Riddle of America, The - Waldorf Research Institute

1988, she was asked to join the faculty of the School of Eurythmy in SpringValley. She became a member of the Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble withwhom she has been performing throughout North America and Europe.Virginia Sease was a Waldorf teacher in Los Angeles and a member of thePedagogical Section Council in North America. She now serves as a memberof the Executive Council (Vorstand) of the world-wide AnthroposophicalSociety in Dornach, Switzerland, and is leader of the Section for Eurythmy,Speech, and Music.Jeanne Simon-Macdonald is a teacher of eurythmy at Sunbridge College,Spring Valley, New York. She has worked as a therapist, teacher, and performerinternationally for over 20 years, giving many performances in recentyears based on Mary Oliver’s poetry.Rick Spaulding holds an A.B. in English (Harvard University) and a M.Ed.(Loyola). He taught at the elementary school level for seven years, and asan English teacher in a Chicago public high school for 21 years. His workin Anthroposophy includes serving as a discussion group leader of a publicstudy group focusing on Steiner’s basic books (12 years) and, since 1981,lecturing on various literary figures and their works.Philip Thatcher was born in Reno, Nevada, in 1939, and he emigrated toCanada in 1964. He has taught history, English, and drama at the VancouverWaldorf High School since 1984. He has also served on the Council of theAnthroposophical Society in Canada, and as an editor of Aurore, the journalof the Society, since 1994. In the spring of 2000, he published the novel,Raven’s Eye, the first volume in a trilogy of quest stories.Edward Warren was born October 27, 1953, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.He majored in English and modern history at Harvard University and theUniversity of Oslo. He studied Waldorf education at the Goetheanum inDornach, Switzerland. He spent twenty years in the Waldorf school movementin Switzerland and Norway as a student, class teacher, and highschool teacher in English, history and religion. He has conducted researchfor twenty-three years in teenage personality development. For the last twoyears he has worked as manager of professional development for McKinsyand Company. Author of Thinking as a Spiritual Activity, Ted is currentlyworking on a second book.353