Our New Faculty KELSEY BUCKLEY - SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Kelsey graduated from Wheaton College in 2018 majoring in environmental science, with minors in animal behavior and journalism. While at Wheaton Kelsey was a four-year starter on the women’s field hockey team, captained the team and earned academic and league honors. She also played club ice hockey, acting as president her senior season. Highlights from Wheaton include studying abroad in Townsville, Australia, and traveling to Costa Rica and Belize for a tropical field biology course. After college, Kelsey completed an AmeriCorps year with New England Science and Sailing in New London, Connecticut. During her service year she had her first classroom experience, assisting in local classrooms and providing STEM after school programming that focused on getting underserved student groups out on the water. Her favorite moments from her service year included teaching students to sail and providing swim lessons to middle school students. While in New London she began taking classes to earn an M.A.T. degree. After AmeriCorps she went on to complete school placements as an intern and student teacher in southern Connecticut. At Portsmouth Abbey, Kelsey is teaching marine biology and biology. She is also coaching Varsity Field Hockey and JV Ice Hockey. Kelsey is an assistant Houseparent in St. Benet’s House.
PETER CAHILL - CLASSICS DEPARTMENT
Peter comes to the Abbey from his hometown of Dorchester, MA. The son of two Boston Public School teachers, Peter has been surrounded by teachers and coaches his entire life; he has always appreciated the diligence and commitment that goes into the profession. Having just graduated from Williams College in the spring of ‘21 with a degree in classics, Peter joined the Classics Department at Portsmouth Abbey, teaching Latin 1 as well as an introductory English course. Prior to attending Williams College, Peter was a Roxbury Latin student, an all-boys prep school in Boston where he played football, hockey and baseball. He graduated in 2015 and spent the following year as a post-graduate at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH. There he also played football, hockey and baseball for the Big Red. He then went on to play quarterback and safety for the football team at Williams. Peter’s year at Exeter gave him a unique perspective into House life here at the Abbey, where he is an assistant Houseparent in St. Aelred’s House. He is also an assistant on the Varsity Football coaching staff as well as head coach of our JV Boys’ Ice Hockey team. Outside of school, Peter is passionate about community service and started his own non-profit charity foundation in Boston with two of his best friends, called the “Dot Pot Foundation.” For the past six years, he has organized a charity street hockey tournament called the “Dot Pot” that raises money for local causes and has created a scholarship fund for young student-athletes in his hometown of Dorchester, MA. Peter is excited to be working with motivated young adults both in the classroom and on the playing fields here at Portsmouth Abbey.
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