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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

 








 

 

Rebecca Bogdanovitch serves as Phillips Academy's Sustainability Coordinator. Rebecca Bogdanovitch 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. Paul Kalkstein 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 Kate McQuade 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 Hale Sturgesand 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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