MAKING NEWS
Moving In! Zachary Bates joins the Math Department, coming to LA from the Rectory School in Connecticut, where he served as a math teacher and tutor and coached football, wrestling, and track and field at the varsity level. Born in Leyden, Mass., Zack received his BS at Bridgewater State University. He enjoys the outdoors and sports of any kind. In fact, he is a big Boston sports fan and enjoys watching all of the home teams. He is excited to be teaching and coaching at LA and glad to be nearer to his family. He will live on campus and be involved in the residential program. Kristen Brundage, ATC, LAT, will serve as a part-time assistant athletic trainer. She comes to LA from Middlesex School, where she served as an athletic trainer. Kristen is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a BS in athletic training. She also spent time in Ireland at the Institute of Technology in Carlow, studying sports rehabilitation and neuromuscular skeletal assessment.
Jenny Cooper will serve as LA’s music director. The daughter of boarding school faculty parents, she grew up in New Hampshire and Maine, living and studying at Kimball Union Academy, Berwick Academy, Brewster Academy, and the Wolfeboro Camp School. She earned a BA in voice performance and pedagogy from Plymouth State University and an MM in choral conducting from the University of Southern Maine. She comes to LA from New Hampton School, where she served as a private voice teacher. Before that, Jenny was the choral music teacher at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, where she founded the Gould Academy Singers. She enjoys great historical fiction, cross-disciplinary performance art, traveling and exploring the world through music, and coming home to New England. Jenny, her fiancée Lisa, and Kona, their chocolate lab, will live in Dr. Green House.
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Betsy Cote joins the development team as director of development. She comes to LA from Massachusetts General Hospital, where she served in the development department for 16 years, the last three as their director of development. She is also a PR veteran, having served many area non-profits, including Nashoba Hospital. A graduate of The University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Betsy grew up in Ayer and currently resides in Lunenburg with her husband David, two children, 14-year-old Abigail, an incoming LA freshman, and 11-year-old Jack, and their Goldendoodle, Chester. Outside of work, Betsy enjoys playing golf, gardening, and watching her children play competitive sports.
Hannah Hallock is one of two new hires in the Science Department. Originally from Newburyport, Mass., she is coming to us from southern New Hampshire. Hannah has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Brandeis University and recently graduated with a master’s degree in geochemistry from Dartmouth College, where she was a teaching assistant at the graduate level in Geochemistry and Disasters and Catastrophes and Sedimentary Petrology. She enjoys running, hiking, and being outdoors and will live on campus and serve in the residential program.
Kiley Horne joins LA’s Science Department. She is a recent graduate of Merrimack College, with a major in biology and a minor in education. She served at Phillips Andover Academy as a teaching fellow this past year. Kiley will live on campus and be active in the residential program.
