Commencement Speaker Betsy Beers ’75
Five Things I Have Learned Since Graduating from Milton 1. You will always learn more doing a crap job than a great one. At some point, wait on tables, fold clothes at the Gap, or be a lowly assistant. Not what you expected to hear, right? Take waiting on tables: You see people at their best and their worst, and you have to learn to negotiate between a hungry public and a volatile guy in the kitchen who wields knives as part of his job. Ten tables, all seated at once, all hungry? I still have a nightmare that I come back to a station and all...
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Priscilla Bailey Award To a senior girl who has been a most valuable asset to Milton Academy athletics and to the Milton Academy community — an athlete who has demonstrated exceptional individual skills and teamwork, as well as true sportsmanship. Kaitlin Kim Gately Henry Warder Carey Prize To members of Class I, who, in public speaking and oral interpretation, have shown consistent effort, thoroughness of preparation, and concern for others. Oluwayemisi Oluwakorede Olorunwunmi Daisy Eliza Walker Robert L. Daley Prize Created by his...
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Jenny Slate, Milton Class of 2000, was a student speaker at her own graduation, on this stage 13 years ago. On the eve of that graduation, Jim Connolly, Jenny Slate’s advisor during her years in the Upper School, made a grand pronouncement, he wrote, “Your youth is but a prelude to the greatness that awaits you.” In fact, Mr. Connolly had a great sense of where her talent might land her. “In my nightmares,” he wrote, “I see you doing a ‘Saturday Night Live’ impression of [me] and I cringe.” An actress and comedienne, Jenny...
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Cum Laude Class I Nicole Akosua Acheampong Nelson Landers Barrette* Amanda Ruth Beaudoin Kate Hendrik Bodner Mary Frances Brown Emma City Julia Anne Cowen Anne Anlan Deng Clare Severinghaus Dingle Allison Rose Edwards Jonathan Cole Esty Kirby Carylon Feagan Evan Harris Garnick Alexandra Faith Golden Ellyn Jane Golden Lucie Madeleine Hajian Abigail Sterling Higgins Yuta Inumaru Daniel Keeha Kim Catherine Alexandra Kulke Jessica Li Erica Christine Mathews Nicholas Edward Pagliuca Sara Yang Yue Pearce-Probst Daniel Nicholas Rubenstein Lillie...
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Cum Laude Class I Nicole Elizabeth Baker-Greene Katherine Margaret Ballinger Adam Lawrence Beckman Maxwell Burgess Bennett Natasha Ankita Bhasin Kathryn Margaret Broderick Christine Young Cahill Hsuan-Wei Matthew Chen Anna Emily Childress Haeyeon Cho John Christopher Fay Jonathan Ralph Franco Hannah Elizabeth Grace Henry Streit Green Christine Marie Kalpin Vincent Churchward Kennedy Jeong A. Kim Juwon Kim Louis John McWilliams II Caroline Everett Moot Stephanie Tsz Yan Ng Jesse Davis Pagliuca Catharine Passavant Parker Elisabeth Baron...
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Graduation is rich with traditions and rituals— formal and informal. For instance, the longstanding practice of electing the student speakers assures seniors that at their last Milton gathering, they will hear messages from classmates they chose. More recently, Class I students have been inviting accomplished Milton alumni to be commencement keynote speakers. This year, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Class of 1974, talked with graduates in Straus Library, prior to the formal commencement ceremony. Brad Bloom, president of Milton’s...
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