by Frank Schroth
The Milton school system is the largest institution, organization or business of any kind in the town of Milton. Four thousand students a day go through one of the doors of the six school buildings. Five hundred employees are on hand to meet them, teach them, coach them, counsel them, feed them, and clean up after them. Managing all of this is the Superintendent of Schools. There is no other individual that touches more lives here in Milton than our superintendent of schools, Mary Gormley.
We sat down last week in Ms. Gormley’s office. We were joined by John Phelan, Assistant Superintendent, and Matt Gillis, the newly arrived Business Administrator. When you meet Ms. Gormley, several traits become immediately evident: she has a lot of energy, a lot of enthusiasm, a great deal of faith, trust and confidence in her leadership team and staff . . . and a lot going on. “We make 97,000 decisions a day,” Gormley said only slightly facetiously.
