Milton Student-Athletes on Soccer’s World Stage
Two teammates on Milton’s boys’ varsity soccer team represented their respective home countries in the Caribbean Finals of the CONCACAF U17 World Cup Qualifying held in September in Trinidad. Brandon Jones ’18 played center back on the U17 Bermuda national team, and Jeremy Verley ’19 played midfield for the U17 Jamaica national team. Coincidentally, the two teams faced off in the first round of the tournament, and Jamaica won the game. “The tournament was the closest I’ve felt to playing on a professional soccer team,” says Brandon. “The whole process of training and playing...
Read MoreModel UN Students Bring Honors Back to Milton
Milton’s Model UN students traveled to Brown University for this fall’s Model UN Conference. During the conference, students take the perspective of a country or political figure, engaging with peers from around the country, and debating and writing proposals on issues like cybersecurity, counterterrorism, and global social and military threats. Caleb Rhodes ’17, co-head of Model UN, earned Best Delegate for his representation of Lt. Col. Manuel da Costa Braz in the Alvor Agreement of 1975. “Before this conference, I didn’t know much about Portuguese history and how Portugal...
Read MoreTerrance Hayes
Weaving imagination with life experience, poet Terrance Hayes shared his work as this fall’s Bingham Visiting Writer. His expressive—sometimes playful, sometimes raw—poems broached love, family, race, relationships, masculinity and music. Mr. Hayes began with several poems from Lighthead, for which he won a National Book Award in 2010. Mr. Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina. He earned his B.A. from Coker College and his M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, where he is a member of the English department faculty. How to Be Drawn, his most recent collection of poems, was a...
Read MoreDanielle Flora
Professional dance is a competitive industry, but the benefits to those who make it are sublime, film and television choreographer Danielle Flora told students. Aspiring dancers should never stop learning, attending classes and watching peers’ performances, she said. “Entertainment can be a rough business, but dancers I’ve worked with have been able to see the world while on tour with some of the most famous musicians. They spend their lives doing fun and creative things.” Ms. Flora began her dance career as a New York Knicks City Dancer before joining Saturday Night Live, where she...
Read MoreCatalyst Conversations: The Dialogue Between Art and Science
“You can talk yourself out of something really easily,” media artist Deb Todd Wheeler told Milton students in an assembly sponsored by the Nesto Gallery. “Ideas sometimes need a little bit of sideways thinking.” Ms. Wheeler visited Milton with artist Deborah Davidson, technologist Eric Gunther, and scientist Andrew Berry as part of Catalyst Conversations. Ms. Davidson founded Catalyst Conversations, which explores a dialogue between art and science. As the world becomes increasingly technology-oriented and visual, the connection between art and science has grown, evident in artistic...
Read MoreKeiko Orrall
Recognizing and respecting one another’s differences—rather than using them as ammunition in debate—is the key to civil discourse, Massachusetts State Representative Keiko Orrall told students. Rep. Orrall spoke at the invitation of Milton’s Conservative Club, and she acknowledged that the tact she describes is notably absent from national politics today. Rep. Orrall, the Republican national committeewoman from Massachusetts, cautioned students against assuming that people with opposing political views are “the enemy,” saying such polarizing attitudes prohibit compromise and grind...
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