January is career panel month for the Middlesex Alumni Association and the annual Boston and New York panels drew strong crowds recently. Nearly 60 alumni turned out in Boston on January 5 at the Harvard Club to hear from Ike Williams ’56, Karen Darby Scott ’80 P’11’12’14’17, Bill Driscoll ’87 P’19, Eileen Berkery Tortora ’96, and Will Danoff P’17’19. The…
Played before a near capacity crowd of 26 (unofficially the game’s largest audience ever), the annual alumni hockey game returned to Pratt Rink on Sunday afternoon, January 10. Participants from a 30 year age range took to the ice for a fun and spirited contest. Players were given red and white throwback jerseys to help bring back memories of their…
The children’s play, now in its sixth year, has become a winter tradition at Middlesex, attracting and delighting children of all ages while raising money for the Linawo Children’s Home in Cape Town, South Africa. This year’s show, Goldilocks and the Three Pigs, directed by DJ Williams ’16, was full of mayhem, confusion, energy, humor, and adventure. The show raised…
Ruth Baldwin joined the Middlesex faculty in 2013 after completing her Ph.D. in English literature at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, Ruth also designed and taught undergraduate English courses, served as a teaching assistant, and mentored both undergraduate English majors and new graduate student instructors. Her talent in the classroom was recognized by the university with an Outstanding Teaching…
On Monday, January 18, 2016 the Middlesex School will welcome Jeff Sheng to the community as the featured speaker for this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day program. Sheng is an American artist whose photographic work over the last decade has focused on the 21st century Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender rights movement. His photographs on this topic have been featured in the New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, Newsweek, the…
Sunday January 10th at 2:00 PM Middlesex School presents: Goldilocks and the Three Pigs A comedy for children of all ages! Tickets are $5 and all proceeds support the Linawo Children’s Home Directed by DJ Williams ’16 Running time: 50 minutes About the Show: Goldilocks and the three… PIGS?!!! The action in this very fun play begins with…
All new students at Middlesex participate in an Introduction to Mindfulness course. Mindfulness can be summed up as “inner education.” Mindfulness practice helps us in understanding and training our attention, learning to relate to thoughts, emotions, and feelings in a more skillful way, becoming aware of the habits of our own mind, learning how to better connect with others, and…
The Digital Music Class learned how to record, edit, and mix music through a series of group and individual projects designed to promote creativity and expression. One such project was an audio version of The Night Before Christmas, complete with narration, sound effects and all original music. The story was a collaborative effort between D.J. Williams ’16, Chase Davenport ’16, and…
Atiya ’12 reports on her 2015 summer internship experience. First and foremost I would like to thank the 2015 Middlesex Alumni Association Internship Stipend Committee for granting me a stipend for the summer of 2015. I used my stipend this summer to buy my monthly metro card. Though almost trivial sounding, these metro cards enabled me to not only work…
Tenable. Gourmand. Neophyte. Truant. Just a few words a Middlesex student can define and use in a sentence, thanks to the infamous Words Book. However, a group of Marines is well versed in the world of Words words as well, thanks to 2nd Lt. Barrett Moorhouse, a 2008 graduate of Middlesex. A short time ago, Barrett asked Middlesex to send…