New Faculty and Staff Chrissie Bushey, Middle School, counselor
Kelly Kilgore, school store manager
Bushey earned a B.S. in psychology, magna cum laude, from James Madison University and an M.Ed. in school counseling from Shippensburg University. She taught in eastern North Carolina with Teach for America, was national recruitment director for Teach for America, and most recently served as counselor at Maureen Joy Charter School in Durham.
Kilgore graduated from Samford University with a degree in education and taught middle school math for three years. She has 15 years of general retail experience and two years as owner and manager of Run In Our Tribe, a running specialty retail company in Southern Pines. She has served as council director for Girls on the Run in Moore County.
Shelley Danser, Upper School, counselor
Kristen Klein, assistant head of school
Danser earned her undergraduate degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and a master’s degree from Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. She has 15 years of experience, including work as a therapist, as a mental health specialist with the Bridge Program in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools, and as program coordinator with Pro Bono Counseling Network.
Klein is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Trinity College with a B.A. in Comparative Religion and earned an M.A.T. in English Education from Brown University. She has been associated with Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, since 2004, most recently as director of the upper school and chair of the English department.
Haley Gfeller, Upper School, history
Scott Orvis, Upper School, college counseling
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a B.A. in history and political science from UNC-Chapel Hill, Gfeller earned a master’s degree in Global, International and Comparative History from Georgetown University. She has been a research associate and analyst with the Education Advisory Board and served as a long-term substitute teacher at Maret School in Washington, D.C.
Orvis is a 1991 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, where he worked in admissions and served as associate director of admission. Since 2006, he has been director of college counseling at Saint Mary’s School in Raleigh, where he also served as a faculty advisor and was interim dean of teaching and learning.
Catherine Hayward, Middle School, Latin Hayward earned a B.A. in classics from Truman State University and an M.A. in classical studies from Indiana University. She was an associate instructor at Indiana University and for the last six years has been a Latin and French teacher at Shattuck-St. Mary’s School, a boarding school in Faribault, Minnesota. Amber Kelley-Scott, human resources manager Kelley-Scott is a graduate of N.C. Central University, where she earned a B.A. in psychology and an M.A. in public administration. She has worked in human resources at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital, Solstas Lab Partners and Aramark, and most recently was senior human resources representative at Highwoods Properties, Raleigh.
Andrew Prudhom, Upper School, mathematics Prudhom graduated from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse with a dual major in mathematics and physics. He is a candidate for a Ph.D. in mathematics at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he has been the primary instructor for 12 courses and was the Senior Teaching Fellow for Carolina Mathematics for 2016–2017. Karen Ruberg, Middle School, history Ruberg earned a B.A. in international studies from the University of Arkansas, an M.A. in international affairs from Ohio University and a B.S. in secondary education from Urbana University. She taught for 14 years at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes Middle School in Alexandria, Virginia, where she was twice recognized for “exemplary and outstanding performance.” Most recently she has taught at The Storm King School in Cornwall-onHudson, New York.
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