PUBLIC SCHOOLS
MARY C. GORMLEY
MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02186
Superintendent of Schools
(617)-696-4808/09
JOHN P. PHELAN
Assistant Superintendent
For Curriculum & Personnel
(617)-696-4811/12
MATTHEW J. GILLIS
Assistant Superintendent
For Business Affairs
(617) 696-5041
To:
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Faculty, Staff, Parents and Guardians of Milton Public Schools
Mary C. Gormley, Superintendent
E-Blast Newsletter
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
From the Desk of the Superintendent:
“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement” -- W. Clement Stone
We recently held an evening ceremony for Milton High students and their families that is one of my
favorite events of the year -- on par with graduation. Our Milton High School Scholastic Honors Night, held at
Lantana’s in Randolph, is a celebration of academic success. It features our National Honor Society induction,
Junior Book Awards, Century Club recognition and the naming of Boys’ and Girls’ State representatives.
Our Milton High School Principal, Dr. Joseph Arangio, said the following at this year’s event: “Not
only is this evening special because it is the sum of your learning achievement for all these years….but also
because your achievement has met or exceeded the standard of excellence set by the school organizations
represented.”
Please read more about our talented students under the “Curriculum” heading below -- and again,
congratulations to all the students who attended Scholastic Honors Night. – Mary C. Gormley
SCHOOL COMMITTEE UPDATE
Upcoming Meetings:
Please review the upcoming schedule for School Committee meetings in June. There have been changes made
to this schedule since the last school committee meeting.
June 6th: Regular School Committee Meeting at 7:30pm @ MHS Library following the SC Retirees Reception
at 6pm.
June 13th: Joint Interview of Semi-Finalists for Open School Committee seat. This will be a joint meeting of
the Milton School Committee and the Town of Milton Selectmen at 8:00pm @ MHS Library following the SC
Volunteer Reception at 6pm.
There have been two meetings since my last E-blast. Below is a summary of those meetings.
May 2nd: We invited Cunningham Elementary Principal Dr. Karen Spaulding along with fourth grade student
Wallace Heller to talk about the Curiosity Awards sponsored by MIT. There were 1,500 submissions and both
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Mr. Heller and third-grader Arjun Sohur were selected to receive an award. The students were honored at a
brunch at MIT and their work will be included in a book to be published by MIT.
Next, Milton High School Debate Team coaches Nick Fitzgerald and Nancy Warn introduced the
members of the Milton High School Debate Team. The Debate Team had a very successful year in
competitions. Additionally, the team was asked to moderate the Candidates Night at Fuller Village in advance
of the recent town elections.
This was followed by information on the Commendation Schools Regional Dissemination Grant
presented by Tucker School Principal Marcia Uretsky and Elementary Reading, Language Arts and Social
Studies Coordinator & Title One Director Martha Sherman. This grant recognized the Tucker School's superb
growth in AYP status. The Milton/Randolph collaborative grant is for $59,209. There is a short time frame and
the grant requirements must be completed by the end of the school year.
Next, Assistant Superintendent John Phelan gave an update on the issue of residency. The Milton Public
Schools must follow MGL Ch. 76 5:6 which pertains to residency issues when determining which students are
not residents of Milton. Mr. Phelan discussed the positions that work on residency: one part time registrar, one
full time residency coordinator and two stipended Milton Police officers. Collectively, he estimated that 76
hours per week are spent on this issue. Not only is the issue of residency addressed during the enrollment
process, but it is also followed up during the school year. In the 2011-2012 school year, the Milton Public
Schools have investigated 171 cases. Of that number, 38 students have been excluded and 63 were able to reestablish residency. Seventy cases are still under review. The entire presentation can be viewed by visiting this
link: www.miltonps.org/Documents/Residencyppoint05-2-12.pdf
The School Committee then discussed the School Choice vote. The Chairman noted that the School
Committee prepared an extensive study and presentation on this issue last year. This issue requires an annual
vote. A motion was made to opt out of school choice for the Milton Public School district for the FY12-13
school year and it was unanimously approved.
May 23rd: This meeting began with recognition of two Pierce Middle School students Emily Possi and Al
Lenz. Emily, a seventh-grader at Pierce placed sixth overall in the Regional Spelling Bee held at Lantana’s in
Randolph. Al Lenz competed in the Regional Finals of the National Geographic Bee in Worcester recently
where he placed in the top 20 overall.
Next, the School Committee welcomed Robert Mayhew, Operations Manager for the Consolidated
Facilities Department. Mr. Mayhew will be working with Bill Ritchie in this newly-created department which
oversees the maintenance of 22 buildings in town. Mr. Ritchie reported that this year consumption of energy has
decreased nearly 10% over last year and gas consumption has decreased 18-22%. With the recent addition of
solar panels on the school building roofs, he said he expects to save more in the future.
A panel from Milton High School which included Principal Joseph Arangio, Vice Principals Yolanda
Beech and Alan Cron, and World Language Director Martine Fisher, discussed the most recent report from
NEASC. Milton High School has been awarded continued accreditation. The team answered questions from the
School Committee about the timeline for implementation of recommendations and some of the areas that have
been identified for improvement.
Next, there was a presentation on changes to the Elementary Programs. With current enrollment
numbers for next year’s first grade now available, the trend towards decreasing enrollment in English/FLES and
increased enrollment in French Immersion has continued. Since the 2007-2008 school year, the percentage of
students entering English in first grade has dropped from 56% to the current figure of 34%. The number of
parents choosing French has increased from the 2007-2008 enrollment of 44% to 66% for the fall’s incoming
first-grade class.
Limited enrollment in the English program creates a number of issues. It causes a higher ratio of
students in special education in the English program. It limits the number of role model students available for
the co-taught classrooms at Glover and Tucker. It creates single-strand classrooms (only one classroom per
grade level), which limits flexibility in making classroom assignments.
At the same time, it means higher class size for French Immersion classrooms as well as the challenges
of hiring qualified French-speaking, elementary-certified teaches.
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With that in mind, the administration turned to the recommendations of the 2010 World Language
Committee report. This extensive review of our world language programs was presented in the Spring of 2010
to the School Committee. At that time, the committee concluded that instituting a lottery/capping system for
French Immersion would be necessary if enrollment trends continued, which they have.
For that reason, the Superintendent is recommending that the elementary schools begin capping
enrollment of French Immersion classes beginning in the 2013-2014 school year.
The changes to the French Immersion program will be communicated in a variety of ways to Milton
Public School parents and the community as a whole over the next several months as details of the
lottery/capping system are worked out.
Later in the meeting, Mr. Phelan announced that an appointment has been made at Pierce Middle
School. Mr. Life LeGeros will fill the newly-created Assistant Principal/Math Curriculum position at Pierce.
Mr. LeGeros comes to us from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education where
he oversees the mathematics targeted assistance team as the Director of Statewide Mathematics Initiatives.
Next, Matthew Gillis gave a brief report on Third-Quarter Financials, saying that the budget appears to
be on track and he expects to close the year as projected.
CURRICULUM NEWS
The four groups below are those who were honored at Scholastic Honors Night mentioned in my
introduction:
National Honor Society: Twice every year Milton High School inducts its newly-admitted members
into the National Honor Society. In the spring, we admit second semester juniors, and we are very happy that
those of you who attended Milton High School's annual Scholastic Awards Night on May 1st were present at
that ceremony. Each fall, members of the senior class who meet the stringent requirements of NHS regarding
scholarship, leadership, character, and service are also admitted. All of these accomplished students now
comprise our current roster of 147 active National Honor Society members, truly an impressive number.
Congratulations once more to both our graduating members of the class of 2012 and to the rising senior class of
2013 who will assume the reins of duty in our MHS chapter of the National Honor Society. I would also like to
thank Dr. Sheila Walsh and Ben Midura of the Humanities Department, our NHS Advisors. The latest inductees
from the Class of 2013 are:
NHS Class of 2013
Patrick Adley, Clayton Baker, Ryan Baker, Ursula Beattie, Maeve Berry, Saidhbhe Berry, Samantha Brennan,
Ellen Chow, David Cleckley, Yvonne Corbett, Niki Cremmen, Molly Dempsey, Molly Devlin, Theresa
Doherty, Kara Donovan, Courtney Driscoll, Emily Driscoll, Kayla Drummond, Bradley Dumais, Peter
Eberhardt, Destiny Edouard, Molly Farmer, Timothy Flaherty, Bianca Garcia, Cara Genduso, Catherine Green,
Abigail Greenwood, Caitlin Griffin, Robert D. Halloran, Eileen Hiew, Miles Holland, Hannah Huban, Ailsa
Jeffries, Nicholas Juzyca, Morgan Kelley, Brendan Kelly, Ian Kelly, Julia Keohane, Bethany Knight, Mia
Lander, Lauren Lanza, Emily Lenane, Anton Libsch, Amanda Liberty, Megan MacIsaac, Liana Massey-Green,
Bailey McDonnell, Peter Mulkern, Christine Murphy, Hannah Musgrove, Michael Musto
Daniel Nabi, Kimberly Ngai, Chiamaka Nwanekezi, Anika Obasiolu, Sinéad O’Connor, Madeleine O’Leary,
Charlotte O’Neill, Nick Orlando, Mary O’Rourke, Madison Perlick, Aria Perkins, Courtney Peterson, Nicole
Peterson, Conor Regan, Pailin Rinfret, Juliana Rush, Nick Savage, Christine Sgroi, Rebecca Simms, Devon
Stanley, Melissa Thai, Melissa Trinh, Camille Van Allen, Stephanie Ward, Alexandra Wasilewski, Nancy
Wong, Mona Yuan
We would also like to acknowledge and congratulate our graduating Milton High School seniors who belong to
the National Honor Society:
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NHS Class of 2012
Isabel Andrews, Ardara Berry, Maryclare Blankenship, Nathaniel Breslin, Thavy Bullis, Amélie Carpenter,
Malanie Carvalho, Jesse Chase, Aaron Chiu, Aishling Corcoran, Derek Curley, Justin Curley, Samantha Curley,
Julia Curran, Jarred DiManno, Hana DiTullio, Nadjia Edwards, Elizabeth Golden, Margaretta Goltz, Brendan
Hayward, Laura Hess, Griffith Hiss, Katherine Hutchinson, Gordon Jarvis, Regine Jean-Michel, Emma
Jehanno, Linnea Johnson, Anna Jolliffe, Evan Jones, Christiana Joseph, Jamie Joyce, Connor Keating, Nancy
Killoran, Christopher Kourtelidis, Julia LeBlanc, Rebecca Liberman, Eric Liu, Sara Ly, Kathleen Lynch,
Caeleigh MacNeil, Jonathan Maher, Elizabeth Mahon, Jean Manning, Chayna McDermott, Sean McDonough,
Samson Michel, Brittany Mowe, Maureen Muse, Talia Nutting, Sheamus O’Connor, Eric Ogamba, Molly
Oliverio, Gabrielle Onessimo, Derek Phillibert, Steven Pierre, Phuong (Leone) Quach, Emma Raszmann, Philip
Rebrovic, Maya Rosmarin, Cristina Ruscito, Katherine Sargent, Molly Savage, Lucas Shapiro, Meghan Shields,
Eleanor Taber, Samuel Taugher, Amanda Vasconcelos, Nicole Veneto, Raymond Wong
Century Club: The Century Club honors 100 of the school’s top academic achievers. Students are selected on
the basis of their unweighted class rank at the end of term three. The membership is as follows: 40 seniors, 30
juniors, 20 sophomores, and 10 freshmen. Thank you to club advisor Alan Cron, and congratulations to the
following Milton High students:
Seniors:
Isabel Andrews, Ardara Berry, Nathaniel Breslin, Christin Brink, Amelie Carpenter, Aaron Chiu
Aishling Corcoran, Derek Curley *, Samantha Curley *, Whitney Dowds, Elizabeth Golden, Margaretta Goltz,
Laura Hess *, Katherine Hutchinson, Emma Jehanno, Linnea Johnson, Anna Jolliffe, Christiana Joseph *,
Jeffrey Kasuba, Nancy Killoran, Julia LeBlanc, John Lemelman,
Rebecca Liberman *, Eric Lui, Sara Ly, Kathleen Lynch, Caeleigh MacNeil *, Bridget Mahan, Elizabeth
Mahon, Alexandra McCourt, Chayna McDermott, Brittany Mowe, Talia Nutting, Eric Ogamba, Molly Oliverio,
Folashade Olukoga, Emma Raszmann, Maya Rosmarin, Cristina Ruscito *, Katherine Sargent *, Lucas Shapiro,
Hamza Suhail, Sam Taugher, Carolyn Truax, Nicole Veneto, Raymond Wong
* Four-year Century Club member
Juniors:
Ryan Baker, Ellen Chow, Pailin Chua-Oon Rinfret, Yvonne Corbett, Molly Dempsey, Destiny Edouard, Cara
Genduso, Simone Greaves, Catherine Green, Abigail Greenwood, Robert Halloran, Eileen Hiew, Miles
Holland, Ailsa Jeffries, Morgan Kelley, Emily Lenane, Amanda Liberty, Deanna Maher, Joseph Marinilli,
Christine Murphy, Hannah Musgrove, Sinead O'Connor, Aria Perkins, Madison Perlick, Isabelle Smith, Leslie
Torres Ulloa, Camille Van Allen, Julian Samuels, Nicholas Savage, Christine Sgroi, Meghan Wilson, Mona
Yuan
Sophomores:
John Caljouw, Jonathan Carrera, Sophie Chase, Cormac Conners, Chanel Conner, Juliann Cosetta, Chanel
Connor, Olivia Done, Christopher Dsida, Emma Greenawalt, Victoria Grudem, Kali Guise, Nicole Lam, Shanaz
Mahmood, Claire Mahoney, Abraham McCarthy, Magdalena Machowski, Cailinn O’Carroll, Catherine
Pappano, Michael Ricciuti, Siena Smith, Christian Urbina, Rose Zilla-Ba
Freshmen:
Vincent Chan, Renee Chiu, Kevin Conway, Albert Enyedy, Anna Gaden, Shannon MacLeod, Oceane Marescal,
Tansy Massey Green, Denis McAuliffe, Shane McLaughlin, Emma Pred-Sosa
Junior Book Awards: For approximately the past 20 years, Milton High School has been recognizing academic
achievement, community involvement, and outstanding overall integrity in members of the junior class. Books
awards are handed out to recipients in the names of various colleges and universities as a way of honoring these
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accomplishments. Some of the book awards are sponsored by the admissions office of the college or university;
some are sponsored by local alumni chapters, while others are sponsored by faculty and staff members who
wish to recognize this high level of achievement. Two of the oldest awards are the Brown award and the
Harvard book prizes, and the criteria for selection are the following:
Brown: This award is presented to the junior student who best combines excellence in spoken and written
expression with outstanding overall academic achievement. Harvard: These awards are sponsored by the
Harvard Club of Boston (Henry Howe, ’29 and John Macomber, ’66) and are presented to two members of the
junior class who, “by virtue of character, scholastic excellence and achievement in extra-curricular activities,
best exemplify the traditional ideal of American citizenship.”
Here is the complete list of recipients this year:
Boston College Book Award: (Superintendent Mary Gormley sponsored) Michael Musto, Bradley Dumais;
Boston College Book Award: (Ms. Amy Starzynski sponsored) Yvonne Corbett; Boston College School of
Social Work: Emily Berman; Boston University Book Award for English: Hannah Musgrove; Boston
University Book Award for Education: Simone Greaves; Boston University Book Award for Music: Andrew
Mowe; Brown University Book Award: Miles Holland; Bryant University Book Award: Anika Obasiolu; Bryn
Mawr College President’s Book Award: Destiny Edouard; Columbia University Book Prize: Peter Eberhardt;
Cornell University Book Award: Sinead O’Connor; Curry College Award: Molly Dempsey; Dartmouth
College: Mona Yuan; Emmanuel College Book Award: Courtney Driscoll & Charlotte O’Neill; Harvard
University Book Prize: Ellen Chow & Ailsa Jeffries; Lesley College: Christine Sgroi; Marist College: Isabelle
Smith; Rensselaer Medal: Amanda Liberty; Smith College: Christine Murphy; St. Lawrence University Book
Award: Eileen Hiew; St. Michael’s College Book Award: Brendan Kelly & Emily Lenane; Stonehill College
Book Award: Morgan Kelley; Suffolk University: Courtney Peterson & Chiamaka Nwanekezi; Tufts
University: Timothy Vhay; University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Robert Halloran; University of
Massachusetts at Boston: Nicholas Savage; Wellesley College: Aria Perkins; Wheelock College Book Award:
Emily Driscoll; Yale University Book Award: Cara Genduso.
Boys State & Girls State Representatives: Sponsored by the American Legion, Boys State and Girls State are
programs for teaching how government works while developing leadership skills and an appreciation for your
rights as a citizen. Students learn public speaking, create and enforce laws and actively participate in all phases
of creating and running a working government in this exciting and fun summer program. Both Boys State and
Girls State will be held at Stonehill College at the end of June. Congratulations to the following: Boys: Dan
Halloran, Nicholas Juzyca and Michael Musto. Girls: Destiny Edouard, Caitlin Griffin and Camille Van Allen.
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We also have great news from our elementary schools. Students in grades 3, 4 and 5 completed the third
and final Word Master Meet Challenge in April. The Word Masters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking
that encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting words (considerably harder than grade
level) and challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical
relationships. There are three challenge meets per year and these are the results from the third and final meet:
Two Third Grade students won highest honors in the second Word Masters Challenge. Lauren
Braithwaite and Elizabeth McElhinney both earned a perfect score in the third meet where only 113 third
graders in the entire country did so. Additional third grade students who earned outstanding results in the year’s
third Word Master Challenge meet included Saoirse Killion, Aislinn Mershon, Megan Farley, Benjamin Karol,
Jami Milliken, William Milliken, Miles Hopkins, Aidan Greene, Yeager Ferreira, Abigail O’Donnell, Kate
Pulgini, Andrew Shenouda, Alessandra Masso, Dominique Thomas, and Daniel Truog. Glover School’s third
grade team tied for eighth place in the nation in this year’s third meet, among 520 school teams competing at
this grade level in this division.
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Fourth Grade Thomas Hamblet earned highest honors in the third meet where only 55 fourth graders
across the nation did so. Fourth grade students who earned outstanding results in the year’s second Word Master
Challenge meet included, Ethan Aaker, Zachary Vaughan, Clarissa Waldman, Olivia Dunphy, Anna Rull,
Shaylen vanGestel, Macy Capplis, Anna Crowley, Matthew Creamer, Ella Zimmerman, Ryan Mazzotta, Kelly
Mackenzie, and Aine Buchau.
Four Fifth Grade students won highest honors in the second Word Master Challenge. Jada Farrar,
Penelope Holland, Caroline Buckley and Matteo Mastandrea earned a perfect score in the year’s third meet held
in April. In the entire country only 131fifth graders achieved perfect results. Other fifth graders who also
achieved outstanding results in this meet included Brendan Cox, Molly Baker, Veronica Harris, Cianna
O’Flaherty, William Hankard, Seamus Slymon, Katherine Kates, John Devore, Mary Leigh Sullivan, Eliza
O’Donnell, Neph-Therry Pierre- Antoine, Amelia Ferreira, Hannah Mitchell and Emily Schewe. Cumulative
results for the 2011-2012 year will be published shortly.
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I would like to commend all our Milton Public School students who participated in the recent Study
Island Math Sprint competition. I am proud to announce that Milton students did very well in this national
contest. The goal of this contest was to get conditioned for the spring math assessments. Student winners were
based on the number of questions answered correctly and schools were based on the highest average number of
questions answered per student who participated. Out of nearly 20,000 students who participated, Milton had 50
students in the top 100, with 9 in the top 10! Of 154 schools who participated, Milton schools placed first,
second and fourth!
Congratulations to the following “top 100” winners (in order): Sarah Hancock of Cunningham, Vanessa
Lorden of Tucker, Matthew McGillivray of Cunningham, Kennedi VanAllen, Alisa Lorden, Emily Schewe and
Emily Dobrindt all of Tucker, Ryan McGroarty of Collicot, Lilja Cormack of Tucker, Margaret Pellegri and
Anthony Golden, both of Collicot, Dominique Thomas, Max Winkler and Samuel Coover of Tucker, Julia
Defilippo of Collicot, Anna McGrath of Tucker, Caleb Smith of Cunningham, Grace Curran of Collicot,
Charles Martin of Tucker, Andrew Arcieri of Pierce, Alexandra Lipson of Tucker, Patrick Hoey of
Cunningham, Onn Ye Young of Collicot, Thomas Hamblet of Cunningham, Claire Walko and Isabel Raymond,
both of Tucker, Rile Rhodes of Collicot, Julia Wright and Andre Leclerc, both of Tucker, Alexander Foster of
Cunningham, Ava Duggan of Tucker, Allen Dai of Collicot, Joseph Pezzini of Tucker, Nosakhare Iyamu of
Tucker, Dyman Daly of Collicot, Luke Palmer of Tucker, Sarina Feetham of Cunningham, Gabriel Estevez of
Tucker, Clarissa Waldmann and William Hankard, both of Collicot, Max Mangum and Lemuel Marc, both of
Tucker, Angel McGilveary, Matteo Mastandrea and Zachary Vaughan, all of Collicot, Alexandra Rene, Usama
Shakeel, Martin Connolly and Ha-Yen Nguyen, all of Tucker, and Wendell Pierre of Collicot. Further good
news:
Tucker placed first in the nation among all divisions
# of questions answered correctly: 178,771
Average # of questions answered correctly per student: 706.6
Tucker Elementary had 27 students in the top 100, including Vanessa Lorden who placed #2 overall
Tucker will receive $1,000 to spend with Archipalgo Learning.
Collicot Elementary School placed third in the nation, overall.
# of questions answered correctly: 105,658
Average # of questions answered correctly per student: 352.19
Collicot Elementary School had 15 students in the top 100
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Cunningham Elementary School Placed fourth in the nation, overall.
Number of questions answered correctly: 70,748
Average number of questions answered correctly per student: 299.8
Elementary Student winner and overall winner, Sarah Hancock
Cunningham Elementary School had 7 students in the top 100, including Matthew McGillivray who
placed 3rd overall
Glover Elementary:
Number of questions answered correctly: 14,367
Average number of questions answered correctly per student: 59.6
Charles Pierce Middle School:
Number of questions answered correctly: 12,403
Average number of questions answered correctly per student: 64.9
Charles Pierce Middle School had 1 student in the top 100
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I am happy to announce that three Milton Public School students have been recognized by the
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Art Contest. Grade 7 students Kristy Chan won sixth place for
“Squid” and Clara Tennyson won Honorable Mention for “Bluefin Tuna.” Hanganh Yo, a Glover fifth grader,
also won Honorable Mention. This year's theme was the "Amazing Ocean Creatures of Stellwagen Bank
National Marine Sanctuary". In addition, all winning artwork and honorable mentions will be posted on the
sanctuary website (http://stellwagen.noaa.gov).
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A group of high school students also recently won recognition for their work on a healthy breakfast
video, sponsored by Child Nutrition Outreach Program. Megan MacIsaac, Maya Rosmarin, Gabrielle
Bongiorno and Emily Berman produced a video in Sean LoPresti’s class which earned them third place out of
58 entries. Great job! To view the video, click here:
http://meals4kids.org/2012-school-breakfast-video-contest-winners-are
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For the past month, students from Milton High’s Drawing II class, taught by Kassandra Derby have been
designing and painting a twelve foot by nine foot mural at Collicot Elementary school in the
Kindergarten/Preschool hallway. Last week, the mural was unveiled and it is spectacular. Thank you to Ms.
Derby, along with the following students: Seniors: Chris Concannon, Kyle Jensen, Julia LeBlanc, Evan Jones,
Molly Lenane, Brendan Marsano, Derek Curley, David Frye, Courtney Johnson and Eric Lui. Juniors:
Christine Sgroi, Wes Kroninger, Ryan Clarke and Jarell Cooper. Sophomores: Jack Clark and Chris Dsida.
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There were a few errors in my last E-blast that I would like to correct.
First, we published an incomplete list of high school students who had done well on the National
Medusa Mythology Exam. Below is the complete list:
Magna Cum Laude: Christian Jamal, Nicholas Savage, and Phillip Wikina. Cum Laude: Olivia Jensen, Kent
Fong, and Tim Flaherty. Mirabile Dictu Vobis!
Also, at the April 4th School Committee meeting, the singers congratulated were not the Junior District
students, they were the High School Massachusetts All State students--Rebecca Liberman, Talia Nutting,
Andrew Mowe, Lily Moerschel, Rose Moerschel, Carolyn Truax and Rebecca Simms.
Finally, our Milton High School Foods teacher is Elaine Lovett, not Eileen.
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In early June, a special edition of the Superintendent’s Eblast will be sent out. This first-ever Video Eblast is being produced by students in Sean LoPresti’s video class and will feature updates on many Health &
Wellness issues. Stay tuned!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Come one, come all - you'll have a ball . The Tucker Spring Fair is back! Please join us on June 2nd
from 10am - 2pm at the Tucker Elementary School. The cost is $10 per child with a $20 cap per family. The
admission fee includes two bouncy houses, games, prizes, face painting, tattoos, an arts and crafts table and
more. Hamburgers, hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy, and water will be available for purchase. 10% of all
proceeds will be donated to the Jared Mitchell Fund. If you have any questions or would like to volunteer for
the event, please contact Kristen LaCasse at [email protected].
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Senior Awards Night was held May 29th in the Charles Winchester Auditorium at Milton High School.
The MHS Boosters Awards Banquet will be held at 6:00pm on May 30th in the Copeland Field House.
Graduation for the Class of 2012 will be held on Sunday, June 3rd at 2pm in the Copeland Field House.
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The following information on the 19th Annual MHS All Night Graduation Party, to be held on Sunday, June
3rd, was submitted by parent Paula Sullivan Heiler:
Why an All Night Party?
Graduation is a time of celebration. Energy and excitement runs high and students feel invincible. Drinking and
drugs are often a part of the rite of passage and the results can be tragic. The All Night Party has become part of
the MHS culture with close to 100% participation. It is a community supported way for all seniors, and only
seniors, to get together one last time in a safe, alcohol free, drug free environment to party until dawn with
rocking music, plenty of food and great entertainment.
What will I do?
There are jobs for everyone. Light lifting, lots of sitting, interacting with the kids, never seeing the kids, moving
fast, never moving at all, staying out late, getting up early. Give us a reason why you can’t help and we’ll find a
way that you can. We need you!
What will the kids do?
The kids will arrive at 10:30PM. The doors are locked at 11:00PM and do not open again until 5:00AM. The
night is jam packed with activities including music, dancing, games, plenty of food, a hypnotist show and
enough memories to last a lifetime.
Okay, Okay, I am signing up!
And, I am forwarding this email to several other people. They do not have to be MHS parents, but they must be
adults. To sign up, email [email protected]
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The Pierce Players are presenting their spring show. “My Son Pinocchio,” will be onstage at Pierce
Middle School on Thursday, May 31st and Friday, June 1st at 7 pm; and Saturday, June 2nd at 2pm.
Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for children and can be purchased at the door or by calling 617-696-4570.
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FOOD SERVICE NEWS
Many of you may have heard by now about the new Massachusetts regulations regarding foods available
in schools.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health created nutritional standards for “competitive foods and
beverages,” offered during the school day -- as well as 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after school -- in
public schools. Competitive foods and beverages include all food and drink sold or provided as a la carte items
in school cafeterias, classrooms and hallways, school stores, school snack bars, vending machines, fundraising
activities and school-sponsored or school-related events and all other locations in public schools. Schools must
implement these standards effective August 1, 2012.
A recent amendment to the bill may give some flexibility to allow for exceptions for fundraising events,
but the language for this will not be in place until June.
To view the standards, please visit this link:
http://www.miltonps.org/departments-food-services.php
FACILITIES UPDATE
The following item was submitted by Matthew J. Gillis, Assistant Superintendent for Business:
Panels on Glover School
The $3 million dollar rooftop solar project is a power purchase agreement (also known as a PPA) and
places 2,487 solar panels on four school rooftops at no out-of-pocket cost to the school department and Milton
taxpayers. The Developer owns the panels and the school department agrees to buy the electricity produced by
them and it will effectively rollback the electric meter for each school. The PPA also specifies a minimum
amount of annual kWh the system will produce or the developer will have to pay the Milton Public Schools for
its system not performing as guaranteed.
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This project is, environmentally and financially green. The School Department will receive
approximately a 60% discount per kilowatt hour produced by the solar panels compared to conventional
delivery and generation. This project will save approximately $92,000 in the first full year of operation and is
expected to save approximately $2.5 million over the twenty-year life of the panels. Environmentally, this
project will reduce the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity and reduce carbon emissions and other
disruptions to the environment. For example, in year 1, this project will reduce the same amount of greenhouse
gas emissions as 119 passenger vehicles or 607 metric tons.
The construction of the project began in late October of 2011 and ended in January 2012. This project is
expected to produce 25% of the school department’s total FY12 electricity consumption. The project is
guaranteed to produce 18% of FY11’s total consumption. Four of our schools are complete and fully
operational. To see production of the panels on the schools at www.alsoenergy.com and in the upper right hand
corner select the login link. User name is by school “TES” for Tucker Elementary, GES” for Glover Elementary
School, “PMS” for the Pierce Middle School and “MHS” for Milton High School and the password is “solar”
for each school. Production for Glover, Pierce and MHS began in January 2012.
School
Tucker
MHS
Pierce
Glover
PPA
Project
KW
# of panels
panel size
19.1
443.4
143.5
175.4
78
1309
495
605
781.4
2,487
dc watts %
245 19,110
290 379,610
290 143,550
290 175,450
DC % Panels
2.7%
3.1%
52.9%
52.6%
20.0%
19.9%
24.4%
24.3%
1115 717,720 100.0%
100.0%
Panels on the Milton High School Copeland Field House
The Cunningham and Collicot School building has 250 solar panels that were part of the MTC grant with the
building project and produces approximately 10% of the building’s electricity. Milton High had 10 panels on it
before this project began and that was about enough electricity to power a typical classroom for the year.
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TOWN OF MILTON 350TH ANNIVERSARY UPDATE
The following information was sent to us by the Town of Milton 350th Anniversary Committee. Please consider
this information when making plans for the weekend of June 8th, 9th and 10th.
Friday, June 8th:
Concert & Fireworks
Location: Lower Fields, Milton High School
Time: 6:30-8:30PM - MHS Concert and Jazz Band performance
7:30PM BBQ available for purchase
9:15PM Fireworks begin
Friday night, families will want to arrive early at the Milton High School fields to lay out a blanket and get
ready for fun and entertainment. The evening begins at 6:30 PM with food for sale and two hours of
entertainment by the Milton High School Concert Band and Jazz Band. The fireworks, complete with
synchronized patriotic music, and sponsored by the Copeland Family Foundation, will begin once the darkness
has arrived, around 9:15pm. On Friday night parking will be restricted on site however buses will be available
to transport people between the Milton High School campus and other sites including Ulin Rink, Pierce Middle
School, and Kelly Field. Assorted foods will be available for purchase. All proceeds to benefit the PTO's in
town, FAME and Boosters.
Sponsored by: The Copeland Family Foundation
Saturday, June 9th:
MHS All Years Alumni Reunion
Time: 8:30-11:00 AM
Location: MHS Copeland Field House
Memories, program, music, coffee, refreshments!
Email us at [email protected] if you plan to attend (but not required). All are welcome!
Parade
Time: 2:00 PM
Route: Start: Milton High School, Finish: Cunningham Park:
The biggest parade in Milton’s history will step off from MHS at 2PM, travel to the Milton Town Hall for a
brief flag raising ceremony, and continue along Reedsdale Road and Pleasant Street ending at Cunningham
Park. Over 25 bands, many floats, and the Mayor of Milton will also be in the parade!
Family Fun Afternoon
Family Activities: Food & Fun
Time: 3:30 to 6:00 pm
Location: Milton High School Fields
Following the parade at 3:30PM, MHS fields will be transformed into a Family Fun Event complete with old
fashioned games such as wheel barrel races, hula hoops, kick ball, badminton, horse shoes, bocce and sack
races. Susan Reed will provide musical entertainment, and Big Joe the Storyteller will delight the children.
Buses will be available to shuttle folks between parking lots and the high school campus.
Band and Drum Corps Concert
Time: 6:00-7:30 PM
Location: MHS Brooks Field
Sponsored by: Blue Hills Bank
The day will conclude with a Band and Drum Corps Concert on Brooks Field from 6:30 to 8:00PM. The concert
will feature a performance by the award winning Woodland String Band (Mummers), Drum & Bugle Band
performances by Stewart Highlanders, and more.
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Sunday, June 10th
Union Service, First Parish Church & First Congregational Church
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Location: First Parish Church, 535 Canton Ave.
Town-Wide Picnic
Time: 12:00 Noon - 3:00 PM
Location: the Gazebo, Town Green on Town Hall Lawn
The weekend will conclude with a Town Wide Picnic & Community Concert Performers include the Bay State
Stompers, Dixieland, Jedlies’s Magic Show, Hayrides, and Food will be for sale. The 350th Cake will be
provided by Blue Hills Regional Vocational Technical School.
Noon – 3:00PM
Noon – 1:00PM
12:15 - 12:45PM
1:00 – 1:30PM
1:30 – 2:30PM
1:45 – 2:15PM
2:30 – 3:00PM
Free Family Hayrides by Peter Pineo
The Bay State Stompers Dixieland Band, Gazebo
Jedlie Walk-Around with balloon animals
Jedlie’s Totally Interactive Magic Circus, Show #1
The Bay State Stompers Dixieland Band
Jedlie Walk-Around
Jedlie’s Totally Interactive Magic Circus, Show #2
Community Choir Concert
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
Location: First Parish Sanctuary, 535 Canton Ave.
Do you like to sing? Do you want to be a part of Milton's 350th concert? Join voices with other Milton singers
and choirs for a program of patriotic and inter-faith music led by George Ashur, Kevin Drake, Dr. Matthew
Larson, Emma Jean Moulton, Joyce Painter Rice, Brother Dennis Slaughter, and Peter Watchorn. For further
information, contact Emma Jean Moulton at 617-698-3200, or email her here .
For more information on the Big Event weekend, visit the 350th Anniversary website:
http://milton350thanniversary.org/
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Traffic Advisory: The Milton Police have advised the following: On Saturday, June 9th, The Town will
host a major 350th parade beginning at Milton High School at 2pm. The parade route is 2.3 miles and will travel
Canton Avenue to Reedsdale Road, right onto Reedsdale Road, cross Rte. 28, (Randolph Ave.) then continue
onto Pleasant Street to Cunningham Park. This parade is expected to last 2 ½ hours. Significant traffic detours
and road closures will affect the following streets: Canton Avenue from Blue Hills Parkway to Centre Street;
Reedsdale Road from Brook to Route 28; Randolph Ave from Chickatawbut Road to Brook Road; Pleasant
Street from Randolph Avenue to Edge Hill Road. This parade will affect all side streets off of the route as well.
NEWS AROUND TOWN
The Explore Japan Summer Exchange Program at Pierce Middle School is still looking for some male
students to join the program and host a visiting Japanese student. Students ages 8-15 are welcome in the
program. The program begins on July 24th and ends on August 8th, and is filled with fun activities and field
trips all over the region. This is the 12th year of the program in Milton and the visiting students are great
additions to your household for 2+ weeks. Additionally, the full day program is FREE for the child of any host
family. For more information, go to the website at www.americanlearning.com or call 781 828-2800.
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As you may know, Milton Rotary sponsors high school students to spend about ten months living with
host families and attending school in a different country. In return for sending Milton students abroad, Milton
Rotary hosts foreign students who attend Milton High School and stay with host families in town.
We are still looking for host families for the two students coming to Milton next year, a Brazilian boy
and a French-speaking Belgian girl, both of whom are 16 years old.
Hosting an exchange student is a highly rewarding experience for the host family and for the exchange
student. These students act as ambassadors, teaching those they meet about their country, culture and ideas. One
thing is certain, dinner conversation is always interesting!
If any of you are interested in finding out more information on hosting a student, or know of someone
else who would be, contact me at [email protected] or Mike at [email protected]. More
details are also available on the Milton Rotary Club website, www.miltonrotary.org.
***
Amateur photographer and Milton parent Deborah Milbauer will be displaying her photos at Milton
Library as part of the celebration of Milton’s 350th Anniversary. Entitled “My Neighborhood, 350 Years
Later,” the photos include 30 family portraits of her neighbors, celebrating the rich diversity of the Milton
community.
An opening reception will be held Thursday, June 7th in the lower level of the Milton Public Library
from 6 to 8pm, which includes a potluck dinner.
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The following two items were sent to us by Robin M. Tagliaferri at the Forbes House Museum:
You are invited to join us for the Forbes House Museum Garden Party at the Larson's home, Churchill's
Lane, Saturday, June 23rd from 5:30-7:30pm. Enjoy cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and a silent auction. Tickets are
$75 per person. Tickets can be purchased by sending a check to Forbes House Museum, 215 Adams Street,
Milton, MA 02186, by calling the museum with a credit card at 617.696.1815, or by using Paypal on line at
www.forbeshousemuseum.org/calendar.html. Advanced ticket sales are suggested as space is limited.
The Forbes House Museum is also sponsoring the First Annual Paint Out & Wet Paint Sale on June
23rd from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Milton artists are invited to our first annual Paint Out and Wet Paint Sale on historic Milton Hill,
overlooking Governor Hutchinson's Field, the Neponset River Marshes and Boston Harbor. After painting a
landscape (or two or three) during the day, the artists will exhibit and sell their painting(s) on the porch at
Forbes House later that afternoon. We invite you to join us for the exhibition in the afternoon then walk over to
the Garden Party next door at the Larson's family home.
Ample parking is available on the Forbes House Museum's back driveway off of Churchill's Lane. For
more information about the Paint Out and Wet Paint Sale event and the Garden Party, please visit the Forbes
House Museum's events page:
www.forbeshousemuseum.org/calendar.html
***
Please visit the towns’ Parks and Rec department link to find out about the upcoming Ed Baker fishing
tournament, basketball clinics and summer programs.
http://www.townofmilton.org/Public_Documents/F0000FCED/recreation
ARTSPACE MILTON
ARTSPACE Milton Summer Arts & Crafts Camp: ARTSPACE Milton will be back at Milton High
School this summer, offering our Arts and Crafts Summer Camp for elementary school aged / PreK- 5th grade.
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Janet Gilmore and Karen Hainline are offering four fun-filled weeks in July, Bookin' It, What's Up @
The Museum, Green Art, and Pix & Flix. Sign up for one week or all four! For more information contact us
at [email protected] or visit us at ARTSPACEMILTON.com & on Facebook.
30% of the profits go to support the Milton Public School's art program.
AMBASSADOR PAGE
As part of our E-blast, we highlight students, teachers and members of the community whose hard work
deserves recognition. Please read about some of their outstanding accomplishments below:
Student: I would like to congratulate the overall winner of the Math Sprint for Study Island, Sarah Hancock.
Sarah is a fifth-grade student at Cunningham School and she answered more than 12,000 questions, with an
accuracy rate of 99% Sarah placed first out of the 19,956 students who competed from 154 schools across 22
states. She was awarded a $100 Amazon gift card from the Study Island contest.
Faculty/Staff: I would like to recognize the following members of the Milton Public Schools who have already
or will be retiring this year. Thank you and best wishes to: Dr. Anthony Bonacci, Edward Burke, Jeanne Glynn,
Nora Goonan, James Greene, Michael McCormick, Maryellen McDermott, Eileen Neret, Patricia Sampson,
Ann Saur and Martha Sherman.
Volunteer: I would like to thank our PTO presidents, who have all done a remarkable job this year. These
positions require a great deal of work and I am truly grateful to the following parents: Collicot: Abe and
Michelle Cardoza, Debra and Lloyd MacNeil, Maria and Chuck Karimbas, Susan and Michael DiSandro.
Cunningham: Annellen Lydon, Tricia Sullivan, Karyn Viveiros and Mary Anne Rull. Glover: Margaret Carels
and Liddie Sutter. Tucker: Rachel Schewe and Kerri Peloquin. Pierce: Lori Ferrante and Ray Czwakiel. Milton
High: Charlotte Hopkins, Kathy Peltier and Dawn Hayes.
The Milton Public School system is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to the provision of quality educational programs for all students. The
Milton Public School system does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, age or sexual orientation.
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