AROUND THE POND
New Faculty 2000–01
Erik V. Berg, Physics, University of Notre Dame, BA Claudia J. Black, Art, Parsons School of Design/ Bank Street, MA Sheila M. Boyd, History, UPenn, BA Brett M. Carroll, Assistant Business Manager, UConn, BS Loueta K. Chickadaunce, Art, Yale, MFA Thibault De Chazal, Teaching Fellow–French/ Economics, University of Virginia, BA Katherine B. Fritz, College Counseling, Boston College, MA Thomas J. Fritz, Upper Middler Dean/History, University of Virginia, M.Ed Pauline E. Goolkasian, Learning Center, Loyola College of Maryland, MEd Tyler Hardy, Teaching Fellow–History, Duke, BA Gregory B. Hawes ’85, History, The American Film Institute, MFA Paul J. Henley, Teaching Fellow–Technology Support/Math, University of Chicago, BS William H. Hinrichs, Spanish, Princeton, AB
David H. Kim, Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, BS Christine Lalande, French, York University (Canada), BA* Anthony P. Lambert, Spanish, Middlebury, MA Lauren G. Lambert, English, Middlebury, MA Jim J. Lehner, Physics, University of New Haven, MS Jessica Matzkin ’90, Spanish, University of Wyoming, MA* Camilla Moore, Carpenter Teaching Fellow– Mathematics, Bates, BA Mark R. Novom, English, Yale, MFA
Timothy Palombo, Mailliard Teaching Fellow– Physics/Math, Wesleyan University, BA Peter L. Press, Library Director, University of Wisconsin, MLS Rachael Hawes Ryan, History, Georgetown, BA Jo-Ann E. Schieffelin, Art, Southern CT State University, BA Thomas J. Thompson, Music, University of Illinois, MM Russell F. Wasden, Japanese, University of Washington, MA *Fall term only
Laura Harrington
A record number of new faculty took their posts this fall, among them a few familiar faces. Brett Carroll and Jo-Ann Schieffelin, who have worked at Taft for a while, were promoted to faculty positions. Loueta Chickadaunce returns (see below), and Greg Hawes ’85 came back to experience Taft from the other side of the desk.
A Familiar Face
Campus Projects
There’s continuity in Potter’s art room this year. Loueta Chickadaunce returned to Taft this fall, having served on the faculty for three years in the early ’80s. She was hired then to cover Gail Wynne’s sabbatical after receiving an MFA from Yale in 1979 and “stayed on for a bit.” While here, she not only worked with the late Mark Potter ’48, but she also taught outgoing art instructor Jenny Glenn Wuerker ’83, who’d been holding down the easels since Mark’s death. This time, Lou reigns over the painting studio (the old study hall) instead of the art room. Claudia Black was hired to replace Gail Wynne, who retired in June. Before returning to Taft, Lou spent 12 years as the Visual Art Department chair at the Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, and four years as the Art Department chair at Forsyth Country Day School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The school completed an ambitious wiring project over the summer, installing state-of-the-art fire alarms, phones, and data connections in every student room, as well as a new school-wide database. Students were thrilled to have phones in their dorm rooms for the first time, and slightly less thrilled to discover that all but 911 service is turned off at 10:30 p.m. More visible are the new Mark Potter ’48 Gallery, the new dance studio located in the old Black squash courts, and the still-to-be-completed ice hockey rink. The construction of the rink also called for extensive renovations to the Cruikshank Athletic Center, to which it is attached. The new rink should be ready early in the hockey season.
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