Then and Now L auralton Hall was the
five; in 1906, the first graduating
first Catholic college-prep
class consisted of four young women.
high school for girls in
Today, there are 477 girls from
Milford’s Miss CT rowned Miss Connecticut in
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2006, Milford native Heidi Alice
Voight (Foran class of 2000) entered
Connecticut, and among the first
forty Connecticut towns enrolled in
her first pageant in 2002 at the request
established in the United States. In
the school as day students, grades
of her mother and a year later won
1905, under the direction of Mother
9-12. Now, having celebrated a full
her first crown. A strong advocate of
Mary Augustine Claven, a beautiful
century of educating young women
sexual assault prevention, Voight made
Victorian Gothic mansion on a 40-acre
in the Mercy tradition of Catherine
“Educate, Empower, Eradicate: Stop
Milford, Connecticut property was
McAuley, the school is an independent
the Violence” her personal platform
purchased and the boarding and day
institution. The 2014-2015 school year
throughout her pageant days. She
programs of a girls’ Catholic academy
will mark the 150th anniversary of
currently serves as the director of
at Lauralton Hall begun. The first class
the building of the estate by Charles
Communications for the Fidelco Guide
at Lauralton Hall numbered twenty-
Hobby Pond in 1864.
Dog Foundation.
Michael Yeargan ony Award winning scenic designer
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and professor of stage design
at the Yale School of Drama, Michael Yeargan won the 2005 Tony for Light in the Piazza. His impressive resume includes work for Broadway, off-Broadway, regional theater, London’s West End, and opera houses here and abroad. Originally from Texas, Yeargan arrived in Milford in the early 70s as a Yale graduate student, fell in love, and never left. He designed his first set in high school, worked with greats like Meryl Streep at Yale, and eventually made a name for himself designing for operas and Broadway.
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