“From a place of joy and not fear”
by Annie Moyer ’97 I recently married my partner of five years, Renée Coronado Martinez, at a courthouse in Brooklyn, New York. Four months earlier we held a formal ceremony in Renée’s home state of Califor-nia. Our one witness at the courthouse was Emily Brooks, a friend since my freshman year at Milton. It was only fitting that Emily would stand there with us in the courthouse, and that so many of my Milton friends would celebrate with us at the wedding this past summer. I cherish the experience I had at Milton; however, my memories of the school are complex. For me, Milton...
Read MoreInSight, Spring 2012
Elizabeth Stanfield ’12 played the over-achieving Marcy Park in Milton’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Read MoreErick Tseng ’97 Joins Board of Trustees
Erick Tseng ’97 is head of mobile products for Facebook since May 2010, after having been a lead product manager at Google for four years. His team at Google launched the Android platform and led development of the Nexus One phone. Erick completed a dual bachelor’s and master’s degree program in computer science and electrical engineering at M.I.T., where he was the president of his class. Erick earned his M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Read MoreClaire Hughes Johnson ’90 Joins Board of Trustees
Claire Hughes Johnson ’90 is vice president of the global online sales division of Google. She was a speaker at Google’s 2010 National Economic Impact conference in Washington, D.C. and was a panelist at the 2011 New York Times Small Business Summit. Daughter of the late Guy Hughes (English department), Claire has hosted events for Milton and served on her 20th Reunion committee. Claire graduated from Brown University and earned her M.B.A. from Yale University.
Read MoreWendy Nicholson ’86 Joins Board of Trustees
Wendy Nicholson ’86 is managing director of Citigroup’s investment research division and has been rated one of the best analysts in her sector. She has been involved with Milton in recent years as a member of the Head of School’s Council. Wendy completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and earned her M.B.A. from New York University.
Read MoreMy Journey Translated by Katherine Gratwick Baker ’55
My Journey: How One Woman Survived Stalin’s Gulag by Olga Adamova-Sliozberg Translated by Katherine Gratwick Baker ’55 Northwestern University Press, August 2011 In the spring of 1936, Olga Adamova-Sliozberg’s husband, a professor at Moscow State University, was arrested and accused of being a Trotskyite. A short time later, Adamova-Sliozberg herself was arrested as the wife of “an enemy of the people.” Torn from her children, she spent a decade subjected to grueling interrogations and a prison regime designed to crush inmates both physically and psychologically. Released in...
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