Milton Tennis Dominates
With ace serves and slicing backhands, the girls’ varsity tennis team dominated the courts of the Independent School League, going undefeated (15–0) and earning the title of ISL Champions after beating Nobles in the last match of the season. The team also earned the NEPSAC Championship trophy over tough competitors. Coach Troy Crichlow ’99 described the season as a perfect culmination of the team’s strong results over the past few years. The team’s top-ranked player, Maddie DeWire ’16, had an outstanding season, winning all of her singles matches. “Tennis season is the most fun...
Read MoreJazz at Milton Is Forty Years Young
Playing one of the signature tunes of hard bop, musicians spanning five decades of Milton Academy jazz gathered onstage to perform “Moanin’” as part of a free concert event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the jazz program on April 4, 2014. Since 1974, Milton’s jazz program, founded and directed by music faculty member Bob Sinicrope, has grown to include more than 75 students involved in the study and performance of jazz in nine different jazz groups. Current jazz students and alumni filled the evening with a range of musical performances. Special guest Horace Alexander Young, a...
Read MoreMatt Bingham Extends His Science Classroom by 2,000 Miles
Practicing what he preaches and teaches, science faculty member Matt Bingham spent two weeks in Greenland this spring with a group of fellow researchers, studying how ocean conditions on the west side of Greenland affect the vast ice sheet covering roughly 80 percent of the country. Milton students supported the trip stateside, writing content for a blog documenting the trip and conducting experiments on samples brought back from Greenland. “The Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet, and this ice sheet is showing evidence of a complicated, or nonlinear, melting...
Read MoreArt and Science, Teacher and Student, a Collaboration at the Museum of Science
Artist Anne Neely’s large canvases, filled with rich hues of blues, greens and browns, hang in an exhibit hall in Boston’s Museum of Science. The paintings in Water Stories: Conversations in Paint and Sound reflect Anne’s interpretation of water cleanliness and water access issues plaguing the United States. This merging of art and science developed from a collaboration between teacher and former student. Anne was new to the visual arts faculty in 1974, and David Rabkin ’79 was one of her students, whom Anne describes as “inquisitive and full of ideas.” They kept in touch on and...
Read MoreJoining Trustees
Ted Wendell ’58 Edward “Ted” Wendell Jr. ’58 was elected to the board during the summer of 2013. Ted is a founding partner and principal of Northern Cross, LLC. During the 1960s, Ted served as a math teacher, head of admissions, and dean of students at Marlboro College, in Marlboro, Vermont. He graduated from Harvard College and earned a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Washington. Ted served as a Milton trustee from 1974 to 1986 and has been active on reunion committees. Ted and his wife, Mary, have been generous and supportive to many Milton students,...
Read MoreRetiring Trustees
Kitty Gordan Milton Academy Board of Trustees, 2006–2014 During her eight years on Milton’s board, Kitty brought the wisdom of her deep school experience to serve — generously and graciously — the head of school, all of us as trustees, and the adults and children at Milton today, and through the importance of her work, for years to come. Kitty is reliably open and consistently positive. Her appreciation for how myriad pieces contribute to a whole bigger than the sum of the parts is always evident in her comments. No aspect of school life has been outside her interest, and she...
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