Rob and Cammy Roffe with Cam and Katie.
Julio and Amy Omaña.
squash (her specialty), lived in three different dorms, and taught chemistry with diligence and compassion. Jen and Corey left Canterbury in 2015. The litany of married couples is not to exclude a great school man such a Bob Potter, who joined the English Department in 1993. Bob, too, has been a loyal triple threat, coaching golf, hockey, and baseball; teaching underform and elective English courses; and doing yeoman dorm service in Sheehan House. In fact, as I look back over the 100 years of faculty I see more than a few single individuals who perhaps have as their forebear Alex Hume. Canterbury not only has always welcomed family and nurtured and relied upon family—it also acts as family for single faculty. Alex Hume and his heirs on the hill were single and childless only in the strict sense. Misi Babington, hired in 1998 as an athletic trainer, 30
could attest to this, as can I. Just two years later, in 1995, the School hired Cammy and Rob Roffe to work in the Science and Technology Departments, respectively. They also raised two children on campus who graduated Saints, Cam ’12 and Katie ’14. Cammy, daughter of trustee Jim Briggs ’56, has been another triple threat faculty member. She is a veteran field hockey coach and also coaches girls ice hockey. She has been a dorm parent in several dorms and specializes in offering science elective courses. Rob has been a dorm parent, advisor, computer teacher, and academic technology coordinator. Alec Braley, also hired in 1995, went about the Canterbury family program in his own unique way: he married a Canterbury parent, Karen Mayo, mother of Rebecca ’94, Kristy ’97, and Joe ’00. Besides teaching an
array of history courses, Alec has coached basketball and water polo. Math teacher Jack McCabe also arrived in 1995 as the Chair of the Mathematics Department. Sometimes called “Uncle Jack” by students, he left for what he thought were greener pastures in 1999 but returned to Canterbury the following year, retiring in 2014. Dave Overthrow, a resident of New Milford, became fulltime at Canterbury in 1998 after teaching guitar lessons to Canterbury students for several years. Dave was the very first director of music and in that role, has overseen both the choral and the instrumental programs. He has played an important role in both the development of the program and expansion of the music facilities. As a professional musician, he has written and published several instructional books on bass guitars. In 1997, the School needed a