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VOLUME 65, NUMBER 4 FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Joe Milliet named to Master Teaching Chair
by Aaron Thorne fter 12 years as the Mathematics Department chair, Joe Milliet was appointed to the position of the Patrick and Suzanne McGee Family Master Teaching Chair in Mathematics, filling the position of J.T. Sutcliffe, who is retiring at the end of the school year. Rather than conducting a nationwide search to hire a Master Teaching Chair replacement for Sutcliffe, Headmaster David Dini and Associate Headmaster John Ashton selected Milliet to fill the position. “[Dini and Ashton] formally called me in fall of this year when Ms. Sutcliffe made it formal and turned in a formal notice of retirement,” Milliet said. “They called a faculty meeting and announced it to the faculty in December. Then it got released online in January. I didn’t go through a big application or anything like that.”
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When Milliet became department chair 12 years ago, he began to campaign for the addition of a Master Teaching Chair in Mathematics. “There were master teaching chair positions in other departments dedicated to the department, but there was not a master teaching chair dedicated just to mathematics,” Milliet said. “Just a couple years into my time, the McGees, who I taught both sons who went here, donated the money and endowed the fund for the Master Teaching Chair in Mathematics. I was really happy that we finally had a Master Teaching Chair. Milliet, who has written national math exams, done 24 years of conferences and summer institutes and worked two day institutes for AP courses all across the country, will have more time freed up to focus his efforts on 10600 Preston Rd. Milliet is excited about the switch from department chair to master teaching chair because it allows him up to do two things he really enjoys to do as a math instructor. “One is getting to spend more time with students — that makes me really happy. The other is to focus on the art of teaching,” Milliet said. “Both of those things will be so pleasant to just do that and not be in a hurry to write a test and not be in a hurry to do this or that. I will have some time on my hands.”