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Faculty
Becky
Bogdanovitch
Carole
Braverman
David
Fox
Paul
Kalkstein
Tom
Kane
Nick
& Aggie Kip
Corbin
& Nancy Lang
Tom
Lyons
Kate
McQuade
Natalie
Schorr
Hale Sturges
Paul
Tortorella
Elisabeth
Tully
Peter
Warsaw
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Rebecca Bogdanovitch
serves as Phillips Academy's Sustainability Coordinator.
Since her arrival at Andover, she has co-taught environmental science,
chaired the Recycling Task Force, served as Assistant Coach to Varsity
Girls Cross Country and Spring Track and Field and been a complement at
Alumni House. She also acts as faculty advisor to Eco-Action and the Energy
Resources Awareness Council (ERAC). In 2007, she created the Environmental
Stewardship Program, a select group of student leaders who promote sustainability
education within the cluster system. She is a graduate of Bowdoin College
and lives on campus with her dog Izta.
Carole Braverman grew up in New York City and still
retains the accent. Before joining the Phillips Academy English Department
in 1979, she was living in the San Francisco Bay area, working in theater
and raising a son. Her plays have been produced in California, New York,
Boston, and London—and published by Dramatists Play Service. She recently
retired and is presently working on a new play.
A member of the faculty since 2004, David Fox teaches
English 200 and English 300. Subject to bouts of quixotism, David requires
his Uppers to study Cervantes’s masterpiece in its entirety. This fall,
he offers his first senior elective, a philosophy and literature course,
“Being, Thinking, Doing.” David is the house counselor in Draper Cottage
and coaches the boys’ swimming and water polo teams.
Paul Kalkstein '61 returned to Andover to teach English in 1970.
He has focused on teaching writing, especially in the English Competence
program, and has taught elective courses that include Shakespeare on
the Page and Stage, and his favorite, Milton & Spenser. Paul
was a longtime coach of boys' varsity lacrosse and has coached all six
of Andover's interscholastic basketball teams. He has been a house counselor
in five different dorms, and served as Athletic Director in the 1980s.
Paul retied in June, 2006, and now lives in Arrowsic, Maine.
Tom Kane started teaching at Phillips Academy
in September of 2004, coming from Washington and Lee University where
he had been a Visiting Assistant Professor for two years. He has taught
high school students and college undergraduates for fifteen years now.
His interest in Shakespeare was perhaps first sparked by Marjorie Garber,
but he’s had the good fortune to have other great teachers of the Bard
including Katherine Maus and Arthur Kirsch. He’s taught The Merchant
of Venice to a wide range of students, grades 9-16, and he relishes
the important but difficult issues the play raises.
Nick Kip '60 returned to Andover in 1968
to teach Classics. He chaired that department for 15 years and has developed
abundant texts and on-line electronic materials in Latin, Greek and Etymology.
In addition to academic advising and dorm duty, he has coached wrestling
(25 years) as well as various fitness activities, most recently yoga with
his wife Aggie. Aggie Giglio Kip, a licensed and registered dietitian,
has provided nutrition counseling since 1977. When she came to Andover
in 1980, she continued to pursue her main passion as weight mangement
counselor and fitness group leader; she has also been a guest lecturer
in P.A.’s Biology and PhysEd courses, interviewer for Admissions, house
counselor and academic adviser. She and Nick first collaborated about
one of his wrestlers who was not eating enough; now they’re collaborating
on coaching those who wrestle with eating too much.
As the head track and field coach at
Andover, Corbin enjoys the purest sport. "There’s beauty in the simplicity of track and field. For most events, all you need is desire and a pair of shoes." His specialty includes the sprints and jumps and he still competes in the sprints and pole vault throughout the year. Nancy '83 is the head coach of the Andover girls cross country team. Her philosophy of running promotes healthy active athletes with a balanced approach of running, strength, and regeneration. "Appreciate your body, it’s amazing. Just see what it can do." Both Corbin and Nancy teach in the mathematics department and have three children. Corbin has been at Andover since 1995 and Nancy since 1993.
Kate (Benson) McQuade always thought she would become a fiction editor; she worked for a number of literary and educational publishers, including Scribner and Graywolf Press, before discovering her love of the classroom as a Teaching Fellow at Andover. She returned full-time to the English department in 2006 and currently teaches English 200 and senior electives in advanced fiction writing, nonfiction writing, and twentieth-century trauma literature. Her first novel, Two Harbors, was published by Harcourt in 2005. When she's not carving out spare time to work on her own writing, Kate serves as the house counselor in Pemberton Cottage, advisor to the Courant literary magazine, and coach of the instructional squash and JV softball teams.
Hale Sturges taught French at Phillips Academy for thirty-nine years and retired in 2004. He was Chair of both the French Department (1973-78, 2003-04) and the Division of Foreign Languages (1983-91.) Among courses taught were introductory language, advanced placement literature and a trimester course on French villages Additional roles at PA included coaching Varsity Baseball for his entire career and house counseling for twenty-six years. He is the co-author of three widely used textbooks: Une Fois pour toutes, Encore une fois and Partout le monde francophone and the author of The People of Pleure: Portrait of a French Village. The latter was the result of a sabbatical winter spent living in a tiny village in the Jura. A life-long passion for French language, culture and literature --and for teaching - has continued into retirement in both Boston MA and Harpswell ME.
In his 35 years at
Andover, Tom Lyons was a legendary
history teacher, constitutional scholar, and counselor to hundreds of
students and colleagues. He is the author of nine books, and a keen as
well as relentless observer of the contemporary political scene. AndoverAgain
is fortunate to have lured him from his retirement home in Newburyport
to educate and provoke.
A 1980 graduate of Phillips Academy, Paul Tortorella
received his B.A. from Yale and his M.A. from SUNY Buffalo.
He currently teaches English 200 and Contemporary American Poetry. He is the author of The Common Poems and lives in America House.
Natalie Schorr, Abbot '62, started teaching French at
Andover in 1974. She's served in a variety of roles such as yoga coach,
house counselor, chair of the French Department, and head of the World
Languages Division. Author of En Revue and Tune Up your French
and co-author of a student edition of L'Enfant Noir, Natalie is
currently working on a book of essential French phrases along with their
cultural contexts and connotations. Natalie likes to encourage her students
to explore the cultural context of language. In addition to studying spoken
French, grammar, films, and literature, generations of students have practiced
flipping crêpes in the kitchen chez Schorr.
Elisabeth Tully came to the Oliver Wendell Holmes
Library via a circuitous path that included receiving a BA in religion
from Duke University and an MPH from UNC in Health Administration. After
a stint in the Peace Corps, she spent fifteen years as a hospital administrator
and hospital and health insurance reimbursement consultant. Along the
way she raised four children. She says of the library which she directs,
"We take our mission as a teaching library very seriously, and work hard
to make sure that all of our students graduate with the skills necessary
for success as lifelong learners in the information age." Tully serves
as faculty advisor to the Philomathean Society, the oldest secondary school
debate program in the country. She is academic advisor to six day students
and four boarders, and teaches Life Issues.
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