Mary Milestone

"I started working at MLC its first year: 150 students, five teachers, and two separate schools in one building. A crazy, fascinating, great place to work for the following 23 years! Memories? Sorting out base stations in the gym—Ziggie telling toilet-monster stories—Emil teaching speed reading—John Angell walking through lunch-time halls playing his guitar, followed by a gaggle of youngsters—incredible graduation ceremonies—Betty Mayther filling a bathtub with ice cream, everybody having a cone

AS OF 2025, Mary, the heart and soul of MLC through all its early years, is still very much with us, and says she may be working on a biographical piece about herself—between visits with grandchildren. She wrote the short reminiscence below for the 50th Anniversary publication in 2018.

Mary at her desk in the MLC office, circa 1970

—and did we really all gather outdoors and shove the building to see if we could move it at least an inch to the West?—decorating the hall walls with murals—the ongoing Dodge Ball game—eggs dropped from the roof, surviving successfully and not so much ... and the people, wonderful people, from really small to pretty much grown up! Yup, 23 years, and every one of them full of treasured memories!"