Making Dances: How to render ideas in space and time
Excitement has been building for weeks, and not just among the dancers. Don’t count on talking your way into King Theatre without a ticket. The Winter Dance Concert may be the biggest draw all year on campus. Seats are “sold-out” for the three nights’ run. Some students in the show have been dancing for many years; others made their way to dance tryouts after a football practice last fall. Milton choreographers figure prominently in the program lineup. These students, who earned green lights for their proposals from performing arts faculty last fall, have produced their dances for an...
Read MoreMath Is Strategy: Grade Four Students Make the Decisions
Milton’s fourth graders learn three core tenets of working with numbers: flexibility, efficiency and accuracy. In other words, their teacher Randy Schmidt says, finding the right answer is important, but it’s not quite enough. “Students often come in with just the accuracy part,” Randy laughs, “and that leads to the other important work that we do.” They begin the year reviewing addition and subtraction strategies, as Randy reexamines or introduces multiple strategies for each operation. “Being open to a new strategy when they already have one down is challenging for some...
Read MoreOver Time
From above the fireplace, Headmaster Field’s view of Straus Library then (mid-1950s) and now
Read MoreGirls’ Cross Country Wins ISL Championship
Milton’s cross country runners are league champions. The girls brought home the Independent School League Championship Cup this fall, a feat last accomplished by the program in 1983. “The race was really fast, because the first part of the course was completely flat,” said Maddie Warwick (II). “Many of the girls in the front weren’t giving up. It was harder to pass them, because they stuck with you.” Maddie earned an early lead in the field of 85 runners and never looked back. Milton’s number-one runner finished the 3.1-mile course in sixth place with a time of 20:34. The...
Read MoreBuckminster Fuller, Milton Class of 1913
One hundred years ago, inventor and engineer Buckminster Fuller graduated from Milton Academy. Hailed as one of the greatest minds of our time, Buckminster experienced ups and downs in his early adult years. He was expelled from Harvard twice before apprenticing as a machine fitter at a cotton mill machinery company in Boston. During two years of service in the U.S. Navy during World War I, he demonstrated an aptitude for engineering. Following the war, an executive position at a construction firm ended with his firing. But after his father-in-law, James Monroe Hewlett, developed a new way of...
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