2006-2007 Fall/Winter Directions - Friends' Central School
2006-2007 Fall/Winter Directions - Friends' Central School
2006-2007 Fall/Winter Directions - Friends' Central School
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CAMPUS LOG – ALL SCHOOL<br />
Friends’ <strong>Central</strong> Welcomes New Faculty and Staff<br />
Selected New Faculty Profiles<br />
Laurie Schmitt is returning to Friends’ <strong>Central</strong>, where she<br />
taught history for seven years in the 1990s. During that time<br />
she also served as a grade dean and co-department chair. Laurie<br />
went on to teach history in Beirut and Sao Paolo and earn an<br />
international master’s degree in peace and development. Laurie<br />
will be teaching world history (ninth grade) and international<br />
relations (eleventh and twelth grades). Her daughter, Maggie,<br />
graduated from Friends’ <strong>Central</strong> in ’94.<br />
Mark Dawson joins us to teach world history (ninth and tenth<br />
grades). Mark is a native of New Zealand where he taught for<br />
eight years, the last seven of them at Rutherford College (the<br />
equivalent of an American high school) in Auckland.<br />
Cheryl Davis is returning to Friends’ <strong>Central</strong> as a second grade<br />
teacher after six years teaching at Germantown Friends’ <strong>School</strong>.<br />
She is a graduate of Tufts University and completed her master’s<br />
degree in education at the University of Pennsylvania when she<br />
was an intern teacher here.<br />
18 DIRECTIONS <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2006</strong> / <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2007</strong><br />
Front Row (left to right): Peggy Preston (accounting);<br />
Emily Pryor (Middle <strong>School</strong> Spanish and language arts);<br />
Candice Craig (Lower <strong>School</strong> music); Tanya Johnson ’02<br />
(kindergarten); Diana Bleakley ’01 (permanent substitute);<br />
READ DeSabato ’02 (pre-kindergarten). Back Row<br />
(left to right): Ken Reynolds (network administrator);<br />
Mary Lynne Jeschke (college counseling secretary);<br />
Sonja Srama-Souder (Middle <strong>School</strong> French & Prima<br />
Lingua); Kate Schogol (Middle <strong>School</strong> Spanish & Prima<br />
Lingua); Robyn Richmond (Quaker coordinator); Cheryl<br />
Davis (2nd grade); Melissa Rabena (Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
social studies); Jason Polykoff ’02 (Sports Information<br />
& Middle <strong>School</strong> math); Josh Wasserman ’02<br />
(Development Office assistant); Nick Pulos ’02 (Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong> math); Mark Dawson (Upper <strong>School</strong> history).<br />
Not Pictured: Rebecca Anderson (Director of<br />
Communications) and Jason Kramer (Assistant Director<br />
of Admissions). Also, Melinda Yin (Biology) and Laurie<br />
Schmitt (Upper <strong>School</strong> world history and international<br />
relations) returned to Friends’ <strong>Central</strong>, while Julie<br />
Cowitz Gordon ’81 moved from the Admission Office to<br />
Middle <strong>School</strong> drama.<br />
READ DeSabato is an assistant teacher in the pre-kindergarten<br />
and also teaches computer to the kindergarten classes, where the<br />
kids know him as Mr. READ. He graduated from Friends’<br />
<strong>Central</strong> in 2002 and from Cabrini College in <strong>2006</strong>. He has been<br />
a counselor in the Trailblazer Camp and has taught and coached<br />
for Friends’ <strong>Central</strong> Aqautics.<br />
Jason Polykoff ’02 returns to his alma mater as a Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
teacher of mathematics, a soccer/basketball/baseball coach, and<br />
Sports Information Director. He attended, earned a B.A. in psychology<br />
with a minor in educational studies from Haverford<br />
College where he also played four years of varsity basketball and<br />
participated in various community service projects.<br />
Melissa Rabena is teaching fifth grade social studies at Friends’<br />
<strong>Central</strong> <strong>School</strong>. She has been teaching middle school children for<br />
the past few years at Annunciation B. V. M. <strong>School</strong> in<br />
Philadelphia, where she also coached and served as Athletic<br />
Director. Melissa earned her B.A. in education, her M.A. in educational<br />
leadership, and her teaching certification in social studies<br />
at Neumann College, where she graduated summa cum laude.