| One-hundred-eighty-one members of Milton Academy’s Class of 2011 received their diplomas on the lawn outside Apthorp Chapel during the School's 212th graduation exercises on Friday, June 10. As is tradition at Milton's commencement, graduates and faculty were led by a bagpiper as they made their way from Straus Library to the ceremony on the quad. Following an invocation by Chaplain Suzanne DeBuhr and welcome by Head of School Todd Bland, the student speakers, Elisabeth Makishima and Samuel Shleifer—elected by classmates to speak on their behalf—addressed the audience. The graduation speaker for the Class of 2011 was author Reif Larson, Milton Academy Class of 1998. Reif 's first novel, The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet, was a New York Times Bestseller and is currently being published in twenty-nine languages.
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