alumni books

Martin Luther King and the Trumpet of Conscience Today

RÉGINE JEAN-CHARLES ‘96 ORBIS BOOKS

In Martin Luther King and The Trumpet of Conscience Today, Régine Jean-Charles ‘96, the Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, director of Africana studies, and professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University, examines three contemporary social justice movements— Black Lives Matter, Me Too, and prison abolition—through the lens of a series of lectures that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave in 1967 for the Canadian Broadcast Company (CBC). At her book launch at Northeastern last fall, Jean-Charles said she wanted readers to see King from a different angle—beyond his “I Have a Dream” speech—and reflect on King’s messages as they relate to contemporary social-justice movements.

Sandfuture

JUSTIN BEAL ’96 MIT PRESS

In Sandfuture, artist Justin Beal ‘96 writes about the life of the prolific architect Minoru Yamasaki, one of the United States’ most influential yet under appreciated architects. A 20th-century visionary, Yamasaki strove to humanize modernism, designing major buildings around the world, from the Century Plaza Towers and Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to William James Hall at Harvard University to the Dhahran Airfield in Saudi Arabia. His most famous, yet least representative, projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York— were both destroyed on live television. Beal presents a portrait of Yamasaki’s work and the world at that time of architecture, power, money, and the making of a culture. “It is not like any other book on architecture I have read,” wrote Edwin Heathcote last fall in the Financial Times. “And that is a very good thing. Beal is not an architect, an academic or a writer but an artist with architectural training who, handily, can really write. He joins some very disparate dots, skirting around the history of Modernism, its successes and failures.”

Advocating for the Environment: How to Gather Your Power and Take Action

SUSAN INCHES ‘73 NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS

What can ordinary citizens do about the environment and climate change? While the steps to mitigating climate change can seem daunting at the individual level, in Advocating for the Environment, environmental advocate and educator Susan Inches ‘73 offers readers a practical, empowering guide for taking action. In Part 1, Inches shows how effective communication through storytelling and empathy can help in engaging others—including climate change skeptics—to enact change. In Part II, Inches discusses how to organize events, form coalitions, collaborate with policymakers, and work with the media. A senior official for many years in the Maine state government, where she worked on issues that included renewable energy, energy efficiency, and land use planning, Inches shows how it is within everyone's power to take on the challenge of climate change.

that the winters are cold, but traffic jams are now in the past. Richard never married, but his success in the stock market allowed him to travel extensively and meet many wonderful people.

1974

GEORGE PROUT recently accepted the position of divisional president of Craft Diamonds, a global lab-grown diamond producer and jewelry manufacturer, and the largest supplier of lab- grown diamonds in North America. He shares that at Craft, they have begun the process of building one of the largest solar panel arrays in Asia next to the growing facility in order to achieve carbon neutrality in the production process. He looks forward to leading the effort to create an ethical, sustainable alternative for the next generation of American consumers, while simultaneously making the jewelry industry’s most important product category—with its unique, luxurious capacity for demonstrating affection—more accessible to everyone.

1975

SARAH (SALLY) C.M. PAINE, the William S. Sims University Professor at the U.S. Naval War College, gave the George C. Marshall lecture in military history at the annual convention of the American Historical Association in January 2022. The lecture was titled “Centuries of Security: Chinese, Russian, and U.S. Continental vs. Maritime Approaches.” Her publications include The Wars for Asia 1911-1949 (winner of the Leopold Prize), The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War, and Imperial Rivals: China, Russia and Their Disputed Frontier (winner of the Jelavich Prize).

1980

ALBERT (MORY) CREIGHTON III writes that he is living with his family on the North Shore of Massachusetts. His two sons, Sam and Andy, graduated from college and are working both locally and far away. Albert remains busy with his growing company, Pinpoint Laser Systems, building laser measuring systems that are used by high-tech companies around the globe. He also is active with local volunteerism and mentoring at a local high school on the robotics team, along with being an active member of a local land conservation organization and formerly the chair of his town’s finance committee. About once a month, he sees STEVE ARNASON at a fun book club that started 20 years ago. He also encounters many other Milton graduates from earlier classes in local travels. He is looking forward to his 45th reunion!

Cecil (Mike) North Jr ’48 (center), who passed away on October 4 in Belvedere, CA., pictured with his stepson Tad Kinney ’74 and son Alex North ’81.

1981

JAMES (ALEX) NORTH regrets to inform classmates that

his father, CECIL (MIKE) NORTH JR ’48, passed away on October 4, in Belvedere, California. “Dad was a Milton man through and through. He was always wearing his Milton hat, Milton windbreaker, or both. He never stopped learning and demonstrating Milton’s ‘Dare to be true’ motto.”

1982

AMY GRILLO writes that four years ago she moved on from her teaching position in the Department of Psychology & Education at Mount Holyoke College to help start a new College of Education Studies at Wesleyan University. “We are up and running, finally back to in-person learning on campus, and I’m enjoying seeing the offspring of many former Milton friends come and go at Wes!” When Amy is not at work, she is living in southern Vermont

1984

DAVE SALWEN (center) shares a photo of a mini class of 1984 reunion in London this past October. Joining him were

EDWARD SHUGRUE (left) and DOUG GRINDLE (right).