Life came full circle when I returned to Milton in the fall of 1999, 27 years after graduating in 1972. After graduation, I earned a BA in English and a master’s in education from Harvard. I worked at Houghton Mifflin for a year as an editor, and at five different schools around the country. This peripatetic approach has allowed me to learn about different communities and wear a number of hats, including full-time teacher, boarding house head, varsity coach, dean of students, Upper School principal and college counselor. For the past 17 years, my professional life has centered on college counseling. Before coming to Milton, I served as director of college counseling both at the Ransom Everglades School in Miami and at Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, Florida.

I live on campus with my wife Nancy, a fundraising consultant. Daughter Eliza, Milton 2003, and son Cam, Milton 2005, have headed off to college themselves and left us to contemplate empty-nest living with Phelanie, our now long-in-the-tooth but still spry dog. In addition to college counseling, I advise students in Norris House; act as faculty sponsor for Three For Each Of Us, Milton’s coed a cappella singing group, Habitat for Humanity, and Gender Equity Committee; serve on several school committees; co-teach student aides for Milton’s Human Sexuality and Relationships class; work as a faculty member for the Harvard Summer Institute for College Admission and for the Boarding Staff Conference at Milton; write articles; and sing whenever time and opportunity permit. In my spare time, I like to cook, read, spend as much time with my children as they can endure and as much time with my wife as the two of us can find, listen to music, and indulge in ill-fated household projects. It is a full and happy life.

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