along albany road
l to r: John Taylor, Lou Kinder, Jeff Jewett, Karinne Heise, Miriam Singer, Yanik Nichols, Danielle Chagnon, Carmel Schettino, Catriona Hynds, Aiden Day (Carmel’s son with dog, Starbuck), Huck Laughner, Dave Irwin, Mandy Irwin, Margarita Curtis (with head pooch, Friday), and Ivory Hills
New to the Team Twelve Faculty Members Begin Their Deerfield Careers From a former Marine officer to a professor of acting and directing, the newest members of Deerfield’s faculty are a widelyvaried and highly talented group. Some are quite familiar with boarding school life, and others are currently getting to know the ins and outs of living and working on campus. All are well-educated, enthusiastic individuals, and they have been warmly welcomed into the Academy community. Danielle Chagnon: earned her BA in mathematics from Bowdoin College, where she also played varsity soccer and was an All-NESCAC, All-New England varsity softball player and team captain. Danielle spent a grueling summer at Quantico, VA, as part of Charlie Company as a candidate to be a Marine officer. She comes to Deerfield from Cushing Academy, where for the past five years Danielle has taught and coached.
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Ivory Hills: Ivory is new to boarding school, but he did live in a dorm at MIT for two years as a graduate resident tutor, where he was responsible for developing academic and recreational programs for the undergraduates in his building. Ivory came to Deerfield from Merck Research Laboratories, where he was senior research chemist and mentored young chemists while leading a team conducting drug discovery research in neuroscience. Ivory was also a teaching assistant at MIT while he was earning his PhD.
David Irwin: has joined the faculty as an associate director of admission. David earned his master’s in education in 2010 from Harvard University’s School Leadership Program. A 2005 graduate of Middlebury College, David played varsity baseball and rugby and served as a residential advisor. Over the course of 18 summers, David worked his way up the ranks at Camp Belknap in Wolfeboro, NH, from camper to program director.
Mandy Irwin: came to Deerfield from the Newman School in Boston, where she taught Environmental Systems and Societies; at Deerfield, she is a member of the Science Department. In 2010 Mandy received her master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College’s Lynch School of Education. A NOLS practitioner and Wilderness First Responder, Mandy’s love of adventure was nurtured during her high school years at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School and her college years at the University