Headmaster Drew Casertano greeted new fourth former Scott Wilson and his parents, Gina and Michael, from Ridgefield, CT.
The registration table in the Mills Athletic Center is always a busy place.
Dean of Students Kevin Soja helped Nick DeMarte ’08 and his student advisee, Brock Swartwood ’10, to make sense out of all the registration papers.
New third former, Victoria Gray and her mom, Cynthia, say hello to longtime administrative assistant, Esther Arruza-Bugosh.
Matt Morency (in stripes) arrived on campus to follow in his dad’s Millbrook footsteps. Matt, Michael ’66 and his wife, Jeanne, are pictured here with Matt’s student advisor, Ben Pope ’10.
Tyra Brown (left) is about to start her third form year, in the good hands of her student advisor, Kiara Huartas.
This year, senior Zoe Townsend can call her brother, J.B., a schoolmate.
Awaiting the arrival of their advisees were seniors Will Weld, Kyle Mills, Stephanie Bailey and Abby Magovern.
Samantha Kirchhoff had lots of help moving into her room in Clark Hall from Mom and Dad, Joe and Andrea, and by senior dorm leaders, Phoebe Ijams and Joanna Ehrenreich.
Orientation officially started with some words from the Student Council president and v.p., Race Bottini and Ceci Weaver.
The group awaited last-minute instructions.
Faculty member, Anna Gonzalez, led her group in an orientation exercise.
Fourth formers, Megan Butts and Emma Silvershein, guided their classmate, Maddie Fuller, in a “trust walk.”
It’s run for your life in a game of Spud.
Messrs. Powers, Sorriento and Siegenthaler served the popcorn.
Fall Welcome puts the faculty on stage. Here Mr. Cromwell, Mr. Manny, Ms. Connell, Mrs. Clizbe join their colleagues in a demonstration of proper dining hall etiquette.
The grand finale was a behatted faculty rendition of “Sweet Betsy from Pike.”
The entire school community lined up for the formal processional beginning Opening Convocation on September 11.
Displaying the flags of each country represented by our student body is also an important part of convocation. International Student Advisor Barbara Gatski stands with her group of student flag bearers ready to process into the chapel: Andrew Fiore '08 (Canada), Ceci Weaver '08 (U.S.), Jin Soo Han '08 (Korea), Marcia Wyre '08 (Antigua), Christopher Mo '08 (China), Valentina von Klencke '09 (Germany), Maarten Naeff '08 (The Netherlands), Arisa Fuji '10 (Japan) and Maria Macaya '10 (Costa Rica).
The student processional is complete and the Flagler Chapel is filled.
Students stand as the faculty enter the chapel led by Dean of Faculty Kathy Havard and Senior Master Jonathan Meigs.
Drew Casertano delivers the Opening Convocation Address.

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<b>Millbrook Begins its 77th Year</b>

9/12/2007

Jill Kane

After nearly a week of early arrivals (student leaders, pre-season athletes and international students), all students were finally settled in as of Sunday, September 9 – all 254 of them. And, on Tuesday evening, September 11^th, the 2007-2008 academic year was heralded in officially with the traditional Opening Convocation. Headmaster Drew Casertano’s convocation address as well as Eileen Jeffreys’ invocation can be read on the Special, Ink section of this site.

At right are some snapshots commemorating the beginning of school and below is the make-up of the 2007-8 student body:

Millbrook welcomed 83 new students this year from a record-breaking applicant pool for the tenth year in a row. This year the student body is made up of 138 boys and 116 girls: 60 day students and 184 boarders. The boys and girls represent 17 states (Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Vermont) and 7 foreign countries (Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, China, Japan, Korea and The Netherlands).

Anyone not believing that Millbrook is ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY should know the following about the number of student legacies and repeat families Here is how that breaks down: The student body consists of an amazing 20 families who have one or more currently enrolled and one of them even has three! Thirty-two of our students have had a sibling graduate recently and 23 of our students are the daughters or sons of alumni. We are absolutely delighted that our families and graduates continue show their faith in Millbrook by sending us their best.

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