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Leaving Her Mark
Assistant Head of School for Residential Life Jenny Karlen Elliott ’94, P’22, ’24 embraces new opportunity BY ALLYSON IRISH
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magine this: Your 8-months-pregnant squash coach is driving the team to the nationals in Connecticut. But she accidentally drives to the wrong location. There’s 20 minutes before the match starts. What to do? Many people would panic. Or miss the match. Or freeze. Not Jenny Elliott. “Jenny snapped into problem-solving mode and rallied us all to get back into the van so we could race to the other venue,” says Midori Ishizuka ’11, now a PA history instructor and assistant girls’ squash coach. “We were a fierce force as we pulled up to our proper venue, just a few minutes before the match. Jenny and I laugh about that now.” This anecdote encapsulates many of the qualities that colleagues, students, alumni, and players say make Elliott special. During her 12 years at Andover, Elliott brought to her work a combination of perspectives as an alumna, parent of two PA students, girls’ varsity squash coach, house counselor, history teacher, advisor, and—if that was not enough— assistant head of school for residential life and dean of students. At the end of this academic year, Elliott is moving on from PA to become the head of student and academic life at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut.
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