Commencement 2007 Sarah Sze ’87 Delivers Commencement Address This year’s graduation speaker was internationally-known sculptor and installation artist Sarah Sze ’87. Sarah creates permanent sculptures for celebrated museums, landmarks and universities around the world out of everyday materials such as cereal, paper, ladders and cotton swabs.
In her address, she implored students to listen carefully to the words of dancer/choreographer Martha Graham: “You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. It is not your business to determine how good your work is or how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. There is in you a vitality, a life force, a
quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it.” Sarah, who teaches visual arts at Columbia’s School of the Arts, was named a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow in 2003 for her work. Graduation speaker Sarah Sze ’87
Milton Academy 2007 Awards and Prizes Cum Laude Class I Lauren Elizabeth Alliegro Kevalin Athayu Priscilla MacKenzie Bok Susannah Derby Burrage Natalie Cohen Chapman Margaret Frances Cochran Michael Gregory Cohen Cecelia Socorro Woodworth Cortes Ellen Harrison Davis Alicia Anne Driscoll Jocelyn Anne Greene Lauren Baird Hawkins Emily Wheeler Kemper Eleanor Curtis Kenyon Jessica Phillips Kingsdale Sophia Scarlatti Kortchmar Ivan Kozyryev Christopher Jung Lamont Anna White LaVigne* Sojung Cerelia Lee Kate Elizabeth Lovely Brandon Tyler Nunn Sarah Keller Paige Charles David Posner Hannah Wentworth Pulit Meredith Lombard Ruhl* Steven Robert Sando Molly Serventi-Gleeson Frank Arthur Smith IV Nathaniel Mercer Stetson
* Elected to Cum Laude in 2006
Benjamin Vosburgh Stone Yelena Leonidovna Tsilker Tara Deviki Venkatraman Timothy John Walsh Amanda Pfaltzgraff Appell Warren Alyse Elizabeth Wheelock Stephanie Bryning Wye Chaeyeong Yoo
The Korean War Memorial Scholarship Award
Class II Elizabeth Regard Stark
The Head of School Award The Head of School Award is presented each year to honor and celebrate certain members of Class I for their demonstrated spirit of self-sacrifice, community concern, leadership, integrity, fairness, kindliness, and respect for others. Jocelyn Anne Greene Kate Elizabeth Lovely Trevor Wilson Prophet Steven Robert Sando John Robert Shepard Jee-Ahn Suh
The James S. Willis Memorial Award To the Headmonitors. Aditya Warrier Basheer Samantha Kuewon Yu
Principal Rick Hardy
William Bacon Lovering Award To a boy and a girl, chosen by their classmates, who have helped most by their sense of duty to perpetuate the memory of a gallant gentleman and officer. Steven Robert Sando Samantha Kuewon Yu
The Louis Andrews Memorial Scholarship Award To a student in Class II who has best fulfilled his or her potential in the areas of intelligence, self-discipline, physical ability, concern for others and integrity.
Created in 1956 in memory of Frederick Sprague Barbour ’46, Thomas Amory Hubbard ’47, George Cabot Lee, Jr. ’47, and Sherrod Emerson Skinner, Jr. ’47, who gave their lives for their country and the United Nations. Awarded to a boy or girl from a developing region to further his or her education at Milton Academy, while enriching the school by their presence. Ivan Kozyryev (Ukraine)
The Leo Maza Award Awarded to a student or students in Classes I–IV, who, in working within one of the culture or identity groups at the school, has made an outstanding contribution to the community by promoting the appreciation of that group throughout the rest of the school. Kate Elizabeth Lovely Tara Deviki Venkatraman
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