About Falmouth Academy

Faculty and Staff

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Alison Ament

Science: B.A., Connecticut College; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Pusit Atthaoraek

Assistant Director of Buildings and Grounds: B.S., Chang Mai University

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Clare M. Beams

English: A.B., Princeton University; M.F.A., Columbia University

Business Manager: B.S., Southern New Hampshire University; M.B.A, Plymouth State College

Deborah T. Bradley

Arts: B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph. D., Tufts University

Marite Z. Burns

Arts: B.A., University of Connecticut; M.A.T., Bridgewater State College

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Director of Alumni and Parent Relations: B.A., Lake Forest College

Mathematics and Director of Technology: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Klingenstein Summer Fellow

Eleanor McMillan Clark

English: A.B., Princeton University

Assistant to the Headmaster: A.B., Wellesley College

Peter Conzett

Science: B.S., University of Michigan; M.S., University of Wisconsin; Klingenstein Summer Fellow; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow

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Foreign Language and Director of Admissions: A.B., Bowdoin College; M.Ed., Harvard University

Gundhild Eder

Foreign Language: M.Ed., Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

Virginia Edgcomb

Science: B.Sc., University of Virginia; Ph.D., University of Delaware; Post-doctoral Fellowship, Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Margaret Tew Ellsworth

Arts: B.A., American University; M.F.A., Pratt Institute, 2007 recipient, Falmouth Academy Faculty Chair

Petra Ehrenbrink

Foreign Language: Magister, Dr. Phil., University of Gõttingen

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Headmaster: B.A., Kenyon College; M.S. Ed., University of Pennsylvania

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Assistant Director of Admissions: A.S., Cape Cod Community College

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Olivann Hobbie

Arts: B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Indiana University; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow; Fulbright Memorial Fund Fellow

Monica Hough

English: B.A., Yale University

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CFRE

Director of Development: B.A., California State University, Long Beach; A.M., Harvard University; Pulitzer Prize recipient

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Douglas H. Jones

Mathematics: A.B., Princeton University; M.Ed., Harvard University; Klingenstein Summer Fellow

Assistant Business Manager; A.A., Torrance Community College

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Didier Karolinski

Foreign Language: B.A., M.A., University of Liège; M.A., University of Arizona

Janet Kearsley

English: B.A., Wells College; M.A., Emerson College

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Edward Lott

Mathematics: B.A., Connecticut College

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Stephanie Mastroianni

History: B.A., Syracuse University; M.S., Suffolk University

Elisabeth Munro Ledwell

English: B.A., University of Southern California; M.A., American University

Lalise Melillo

History: B.A., Vanderbilt University; M.A.T., Wesleyan University

Audrey Meyer

Science: B.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Susan Moffat

Arts and Director of Summer Programs: B.A., Hartwick College; M.A.T., Rhode Island School of Design

Joanne Muller

Science: B.S., University of Technology, Sydney; Ph.D., James Cook University

Publications Director: B.A., B.S., University of Connecticut

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Jennifer M. Naro

Librarian: B.A. Boston University; M.L.S., Simmons College

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Benjamin Parsons

Foreign Language: A.B., Bowdoin College; M.A., Dartmouth; Klingenstein Summer Fellow

Development Assistant: B.A., Clark University; M.A., Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University

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Michael Rakutis

Assistant Director of Buildings and Grounds: Franklin Institute

Jill C. Reves

Science: B.S., University of California, Berkeley

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George Scharr

Arts: B.A., New England Conservatory of Music

Ruth Slocum

English: B.A., Bates College; J.D., Boston College Law School; M.A.T., Simmons College

Richard Sperduto

Director of Buildings and Grounds: Copenhagen International High School

Donald Swanbeck

History: B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Georgetown University

Julie Swanbeck

History: B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., University of Maryland

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Julia C. Taylor

History and College Counselor: A.B., Wellesley College; M.Ed., Northeastern University

Assistant Director of Admissions: B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., University of Rhode Island

Clyde Tyndale

Arts: B.A., San Diego State University

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Matthew Vivyan

History: B.A., Hamilton College; M.A., SUNY-Albany

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Sirkka Wakefield

German: B.A., Ithaca College; M.A., University of Vermont; Fulbright Scholar

J. Robinson Wells

History and Director of Athletics: B.A., Bucknell University; M.A., University of Connecticut

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John Yankee

Arts: B.M., Peabody Conservatory; M.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.M., Yale School of Music

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Jacek Zuzanski

Arts: M.A., Ludwik Solski State School of Drama, Krakow, Poland

Headmaster Emeritus

Bruce E. Buxton

B.A. Ohio Wesleyan; M. Ed., Temple University

Faculty Emeriti

Susan Brinckerhoff

B.A. Duke University; M. Ed., Bridgewater State College

Patrice L. Buxton

B.A. University of Vermont

Elizabeth Denneny

B.S. Salve Regina College; M.A. Boston College

Charles G. Kirshaw

Comptroller: C.M.A., University of Manitoba

Gisela H. Tillier

Staatsexamen Music, Stuttgart; Staatsexamen French, FU Berlin

Charles M. Wrighter

Mathematics: B.S., U.S. Coast Guard Academy