Middle School Faculty

Isabel Anderson

Isabel Anderson, Middle School Catechist

Year Appointed: 2005

Education:
B.S., Health, Education and Recreation, Virginia Tech, 1977

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Ashley Batkin

Ashley Costanza, Middle School English

Year Appointed: 2007

Education:
B.A., English with emphases in Education and Journalism, Old Dominion University, 2005

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Jessica Csomay, Middle School Science

Year Appointed: 2007

Education:
B.S., Biology, Old Dominion University, 2000
Secondary Education Teaching Certification, Christopher Newport University, 2003
Endorsement in Biology.

Sean Gorman, Middle School Science

Year Appointed: 2008

Education:
M.S.Ed., Middle School Education, Old Dominion University, 2001
B.A., Biology, Anthropology/Archaeology, University of Connecticut, 1972

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
~ Mother Teresa

Phillip Gruccio , 5th Grade Science

Year Appointed: 2009

 

 
Julie Keesling

Julie Keesling, Middle School Latin

Year Appointed: 2005

Education:
M.A., Italian Language and Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder
M.A., National Security Studies, Naval War College
B.A., Classics, College of Saint Catherine

"si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?"
~ Romans 8:31

Betsy McLinda

Betsy McLinda, Fifth Grade Math & Science

Year Appointed: 2006

Education:
B.A., Child Development with an emphasis in Early Childhood Education, Lynchburg College

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong.  Some day in your life, you will have been all of these."
~George Washington Carver

Jerry Ortiz

Jerry Ortiz,
Middle School Social Studies & Religion

Year Appointed: 2007

Education:
B.A., History and Social Sciences, Old Dominion University, 2006
Religion Certification, Diocese of Richmond, 2008

"Education is a social process.  Education is growth.  Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself."

~John Dewey

Amber Seeley

Amber Seeley, Middle School Math

Year Appointed: 2006

Education:
M.A., Education, John Hopkins University, 2005
B.S., Mathematics, University of Maryland, 1991

“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
~Author Unknown

Angie Segerblom

Angie Segerblom,
Fifth Grade English & Social Studies

Year Appointed: 2007

Education:
M.S., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Virginia, 2003
B.A., English, Old Dominion University, 1992
Reading Specialist Endorsement
Middle School Endorsement

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."
~ Galileo Galilei 

Elizabeth Swartley

Elizabeth Swartley, Middle School English

Year Appointed: 2008

Education:
M.A., Literature, Old Dominion University, 1992
B.A., Humanities (Foreign Languages concentration), Virginia Wesleyan College, 1987
Secondary teaching certification in English, Old Dominion University, 1989

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
~Cicero

Suzanne Walters

Suzanne Walters, Middle School Social Studies

Year Appointed: 2006

Education:
BA, History, James Madison University, 1996

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.”
~Marianne Williamson, author