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Trevor Worcester to serve as Interim Head of Upper School for 2017-18
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Ben Schachter Executive Editor
In his senior year at Bowdoin College, Upper School Modern and Classical Languages Chair Trevor Worcester was preparing for life as a stand-up comedian. He had his act down and he’d already performed a handful of times at open mics, but in order to support himself before achieving success as a comic, he needed a day job. So he accepted a position as a Latin teacher at Cardigan Mountain School in New Hampshire. “Teaching Latin was a secondary thing. I truly thought I was going to be a stand-up comedian. I thought I could [teach] during the week, and then go into Boston and do my comic thing, and that that will be my job,” said Mr. Worcester. “It never happened because I fell in love with teaching.” Twenty-three years after the start of his short-lived stand-up comedy career, Mr. Worcester is poised to take over as Interim Head of Upper School for the 2017-2018 school year. This new assignment follows the departure of Head of Upper School Laura Ross as she heads to HarvardWestlake School in Los Angeles. However, 19 years ago, Mr. Worcester was reluctant to even come to Dallas to interview for the position as a
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Latin teacher. “Being from New England, I was sort of like, ‘Dallas, really?’ I pushed it off because I really wanted to stay in New England with the rest of my family,” said Mr. Worcester. “Eventually, I got a voicemail from [Assistant Head of School Tom Perryman] 19 years ago that said, ‘Trevor, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and if you just give us a chance and come on down, I’m sure we can work something out.’ I was sort of like, ‘What have I got to lose?’” Mr. Worcester asserts that his New England upbringing (he was born and raised in Maine) remains with him through his teaching style and decision-making process—not to mention the Celtics, Red Sox and Patriots gear adorning the walls of his cubicle. “New Englanders are known to be pretty practical, and I think that comes through in me. I’m not one to make changes simply for change sake. I want to know what’s the purpose of something, what’s the rationale behind something, what’s the research behind it and then let’s do it. This is not to say it takes me months or years to make a decision, but I want to hear both sides of the story before doing something,” he said.
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