Once a Milt......
I see folks on here all of the time saying that they would've graduated (insert year here). I just wanted to add my two cents..believe me lucky to get face value for it..
. It's my feeling that if you spent even a day at the school, you are a part of this diverse and surely disfunctional family. I count all who have wandered the halls of the Hill or the now revamped Catherine Hall as part of this family. Maybe, your feelings about the place are hot or cold...maybe, the reasons that put you there weren't the best....but you came, stayed, put in your time, and shared with the rest of us. "It's my opinon, but hey, I could be wrong."----Dennis Miller
I know that even though i left that place my junior year, i spent 7.5 years there and it still feels like home with all the friends i made there. I dont keep up with to many people from the school i graduated from but still see most of the ones from the milt. To include my best friends in the world, Laura Childs, Andre Sellers, Will Alberts just to name a few. Oh and cant forget Tom Lamont... Miss you all and love ya milts. I AM A MILT. !!!
One of these years I will make it back for homecoming, . I swear.
I could make it on a Monday night and send a slice with linda so you can pick it up after your Roots market outing. At least I wouldn't have to dig through my garage for a file.
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im with laura if its got the name fly with it it is gross and i dont even make my kids eat or try it
3 years ago at the homecoming horseshoe tournament / Pig Roast, the caterer had Milk Pie as one of the desserts. It was very good. Havent had it since. I am due for some Milk Pie. I love it.
Sounds like you better make one or you're going to get it Murph!
Tree88
Murf is an awesome web administrator...but obviously he is a lousy housewife.
He's getting it from all sides!
Oh, if I could only have some of those yummy cookies that we gorged on back in my day. One of the ones I loved was called a Raisin Cream cookie. I've looked all over the internet, etc. but can't find a recipe and don't know if it would be the same one that they made at the Milt! I'm so hungry and deprived! 
I loved the double chocolate cookies we would get in the big tins though... Yummy!
It has been years since I have had it....Murf why haven't you made me one since the recipe is posted for what two months already???
I am supposed to eat something that had flies swarm all over it!!! Boy do I feel like going out and grabbing a piece right now... 
My Mom says that it got it's name because they would set the pie on the window sill to cool and the flies would flock to it's sweet molasses scent.
Side Note: If you have never seen a swarm of flies consider yourself lucky.
Meredith
I heard of it but have not tried it. Is it good? What's it taste like? I have some good dessert recipes on my website www.laurachildsworld.com.
I loved the double chocolate cookies we would get in the big tins though... Yummy!
Milk Pie was a favorite of mine. I believe Laurean posted the recipe in the recipe section of this site. Good Stuff.
I never ate it. I would never even try it. Just because the name sounded nasty. "Shoo Fly" What is that??
Meredith
Did you like Milk Pie Laura?
Tree88
Ok so I see that we have some Shoo Fly lovers ~ Maybe I'll have to try it again as an adult to see if I like it. It will be our little experiement.....
There is nothing worse than a dry shoo fly pie.
Tree88
The mere fact that the Milt accepted us has a deeper meaning. It means that you were underprivileged in some way. Maybe one of your parents died (which I think was a requirement), maybe you came from a poor family, maybe you were abused or neglected. Either way all of us have a story to share and that is the glue that bonds every Milt together whether your diploma reads Milton Hershey School or Acme Public School. I came to the Milt after loosing a father then a brother, I was scared and introverted. So many of you helped me come out of my shell so thanks: Terry, Meredith, Mary
Penny, Tina, Kelly, Daniel, and Miss Mom (Liberty’s substitute house-parent and Terry Lojak’s Mom).
No one should feel that they don’t belong here cause we all ate food from the meal bus, couldn’t wait for the chocolate milk to come in, raided the pantry to get some of those cookies, turned our nose up to the Shoo Fly Pie… YUCK, and wore Kangaroos shoes. We are diverse in many ways yet bonded by our story.
Lots of love,
Laura
Loosely translated from latin.
A few years ago, I started to realize that where I came from effected alot of the decisions that I was making now. And I started think about where I grew up and the Milt definately was a big part of that. So I started looking into ways to reconnect with my past and possibly the people from it. I went to my 10th year reunion actually expecting to be turned away. But Linda and others made it a great experience! (Although I did get a little drunk at the G-man afterwards, but hey I got Chris Erichetti to actually drink a beer.) After that I wanted to get more involved but the MHSAA (Alumni Association) felt I was only a member when it was time for fund raisers. I was a little disheartened till I came across this website. I have found this to be a great way to reconnect with people and have fun at the same time. So thanks Markus, Linda and Clint for this blissful sanctuary for those of us who are milts but didnt graduate.
Mary Mary..I haven't in camp hill in a bit. You still at that joint on market st? You and I agree very much so. Milts is a title by time at the school not the ring, check, and diploma at the end of the stay.
Roger
Nicely put Mare!
Tree88
I have always told the folks that I have come across that even if you didn't graduate, come back for homecoming. Yes, it may be hard at first and you may feel a little out of touch or uncomfortable but the more you are around the more you realize you know what everyone is talking about and you understand the mentality. It is so true once you are a milt your always a milt and being a milt isn't a tag that you get because you graduated it's a tag you get because you endured the process of being at the milt. Period!!
I didn't graduate either. I ran away in the middle of my Junior year. I have always told everyone, even though I left because I was so unhappy at the time, I never regretted being there. It definitely helped form the person that I am today and I gained extended family.
The Milt family is much stronger, and shame on me, much more palatable than my own more often than not. The experiences shared are priceless. We may not get the opportunity to pick who are our natural family, but the friendships, especially those from an environment like we came through, have amazing lasting powers. My daughter(she's from my wife's first marriage) and I have a great relationship because of the school and the events that landed me there. She knows that I'm going to be as much of a father as she allows me to be, and I promise not to try to replace her father.
Roger
Indeed, this place so terribly addicting. Meredith, when I saw that you found the site, I thought good for you. Some folks hold the bitterness of the circumstances of their departures. Yeah for you that you harbor no ill will about the past. You indeed are a member of the FINE 89. Glad that you know that. Roger
Just kidding, all I know is alot of people put in many years here and made lasting impressions on other friends lives, and just because things got alittle too crazy for them in the last few years doesn't take away all the time and friendships and experiences they still shared with all of us. I even named my first daughter after one of these people. Sabrina Corado, was my best friend from the time she came in fourth grade until she left our junior year, you don't just forget them when they're gone. I am so glad this site allows everyone who ever attended MHS.
the milt is a has formed a major major part of my identity, both the good bits and the bad bits. yeah, okay, so what, i didn't graduate. whatever. but my milt family is more my family than, heck, even my blood family at times.
it's just a line of thinking.
my experiences at the milt are a big part of why my stepson and i have bonded so well, because he's been through some of the same things that a lot of people with whom we came up went through.
you're not wrong at all!
-- lee
Roger, I agree with you. When I first got on this site I felt very uncomfortable. Like I didn't belong because I didn't graduate. But Linda with all her wisdom made me realize that I was just as welcome as the graduate. So I just read everyone's posts and kept to myself and then I started to participate and now I can't stop.
Is there a cure for themilt.comitis? Surely there is a pill or something.
After I finished the 5th grade, my mom asked me if I would consider going to a school in Hershey, PA. She said she would be travelling in the military and my grandmother just wouldn't be able to keep me. She said I would be at the school all the time and they would take care of me. Like most kids would have been, I was very reluctant to leave my mom, family, my friends, and my hometown. For whatever reason, I decided to go and looking back on it now, I'm glad I did.
I was only their for 6th and 7th grade, and at first, it was not the easiest two years of my life, but it was the most helpful. I learned at that point that family didn't have to be blood relatives. It was people that cared for you and supported you everyday - from my houseparents, to house brothers, to classmates and teachers. I'm always proud to say that I was and still am a Milt and what the school did for me. Those two years felt like 12 years.