News from Midland School

Frances King '09 on the Inca Trail (in photo above) for Thinking Beyond Borders (TBB), a gap year program she's attending.
David Simkowitz-Rogers '03 received a degree in Ecological Agriculture and Sustainable Community in June 2007. After spending the 2009 growing and harvesting season in Missouri on an organic farm with his partner, David is looking for work in his field....that's a pun. He plans to spend the winter in Missoula working and saving money and perhaps work a farm in Idaho come spring.
Nick Christianson '99 opened a furniture store, Urban Hardwoods, in San Francisco that sells furniture made from salvaged trees. Before that, he worked in an art gallery in SOHO, New York, selling native art from Alaska.
Javier Castillo '77 reports, "Every time I read news about Midland School, it brings back great memories. Back home living a peaceful life with my wife and daughter here in the state of Utah. Been in the military for quite some time, had the opportunity to be in many places I had never thought: Alaska, Washington,Texas, Georgia, Germany, and South Korea were places that we trained in."
David Starkman '68 has been teaching workshops on 3D (stereoscopic) photography.
"Robert Clifford Hadden '42, my father, attended Midland, as did his younger brother, Frederick Clifford Hadden '52. My grandfather, Robert Jones Hadden was a member of the Board for many years, far past the time his children attended. I have heard so many stories of days at the school. I remember my father talking about three walled classrooms with frost on the desks in the morning. Some kind of running up the hill...My father won the Latin prize and I remember two large books that were the reward. He was then to become a B-24 pilot in World War II. I visited the school sometime in the 1960s and remember seeing Fred Hadden's name carved into a bench...or something...this was a long time ago...I was ten or eleven at the time. He died climbing Ben Nevis in Scotland in a sudden storm very shortly after leaving (Midland)."
- Joseph Hadden

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