Specialty Faculty (Lower and Middle School)

Elizabeth Brasek

Elizabeth Brasek, Library Assistant

Year Appointed: 2008

Education:
M.A., English, George Mason University, 1991.
B.A., English and Spanish, Clemson University, 1989.

"Dwell in possibility."
~Emily Dickinson

 

Jamye Brown, Lower School Health & PE Teacher

Year Appointed: 2005

Education:
M.S., Early Childhood Education, Old Dominion University, 2001.
B.S., Exercise Science, Old Dominion University, 1999.

"What would you try to accomplish if you believed it was impossible to fail?"
~Anonymous

Missy Clark

Missy Clark, Lower School Spiritual Formation

Year Appointed: 2004

Education:
M.A., Pastoral Studies, Loyola University, 1996.
B.A., History and Art History, Sweet Briar College, 1977.
Clinical Pastoral Education C.P.E. 5 Units, Maryview Hospital Center, 2003 and Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, 2004.

“Shine through me and be so in me

that every soul I come in contact with

may feel your presence in my soul.”

~ John Henry Newman

Mike Finn, Band Director

Year Appointed: 2008

Education:
B.Mus., Music Education, James Madison University, 2000.
B.Mus., Music Industry, James Madison University, 1998.

"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."

~ Leonard Bernstein

Christopher Kypros

Christopher Kypros, Director of Music

Year Appointed: 2005

Education:
M.M., Music (Piano Performance), The Juilliard School, 1973.
B.S., Music (Piano Performance), Old Dominion University, 1971.

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

~ Aldous Huxley

 

Amy Lynch , Assistant Athletic Director

Year Appointed: 2009

Education:
B.S., Biology, University of Mary Washington, 1996.

 
Robert Mayer

Robert Mayer, Middle School Physical Education

Year Appointed: 2005

Education:
M.Ed., Public School Administration K-12, Old Dominion University, 1974.
B.S., Health & Physical Education, Old Dominion University, 1974.

"Physical Fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."

~ John F. Kennedy

Sandra Mueller

Sandra Mueller, Spanish

Year Appointed: 2006

Education:
B.A., Education, Rafael Landivar Catholic University, 1978.

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
~ Proverbs 22:6

 

Elizabeth Swartley , Spanish

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

Jacqueline Voorhies

Jacqueline Voorhies, Art

Year Appointed: 2005

Education:
B.F.A., Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1995.

"Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

~ Pablo Picasso

 

Suzanne Voorhies

Suzanne Voorhies, Art

Year Appointed: 2006

Education:
B.Ed., Art Education (K-12), Ball State University, 1978.

"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."
~ Vincent van Gogh

Dionne Wright

Dionne Wright, Music

Year Appointed: 2008

Education:
M.M., Music Performance, Pennsylvania State University, 2004.
B.Mus., Cello, Ohio University, 2002.

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." 

~ Sergei Rachmaninov

Elizabeth Woodard

Elizabeth Woodard, Librarian/Media Specialist

Year Appointed: 2005

Education:
M.S., Library Science, South Carolina University, 2006.
M.Ed., Education, Old Dominion University, 1996.
B.S., Fashion Design and Merchandising, Virginia Tech, 1978.
Certification in Library Science (K-12), Old Dominion University, 1996.

"We must insist on libraries for every community, and we must insist on paying for them, for what we get, in the end, is stimulation of intellectual thought, individual curiosity and the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt