I loved my time at St Paul’s, but I went to New York for a year for the Klingenstein program for aspiring school leaders, and I came back to St. I have family here in New England, I went to Concord High School, my husband’s family is from New England, his brother works at Exeter, his sister lives in Vermont the ties are very strong. Paul’s forever.ĪH : You would definitely have a good seat in the Chapel.ĪR: Yes, well that’s true. I often told people that, if it hadn’t been for the Klingenstein program, I would have stayed at St. I received a Klingenstein Fellowship in 1992 and I went to New York for the year – from Concord, N.H., to 120th and Amsterdam, which was a little bit of interplanetary travel, to say the least. Paul’s?ĪR: I was on sabbatical one of those years. Paul’s has with the greater Concord community.ĪH : What do you feel you learned about yourself and about what you wanted to do next based on those 10 years at St. That creates an all-inclusive set of experiences that helped me understand the relationship St. I was hired in 1984 I taught math, I lived in Armour (then the infirmary), worked in Middle, I lived and worked in Kitt, I lived in the Miller’s Cottage and worked in Ford. Because of the immersion that one embraces when you’re a teacher here, I suddenly came to understand that the job is so all-encompassing that there really is very little in the way of opportunities to branch out beyond the campus. I wasn’t even entirely sure it was co-ed as of 1984.ĪH : How did your perception change once you got inside the campus?ĪR: Once I was here, I understood how it came to be that I could have lived literally down the road from this institution and known so little about it. Despite having grown up just down the road, I knew nothing about St. At the end of two years, the district said to me, ‘You either have to get a credential, or you have to find other work.’ I ended up interviewing for a position at St. Because I was a math major, not a math education major, I did not have a teaching credential. I was hired by Concord High School I taught physics as a permanent substitute and then I came back the next year and taught mathematics. One, I got married when I was in college. I thought I was going to be an actuary, but a couple of things got me off that path. Alumni Horae : What attracted you to the field of education?Īmy Richards: I went to college knowing I was going to major in math, but I was convinced I wasn’t going to be a teacher.
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