“When I was a kid, Wally’s age maybe, I used to invite the other kids in my neighborhood over to my house to play “school.” It was my house, so I was the teacher of course and I would give my friends worksheets hoping to help us all get smarter, or at least better at solving problems and answering questions. Later, I became a philosophy major in college and one of my responsibilities was to be a T.A. (teaching assistant) in the introduction to philosophy course with my favorite professor. A few really intelligent freshmen came over to my common room every Sunday night to discuss Plato, Descartes, Sartre, etc. I LOVED it. When I graduated I saw Robin Williams in Dead Poets’ Society and thought: I would like to do that. Then I went to Japan to teach English in middle schools a couple of hours north of Tokyo. I wanted to go to Japan and discovered that I loved teaching. After going back as a leader at my summer camp and exploring a few other options (consulting in New York, business in San Francisco) in my early twenties, I kept thinking about going back to school for life, following a career in education, getting into the “classroom” indoors and out. When the call came to work in admissions, teach, and live in a boarding school in Portland, Oregon, I jumped at the opportunity. Teaching at Groton has been a dream come true.”