Long an opportunity to connect with important thought leaders, Milton Academy’s Alumni War Memorial Lecture will take place the evening of Tuesday, September 16, and you’re invited. Randall L. Kennedy is the 48th War Memorial speaker, and he continues a tradition of bringing ideas about complex national and international issues to campus. Mr. Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. At Harvard, he teaches in the fields of criminal law, contracts and the regulation of race relations.
Every student, faculty member and administrator attends this hallmark event, and both alumni and parents are important guests, as well. Professor Kennedy’s lecture will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Fitzgibbons Convocation Center (a required event for all Upper School students). Students will enjoy a barbeque dinner together prior to the lecture. For students who use school transportation, buses will depart from Milton at 7:45 p.m., immediately following the lecture. Parents who live at a distance, or are unable to come to campus that evening, may access Professor Kennedy’s lecture from any Web-enabled device; we will livestream the event. You will find the link to the live-stream on the Milton Academy homepage (www.milton.edu) just prior to the event.
The War Memorial Lecture was established in 1922 to honor those Milton graduates who gave their lives in World War I, and the foundation brings to campus notable guests who have dedicated their careers to the responsibilities and opportunities connected to leadership in a democracy.
Randall Kennedy was born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1954. He attended St. Albans School, Princeton University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States. Awarded the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Race, Crime, and the Law, Mr. Kennedy writes for a wide range of scholarly and general interest publications. His most recent books are For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (2013), The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (2011), Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (2008), Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption (2003), and Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (2002). A member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, Mr. Kennedy is also a Charter Trustee of Princeton University. (Harvard Law School website)
You should have received your email invitation—with the RSVP link—from Head of School Todd Bland on August 13. If you have any questions about the event, please contact Jessica Kraus at jessica_kraus@milton.edu. We hope you will join us for a stimulating evening, and we thank you for helping prepare your children for the event, as well.
War Memorial Lecture
Tuesday, September 16
6:30 p.m.
Fitzgibbons Convocation Center
