TOM DE CARLO – DIRECTOR OF ACADEMICS, ENGLISH TEACHER

BA English/Education, Dartmouth College, 1978.  EdM Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1990. Tom has been a Hurricane Island Outward Bound instructor, sailed transatlantic in 1972, owned and managed an Italian restaurant, and has bike toured in Italy, Ireland and New Zealand. These days, when not tending to BMA duties, he's pulling garden weeds and helping his wife Hilary take care of Sobota and Cody (horses), Kenai (a Lab/German Short Haired Pointer), and Freida Lulu, an orange and white striped cat.

VIVIAN BUCKLEY – MATH TEACHER

MS Lyndon State College, 2001. BS Lyndon State College, 1993.  BS University of Maine, 1989.
After teaching 12 years in area private and public schools, Viv finally found her way to BMA in 2005.  She considers her position at BMA to be the ideal job.   Viv and her husband Dave continue to work on the house they’ve been building since 1996.  They manage their 200 acre property in Waterford, VT for wood, wildlife and recreation.  Waterford is the perfect spot because it lies between The White Mountains of NH and East Burke, VT, Viv’s favorite places to bike, hike and ski.

ALISON CHADBOURNE – WINTER TERM MATH & HISTORY Teacher

Masters of Education, University of Utah, 2005. BA Psychology, Bates College 2000
Alison has been teaching in public and private schools for four years.  Prior to earning her Masters Degree in teaching and learning she spent four years working in neuroscience and psychology laboratories at Dartmouth College and the University of Utah.  She is the proud mother of two young girls and is married to Alpine Director Adam.

David IVERSON - Science & Math Teacher

MS Physics Kansas State University, BA Physics University of Rochester.
2005 VARA Alpine Official of the year.
Despite having Midwestern parents, and a degree from K-State, David was born and raised in Syracuse, New York.  A lifelong Nordic skier, David's first job out of grad school introduced him to the concept of the ski academy.  Fifteen years later, he is excited to be returning for his third year at BMA.  When he is not teaching or timing races, he will most likely be on top of a mountain, skiing up or down hills, or generally off in the woods somewhere.

REID JEWETT – HUMANITIES TEACHER

BA American History, Boston University M.A. American History, Brown University
A native of Washington, DC, Reid has been living in Boston for the last three years while completing her undergraduate and graduate degrees in American History. Before moving to Boston, Reid spent two years at Wesleyan University, where she cultivated her interest in black history by studying comparative slavery in the Americas. Though new to the Kingdom, Reid has spent summers in the Adirondack Mountains and is looking forward to moving to Vermont full time for her first winter in the mountains.

Marysia Miernowska - ART Teacher & Spanish Tutor

Marysia graduated with honors and with three BAs from the University of Minnesota, in 2005: Art, Architecture, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies. Her sense of adventure and passion for art and languages has taken her all over the world. After getting married to David (French Teacher) in France, she worked as a community organizer and designer in California. She joined BMA in 2007 and lives with David in Moulton. Marysia continues to work independently as an artist and is passionate about teaching art to people of all ages. She spent this last summer teaching at an art camp in the Berkshires and is excited about bringing new media into the art program. In her free time, Marysia loves to paint, dance, hike, ski, snow shoe, bike, garden, read, learn, and practice yoga.

David Sainsily - FRENCH teacher

David joined BMA in 2007.  He was born in French Guiana (South America), an overseas department of France. He graduated from the University of Paul Valery, France in English and Portuguese. After marrying Marysia (Art teacher), and teaching French in Brazil for a month, he moved to California where he taught French at the Sierra College. During the summer of 2009, David directed a French Language Immersion program for Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy and The Center for Talented Youth (Johns Hopkins University, MD). David loves snowboarding, playing soccer and basketball.

LAUREN STRUCK – CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY TEACHER, DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE PLACEMENT, WINTER TERM CURRICULUM COORDINATOR

BA Colgate University, MTS Harvard University
Lauren grew up in the Midwest, but has been living in the Northeast Kingdom since 2000.  After working at a local boarding school for four years, Lauren joined the Burke community in 2004.  Though she knew nothing about the ski racing world when she arrived, she quickly learned to appreciate the passion and dedication of students and staff alike.  She currently lives in Sutton with her husband, Jamie, and two young children – McKinley (4) and Holden (2).  In between her responsibilities at Burke and at home, Lauren can be found exploring the mountain on her telemark skis or her mountain bike, depending on the season.

PETE PHILLIPS – HUMANITIES TEACHER

BA in Scandinavian Studies and English, U of Washington 1969. This is Pete’s 4th year as head Nordic Coach at Burke. Pete previously worked with programs in Sun Valley, Idaho, Whitefish and Bozeman, Montana, and in Lake Placid, New York. He has been a coach for the US Scandinavian Cup Team, and the US World Junior Team, as well as having organized summer and spring training and competition trips to Sweden and Norway. He brought "The Sweden Trip,” a training tour in cooperation with the Solleftea Ski Gymnasium in Sweden, to BMA with him, and ran it for the 9th summer this year. Pete has also arranged for visiting Scandinavian athletes to spend time with US programs, and is chairman of the NENSA Jr. Committee. Special interests for the program at BMA are to continue to develop the classroom side of xc ski racing with courses in the "why's and how's" of training, building a solid program for resident and PG athletes, and creating an active exchange of people and information with European ski academies. Interests beyond skiing are sailing, reading, bird hunting, fishing and food.