Arriving at Milton After Katrina
Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Doherty ’08 found a warm welcome at Milton after Hurricane Katrina forced her out of her familiar surroundings.
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The Joy of Creating
Advice Received As A Young Girl Helps Grace Chan Mckibben ’86 Weather The Hard Times. I pulled out...
Read MoreI’m in the High-Risk 2 Percent. It’s Exhausting.
– When Sarah Hogate Bacon ’93 gets in a Lyft, She wears one blue nitrile glove. – On a mid-february flight out of JFK, I skeptically eyed my early 30-something seatmate and his face mask. He looked and sounded...
Read More“And I am the same Wall. The Truth is so . . . ”
By Randall Dunn ’83
I played Tom Snout, the tinker, in my Class IV play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. And for the past 40 years, to the dismay of my children, I still enthusiastically recite all my lines whenever someone mentions the play. “In this same interlude it doth befall that I, one Snout by name, present a wall . . . ”
Read MoreBubbles, Skunks, Cheap Jewelry: Notes From an English Teacher
Bubbles 1. Bubbles of Impermanence We like flowers as metaphors for transient beauty, but their blossoms take so long to disappear—wilting, discoloring, molting—that it’s never a surprise. For a miracle that disappears in a...
Read MoreThere’s No “I” in “Reporter”
By Molly Falconer de Ramel ’88 Reporting is in my blood, for better or for worse. (It has to be, because mostly you get paid nothing and work all the time.) As a toddler, I used to leap around the house with an actual stopwatch...
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Comics and More
by Amy Kurzweil ’05 My mother likes to tell this story: It was Parents Day at Milton, honors...
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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...
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