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Mr. Millet Responds: Having just received the Milton Medal from H. Marshall Schwarz ’54 in May 2002

by Frank Millet Thank you—The President of the Board and the Head of School. I find all this a bit difficult to acknowledge adequately. If one considers the previous 29 recipients of this award which was instituted two decades ago—teachers, administrators, trustees, benefactors—one is surprised, grateful, honored to be on the same page with these distinguished Miltonians. I have used this story before, but in the words of Mae West, “Too much of a good thing is not enough.” In the mid-twenties, I was always intrigued by Al Smith. On one occasion, when he was governor of the Empire...

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