Around the Table
Faculty Wire T H R E E E N D OW E D C H A I R S A N N O U N C E D
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(Top to Bottom) Art Instructor Tara Misenheimer, Mathematics Instructor Joe Wolfson and English Instructor Ellen Wolff.
DAN COURTER
CHERYL SENTER
STEVE LEWIS
ean of Faculty Ron Kim announced in November the following three faculty member appointments to endowed teaching positions: Art Instructor Tara Misenheimer has been appointed to the Clowes Chair in Art. Misenheimerâs accomplishments as an artist have been on display at the University of New Hampshireâs Museum of Art, Lawrence Academyâs Conant Gallery, and the Art Fair at New York Cityâs Gershwin Hotel. She is also the recipient of the 2011 Scholastic Art and Writing Award from the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers in New York. Misenheimer came to Exeter in 1991 as an art collection intern and exhibits assistant in the Lamont Gallery. She returned in a part-time role and then accepted a full-time position in 2006. She is now in her first year as Art Department chair. Misenheimer received her B.A. degree from the University of New Hampshire and her M.A.T. degree from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Mathematics Instructor Joe Wolfson is the new George Albert Wentworth Professor of Mathematics. Professor George A. Wentworth, who entered the Academy as a student in 1852, created this endowed professorship in 1897 in recognition of the help he had received from Academy endowments while in school. Wolfson is a respected and admired math instructor, former department chair, former volleyball coach and more. Among other things, he is known for the time he takes and the care he devotes throughout the summer to the careful placement of each math student. Wolfson received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and his M.S. from the University of Chicago. He began his teaching career at the Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., where he taught for 13 years before joining the Exeter faculty in 1987. English Instructor Ellen Wolff Pâ17 has been appointed to the Thomas S. and Elinor B. Lamont Professorship in English, established in 1967. While Wolff âs roles at Exeter have been numerousâteacher, dorm adviser, mentor, co-chair of the Curriculum Review Committee, PEAN adviser, and chair of English 110âthe qualities that she brings to each role are the same: intelligence, wit, curiosity and selflessness. Wolff received her undergraduate degree from Colgate University, her masterâs degree from University of North Carolina, and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Before joining Exeter in 1995, She taught at Holy Cross, Boston College and Brandeis.
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