work. Jennie Dundas ’89 is dressed for a production day — jeans, sneakers, and a pink sweatshirt with the hood pulled up over a required hairnet. Large bags of organic sugar, tubs of pure maple syrup, and boxes of organic pecans line the walls. On this day, 44,000 mini-cups will be filled with four different seasonal flavors of ice cream for JetBlue’s first-class service. Jennie, CEO and co-founder of Blue Marble Ice Cream, based in Brooklyn, is at the production facility in Rhode...

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Buffering the Consumer from Hard Work, John Tucker ’96

Posted by on Mar 24, 2016 in 2016 Spring Issue, Features | Comments Off on Buffering the Consumer from Hard Work, John Tucker ’96

Buffering the Consumer from Hard Work,  John Tucker ’96

In 2009, Trunk Club launched online. Its mission: create a better way for men to shop for clothes. Trunk Club wanted to make it easier for men to show up at work and on weekends looking good, especially if they had little time and even less inclination to shop. An early player in a burgeoning field, “Trunk Club was a problem solver when it launched, which accounts for its early success,” says John Tucker, co-founder and vice president of member experience. Trunk Club isn’t a designer-to-customer direct sales company. Nor is it a digital...

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Counting on You, Day and Night: The Look and Feel of a Boarding Faculty Member’s Life in 2016

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Counting on You, Day and Night: The Look and Feel of a Boarding Faculty Member’s Life in 2016

“There’s something remarkable about getting to know a teenage boy over four years,” says Joshua Emmott, Wolcott House head, “to see him as a full person so completely that when life’s key questions come up, it’s natural for him to knock on my door and say ‘I just don’t see how it all connects.’” This year is Joshua’s twelfth — in the history department, and in Wolcott House. “I started on the fourth floor and have lived on every floor,” he says. “This is my third year as house head.” Fortunately, some adults...

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The Milton Incubator for Advanced Programmers

Posted by on Mar 24, 2016 in 2016 Spring Issue, Classroom | Comments Off on The Milton Incubator for Advanced Programmers

It’s Thursday afternoon during exam week, and a computer lab in the Art and Media Center thrums. Milton’s programming students, laptops spread, are tweaking, honing, perfecting independent projects — it’s noisy “independent” work. Students probe and answer each other’s questions, review lines of friends’ code, wildly gesture to punctuate both frustrations and “aha!” moments. Chris Hales (computer programming faculty) roams the classroom — an open session for exam support that looks and feels like a startup...

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