Xiaolu Shi, Modern Languages Growing up in Xi’an, one of the oldest cities in China, Xiaolu Shi was happily surrounded by the past. The start of the ancient Silk Road, the Xi’an City Wall, and the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and his Terracotta Army—all this history...
Adrian Anantawan, Music Department Adrian Anantawan has toured the world as a violin soloist and performed on some of the most prominent stages, but this year marks the beginning of a different kind of adventure: being a house parent to the boys of Forbes House....
Malinda Polk, English Though Malinda Polk considers herself a relatively new member of the Milton faculty (she joined the English department in 2011), independent school life is part of her DNA. Malinda’s father taught at Lawrenceville and Groton, so she was a...
Nicole Darling, Visual Arts Nicole Darling’s foundation in art began when she was a boarding student at Milton. She studied photography with faculty member Bryan Cheney and painting with former faculty member Anne Neely. Her education and work took her to locations...
Patrick Owens, Mathematics A self-described “math nerd” since high school, Patrick Owens brings affable enthusiasm to his Honors Statistics and Precalculus classes. Patrick came to Milton in 2014 as a fellow in the Penn Residency Master’s in Teaching program, earning...
Matthew Blanton, History and Social Sciences After graduating from Dartmouth College, Matt Blanton wanted to take a short break from the pre-med track he was on and teach. He earned a one-year fellowship at the Taft School, where he taught math. One year turned into...
Jennifer Hughes, Visual Arts Jennifer Hughes, a faculty member of Milton’s visual arts department, introduces printmaking techniques to students in her art classes. In Studio Art, students work on relief printing—carving images into woodblocks and rolling the ink...
Joel Moore: Medicinal Chemist, Now Teaching in Pritzker After 20 years, Joel Moore has realized his undergraduate aspiration to be a teacher in the chemistry labs of Milton’s Pritzker Science Center. A native Oklahoman, Joel attended Oklahoma State University as a...
Parisi Productions — More Than Meets the Eye Tapping into performing arts department chair Peter Parisi’s passion for teaching and his love for Milton is not hard. After 20 years of teaching drama, speech, improv and oral interpretation classes, his enthusiasm has not...
Michael Lou, History and Social Sciences Michael Lou immerses himself in teaching his classes so thoroughly that sometimes a student needs to remind him gently that the time has come for them to move on to the next class. “Sometimes I don’t know where the time has...
Matt Petherick, Physical Education and History Matt Petherick’s roots in the Independent School League run deep. Milton’s head baseball coach for three years now, Matt competed in the league playing baseball at Roxbury Latin School. While he enjoyed nine years of...
Kelli Edwards, Performing Arts Natural light pours across the hardwood floor of Kelli Edwards’s spacious dance studio. Floor-to-ceiling mirrors line the sides of the room opposite the sides lined by windows. Students put down their heavy book bags here, take off their...
Elizabeth Lillis, Science As a child growing up in Maryland, Elizabeth Lillis loved learning about science and art. She combined the two disciplines at Georgetown University, majoring in biology with a minor in art. “Studying both disciplines was a great opportunity,...
