D ATE LI N E ANDO V ER
Faculty Honored
Jessie Wallner
At the winter meeting of the Board of Trustees, five faculty members were awarded instructorships and foundations. The recipients are, from left, Pat Davison, Jonathan French Foundation; Paul Murphy ’84, Class of 1915/ Garrigues Foundation; Megan Paulson, Frederic S. Allis Jr. Instructorship in History; Peter Merrill, Alfred Earnest Stearns Foundation; and Catherine Tousignant ’86, Cecil F.P. Bancroft Foundation. Congratulations to all!
Andover Hires New Outreach & Summer Session Director Beth Friedman joined PA May 9 as the new director of Outreach and Summer Session. With more than 15 years of experience in teaching, academic administration, and educational consulting, Friedman succeeds Fernando Alonso, who will become the Academy’s new dean of administration and finance, effective July 1. “I am incredibly excited to work with a community of passionate, committed educators to leverage the resources of an institution like Andover for the creation of greater opportunities for all students,” says Friedman. Friedman will oversee Phillips Academy’s five-week Summer Session, one of the nation’s top summer academic enrichment programs for students entering grades 8–12. Summer Session, which welcomes both boarding and day students, is
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held on the PA campus for students from across the country and around the world. She also will manage Andover’s four distinct outreach programs: (MS)2, PALS, Andover Bread Loaf, and the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT). Friedman most recently was senior project manager at SchoolWorks, an educational consulting company that has worked with clients such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the New York State Education Department. From 2004 to 2011, she worked at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester, Mass., first as a teacher and advisor and then as the Lower School principal. She also held the positions of assistant dean of admission and assistant dean of preparation and placement at The Steppingstone Foundation in Boston.
Friedman is on the board of the Bridge Boston Charter School and the Academics Committee of the KIPP Philadelphia Charter Schools. She has a BA degree with a dual major in English and psychology and a concentration in women’s and gender studies from Williams College, and an MEd degree in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University.