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Milton Academy is a Private , Preparatory , Coeducational Boarding and Day school in Milton , Massachusetts , United States . Milton's athletic program competes in the Independent School League (ISL) with schools such as St. George's and St. Paul's , in addition to Milton's historic rival, Noble & Greenough School . Milton's $140 million endowment and 125 acre (0.5 km&2) campus serve about 680 upper school students. HISTORY AND ALUMNI Milton Academy was established in 1798 as an all-boys school under Samuel Thurber, its first headmaster. The school remained an academy for boys until 100 years after its establishment, when it became Coeducational . Milton has historically been the educator of the Kennedys and Rockefeller s. Other well-known alumni include Buckminster Fuller , architect and inventor of the Geodesic Dome (Class of 1913 ), and T.S. Eliot , poet and Nobel Prize laureate (Class of 1906 ). A number of political figures have delivered recent graduation speeches, including Senator Edward Kennedy in 2002 and Bill Clinton in 2003 . Also, the Academy's War Memorial Lecture has attracted a number of notable speakers, including:
CAMPUS AND STUDENT LIFE The school is situated in Milton, a suburb of Boston , and is accessible by Boston's public transit system, the T . The campus is spread across roughly 125 acres (0.5 km&2) with 17 Tennis courts, 12 Sports fields, and 7 Squash courts. The campus also includes a Chapel , a Library , an Observatory , and over a half dozen dormitories. It also has a 400m track, Hockey rink, fitness center, and an outdoor swimming pool. Recent construction and renovation on campus include a new student center which was completed in fall 2003 along with a renovation of Warren Hall (an English building) which refinished the halls, added classrooms, moved departments. Students at Milton are involved in 46 organizations, including the Speech Team , A Cappella groups, a jazz program that travels to South Africa and played at the 2006 Conference For The International Association Of Jazz Educators ( IAJE ), and a broad range of special interest clubs ranging from the Science Fiction Club to the Asian Society. While Milton Academy remains a historically and demographically left of center institution, Milton Academy has its own chapter of the Young Republicans, a financial independent and growing group that has brought speakers like Patrick Guerrero and Nathaniel Fick. The school is also home to numerous student publications. The two most prominent, ''The Milton Measure'' and ''The Milton Paper'' are student-run newspapers. ''The Milton Measure'' is the official school publication, and has institutional ties to "The Orange and Blue," the school paper dating back to 1894. ''The Milton Paper'' or "TMP" was founded in 1979 and is an independent newspaper funded entirely by donations and subscription fees to parents. While the Paper is financially independent, all issues must first be seen by a faculty and an administration member before being published, as with ''The Milton Measure". The Milton Measure has a rivalry with The Milton Paper and both papers try to lure members from the other publication. Other Milton Academy publications include Helix, the science magazine, The Asian, a magazine devoted to Asian cultural issues, and the Magus-Mabus, the school's Arts and Literature Magazine. Other notable and newsworthy clubs are M.A.R.O.V., a team of Milton Academy students that designs and builds robotic submarines for regional and international competitions, and Team Rocketry, a group that develops rockets from commercially available propellants. Milton has appeared in the media lately for a 2005 scandal in which five male students received fellatio from a female student in the boys' locker room. All five male students were expelled while the female student was not disciplined. Many were outraged that the female student escaped punishment which they deemed she deserved as much as the male participants in the incident. Others contended that the 5:1 ratio created an "inherently pressurized situation." ''THE MASTER PLAN'' Implemented in the 2003-04 school year with the announced construction of Norris and Centre House along with the eventual removal of student life in all of east campus, along with the construction of new academic buildings, the ''Milton Academy Master Plan'' is a huge change in the physical ambiance in the school as a whole. FACULTY DORMITORIES Boys
Girls Girls dorms include: recently renovated Hallowell, newly constructed Centre, Robbins, and Hathaway the eastmost dorm. EXTERNAL LINKS
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