New And Interdisciplinary: A Wider Lens, A Deeper Look
Eight new courses at Milton this year integrate disciplines in pursuit of a fuller understanding, and rely upon teachers working in collaboration. Last spring, teachers began preparing for their proposed course work through workshops with Veronica Boix Mansilla. A senior research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Veronica chairs the Future of Learning Institute. Her research examines how to produce quality interdisciplinary work addressing problems of contemporary global significance. Faculty are excited that these courses will allow students to think about relevant...
Read MoreCommencement Speaker Betsy Beers ’75
Five Things I Have Learned Since Graduating from Milton 1. You will always learn more doing a crap job than a great one. At some point, wait on tables, fold clothes at the Gap, or be a lowly assistant. Not what you expected to hear, right? Take waiting on tables: You see people at their best and their worst, and you have to learn to negotiate between a hungry public and a volatile guy in the kitchen who wields knives as part of his job. Ten tables, all seated at once, all hungry? I still have a nightmare that I come back to a station and all the customers are dead. So why is this important?...
Read More2014 Awards and Prizes
Priscilla Bailey Award To a senior girl who has been a most valuable asset to Milton Academy athletics and to the Milton Academy community — an athlete who has demonstrated exceptional individual skills and teamwork, as well as true sportsmanship. Kaitlin Kim Gately Henry Warder Carey Prize To members of Class I, who, in public speaking and oral interpretation, have shown consistent effort, thoroughness of preparation, and concern for others. Oluwayemisi Oluwakorede Olorunwunmi Daisy Eliza Walker Robert L. Daley Prize Created by his students of 1984 in his memory and honor, this prize...
Read MoreWalter McCloskey Names Eight to Remember Stories that moved him, and might move you
“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthorne’s perverse sense of humor gives this allegory of universal guilt a distinctively comic undertone. “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville Melville’s Bartleby, the lawyer’s scribe who practices a ferocious passive resistance, has taught me one of life’s most useful phrases: “I would prefer not to.” “The Old People” by William Faulkner In this story, which anticipates the much longer and more complex “The Bear,” Faulkner introduces one of his major themes: the multiple ways in which the past inhabits the...
Read MoreTheir Shortest Assignment Ever!
Short-shorts by students, like @VeryShortStory, in 140 characters or less. She was wild, sassy, but imaginative; so, when she told me she lived in an island in the sky, I thought she was insane. But no, there it was, just like she said. — Sophia Greenaway, Class III I love how you can think you’re at the top with every bend in the path. “False summit,” I think it’s called. You’re not yet, but you will be. — Claire Huffman, Class I She was there. Her stare was oblique. “I’m sorry.” “For what?” Again, the oblique look. The wind shook her hair into her eyes....
Read MoreAdmission Stats 2014–2015
Upper School Applications for 2014–2015 — 1,100 New students enrolled — 141 (92 boarding, 49 day) K–8 Applications for 2014–2015 — 413 New students enrolled — 52 K–12 total enrollment — 1,034 Vitals Male — 54% Female — 46% Sibling or legacy — 35% Receive need-based financial aid — 28% New day students are from 48 surrounding cities and towns. The Admission Office hosted 1,400 families visiting for interviews last year. New boarding students come from 20 states. And 14 countries. Of our new students, 43% are self-defined students...
Read MoreThe Art and Media Center: Old Science Repurposed as High Functioning Art Space
For the first time, at least in “modern” history, students can pursue any and all of Milton’s visual arts programs in one building, the Art and Media Center (AMC). This summer, changes that will not strike some as dramatic have nevertheless prepared all three levels of the AMC for unparalleled opportunities and collaboration in the arts. Ian Torney, visual art chair, used the relocation of sculpture, ceramics and woodworking from Robert Saltonstall as a chance to rethink how spaces are outfitted and aligned, not only for today’s world of arts, but in anticipation of how the field will...
Read MoreSeminar Day in its Fourth Decade: Economist Sam Bowles Was Keynote
Economist Sam Bowles was the Sally Bowles Keynote Speaker, leading the student-organized Seminar Day in May. More than 20 other experts and activists followed, covering a wide range of publicly debated domestic and international issues. Many alumni were among the guest speakers, stimulating great questions and discussions. Called the Keyes Seminar Day, this lively event has been one of Milton’s most important traditions since 1977. It is named in honor of its founder, former faculty member Peter Keyes, a legendary promoter of student interest in the political process as well as public and...
Read MoreLisa Donohue ’83, a Leader in Media and Technology, Will Succeed Brad Bloom as Board President
Lisa Donohue, Milton Academy Class of 1983, will succeed Brad Bloom as president of the Milton Academy Board of Trustees when his term concludes in 2015. Milton trustees voted in May to elect Lisa as the president, effective July 1, 2015. Since she joined the board in 2008, Lisa has taken a leadership role, particularly in the areas of external relations, strategic planning, campaign preparation, and developing the membership and practices (or processes) of the board. “I am thrilled that I will be able to build on Brad’s strong leadership over the last five years, and the board’s work...
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