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The night before boarding students disperse all over the country and world to spend the holidays with their families at home, they gather with dorm faculty and their families to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season and the end of the calendar year at school. The event marks one of the rare the times of year that most boarding students actually look forward to dressing up nice because of the myriad of photo opportunities throughout the night. Some, like admissions officer Mr. Natale (pictured with me above) simply can’t contain their holiday spirit and sport outlandish outfits.
Each year has a theme, often movie inspired, which is picked by the boarding community’s student representatives. In recent years, the boarding council planned Elf, Polar Express, and Harry Potter themed dinners. Each dinner has a specialty drink, most recently iced peppermint hot chocolate, served in a commemorative cup. One fixture of boarder dinner is the delicious food, highlighted by a prime-rib carving station. Another universal feature of boarding dinner is holiday a cappella, which features performances by each of the school’s singing groups. The dinner is concluded with side-splitting speeches by the boarding monitors–the head student elected boarding representatives– who then dismiss the students to go enjoy the next portion of the night’s festivities: dorm caroling.
Hi, and thanks for visiting us! We’re the leaders of Milton’s Orange and Blue Key (OBK) Society. OBK is the group of about 160 students who give tours to students and families visiting our campus. We work closely with the admission office to make sure you get a good sense of what it’s like to be a student at Milton. We hope that you’ll visit us in person, and until then, enjoy this “insider’s” view of the School we love.
