Worth a Thousand Words: Nick Clark ’65 blurs the lines between fine art and your childhood favorites.
Four wide, welcoming murals — eight feet by 16 — warm the airy central hall of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. The textured swaths of red, green, blue, yellow, are stunning tone setters — contemporary collages, you think. But then each painting tugs at a deep-seated visual memory — something familiar, nostalgic — stemming from hundreds of turns with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The murals showcase Eric Carle’s signature tissue-paper technique writ large. Blurring the lines between fine art and illustration art is the goal of The Carle Museum....
Read MoreGrade 8 Talks: What Should We Know About You?
It’s Monday morning, and 145 middle schoolers gather in Ware 500. The faithful assembly space buzzes with 8 a.m. energy. Left of stage, an eighth grader flips through a collection of notecards a final time. She takes two deep breaths and steps onto the stage, where four weeks of preparation will culminate in her Grade 8 Talk. On Mondays and Fridays for nine years now, eighth graders have shared themselves with their classmates, and prepared through this experience for the traditional Class IV Talks that lie ahead. Grade 8 Talks, the brainchild of Middle School director Will Crissman,...
Read MoreNew 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 MoreJoe Ellis ’76 is President of the Denver Broncos — Not Just a Team, but a Brand
He’s a master of relaxed, congenial banter. Just ahead of him was a game that would end in a three-point overtime loss by the Broncos to New England—after midnight on a wind-whipped field. Trim and dapper in his orange Broncos’ warm-up jacket, Joe Ellis ’76 casually answered a stream of questions about what it takes to lead an enterprise that is intensely talent-dependent: talent in executing game-winning football, and talent in growing a brand experience that millions consider part of their lives. Joe describes the Denver Broncos as “the most highly visible business in the Rocky...
Read MoreLeading a Frontline Media Agency, Lisa Donohue ’83 Lives “Life in Beta”
As CEO of Starcom USA, one of the largest and most cutting-edge media agencies in the business, Lisa Donohue ’83 keeps her finger on advertising’s racing pulse by surrounding herself with talent on all levels, and staying on top of an ever-changing technological and media-savvy world. From her Twitter presence (@ldonohue), to walking the floor at the annual CES conference, to meeting with start-ups, Lisa brings an entrepreneurial spirit to an industry that is changing rapidly, driven by technology that is constantly shifting consumer behavior. “On a regular basis, I need to learn,”...
Read MoreWhen Doctors Tell Stories
Jonathan Emerson Kohler ’94, M.D., uses more than one theater. Many of us know and envy people who can balance work lives with serious avocations. The engineer who’s also a chef, or the investment manager who writes spy novels—somehow these people have cultivated different talents simultaneously. A few people pursue two separate careers at once. Jonathan Kohler ’94, on the other hand, has woven two seemingly unrelated talents into a single career. He is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon who integrates story and medicine. His formula has traction and plenty of growth potential. The power...
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