Milton Academy is a coeducation

Coeducation

Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...

al, independent preparatory

University-preparatory school

A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education...

, boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts

Milton, Massachusetts

Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and part of the Greater Boston area. The population was 27,003 at the 2010 census. Milton is the birthplace of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and architect Buckminster Fuller. Milton also has the highest percentage of...

 consisting of a grade 9–12 Upper School and a grade K–8 Lower School. Boarding is offered starting in 9th grade. Milton is noted for its prestige and strong academic programs, having produced many notable alumni, including a Nobel Laureate

Nobel Prize

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, several members of the United States Congress

United States Congress

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, a governor (Deval Patrick

Deval Patrick

Deval Laurdine Patrick is the 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as an Assistant United States Attorney General under President Bill Clinton...

 of Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

), and a Medal of Honor

Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

 recipient. In late 2007, the Wall Street Journal identified Milton Academy as one of the world's top 25 schools for its success in preparing students to enter top American universities. Milton is a member of the Independent School League

Independent School League (Boston Area)

The Independent School League is composed of sixteen New England preparatory schools that compete athletically and academically. Founded in 1948, the ISL's sixteen member compete in eighteen sports in the New England Prep School Athletic Conference...

 (ISL).

History

The original Milton Academy was founded by a Massachusetts bill granting a charter in 1798 but operations ceased decades later with the opening of the public Milton High School; the institution was re-established in 1884 by John Murray Forbes

John Murray Forbes

John Murray Forbes was an American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist. He was president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s....

 and other progressive philanthropists. Up until 1980, the school was split into boys and girls schools. The school has historically been a feeder school for Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

.

Students and faculty

There are 675 Upper School students at Milton, half of whom live on campus. There are 127 faculty members in the Upper School, 78% of whom have postgraduate degrees, and 9% holding doctorates. It has an average class size of 14, and a female-to-male ratio of 50–50. There are 305 students in the Lower School (Kindergarten-Grade 8). The Middle School (Grade 6-8) and Lower School (Kindergarten-Grade 5) have 25 and 28 faculty members respectively.

Milton offers several off-campus programs. Some students take a school year abroad

School Year Abroad

School Year Abroad is an academic program which places American high school juniors, seniors, and post-graduates in 5 countries including China, Italy, France, Spain or Vietnam for a year. Students intensively learn the respective language of their country and live with a host family...

 in France, Italy, Spain or China; others go on semester programs such as Chewonki Semester School

Maine Coast Semester

Chewonki Semester School formerly known as Maine Coast Semester, founded in 1988, is a semester-long, environmental education program for high school juniors run by the Chewonki Foundation and located in Wiscasset, Maine. The founding director was S. Scott Andrews, who currently teaches history...

, The Mountain School

The Mountain School

The Mountain School of Milton Academy is a selective independent semester program that provides academically motivated high school juniors from across the country the opportunity to live and work on an organic farm in rural Vermont. Located in Vershire, Vermont, The Mountain School was originally...

, or CITYTerm. For the last few weeks of school, seniors often do "Senior Projects" instead of taking classes. Past senior projects have included: recording an album, writing a play, designing a golf course, constructing a sailboat by hand, engineering go-carts, directing a film, intensively studying a culture/language, and performing a Shakespearean play.

Clubs and organizations

There are over 10 different publications on campus, from news to literary magazines. There are several music groups, including the Chamber Singers, Miltones, Chamber Orchestra, jazz combos and four respectable a cappella

A cappella

A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...

 groups—two all-female groups (Epic and Octet), an all-male group (Miltones), and a co-educational group (3FU), which have performed throughout the United States, as well as Europe, Asia and Africa. Milton Academy is also home to a large jazz program, focused on small combos, that tours South Africa every other year. Beatnik Café, an independently run exhibition of student performances (such as jazz, improvisational skits, poetry readings, and singing), occurs three times a year. In addition to this wide offering of musical groups, theatrical productions provide another outlet for performance with about ten plays being put on each year. The smaller plays produced at the school are referred to as "1212 plays", and are held in Wigg Hall. Also, two student choreographed Dance Concerts are put up each year, the larger one occurring in the winter.

There are over 30 different clubs that meet after school from 3:00 to 3:30. Cultural clubs at Milton include GASP (Gay And Straight People), Onyx (black student group), the Asian Society, Latino Association, JSU (Jewish-Student Union), and Caribbean Student Association. Students at the academy can start their own clubs if they have a faculty sponsor. The Tibet Club - formerly the Milton Academy chapter of the Students for a Free Tibet - currently sponsors two Tibetan refugee children as part of a five year commitment and has donated over three hundred dollars in school supplies to Tibetan Schools. Another club, Invisible Hand, is Milton's Capitalist Club. In addition to sponsoring weekly discussions pertaining to Capitalism

Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system that became dominant in the Western world following the demise of feudalism. There is no consensus on the precise definition nor on how the term should be used as a historical category...

 and Economics, Invisible Hand has taken trips to Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...

 and lent $500 worth of microloans via Kiva.org.

In addition, Milton Academy has a large and highly successful speech and debate team that competes in the Massachusetts Forensic League (MFL), National Catholic Forensic League

National Catholic Forensic League

The National Catholic Forensic League is a speech and debate league that was formed in 1951. It is organized into regions which correspond to Roman Catholic dioceses. Member schools include both public and parochial high schools. The CFL recruits member schools in both the United States and Canada...

 (CFL or NCFL), and National Forensic League

National Forensic League

The National Forensic League is a non-partisan, non-profit educational honor society established to encourage and motivate American high school students to participate in and become proficient in the forensic arts: debate, public speaking and interpretation. NFL is the America's oldest and largest...

 (NFL).

The school also has many political groups, including the Young Republicans and F.L.A.G. (Forward-looking Liberal Action Group).

Athletics

Milton offers 15 interscholastic sports for both boys and girls each, as well as nine intramural teams. Milton is a member of both the Independent School League

Independent School League (Boston Area)

The Independent School League is composed of sixteen New England preparatory schools that compete athletically and academically. Founded in 1948, the ISL's sixteen member compete in eighteen sports in the New England Prep School Athletic Conference...

 and the New England Schools Sailing Association division of the Interscholastic Sailing Association. Since 1886, Milton's traditional rival has been the Noble and Greenough School of Dedham. Recently, the ultimate

Ultimate (sport)

Ultimate is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby...

 team was ranked seventh in the nation and the varsity football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 team "entered the 2005 season with the best ten year record of all ISL prep programs". In the past five years, Milton has won 17 ISL Championships and most recently the boys' tennis team won New England's. The boys' tennis team has won four New England titles in a row. The coed sailing team has won multiple national championships. Milton's boys' hockey team has had several players go on to successful professional careers, most notably 12-year NHLer Marty McInnis

Marty McInnis

Martin Edward McInnis is a retired American ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the New York Islanders, Calgary Flames, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Boston Bruins....

 and current Boston Bruin Josh Hennessy

Josh Hennessy

Joshua Hennessy is an American professional ice hockey player. Hennessy is currently a member of the Boston Bruins organization. Hennessy most recently played for HC Lugano in 2010/11 and previously for the Ottawa Senators organization....

.

Fall CPR & First Aid (Adult, Child, Infant CPR) Cross country Field Hockey Field hockey Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks... Fitness Concepts Football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by... Outdoor Education (intramural) Project Adventure R.A.D. Rape Aggression Defense (intramural) Soccer Strength Training and Conditioning (intramural) Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...  (intramural) Weight Training Yoga Yoga Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul... (intramural)

Winter Alpine Skiing Alpine skiing Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four... Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules... CPR & First Aid (Adult, Child, Infant CPR) Fitness Concepts Ice Hockey Ice hockey Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take... Outdoor Education (intramural) Pilates Pilates Pilates is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates in Germany, the UK and the USA. As of 2005, there were 11 million people practicing the discipline regularly and 14,000 instructors in the United States.... (intramural) Squash Squash (sport) Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball... Strength Training and Conditioning (intramural) Swimming Swimming (sport) Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native... Volleyball Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive... Weight Training Wrestling Wrestling Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

Spring Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond... CPR & First Aid (Adult, Child, Infant CPR) Fitness Concepts Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.... Lacrosse Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh... Outdoor Education (intramural) Project Adventure Sailing Sailing Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and... Softball Softball Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand... Strength Training and Conditioning (intramural) Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all... Track & Field Track and field Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area... Ultimate Frisbee (intramural)

Publications

Milton Academy maintains several publications using school facilities. The Milton Measure, the oldest and official bi-weekly publication of the school, is entering its 113th year. The Milton Paper, the school's unofficial newspaper, operates on donations but is still subject to school oversight. The Milton Paper has been operating for over twenty years and publishes issues weekly. La Voz ("The Voice"), the school's Spanish language student newspaper, is published quarterly and allows students to write in Spanish about issues that involve the Spanish-speaking community. Milton's latest publication, M^3 (read "M Cubed"), short for Milton Music Magazine, is a music/pop-culture based magaizine that covers news in the national and global music world as well as on-campus artists and events. MagusMabus (colloquially: The Magus) is the school's art & literary magazine. It publishes two full issues a year as well as one smaller "maguette" which contains only poetry. In addition, the Magus hosts open mic nights called Beatnik Cafes. Milton also publishes "Helix," a science magazine which is released seasonally.

Academic and student life facilities

Straus Library — In the 1950s, Straus was the Academy's main library. Today it serves as a familiar and beloved gathering space for formal and informal events. Straus is also home to Milton's college counseling office.

Apthorp Chapel — Constructed in 1921, Apthorp Chapel hosts the non-denominational chapel program for boarding students every Sunday evening during the school year. The program often includes guests, students and faculty reflecting on issues affecting the School community, the nation and the world.

Kellner Performing Arts Center — Opened in 1992, Kellner is a teaching center for the performing arts and music departments. It includes a large dance studio; classrooms for speech and debate training; classrooms and practice rooms for work in chorus, orchestra and jazz; a "black box" studio theater; fully equipped scene construction and costume shops; Pieh Commons, where student art work is often exhibited; and the Ruth King Theatre.

Ruth King Theatre — A gift of novelist Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

, in memory of his mother, King Theatre is equipped with a stage adaptable to thrust or apron configurations and is a 20th century adaptation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613...

.

William Coburn Cox Library — Given by William Coburn Cox '24 and his wife, Jessie Bancroft Cox, the library's resources serve students, faculty and staff. Its collection includes 46,000 volumes. Library staff members help students learn research strategies, using the cataloguing system and online resources. In the basement of the library, Milton students are entitled to extra academic help in the Academic Skills Center.

Health and Counseling Center — Registered nurses, school physicians and counselors at the Health Center help students who need physical or emotional care. The Health Center also provides overnight accommodations for students requiring additional attention while not feeling well. The Health Center staff also manages programs that involve students in promoting healthy lifestyles and in responding to those with emotional or physical needs. The Health Center is housed in Faulkner House, on East Campus.

Ayer Observatory — Astronomy students use the Ayer Observatory to observe and study celestial objects. The observatory's 12-foot dome houses a five-inch Clark

Alvan Clark & Sons

Alvan Clark & Sons was an American maker of optics that became famous for crafting lenses for some of the largest refracting telescopes of the 19th and early 20th centuries...

 refractor for general classroom use; its smaller dome houses a nine-inch Takahashi

Takahashi Seisakusho

Takahashi Seisakusho is a Japanese manufacturer of telescopes and related equipment, such as eyepieces and mounts.Often known simply as 'Tak', the brand is especially noted amongst amateur astronomers for its range of apochromatic refractors, but also produces various types of reflectors, and...

 reflector. The observatory is open to all students on the first Friday of every month and for any unique celestial occurrences.

Schwarz Student Center — The Schwarz Student Center offers a single space that is part of daily campus life for all students and adults at Milton, enhancing opportunities to build relationships. The center includes a common area for students to gather outside of class; a snack bar and recreation area with ping-pong and foosball tables; a school bookstore with a wide array of necessities; student activities offices; a computer center; and spaces for faculty-student meetings. It links Warren Hall and Wigglesworth Hall for easy travel between the three.

Ware Hall — Originally built as the Girls' School schoolhouse, Ware Hall is now home to classical language, modern language and mathematics classrooms; a language laboratory; and Milton's Middle School offices and classrooms.

Warren Hall — Built in 1885 and renovated in 2002, Warren Hall includes the English department, deans' offices and the Office of Admission in a building sensitively restored to provide state-of-the-art teaching areas within an environment that honors its early role as "the old schoolhouse."

Wigglesworth Hall — Affectionately known as Wigg Hall, this building is home to the history department where students and faculty gather around oval Harkness tables that promote stimulating discussion in an environment where everyone — including the teacher — is an equal and important participant.

Athletic and Convocation Center — Opened in 1998, the "ACC" includes two field houses that provide opportunities for student athletes of different skill levels to participate in a wide range of sports. The south field house, also the Fitzgibbons Convocation Center (FCC), includes three basketball courts, convocation capacity for the School, and an indoor track. The north field house includes a hockey rink, which, when de-iced, becomes four tennis courts or space for indoor practice of field sports. The second floor of the ACC features the Esther and Herbert G. Stokinger '24 Fitness Center, coaches offices, and training rooms.

Caroline Saltonstall Building — The Caroline Saltonstall Building includes the business office, the K–8 Office of Admission, the alumni and development office and one gymnasium. The building stands on the original Milton Girls' School campus.

Robert Saltonstall Gymnasium — Once the major boys' gymnasium at Milton, the Robert Saltonstall Gym now houses the H. Adams Carter

H. Adams Carter

Hubert Adams "Ad" Carter was an American mountaineer, language teacher and was editor of the American Alpine Journal for 35 years....

 '32 Climbing Wall where students can learn to rock climb. Art students studying sculpture, ceramics and woodworking learn and practice here as well. The "RSG" also houses Milton's two wrestling mats.

Pritzker Science Center — Milton's new science center opened in September 2010. The state-of-the-art building features common lab space for each of the four disciplines in science (physics, chemistry, biology and environmental), in addition to integrated classroom-lab space, creating an environment that allows students to work collaboratively and move seamlessly between discussion and hands-on lab work. The Pritzker Science Center was designed with sustainability in mind, to meet silver LEED specifications.

Art and Media Center — Milton's new visual arts center, completed for the fall of 2011, is being designed in the footprint of the Old Science Building. The new space will feature state-of-the-art studios for 2D art and 3D art, including specialized areas such as photography, architecture and woodwork. This building also features the Academy's acclaimed Nesto Gallery, where several famous Boston-area and national artists have displayed their works.

Residential facilities

Approximately half of the Upper School student body consists of boarders. Each of Milton's eight, single-sex residential "houses" has unique traditions, such as holiday caroling, pumpkin carving, picnics, "pottery night" (mug painting for the dorm), Rain Soccer on East Campus before dinner on rainy days, barbecues, dodgeball, and dorm bowling to help foster friendship and support within the house. House sizes range from 31 to 48 students and students live in the same house for their entire time at Milton.

Boys

• Forbes is the second-largest house. It is named after Captain Robert Bennet Forbes
  Robert Bennet Forbes
  Captain Robert Bennet Forbes , was a sea captain, China merchant, ship owner, and writer. He was active in ship construction, maritime safety, the opium trade, and charitable activities.-Captain, opium trader and humanitarian:...
  
  , whose family crest appears on a flag outside the building. The dorm's colors are blue and white. Forbes and Wolcott share a friendly, multidisciplinary dorm rivalry, spreading through events including dodgeball and softball. The Forbes dorm flag is the center of some rivalry, and has changed hands between Forbes and Wolcott over the years. Forbes housed the famous author, T.S. Eliot, as well as Robert and Edward Kennedy. Chris Hales is currently the House Head of Forbes House. Forbes is characterized by its relaxed, brotherly atmosphere and the strong presence of upperclassmen residents. Their sister dorm is Robbins.

• Wolcott is the largest boys' house on campus, housing up to 48 boys and 5 faculty families. Completed in 1900, it is named after Roger Wolcott
  Roger Wolcott (Massachusetts)
  Roger Wolcott was the son of Joshua Huntington Wolcott and Cornelia Wolcott, and was the brother of Huntington Frothingham Wolcott. He graduated from Harvard University in 1870, and from Harvard Law School in 1874...
  
  , a former governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1847–1900). His portrait hangs in the Devens common room, one of two common rooms in the house. The Wolcott family has maintained a close tie to the house, presenting the incoming house heads with a family crest in 1984. Inscribed on this crest is the house motto: "nullius addictus iuare in verba magistri," a quote from Horace which translates to "called to swear upon the words of no teacher." James Taylor lived in Wolcott during his time at Milton. Wolcott is the only house on campus that enforces a dress code at house dinners. Traditions include "roof-ball," and house dodgeball. A strong history of house leadership has insured that Wolcott House graduates continue to excel in leadership after their Milton years. Wells Hansen (Classics) is currently house head of Wolcott House. Their sister dorm is Hallowell.

• Goodwin, previously a dorm for the girl's school, is one of the two houses on East Campus. The other East Campus house is Hathaway, which is Goodwin's sister house; the two dorms have a shared dining facility that is directly connected to Goodwin. Goodwin residents are very unified, possibly due to the distance between the house and main campus.

• Norris is the newest boys' house, which opened on West Campus in the 2004-2005 school year. The Norris flag hangs from the front door awning. Highlights of the year include annual pumpkin carving, the Norris Nosh (a huge potluck) and annual outings to Fire & Ice and Quincy Dynasty. Norris is the Brother dorm of Millet House. The house motto is "Probitas, Pietas, Fraternitas" ("Honesty, Respect, Brotherhood").

Girls

• Hallowell, previously a boys' dorm, currently houses 40 girls and is the largest girls dorm on campus. Back when it was a boys' dorm it housed the current governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick
  Deval Patrick
  Deval Laurdine Patrick is the 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as an Assistant United States Attorney General under President Bill Clinton...
  
  . Traditions of this dorm include pumpkin carving with Goodwin House boys, and engaging in friendly competitive dorm sports with other girls' dorms. Their brother dorm is Wolcott.

• Millet is the new girls' dorm, which opened in the 2004–05 school year and houses up to 40 girls. The upperclassmen in this new dorm have been working hard to establish the dorm on campus, and to create traditions for future generations of girls. It is named after Frank Millet, a longtime member of the classics department known for his devotion to the subjects he teaches.

• Robbins, previously a boys' dorm, is located in the center of campus and has been a part of campus for almost as long as the school has existed, and currently houses around 40 girls. Robbins is known for being the only dorm connected to the Forbes dining hall, its spirited "Robbins" chant, great traditions, as well as loft rooms, exclusive to the Robbins dorm. Robbins maintains a healthy rivalry with Hallowell house.

• Hathaway is the easternmost dorm. It is the oldest girls' dorm on campus, constructed in the late 19th century. The smallest dorm on campus, housing a maximum of 30, Hathaway has traditionally provided a more home-like environment. Traditions include a pottery night, talent night, special Christmas dinner, Halloween celebrations, and Senior wills.

Notable alumni

• Algernon Sidney Badger
  Algernon Sidney Badger
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  , government official in New Orleans
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  New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
  
  
• Edward Larrabee Barnes
  Edward Larrabee Barnes
  Edward Larrabee Barnes was a American architect.Barnes was born in Chicago, Illinois into a family he described as "incense-swinging High Episcopalians", consisting of Cecil Barnes, a lawyer, and Margaret Helen Ayer, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for the novel Year of Grace...
  
  , architect
• H. Adams Carter
  H. Adams Carter
  Hubert Adams "Ad" Carter was an American mountaineer, language teacher and was editor of the American Alpine Journal for 35 years....
  
   (1932)
• Lucien B. Caswell
  Lucien B. Caswell
  Lucien Bonaparte Caswell was an American politician.Born in Swanton, Vermont, he moved with his family to frontier Wisconsin in 1836 and settled along the Rock River, just south of Lake Koshkonong. Caswell attended Milton Academy and Beloit College, studying law...
  
  , U.S. Representative
• Tze Chun
  Tze Chun
  Tze Chun is an award-winning American film director and writer. He was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston, and graduated from Milton Academy in 1997...
  
  
• Carson Cistulli
  Carson Cistulli
  Carson Cistulli is an American poet, essayist and English professor. His works of poetry include Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated, Assorted Fictions, and A Century of Enthusiasm.- Early Years :...
  
  , poet and journalist.
• Linwood Clark
  Linwood Clark
  Linwood Leon Clark was a U.S. Congressman who represented the second Congressional district of the state of Maryland from 1929 to 1931.Clark was born in Aberdeen, Maryland, and attended the public schools as a youth...
  
  , U.S. Representative
• Bertha Coombs
  Bertha Coombs
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  , general assignment reporter for CNBC
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• Caroline Cornish, Newsanchor for WCSH
  WCSH
  WCSH is the NBC-affiliated television station for Southern Maine and Northern New Hampshire. Licensed to Portland, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 44 from a transmitter on Winn Mountain in Sebago. The station can also be seen on Comcast and Time Warner Cable channel 6...
  
  
• T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
  Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
  
  , British poet and playwright
• Buckminster Fuller
  Buckminster Fuller
  Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, futurist and second president of Mensa International, the high IQ society....
  
  
• Aaron Goldberg
  Aaron Goldberg
  Aaron Goldberg is a jazz pianist based in New York City. He began studying piano at seven and studied under Bob Sinicrope of Milton Academy and saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi...
  
   (1991)
• Austan Goolsbee
  Austan Goolsbee
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  , economic adviser to United States President Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
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• Frances Hamerstrom
  Frances Hamerstrom
  Frances "Fran" Hamerstrom was an American author, naturalist and ornithologist known for her work with the greater prairie chicken in Wisconsin, and for her research on birds of prey...
  
  , writer and naturalist
• Robert F. Kennedy
  Robert F. Kennedy
  Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F...
  
   (1944), former U.S. Attorney General
  United States Attorney General
  The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government...
  
   and U.S. Senator from New York, member of the Kennedy political family
  Kennedy family
  In the United States, the phrase Kennedy family commonly refers to the family descending from the marriage of the Irish-Americans Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald that was prominent in American politics and government. Their political involvement has revolved around the...
  
  
• Ted Kennedy
  Ted Kennedy
  Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...
  
   (1950), former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, member of the Kennedy political family
• Alexandra Kerry
  Alexandra Kerry
  Alexandra Forbes Kerry is a film producer and film director.Alexandra Kerry is the elder daughter of current Massachusetts Senator and 2004 US Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. Her mother was Julia Thorne, who was married to John Kerry from 1970 until their divorce in 1988. Alexandra...
  
   (1992), film producer and daughter of U.S. Senator John Kerry
  John Kerry
  John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...
  
   of Massachusetts
• Reif Larsen
  Reif Larsen
  Reif Larsen is an American author, best known for The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet.Larsen graduated from Milton Academy in 1998 and then went on to Brown University and Columbia University. He holds an M.F.A in fiction. He has also made films in the United States, the United Kingdom and the...
  
   (1998), American author best known for his work The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
  The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
  The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet is the debut novel by American author Reif Larsen, first published in 2009. The book follows the exploits of a 12-year old mapmaker named T.S...
  
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• David Lindsay-Abaire
  David Lindsay-Abaire
  David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright and lyricist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, which also earned several Tony Award nominations.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• William Lobkowicz
  William Lobkowicz
  William Lobkowicz is a nobleman from the House of Lobkowicz of American origin with Czech roots. He grew up in Boston, Massachusetts; in 1990 returned to the Czech Republic to manage the ancestral belongings. As the current heir to the House of Lobkowicz William Lobkowicz is technically titled...
  
  
• Hanford MacNider
  Hanford MacNider
  Hanford “Jack” MacNider was a United States diplomat and United States Army General, serving in both World War I and World War II. He was a Scottish Rite Freemason.-Biography:...
  
  
• Claire Messud
  Claire Messud
  Claire Messud is an American novelist. She is best known as the author of the 2006 novel The Emperor's Children.-Early life:...
  
  
• Peter B. Moore
• Farah Pandith
  Farah Pandith
  Farah Pandith is the first ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State...
  
   (1986), Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State
  United States Department of State
  The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
  
  
• Deval Patrick
  Deval Patrick
  Deval Laurdine Patrick is the 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as an Assistant United States Attorney General under President Bill Clinton...
  
   (1974), current Governor of Massachusetts
  Governor of Massachusetts
  The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.-Constitutional role:...
  
  
• James H. Perkins
  James H. Perkins
  James Handasyd Perkins was a chairman of Citigroup.Perkins was born in Milton, Massachusetts. He attended the Milton Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1898. He was with the Walter Baker chocolate company in hometown until 1905...
  
  , former Chairman of Citigroup
• Elliot Richardson
  Elliot Richardson
  Elliot Lee Richardson was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. As U.S...
  
  , former U.S. Attorney General
• Rob Sheffield
  Rob Sheffield
  Rob Sheffield is an American music journalist and author. He is currently a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, writing music reviews and essays on pop culture. Prior to that, he was a contributing editor at Blender before the print version of the magazine folded in 2009, and at Spin...
  
  
• Robert E. Sherwood
  Robert E. Sherwood
  Robert Emmet Sherwood was an American playwright, editor, and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in New Rochelle, New York, he was a son of Arthur Murray Sherwood, a rich stockbroker, and his wife, the former Rosina Emmet, a well-known illustrator and portrait painter known as Rosina E. Sherwood...
  
  
• Sherrod E. Skinner, Jr.
  Sherrod E. Skinner, Jr.
  Sherrod Emerson Skinner, Jr. was a United States Marine Corps officer who sacrificed his life in defense of his outpost and fellow Marines on "The Hook" in Korea...
  
  , Medal of Honor Recipient
• Jenny Slate
  Jenny Slate
  Jenny Slate is an American actor and comedian best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2009–2010 and for her recurring role as Stella on the HBO comedy series Bored to Death.-Early life:...
  
  , former comedian on Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
  
  
• Sarah Sze
  Sarah Sze
  Sarah Sze is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. Sze uses ordinary objects to create sculptures and site-specific installations.-Early life:Sze graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University in 1991...
  
  
• James Taylor
  James Taylor
  James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
  
  , award-winning American singer-songwriter
  Singer-songwriter
  Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
  
  
• Touré
  Touré
  Touré is an American novelist, essayist, music journalist, cultural critic, and television personality based in New York City. He is the host of Fuse's Hiphop Shop and On The Record...
  
   (1989), American novelist, music journalist, cultural critic
• William Robert Ware
  William Robert Ware
  William Robert Ware , born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a family of the Unitarian clergy, was an American architect, author, and founder of two important American architectural schools....
  
  , prominent American architect
• Richard B. Wigglesworth, U.S. Representative
• Dougan Khim, Artist

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