Faculty

HS Humanities, Core Faculty

Chris Segrave-Daly, M.A. in Humanities, University of Chicago (American history and literature as well as African-American studies); BA in English, Villanova University. Prior to Monadnock, Chris taught high school English for seven years at Rudolf Steiner School in New York City, where he also served as a member of the Board of Trustees, a class mentor, a co-leader of the annual junior class trip to Kimberton Camphill, and his school’s delegate to the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America.  Chris Segrave-Daly and his wife Amishi have three young children.

HS Humanities, Core Faculty

Karl Schurman, B.S., Empire State College; Princeton University; NYU Undergraduate Film School; Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program, New England Center for Anthroposophy (certificate of completion).  Karl has been teaching since 2002 in Waldorf high schools and also in upper grades as a class teacher, notably at Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge, NY. Over three decades of self-employed freelancing in the film business in New York City preceded Karl's Waldorf teaching career with work all over the US and in many parts of the world, including shooting the PBS documentary “The World of Mother Teresa.” He maintains a deep interest in cinema history, the French language, Native America and mystical Sufi poetry.  He spent his own high school years in Brussels, Belgium.  Three of his four grown children are Waldorf high school graduates.

New World Languages, French

Céline Gendron, B.A., Université Québec à Montréal; Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program, New England Center for Anthroposophy (certificate of completion).  Céline grew up on a farm in Québec, Canada and came to the US in her mid-twenties to work in curative education in the Camphill Communities in Kimberton, PA.  For several years she lived at the Lukas Community in Temple, NH as a co-worker, house-parent, member of the administrative staff, and as Executive Director of the Lukas Foundation.  After completing her high school training, she went on to teach French in grades one through seven at the Kimberton Waldorf School and later grades ten through twelve at Green Meadow Waldorf School in New York. 

Mathematics

Connie Gerwin, B.A., California State University; Waldorf Institute of Southern California.  Connie has taught algebra and geometry in Waldorf high schools for over thirty years, first at Highland Hall in Northridge, CA, then at High Mowing School in Wilton, NH and more recently at Hartsbrook School in Hadley, MA, Merriconeag Waldorf School in Maine and Lake Champlain Waldorf School in Vermont.  She serves as a mentor to Waldorf high school math teachers and offers talks and workshops throughout North America. 

Life Sciences 

Douglas Gerwin, Ph.D. is the Director of the Center for Anthroposophy in Wilton, where among other responsibilities he helps to train Waldorf high school teachers (including Mr. Schurman and Mme Gendron).  He has extensive high school and university teaching experience in life sciences, history, literature, German, and music.  A Waldorf graduate himself, he is the author of several books and many articles.  He is the co-author of the longitudinal study of Waldorf graduates called The Results of Waldorf Education and his recent work includes researching and developing a sexual education curriculum for Waldorf students in grades four through twelve.

Earth Sciences
Lisa Damian, B.S. (biology and environmental science); certified in Spatial Dynamics and Bothmer Gymnastics.  Lisa is a Waldorf high school science teacher with over 19 years of experience. She was a founding faculty member of the Emerson Waldorf High School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Eurythmy
Mollie Amies, Dipl. Eurythmy, born and educated in England, studied eurythmy in Dornach, Switzerland with Lea van der Pals. Mollie has performed eurythmy in both Europe and the US and was an instructor at the School of Eurythmy in Spring Valley, NY for over sixteen years. She brings her years of experience as a performer and teacher to her work at Monadnock Waldorf School in Keene, where she practices hygienic eurythmy and offers courses for adults.

Instrumental/Chorus
Nell Wiener, B.A., Wellesley College (music). Nell is an experienced youth and children's choir director and is a viola player. She has been part of the Wellesley-Brandeis Orchestra as well as the Pioneer Symphony Orchestra in her hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Nell is herself a Waldorf alumna.

Movement Education
Peter Schoen received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Waldorf training in sculpture at Emerson College, Sussex, England. In the mid-eighties, Peter taught artistic blocks in Waldorf schools in the northeast - including two at MWS! Before moving to New Hampshire in 2002, Peter was a faculty member for 12 years at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School in Ghent, New York where he taught shop, modeling, arts and crafts and main lesson blocks in the high school. He has coached volleyball and is an avid tennis player. Peter enjoys many other outdoor activities including skiing, mountain climbing, and backpacking.