Welcome Back Ms. Millet

By ELEANOR RAINE ‘21

Katharine Millet ‘00 is one of two new teachers in the History Department. She is returning to Milton after 9 years of teaching, advising, and coaching at St. Mark’s School and is excited to experience the day student side of Milton life. Her favorite thing about teaching is the fact that she can “learn something new every day.” Because the students she has every year are always unique, she finds the job enticing for its “ever-changing and exciting” aspects. Ms. Millet is “fascinat[ed] by the universality and constant reality of History.” She had been considering returning to Milton for some years, so when a job opened up, she jumped on the opportunity. 

 While a student at Milton, Ms. Millet was not only the Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook, but also the Captain of the Girls’ Ice Hockey Team. She also spent much of her time in the darkroom developing pictures for Photography class, for the Yearbook, and for her friends. Even though digital photography did exist, she “love[d] the physicality of manipulating the light and developing process by hand.” 

Her connection to Milton, however, reaches beyond her personal experience as a student. Millet House is named after her grandfather’s first cousin, the legendary Francis Davis Millet, who taught here for 65 years. He and her son were both named after her great-great-grandfather who passed away aboard the Titanic. 

Ms. Millet does not do much photography anymore, but she loves to cook, especially French cuisine, and used to run a food blog. Ms. Millet also loves to spend time with her kids, Davis (6) and Emery (3), who have recently taken up mini-golfing as one of their favorite activities. 

In conversation, Ms. Millet seems very modest but these five fun facts speak differently:

    1. Prior to her attending Columbia, she took a year off between high school and college to study photography and art in Paris and to get an internship at an interior design website. 

    2. She got DC’ed once for cutting school and then turned herself in because she felt so guilty. 

    3. She has a weakness for Haribo gummy candies and salted caramel anything. 

    4. She has sailed from Bermuda to Newport a couple of times and has a Coast Guard Captain’s License.  

    5. She has a female English bulldog named Mike.

Image courtesy of milton.edu

Image courtesy of milton.edu

Mark Pang