definition
you leave assets to Milton in your will

donor goal
defer a gift until after your lifetime

donor profile
donors of any age

benefits

• a gift to Milton
• you keep assets in your name during your lifetime
• your estate receives a charitable tax deduction
  when the gift is made

funding

• typically funded with cash, securities, real estate or
  personal property

our donors

Thomas J. G. Spang ’47 believes everyone should have a cause to support through his lifetime, and beyond. Milton is at the top of his list. “What better cause than the ‘booster rocket’ that helped me prepare for life and its opportunities?” Tom’s bequest will establish the Thomas J.G. Spang Fund, an endowed fund that addresses his lifelong interests at Milton: financial aid and athletics. “I named Milton in my will because I believe in the strength of the School and want to ensure its vitality in the future.”

Judy Mackay Phillips ’50
“I always think of Milton with both pleasure and pride. The 1798 date impressed me when I first arrived at School, and I tried to calculate how many students had gone before me. Six years later at graduation, I still hadn’t calculated how many had gone before, but I surely realized how much I had profited from their experiences, efforts and endowments. The School continues to amaze me with its energy and accomplishments. I contribute to Milton’s planned giving program and Annual Fund in the hope that it will help future students (who will probably be as impressed by 1950 as I was by 1798) to have the chance to study at a grand school, and that as graduates they will feel the same pleasure and pride that I do when they think of their Milton.”

Judy Rice Millon ’52
Judy Rice Millon ‘52 began her Milton connection as one of nine Rice cousins who attended the Academy in the years around World War II. (The Rice cousins were children of three brothers, all Milton alumni.)

“Recalling post-war Milton, I image a landscape that had nearly as much country as suburb about it,” Judy says, “It was a time when the great elm trees of New England still lined the streets—and we were warned not to play in the woods close by. Rolling over my memory of the campus, I conjure up the figures of Miss Bailey and Miss Sullivan striding the sidelines of the hockey field, bellowing instructions while knitting feverishly on argyle socks."

Judy, a freelance editor and writer, and her husband, Henry (Hank) Millon, an architectural historian, live in Washington, DC, where Hank served at the National Gallery of Art from 1980 until his retirement in 2001. With their two children Phoebe (an architect, now living in Rome) and Aaron (a chef, living near Burlington, Vermont), they have spent many summers in Deer Isle, Maine, where they recently completed a “mostly summer” house designed by Hank with plenty of bookshelves and a fine water view of the sunset over the Camden Hills. Until recently Judy worked on symposium volumes and catalogues for several of Washington's museums and galleries and in 2001 completed a revised edition of her book on Rome's landmark episcopal church, St Paul's Within the Walls. Hank's interest in Italian Renaissance and baroque architecture, and a daughter married to a Roman, give them reason to spend as much time in Italy as they can arrange.

“I was really a Milton ‘lifer’ with a six-year hiatus in New Hampshire,” Judy explains. “My first address was 262 Centre Street, a small house behind a high hedge opposite the entrance to the cemetery. I was born and raised a faculty child until 1939, when Dad closed the English teacher/track coach chapter of his life and moved us all to Peterborough, New Hampshire, where he grew apples and joined Rob Sagendorph on the editorial staff of Yankee and the Old Farmer's Almanac. At age 12 I would return three-quarters of a mile west of my Centre Street beginnings, to share the Stokinger house on Randolph Avenue with Mary Jane Caldwell and their son, Ricky, for classes VI and V. (Oh! Those glorious Sunday afternoon football teas with Milton's brawniest hunks sitting in a circle around Stoky, stuffing down Mrs. Stoky's incomparable brownies.) Then I moved a quarter-mile east of the cemetery entrance to Hathaway House, where I was a boarder for my last four years.

“The sight of an orange and blue hat in a crowd still tingles my blood. I have always enjoyed seeing and hearing news of old schoolmates and read with keen interest of updates in curriculum, faculty and facilities to say nothing of physical changes to the old familiar campus. My hat is off to my classmates of ‘52 who spurred on by 9/11 and heightened global sensitivity have initiated the funding of an annual lecture on world religions. Milton was a wonderful gateway to my life, and I am ever grateful for the solid no-nonsense study ethic and grounding in educational basics coupled with a myriad of opportunities to enjoy and participate in music, art and theater with top rank, inspiring faculty and 27 unforgettable classmates.

“My decision a number of years ago to leave a bequest to Milton Academy came not from a desire to make a statement of thanks for my own long-gone experiences,” Judy says, “but in a small way help assure that Milton Academy will continue its momentum as an exceptional educational institution for many, many fortunate students in the future.”