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List Of Milton Academy Alumni
This list of alumni of Milton Academy includes graduates and students who did not graduate. * Cleveland Amory, author, animal rights activist * John Avlon ‘91, author and ''The Daily Beast'' Editor-in-Chief * Edward Larrabee Barnes, architect * Victoria Barr, painter * Betsy Beers ‘75, executive producer of Grey's Anatomy * Matty Beniers '21, hockey player * Franklin S. Billings, Jr., Chief Justice of Vermont Supreme Court * Stephen Humphrey Bogart ‘67, writer and producer * Lewis E. Braverman, endocrinologist * H. Adams Carter ‘32, editor and explorer * Lucien B. Caswell, lawyer and politician * Tim Rider ‘87, barefoot field goal specialist * Ian Cheney ‘98, filmmaker * Tze Chun ‘98, painter, writer, and film director * Carson Cistulli ‘98, poet and journalist * Linwood Clark 1899, U.S. Representative * Dennis Clifford ‘11, basketball player * Bertha Coombs ‘80, general assignment reporter for CNBC * Nick DiGiovanni, chef * Annie Dorsen ‘91, play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Academy
Milton Academy (informally referred to as Milton) is a coeducational, co-educational, Independent school, independent, and College-preparatory school, college-preparatory boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts, educating students in grades K–12. The Lower School (grades K–8) educates day students and the Upper School (grades 9–12) educates a roughly even mixture of boarding and day students. Milton's List of Milton Academy alumni, list of notable alumni includes Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. History Early years Milton Academy was founded by Edward Robbins, Edward Hutchinson Robbins, the List of speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, after the Massachusetts General Court, General Court of Massachusetts set up a committee to study options for secondary education for residents of Norfolk Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carson Cistulli
Carson Cistulli (born December 23, 1979) is an American poet, essayist and baseball analyst for the Toronto Blue Jays. His works of poetry include ''Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated'', ''Assorted Fictions,'' and ''A Century of Enthusiasm.'' Biography Early years Carson Cistulli was born December 23, 1979, in Concord, New Hampshire, to Philip Cistulli Jr. and Holly Young.Concord Monitor. May 3, 2009 Cistulli passed his early childhood in a middle class Italian-American household until his parents' divorce in 1989. Cistulli attended boarding school at Milton Academy in Massachusetts. Education After graduating from Milton in 1998, he attended Columbia University where he studied under poet Kenneth Koch of the New York School of poetry. After his studies under Koch, he moved to Seattle to write. He would later receive a bachelor's degree in Classical Civilizations from the University of Montana in Missoula and a master's degree in Creative writing from the University of Massac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Hamerstrom
Frances Hamerstrom (December 16, 1907 – August 29, 1998) was an American writer, natural history, naturalist and ornithologist known for her work with the greater prairie chicken in Wisconsin, and for her research on birds of prey. Hamerstrom was a prolific writer, publishing over 100 professional papers and 10 books on the prairie chicken, Harrier (bird), harriers, eagles, and other wildlife topics. Some were translated into German language, German. Biography Frances Flint was born in 1907 into a wealthy family in Boston, Massachusetts. As a youth, she attended Milton Academy. As a child Hamerstrom developed a fascination with the natural world. Despite her parents' complaints that such behavior was "unladylike", she kept wild pets, learned to hunt, and tended her own gardens. To keep her family from uncovering evidence of her wildlife adventures, she planted poison ivy along the path that led to where she kept her wilderness gear. (Hamerstrom was naturally immune to its effec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Dean Goolsbee (born August 18, 1969) is an American economist and writer. He is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Goolsbee formerly served as the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.Austan Goolsbee He was the chairman of the from 2010 to 2011 and a member of President Barack Obama's cabinet. He served as a member of the Chicago Board of Education from 2018 to 2019. Goolsbee was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers before becoming chai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Goldberg
Aaron Goldberg (born April 30, 1974), is an American jazz pianist. Described by ''The New York Times'' as a "post-bop pianist of exemplary taste and range", Goldberg has released five albums as a solo artist and has performed and collaborated with Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Guillermo Klein, among others. Early life and education Aaron Goldberg was born in Boston to Alfred L. Goldberg, a biochemist, and Joan Helpern Goldberg, a hematologist, and has one younger sister, Julie Goldberg. He began taking piano lessons at 7, and started playing jazz when he was 14. As a high school student at Milton Academy, Goldberg was introduced to improvisation by Bob Sinicrope, the founder of Milton's Jazz Program, and at 16 studied with saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi. Goldberg moved to New York City at 17 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and devoted his off-hours to practicing the piano and performing in New York clubs. Due in part to his pare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as " Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), " ephemeralization", " synergetics", and "tensegrity". Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. He also served as the second World President of Mensa International from 1974 to 1983. Fuller was awarded 28 United States patents and many honorary doctorates. In 1960, he was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal from The Franklin Institute. He was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther E
Esther (; ), originally Hadassah (; ), is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. According to the biblical narrative, which is set in the Achaemenid Empire, the Persian king Ahasuerus falls in love with Esther and marries her. His grand vizier Haman is offended by Esther's cousin and guardian Mordecai because of his refusal to Proskynesis, bow before him; bowing in front of another person was a prominent gesture of respect in Persian society, but deemed unacceptable by Mordecai, who believes that a Jews, Jew should only express submissiveness to God in Judaism, God. Consequently, Haman plots to have all of Persia's Jews killed, and eventually convinces Ahasuerus to permit him to do so. However, Esther foils the plan by revealing and decrying Haman's plans to Ahasuerus, who then has Haman executed and grants permission to the Jews to take up arms against their enemies; Esther is hailed for her courage and for working to save the Jewish nation from eradic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church (Manhattan), Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York (state), New York and the fifth-First university in the United States, oldest in the United States. Columbia was established as a Colonial colleges, colonial college by royal charter under George II of Great Britain. It was renamed Columbia College (New York), Columbia College in 1784 following the American Revolution, and in 1787 was placed under Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, a private board of trustees headed by former students Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. In 1896, the campus was moved to its current location in Morningside Heights and renamed Columbia University. Columbia is organized into twenty schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Douglas (historian)
Ann Douglas is an American literary historian who specializes in intellectual history. She is the Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Biography Douglas attended Milton Academy, received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and B.Phil. from the University of Oxford. She taught at Princeton University from 1970 to 1974 and was the first woman to teach in Princeton's English department and the first woman to be offered assistant professorship at Harvard. She then joined Columbia's faculty. Her research interests include 20th-century American intellectual and cultural history. She is regarded as one of America's foremost cultural historians. Douglas received two fellowships from the National Humanities Center in 1978 and 1979 after publishing ''The Feminization of American Culture'' (1977), controversial for its criticism of what she saw as the age's feminine sensibilities, and 1993-1994 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Dorsen
Annie Dorsen (born 1973) is an American theater director. She is the co-creator and director of the Broadway musical '' Passing Strange'', and her work in "algorithmic theater" includes the plays ''Hello Hi There'', ''A Piece of Work'', and ''Yesterday Tomorrow''. Dorsen has received an Alpert Award in the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. Early life and education Dorsen was born in 1973 in New York City to Harriette and Norman Dorsen. She has two sisters: Caroline, who is a professor at NYU and Jennifer, who is an educator in Boston. She graduated with a BA degree from Yale University in 1996, and received an MFA degree from Yale School of Drama in 2000. She also holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, where she focused on tech policy and civil rights. She attended the Brearley School in NYC and Milton Academy. Career In collaboration with Heidi Rodewald and Stew, Dorsen created and directed the rock musical '' Passing Strange'', a semi-fictional story a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick DiGiovanni
Nicholas Channing DiGiovanni (born May 19, 1996) is an American chef and Internet personality who has set multiple food-related Guinness world records. Early life Nick DiGiovanni was born on May 19, 1996, in Providence, Rhode Island, to Chris and Sudie DiGiovanni (née Naimi). He is of Italian, Persian, German, and British descent. He is the oldest of four brothers. He became interested in cooking at a young age by watching his grandmother and great-grandmother cook meals for the family. DiGiovanni graduated from Milton Academy in 2014. He attended Harvard University, where he created his own concentration called "Food and Climate". Career During his senior year of college, DiGiovanni attended a casting call for season 10 of ''MasterChef''. He was selected to compete on the show and finished in third place overall. To film the show, DiGiovanni reportedly left in the middle of the semester at Harvard without informing his professors. He returned the next season as a mentor for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNBC
CNBC is an American List of business news channels, business news channel owned by the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The network broadcasts live business news and analysis programming during the morning, Daytime television in the United States, daytime trading day, and early-evening hours, with the remaining hours (such as weekday prime time and weekends) are filled by business-related Television documentary, documentaries and reality television programming, as well as occasional NBC Sports presentations. CNBC operates an accompanying financial news website, CNBC.com, which includes news articles, video and podcast content, as well as subscription-based services. CNBC's headquarters and main studios are located in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, while it also maintains a studio at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square, New York City. CNBC was originally founded in April 1989 as the Consumer News and Business Channel, a joint venture between NBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
