Messages: Tyler Hicks
New York Times award-winning war photographer Tyler Hicks discussed his work with students and explained why he thinks journalism coverage of conflict and war is important. Mr. Hicks was on campus for three days as the Melissa Dilworth Gold Visiting Artist. In visual art and photography classes, Mr. Hicks showed images from Afghanistan and Iraq, and talked about becoming a photojournalist after graduating from Boston University’s School of Communication in 1992. After various staff photographer jobs, Mr. Hicks traveled to Kosovo on his own...
read moreRetiring Trustees
Brad Bloom, president of the board, expressed on the board’s behalf profound gratitude to four trustees whose service on the board concluded in May of this year. Caroline Hyman P’00 was elected to the board in 2009. Caroline clearly understood and appreciated Milton, and she helped Milton in many ways during four important years of our School’s history. Caroline and her husband, Ed, directly and powerfully affected Milton students’ experience through their philanthropy. Caroline’s generosity took many forms: She unfailingly hosted...
read moreJoining the Board of Trustees
Yunli Lou ’87 Yunli Lou ’87 and her husband, James Kralik, operate Milestone Capital, where Yunli serves as managing director. Milestone is a China-focused private equity investment and advisory firm with main offices in Shanghai and Beijing. Yunli also serves as a director of Yuhua TelTech and Dehaier Medical Systems and was an observer of Focus Media. Yunli, Milton’s first graduate from China, is a graduate of Harvard College and was named a John Harvard Scholar. Helping to promote and expand Milton’s profile in Shanghai, Yunli and...
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...
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...
read moreMessages: Randall Dunn ’83
Randall Dunn ’83 was the 2013 Martin Luther King Day speaker at the assembly honoring the great civil rights leader. Mr. Dunn is head of school at the Latin School of Chicago, which, like Milton, provides students with a challenging and rewarding educational program in a community that embraces diversity of people, cultures and ideas. As a student at Milton, he participated in community service, was a three-season athlete, and, as a senior, was a head monitor. Mr. Dunn earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master’s...
read moreMessages: Joe Vulopas
This year’s Talbot Speaker, Joe Vulopas, is the founder and executive director of Aevidum—a depression and suicide education awareness initiative launched at the Pennsylvania high school where Mr. Vulopas teaches English. Mr. Vulopas’s goal is spreading awareness about depression, suicide and hope. Aevidum involves trained adults in empowering middle and high school students to understand that depression is a treatable illness; to know the warning signs of depression; to use their gifts and talents to spread the message of hope; and to...
read moreMessages: Bishop John Shelby Spong
This year, Bishop John Shelby Spong continued the Endowment for Religious Understanding speaker series established by the Class of 1952. Bishop Spong spoke with students about accepting people, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. He explained to students that the Bible is sometimes used to dissuade that acceptance, including in Bishop Spong’s own childhood experience. A retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, New Jersey, Bishop Spong is known as a theologian, religious commentator and author. Growing...
read moreMessages: Martín Espada
Tapping into his ancestral Puerto Rico and his 1960s Brooklyn childhood, Martín Espada’s poems weave stories of immigrants, family, music, racism and baseball. As this fall’s Bingham Visiting Reader, he read—with passion and humor—from selected works to students in King Theatre, framing his poems with stories of how they came to be. Mr. Espada has published more than 15 books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His latest collection of poems, The Trouble Ball, is the recipient of the Milt Kessler Award, a Massachusetts Book...
read moreMessages: Dr. Jackson Katz
Advocating the “bystander approach” commonly used in anti-bullying campaigns, Dr. Jackson Katz spoke with students this fall, encouraging everyone to use their voices against issues of gender violence. Dr. Katz co-founded the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program at Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society. The program initially focused on involving college and professional athletes, given the potential there as a positive leadership platform. Today, MVP is the most widely used gender violence prevention...
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