Spring 2012 Issue

The Alchemy of Friendship

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The Alchemy of Friendship

A progressive idea among friends from the ’5os penetrates students’ lives today. Two weeks after the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001, a group of friends met to begin planning their 50th Milton Reunion. From their school days in the ’50s through the turn of the century, they had all ably tended families and careers. Now they struggled with a new, incomprehensible chapter. Ned Felton, the boys’ head monitor in 1952, was sure that these friends could and should organize around an idea. “Ned was sure that we could identify a...

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The Support to Fly: Two Stories of Risk and Its Reward

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The Support to Fly: Two Stories of Risk and Its Reward

Starting anything new is at least partly scary. When the people in your new setting look mostly like you, you make some assumptions, consciously or not, about shared experiences. Knowing that you share common ground makes opening up, or making friends, a bit easier. When Ronnell Wilson ’93 and Nafeesah Allen ’02 arrived in Class IV, the School looked much less like the face of America than it does now. Today, 45 percent of our new students self-identify as students of color. Still, most students of color, as well as our international...

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Flocking Together

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Flocking Together

When Andy Ward came to Milton in 1944, the Milton Academy Bird Club had been active for nearly 20 years. The thrill of observing songbirds, hawks, warblers and the shorebirds of New England strengthened friendships that Andy relies on 60 years later. Early encouragement from biology faculty member Pete Morrison drew the group together. He orchestrated weekend birding trips to Newburyport and other areas around Boston. “Bird-watching is widely accepted now, but during our time at Milton, birding was thought to be a little offbeat,” Andy...

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Friends Become the Mirror that Middle Schoolers Seek

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Friends Become the Mirror that Middle Schoolers Seek

Sorting out who you are takes time and effort. Nicci King has her finger on the pulse of Middle School life, and she knows her students well. Nicci is Milton’s Middle School counselor. She began at Milton in 2005, and she responds to the needs of students, parents and colleagues as they try to understand adolescent behavior. Nicci helped develop and co-teaches the 360° affective education class, a program that fosters empathy, respect and perseverance in our middle schoolers. It promotes the development of constructive communication,...

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How we stay connected: A survey of students

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How we stay connected: A survey of students

Have you ever sent a text you regretted? Is a Facebook “friend” a true friend? The Milton Magazine, Milton Paper and Milton Measure put together a single survey of Upper School students about technology, social media and cell phone...

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According to My Friends

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According to My Friends

Students parse how friendship flows. Direct answers, to fundamental questions, from Class I–transitioning from Milton to college–and Class IV, working toward friendships that last. Here’s what they said. What is a friend? You can be quiet, relaxed and comfortable around a friend. A friend is trustworthy. Otherwise, you can’t be open. A friend makes you feel good about yourself, but doesn’t necessarily always tell you what you want to hear. You have fun with a friend; he makes you laugh, no matter what you’re doing...

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A Fond Farewell Ann Carter 1917–2011

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A Fond Farewell Ann Carter 1917–2011

One of my—and Milton’s—oldest and best friends, Ann Carter, died in December in Hanover, New Hampshire. She was the wife of Ad Carter ’32, longtime faculty member and renowned mountaineer. Ann was in her 95th year, yet her death was surprising to those who knew her. She seemed ageless. Her parents lived to 100. I believe that Ann expected to reach or exceed that mark. In her Christmas letter to family and friends, she wrote of her marvelous, active summer at her family’s place on the Cape, surrounded by her offspring, swimming in...

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Campus Walls Speak About History

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Campus Walls Speak About History

Milton honors friends in many ways. Today’s students frequently find alumni clustered around photographs on a well-traveled hallway, locating an image that unlocks a trove of memories. Not only along hallways, but also in entryways or nooks, and showcased on walls that frame a key public space, Milton celebrates students, alumni, faculty and benefactors dating back to 1798. Many alumni in search of a memory enjoyed meeting Cathie Farrington, director of stewardship, who tended Milton’s collection with great care for many years before...

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An Individual Sport Where Team Culture Is the Winner

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An Individual Sport Where Team Culture Is the Winner

In New England, swimming is a winter-season sport. Swimmers come in from the cold, peel off the layers, pull on their suits (still wet from the day before, in some cases), slip into their lanes and push their bodies to exhausting limits. Their motivation comes from their love of the sport, and at Milton it also comes from a supportive and fun team culture that the coaches work hard to foster. Twenty-four years ago, with David Foster (English faculty and, earlier, college counselor), Coach Bob Tyler brought the coed Milton swim team from club...

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Swim Times to Beat

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