Letitia Chan Wins International Poetry Award
Letitia Chan ’17 is one of 15 student writers to win top honors in the 2016 Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award for her poem “Making Glutinous Dumplings with My Mother.” Letitia’s poem was selected from among 10,000 entries submitted by 6,000 students from around the world. “Making Glutinous Dumplings with My Mother” is a piece Letitia developed in last spring’s Advanced Creative Writing class with Lisa Baker. She learned about the Foyle Award competition, which is hosted by The Poetry Society of London, from her mentor at Adroit Journal’s summer online program, which pairs...
Read MoreSurgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy Delivers 49th Alumni War Memorial Lecture
On November 29, the United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, spoke with students, faculty, parents and grads as Milton’s 49th Alumni War Memorial Lecturer. Both in Straus Library, and later in the Fitzgibbons Convocation Center, Vice Admiral Murthy answered students’ questions about his role and about some of the most pressing public health issues facing America. “I came here today because I believe you, young people, are the best shot we have in this country of overcoming the challenges that we face,” said Dr. Murthy. “It’s easy to think it’s someone else’s job to...
Read MoreRestoration of the Robert Saltonstall Gymnasium Columns
Workers made a special delivery to the Milton campus, as the restoration of the four white, wooden columns in front of the Robert Saltonstall Gymnasium (RSG) began last summer. The crews carefully removed the building’s historic columns and replaced them with replica structures that hold true to the building’s century-old design. The existing columns were original to the RSG, which was built in 1921. After 95 years of supporting the building’s entrance and portico, they were in need of replacement, says Jim Selman, Milton’s associate director of construction and standards. Milton...
Read MoreThe Robotics Team Rolls Onto Advanced Competition
The Robotics Team’s robot, named Tokyo Lift, won the robot skills competition, the excellence award, and the championship at the VEX Robotics Qualifier Tournament in Hopkinton this winter. Milton entered two robots into the competition, and the winning robot moves on to the state competition this spring. Truman Marshall ’18 and Tommy Elliott ’18 were the leads on Tokyo Lift. “We knew we had a good design,” says Truman, but the team was “pleasantly surprised” by their success. The “Starstruck” competition is played on a 12′ × 12′ field, where the robot picks up...
Read MoreGrace Connor ’17 Has the Scoop on Building a Business
After trekking through a snowstorm to deliver her first pints of Little G Ice Cream to a specialty grocer in Boston, Grace Connor ’17 had a flash of doubt. “I was putting it into the freezer and thinking, ‘What did I put all my time and money into?’” she remembers. “After a week, they called and told me that all my ice cream sold out, and they wanted to order more.” This was in January 2016, six months after Grace landed a spot in the start-up food production space CommonWealth Kitchen at the age of 16. “I didn’t have much capital,” she says. “There’s a small fee to...
Read MoreA Silver and a Bronze for Milton Magazine
Milton Magazine is “filled with really interesting stories that are not just ‘news and notables’ but clearly reflect what the school values,” according to one judge of the 2016 Brilliance Awards from InspirED School Marketers. Milton and Stoltze Design received two awards in the Printed Magazine category, with the Spring 2016 edition of Milton Magazine earning silver and the Spring 2015 edition receiving bronze. In their remarks, judges celebrated the design as well as the written content. One judge noted of the Spring 2015 issue: “Beautiful photography along with well-thought-out...
Read MoreMilton 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...
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