Messages: Tectonic Theater Project
Students performed The Laramie Project this winter, a play in which actors portray various members of the Laramie community, the Wyoming town where college student Matthew Shepard was beaten and killed by two local men in 1998. This year’s Melissa Gold Visiting Artists, two members of the Tectonic Theater Project, the show’s creators, visited campus. Actor Andy Paris and director Leigh Fondakowski spoke with students about Matthew Shepard, the creative theater process, and the role performance can play in national conversation. “In the...
read moreMessages: Irene Monroe
Reverend Irene Monroe talked with students about the rewards and challenges of developing a diverse community as the 2014 Martin Luther King speaker. Rev. Monroe is a pastor and syndicated religion columnist. Her writing focuses on how religious intolerance and fundamentalism perpetuate other forms of oppression, like racism, sexism, classism and anti-Semitism. A Brooklyn native, Rev. Monroe graduated from Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. She served as a pastor at an African-American church before...
read moreBoys’ Basketball Team Ended 2012–13 as League Champions
Milton fans burst into exuberant celebration as the boys’ varsity basketball team earned the Independent School League Championship title in a 54–53 win over Noble and Greenough. At the final buzzer, students rushed the court as players celebrated their victory, the first league championship in the team’s history. Both teams had strong records going into the game on Friday night, and Nobles led in scoring for most of the game. In the final 15 seconds, Milton had possession of the ball and was down by one point when Coach Lamar Reddicks...
read moreNational Recognition for Student-Writer Victoria White
The wall on Victoria White’s (I) side of her room in Hathaway House is covered in not-your-average-teenage-girl décor. “I have a big bulletin board where I collect poems that I like,” says Victoria. “I think I might drive my roommates crazy, because they have all these cool posters and I have a big wall of text!” Always a strong writer at Milton, Victoria is being recognized nationally through numerous awards and accolades this year. She was one of 150 high school students chosen as a YoungArts National Finalist, where students are...
read moreIndu Chugani: A New Dean, Set to Realize a Strategic Goal
Indu Chugani, Milton’s dean of teaching and learning, has been busy on campus since July 1, and was happy to meet faculty and students when everyone returned to campus. Indu’s role is new to Milton. The heart of her job, Indu says, is “working with faculty on identifying teaching practices that will allow every Milton student to realize his or her full potential.” The position description says that the dean of teaching and learning “oversees the professional growth of the faculty.” Indu describes that as “constantly reviewing and...
read moreMilton Joins in Leading the Trend Toward Educational Partnerships
“This is good news. This is good news for everyone, for all children,” Todd Bland said at the launch this year of the National Network of Schools in Partnership (NNSP) at the National Association of Independent Schools annual conference in February. NNSP promotes and supports educational partnerships to develop, test and share cross-school innovations that affect the educational experience of children in all settings. More than 250 independent school educational leaders attended, and heard Maureen Dowling, director of the Office of...
read moreBeloved “Coach Mac” Inducted into Massachusetts Coaches Hall of Fame
Milton Academy’s head football coach for the past 17 years, Kevin MacDonald—or “Coach Mac”—says his work with his players off the field brings him the most joy. “I love being involved with the players’ college process,” says Kevin. “Nothing makes me happier than the number of students we send on to play college football.” During his tenure—with a record of 87–43–3—roughly 100 Milton players have gone on to play college football, 19 at the Division I level. Nick Bland ’13, a team captain in 2012, is playing for...
read moreMilton Scientists Share Their Culminating Work
Advanced science students were also advanced communicators at Milton’s Third Annual Science Symposium in the Pritzker Science Center. For students enrolled in advanced biology, chemistry, physics and environmental science, discussing independent projects that they’ve pursued over the last several weeks of the second semester is their culminating work. Milton science faculty invited Caleb Warren ’13 and Lydia Emerson ’13 to be the symposium’s keynote speakers. Caleb and Lydia framed the event by sharing their experiences of doing...
read moreMessages: Erick Tseng ’97
Erick Tseng ’97 is head of mobile products at Facebook and is a Milton Academy trustee. Mr. Tseng took the Asian stereotype head-on as he described the defining moments in his career and personal life to students. Mr. Tseng attended M.I.T., where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and electrical engineering. He earned an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he graduated with top honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar. Before joining Google, Mr. Tseng was an associate at McKinsey &...
read moreMessages: Francine Prose
Award-winning author Francine Prose read pages from an unfinished novel to students. The story grew from a photo titled Lesbian Couple at Le Monocle (1932) by Hungarian photographer George Brassaï, which Ms. Prose saw at a museum exhibit. Brassaï chronicled underground Paris nightlife during the 1930s. In this particular photo, one of the subjects was a former French athlete who was banned from competition due to her sexual orientation. Upon an invitation from Adolf Hitler, this woman attended the Berlin Olympics as his guest; she went on to...
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