Solebury Announces Recipient of
Faculty Enrichment Award Five years ago, Solebury’s Home and School Association established an endowed fund to honor John D. Brown ’67, Solebury’s seventh Head of School, and Linda Brown, former Director of Advancement, for their years of dedicated service to Solebury School. Each year, this endowment funds an award for a Solebury faculty member to pursue a personal interest that serves to enrich his or her experience as a teacher. The funds may be used in a way that directly relates to a teacher’s academic field or more generally by stimulating his or her creativity and enthusiasm as a teacher, learner, and citizen of the world. Sarah Sargent is the deserving recipient of the 2014 John and Linda Brown Faculty Enrichment Award. After six years, she has quietly impacted much of Solebury School. She arrived with BAs in English and Political Science and a Masters in English, all from the University of Vermont. She is an author and poet, as well as a scholar and athlete. Sarah has dabbled in nearly every extra-curricular at Solebury. She has been the coach of the women’s soccer and cross country teams, a dorm parent, a member of the Judiciary Committee, a faculty representative to the Board of Trustees, an assistant to the Teach2Serve Program, co-chair of the Community Service Program and, along with Assistant Head of School Steve Buteux, the teacher of what many consider Solebury’s most challenging academic course: American Studies. This does not even take into account her love of cold weather, snow sports, and mountains, or her passion for global literacy, dogs, and Robert Frost. Nor does it mention Winter’s Keeper, the children’s fantasy novel she’s been writing. Inspired by the undergrad thesis she wrote about feminism in children’s literature, Sarah has been plugging away at a “middle grade level” story about a young female protagonist. She submitted the 240-page manuscript to the Highlights Foundation and attended their week-long writer’s workshop in September, thanks to the support of the Brown Faculty Enrichment Award.
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