The Miltons —Changing lives and creating future leaders The benefactors to date of alumni Lizanne and Robert A Milton’s endowed scholarships

CHANGING LIVES AND CREATING FUTURE LEADERS

By Brenda Whately Lizanne Milton ’83 Robert Milton ’78

UWCSEA alumni Robert Milton ’78 and Lizanne Milton ’83 are changing the lives of young people and helping to create future leaders through their incredible generosity and passion for providing transformational education opportunities to deserving students.

In 2011 the Miltons put in place an endowed scholarship at UWCSEA, two endowed scholarships at Robert’s alma mater Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in the US, and a fourth endowed scholarship to fund a UWCSEA student to attend Georgia Tech. Since then, they have established a further endowed scholarship at the University of Virginia.

There have been four students to date who have earned the Lizanne ’83 and Robert A Milton ’78 Endowed Scholarship to attend UWCSEA and two UWCSEA graduates who have earned the Miltons’ Georgia Tech scholarship.

The first to earn both scholarships, to attend both UWCSEA and Georgia Tech, was Chi, from Vietnam. Chi attended UWCSEA from 2011 to 2013 and Georgia Tech from 2013 to 2017. As a university student, Chi continued to involve herself in myriad activities just as she had done at UWCSEA. She was a member of the Women’s Chorus and the GT Dance Company for three of the four years of her undergraduate programme, and worked as a teaching assistant for the School of Maths. In the summer of 2015 she participated in a study abroad trip to France with a focus on French culture and language and in the summer of 2016 she engaged in a summer research programme for undergraduates in Mathematics at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

In May 2017 Chi graduated with a degree in Applied Mathematics from Georgia Tech with highest honours and in September 2017 she entered the first year of her PhD in Math at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When asked what her time at UWCSEA has meant to her, Chi says, “Looking back on my time there, I think I was very well prepared for college. I was very quick to adjust to changes in my surroundings thanks to my time living among friends from all over the world, and the IB prepared me well for the workload and need for time management. I still remember my time at UWCSEA with a lot of fondness and I am grateful for the scholarships that the Miltons provided me for my education at both UWCSEA and Georgia Tech. The investment they made in my education was the foundation for all the achievements that I have made, and gave me the access to opportunities that I would not have gotten otherwise.” We wish Chi all the best in her PhD programme.

The second student to earn the Miltons’ scholarship to UWCSEA was Anh, another young woman from Vietnam. Anh started her UWCSEA education in 2013 and graduated in 2015, subsequently earning a Davis scholarship to attend Wellesley College in the US where she is currently pursuing a double major in Economics and Mathematics.

Remaining as busy and involved at Wellesley as she was at UWCSEA, Anh has been learning her third language, Korean, and participated in a sixweek study-abroad program at Yonsei University in Seoul. She says, “Through my involvement with language classes