TEN THINGS ABOUT ME

Head of School

I piped the students into our all-school assembly.

My wife, Ljiljana Stanic, ‘ and I visiting Norway here.

KIT TEN THINGS ABOUT ME

1 I have been playing the bagpipes since I was nine years old Although that might seem weird for someone with a surname like Federico, my mother is actually from Scotland My father’s side has been in Canada since my greatgrandfather immigrated before the First World War

2 I am the oldest of six children — three boys and three girls — and there are 24 years between me and my youngest sibling

3 I like to dress up — like really dress up I love ties and vests and cufflinks: think Roger Sterling from Mad Men or Nucky Thompson from Boardwalk

Empire

4 I also like to sew Not only do I do a lot of my own alterations (see above), but I also make costumes and historical reproductions Some of my War of 1812 uniforms have been displayed in local museums

5 I love to travel I especially love the atmosphere of cities like London, New

York, Hamburg, Milan, Hong Kong, Tokyo …

6 I have eclectic tastes in music and really enjoy listening to vintage records

Among my favourites are an extended version of Donna Summer’s I Feel

Love that I brought back from Berlin, and Miles Davis’s soundtrack to the

French film, Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, that I came across in Vienna

7 I attended Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, when I was in 10th grade

8 I have a thing for vintage cars, especially little British and European sportscars I own a 1970 Triumph Spitfire Mark 3 that I refurbished a few years ago with considerable help from my wife, son, and daughter

9 I am a real film buff While I enjoy movies from a range of genres and eras,

I do tend to come back to clever and/or gritty pictures with snappy dialogue, like The Maltese Falcon, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (the 1974 version), Alien, Margin Call, and Quai d’Orsay Tunes of Glory is a film of a different kind altogether, but also one I have watched so many times I could recite it by heart

10 I was a fan of Kate Bush long before Stranger Things … and of the White

Stripes long before I moved to Detroit F