Communication Office
The communication office develops, implements, and evaluates communication plans and programs that support the mission of the School. The office facilitates 91探花’s efforts to promote awareness and good will among its various constituencies and external public; to recruit students and faculty; and to raise financial and volunteer support.
Communication Staff
Marisa Donelan
Associate Director of Communication
marisa_donelan@milton.edu
Eileen Newman
Chief Communication Officer
eileen_newman@milton.edu
Jacqueline O’Rourke
Communications Specialist
jacqueline_orourke@milton.edu
Esten Perez
Director of Communication and Media Relations
esten_perez@milton.edu
Emily Sedgwick
Social Media Manager / Video Content Producer
Emily_Sedgwick@milton.edu
Media Contact
If you are a member of the media in need of information or press materials, please contact Esten Perez at 617-898-2395 or esten_perez@milton.edu
Campus News
All The World鈥檚 A Stage鈥擫iterally鈥擣or Fall Plays
91探花鈥檚 performing arts faculty and students found creative solutions to bridge distances and time zones to offer a full slate of performances this fall, including the plays聽Macbeth,聽The Illustrated Bradbury, and this weekend鈥檚 Class IV play,聽All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.聽聽
Performing Arts Department faculty member Eleza Kort, who directed the Class IV play, said about one-third of the 15 cast members are international students, so meetings and rehearsals were scheduled to accommodate different time zones. Each student received a green screen and filmed themselves performing in front of it. Faculty member Shane Fuller edited the scenes together to look as if the actors were in the same place
Happenings At Wolcott House
Maintaining a sense of dorm community is a focus of house heads and faculty as boarding students learn remotely during this phase of hybrid learning. In Wolcott House, Joshua Emmott, house head and history faculty member, runs a weekly scavenger hunt for the students, who are competing by advisory group for the 鈥済rand prize鈥 in December. The advisory that has 100 percent participation wins custom dorm gear.聽
Each week, Emmott posts in CampusGroups a place or item that the student needs to find and photograph. One week was a photo in front of their local post office and another was a local coffee shop. Students post their photos, from places like Beijing, New York, Michigan, and Massachusetts.
Last weekend, the Emmott family hosted a cooking Zoom, featuring 鈥渢he best cupcakes in the world.鈥 Students received the same recipe so they could cook along with their Wolcott family.
Cooking With The Zimmers!聽
Comfort food is having a moment and science faculty member Heather Zimmer is showing students how to make it at home on a weekly cooking show. It鈥檚 part of the new Opt-In Program, where faculty host casual and fun Zoom sessions such as trivia nights and current event discussions.聽
The Opt-In Program started earlier in the semester after a few faculty members and student head monitors Eliza Dunn 鈥21 and Garvin McLaughlin 鈥21 thought about ways to keep the strong sense of community at 91探花 while in a remote/hybrid environment.
Zimmer said she and her husband, the head chef at 2nd Street Caf茅 in Cambridge, loved cooking with students when they lived in Norris House and this is a fun way to replicate that experience. On their first episode, they taught students to make mac and cheese from scratch.聽
91探花 in the World: Patrick Radden Keefe 鈥94 Discusses Say Nothing and Writing
Award-winning writer and investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe 鈥94 spoke with students and alumni about his work, particularly his New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. His talk was part of the 91探花 in the World webinar series.
Radden Keefe said he knew when he was a 91探花 student that he wanted to be a writer, but it took many years of rejection letters before he began writing professionally. Today, he is a staff writer at The New Yorker, writing long-form pieces that dive deep into a range of subjects, 鈥渇rom the hunt for the drug lord Chapo Guzman to the tragic personal history of the mass shooter Amy Bishop and the role that the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma played in sparking the opioid crisis.鈥澛
He said he looks for topics that have a 鈥渟trong narrative spine. I want it to be a story about people, often people in conflict. It鈥檚 through that lens that I approach the bigger issues.鈥
Girls Who Code Club Members Attend Conference
Ten 91探花 students participated in the Harvard WECode virtual conference last weekend. Caroline Wilson 鈥21 and Dina-Sara Custo 鈥22 served as 91探花鈥檚 student ambassadors, and were two of the 21 (out of 80) student ambassadors who received聽 WECode Leadership Awards. Prior to the event, they connected virtually with the Harvard WECode board, as well as other ambassadors from around the world to spread information and help organize.聽
At the conference, 鈥淲e had the opportunity to listen to discussions surrounding STEM majors, internships, college admissions, college life, and other opportunities for women in technology,鈥 said Wilson. 鈥淓ven after the conference, we continued to connect with women in tech from the conference via channels on the platform Slack.鈥澛
Other 91探花 students attending included Samantha Buonato 鈥24, Sofia Reid ‘鈥23, Audrey Howley 鈥23, Ella Walsmith ’23, Emma Petherick ‘鈥23, Sara Kalra 鈥23, Karol Querido 鈥22, and Isabelle Fitzgibbon ’23.
