Milton Academy Prepares for Graduation Ceremony

The Milton Academy Class of 2010 graduation will be held Friday at 10 a.m. on the lawn outside Apthorp Chapel.

Following Milton Academy tradition, the graduates will meet outside the Hallowell House for an informal procession around campus to say goodbye to the underclassmen. Students will then gather at Straus Library where they will each receive a flower and begin the formal procession.

The 166 graduates will receive their diplomas in random order. The last graduate will be given a sock of quarters, one from each member of the class. The ceremony will end with the graduates saying goodbye to faculty in a receiving line.

The graduation speakers will include two students who were selected through a rigorous process as well as keynote speaker, J. Peter Scoblic, a senior professional staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and 1992 graduate.

Prior to joining on the committee, where he is working on ratification of the New START treaty with Russia, Scoblic was the executive editor of The New Republic. He worked at The New Republic for seven years in various positions. Scoblic also worked for Arms Control Today and served as the editor in chief of The Brown Journal of World Affairs while studying at Brown University.

Scoblic is also the author of "U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror," which The New York Times called "an incisive intellectual history."