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Amelia B. Shull teaches a variety of Art Classes in the US. Since she was small, Amelia has been creatively pursuing almost every art form. A working photographer and teacher, she studied Art History, Photography and Sculpture at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Eastern European Art History, Culture, Politics and Sociology at the University of Wroclaw, Poland in 1996. After school she moved to New York and worked at Christie's Art Auction House assisting with exhibits in Soho at the ArtistSpace on the weekends. In the winter of 1999, she volunteered at Creativity Explored in San Francisco, a working art studio for adults with developmental disabilities, and has participated in
Arts for All workshops locally. Since coming back to North Carolina (to stay) in 1999, Amelia has worked at Southeastern Camera in Carrboro, coordinated Children's Visual Art Classes at the Durham Arts Council, and fallen in love with teaching Photography and Art to all ages through jobs at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, Durham Technical Community College, Durham Arts Council, and the Duke Center for Documentary Studies' Literacy Through Photography program. Professionally, Amelia incorporates her skills in fine art media, dance, music and theater with 19th Century and Modern Photography techniques. Particularly fond of exploring new places, she loves to travel, and enjoys playing drums, singing, sewing, cooking and gardening. |
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Annie Dwyer is the Dance Specialist in the Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools. |
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Bob Druhan has been teaching in the UpperSchool since 1985. Bob has a B.S. in Geology from the University of South Alabama, an M.S. in Geology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in Geology from Princeton University. In 1991, he helped to develop what has become the End of Year program, a model in out of the classroom learning experiences. With a master’s degree in Geology and years of teaching experience, Bob has taught or is currently teaching most of our math and science offerings. This year Bob teaches Math 210 (Geometry), Chemistry, Advanced Chemistry, and (along with John McGovern) co-teaches and Environmental Science course that he helped to design. In this course students work to reduce our carbon footprint by designing models and doing the physical work needed to take one campus building off the grid. |
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Bryce Little has been teaching in the Upper School for almost 20 years now. He came to CFS by the usual serendipitous route, growing up in the far-distant St. Lawrence Valley next to Canada and finding out about the School by friendship in Philadelphia with one of the members of the founding Klopfer family. His original background is in archaeology and Native American studies. He has found the opportunity in the Upper School to explore every aspect of social studies, from anthropology to political science to European, Asian, African-American, and American history, and also chances to dance, coordinate a student play production on Vietnam, photograph buffalo on the great Plains, and provide drum accompaniment to dance performances. His outside interests include blues music, the movies of Cary Grant, travel, and anything Italian. |
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Carrie Huff, Upper School Head Teacher, joined the Language Arts department in 1992, having just moved to Durham from the great state of Maine where she had taught in public junior high and high schools for 12 years. She has been Head of the Upper School since 2003. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and English from DePauw University. In addition to classes in Language Arts and Acting, Carrie has also taught social studies, French, science, and chorus. She co-directs our annual spring theatre production—some favorites include The Wiz , West Side Story , and Godspell . Carrie is married to Greg Huff, and is the proud mother of David, Kristie, and Sam and is the proud grandmother of Oliver, Eden, and Uma. Her favorite hobbies are singing and Yoga. She remains personally grounded by dancing with teenagers in Annie Dwyer's dance class. |
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Dave Worden teaches a variety of math courses. Dave received both his undergraduate degree (1977) and master's degree (2002) from Colgate University in upstate New York. In his previous life, Dave was a self-employed residential contractor. He also works with the CFS cross-country team. |
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Drew Lile has been performing professionally since the age of 15 and has played guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bass in a variety of musical situations, including the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, the Gregg Gelb Swing Band, the North Carolina Symphony, the Duke Children's Classic, public television educational programs, the North Carolina Theatre, Theatre in the Park, the Carter Minor Blues Band, the Powerhitters, the Paul Jeffrey Octet and Quartet. He's also performed as a leader or sideman in numerous other free-lance jazz, blues, rock, bluegrass, and orchestral projects. He's performed or recorded with Luciano Pavarotti, Michael Feinstein, Sarah and Arlo Guthrie, Little Anthony and the Imperials, the Platters, the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, Patti Page, Pat Boone, Larry Gatlin, Margaret Whiting, trumpeter Clark Terry, saxophonist Jessie Davis, the Ellis Brothers, and others. He performed on banjo in the December 1996 CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame movie The Summer of Ben Tyler, starring James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern. Drew had been featured on several jazz and rock recordings; his own band, House Arrest, released a self-titled CD in 2002. He's been teaching privately since 1987, and in 1994 became a Staff Associate teaching jazz guitar at Duke University. Drew has been the music teacher in the Upper School since 1999. |
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Dylan Pendergrast teaches many of the community service classes in the Upper School. He also teaches woodworking in the Middle School. Dylan is a former CFS student. He coaches the Middle School boy's and girl's soccer teams. |
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Elise London grew up at a small pre-school directed by her family in northern Vermont. After acquiring a bachelor's degree in Political Theory from Williams College and completing unrelated coursework at the University of Vermont, she decided that it was time to give in to the family business and get involved in education full-time. Elise earned a Master's in Education at Harvard University, and while in Boston became involved in public school consulting. After one too many New England winters, she decided to head south. In 2001, Elise was delighted to find a job at Carolina Friends School where the philosophy of education so closely mimics her own. Elise is the college counselor and teaches a few classes: Senior Seminar, American Literature, and HIV Ethics. |
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Frances Brindle has a deep interest in Biology and teaches a range of introductory and advanced classes. She graduated from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, with a B.A. in Botany with Biochemistry, and a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology. She also teaches sewing and has an enthusiastic advisory group. |
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Guillermo Parra was born in Cambridge, MA and grew up there, as well as in Caracas, Venezuela and Tampa, Florida. He received his B.A. in English from the University of South Florida and his M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University. He taught high school for six years at Beaver Country Day School in Boston and began teaching at CFS in 2007. He teaches all levels of Spanish as well as language arts electives that focus on his interests – poetry and Latin American literature.
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Jamie Hysjulien, Ph.D., teaches language arts and social studies. His course offerings include a series of senior courses in Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism as well as creative writing, world literature, Dante, African American Literature and African history. Jamie has a BA in Classical Greek from the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, a master's degree in History from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a doctorate in Literature from Duke University. His dissertation, directed by Fredric Jameson, dealt with the relationships between politics and modern American poetry and focused on the works of Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. His own poetry has appeared in national publications and he was a runner up in the 2002 Independent Poetry contest. Jamie has been teaching at CFS since 1998. |
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Jon Lepofsky, Ph.D. primarily teaches social studies and language arts courses. Jon often uses his classes to explore questions of ethics, identity, language, place, and power. Jon grew up in the suburbs of Boston and made his first venture south to start college at Emory University. After his sophomore year in college, he transferred to New York University, where he received his B.A. in Metropolitan Studies. Jon returned to the south to attain his Ph.D. in Geography and his Graduate Certificate in Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jon has taught at UNC and at Duke University. He has been teaching at CFS since 2005. When not teaching, Jon enjoys reading, writing, exploring the world with his family, finding good bookshops, listening to blues music, and cheering on the Boston Red Sox. |
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Ken Mitchell teaches Upper School French. Ken's independent school teaching career began in 1989 at Indian Springs School, near his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, and includes tenure at Heritage Hall School in Oklahoma City, Durham Academy, and Lowcountry Day School in Pawley's Island, SC. Ken also worked for a short time as an Adjunct Instructor atboth the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at Birmingham Southern College. His experience with French language and culture includes a five-month stay in Caen (Normandy), where he participated in a Graduate Exchange Program. Ken gained valuable hands-on language experience by working for two years with a French resort group. He has a strong background in Spanish language as well. Ken enjoys playing tennis, auto mechanics, and making acoustic guitars, all of which he brings to the CFS community through elective courses. |
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Pam Mayer has been employed a Carolina Friends School since 1999. She works in the Middle School/Upper School library as the Upper School librarian. She is a native Texan and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Texas at San Antonio. |
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Rob DuBose is the technology specialist for the Upper School. |
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Rob LaVelle teaches all levels of Spanish, Geography, and many other electives in the Upper School. He was somewhere on the eastern seaboard of North America during the second half of the twentieth century where he was raised by loving parents who fed him a nutritious mixture of macaroni and cheese, sausage links, maple syrup and assorted marine bivalves. There he lived in relative bliss, only being troubled now and again by thoughts of being eaten alive by sharks or wild dogs. |
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Sherri Moore-Mott, Upper School Guidance Counselor and Learning Services Coordinator, grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and Burlington, NC. Before coming to CFS, she had ten years of employment as a mental health counselor, child and family therapist, and public school guidance counselor. Sherri holds two degrees from East Carolina University: a BA in English and an MS ED in Counselor Education, as well as a Master's degree from Duke University (M. Div.). Additionally, Sherri completed a one year clinical counseling and pastoral residency at Duke University Medical Center. She is a certified Hatha Yoga instructorand has taught Yoga outside of CFS for seven years. She is especially grateful that she works in an educational setting that has allowed her to embrace this passion through Yoga courses in US and a weekly community Yoga class. In addition to running tutorial and academic strategies courses, Sherri has taught Introduction to Psychology and is currently teaching a course on Emotional Intelligence. When Sherri is not teaching, she often finds herself in private one-on-one counseling dialogues with students. She offers a support group for students dealing with or curious about stress, anxiety, or depression. Sherri helps the staff by outlining a "snapshot" of a particular student's learning challenges and showing ways that may be helpful in supporting that student's learning. Sherri and her husband enjoy restoring their 100-year old home. Sherri also loves teaching Yoga, gardening, cross-stitch needlepoint, classic movies and reading. |
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Susan Kincaid began teaching at CFS in 1989. Susan graduated cum laude from Smith College in 1975, where she studied French history, language, and literature. After teaching for a year in a private Catholic school in Colorado, Susan moved to New York City where she pursued an acting career. She took classes at HB Studio and later studied under Bill Esper. She also worked closely with Lloyd Williamson and the Actor's Movement Studio. When not taking acting, voice, signing, and dance classes, or waiting on tables, Susan managed to perform in some off-off-Broadway productions.The most memorable was a magic and mime show in a theater that only sat 50 people. In the years between New York City and CFS, Susan worked in advertising, had two children, began a writing career, and even taught swimming to babies and aerobics to senior citizens. At CFS Susan wears many hats. She currently teaches Language Arts and Theater. What she appreciates most about CFS is the opportunity it has given her over the years to teach the subjects about which she is most passionate. Susan also teaches in the CFS Summer program, where she helps a new generation of actors and playwrights to bring their ideas to life. |
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Tim O'Hara teaches Math and Physics in the Upper School. His prior teaching experience includes teaching high school Math in Houston, TX and Guatemala City, Guatemala and teaching middle school math and science in Ankara, Turkey. Tim has degrees in Science, Business and Education and a diploma in Computer Programming. Besides anything mathematical, Tim is passionate about comics and has been collecting them for 22 years. |
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Wilhelmina (Willy) Rotella was born in Amsterdam, Holland and came to the US at the age of ten. After receiving a degree in early childhood education at SUNY-Cobleskill, NY, she taught preschoolers on Long Island followed by teaching at Duke's Education Improvement Program (EIP) as lead teacher of the infant program before starting a lengthy relationship at Carolina Friends School in 1970. She first taught at the Durham Early School and in 1981 began work at the Upper School where she's known as “cruise director.” In addition to her work at CFS, Willy spent four years at the National HIV/AIDS hotline in the Research Triangle. Willy holds down the main office in the Upper School, teaches and serves as advisor. She's the mother of two adult daughters, Jennifer and Danielle, and grandmother of one. When not working at CFS, Willy enjoys gardening, basketweaving, other crafty endeavors, and hanging out with her family. |
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