Greenhill After Dark Instructors
With doctorates in international subjects (she in African history and he in Russian history), Carole and Ray Buchanan have spent their 35 years of teaching searching for the broader and integrative context for human experiences. Teaching advanced level courses at the college and high school level and extensive travel in Russia, Africa, Europe and Asia sharpened this interest. They find special delight in exploring how plants, psychology, and aesthetics provide us with special insights into human nature.
After nine years as a member of the Modern & Classical Languages department at Greenhill School, Edith Dulles-Lawlis has returned to teaching Spanish to adults and tutoring individuals. The conversation method she uses has been in wide use since 1978. Edith grew up in Monterrey, Mexico, earned a B.A. at Mt. Holyoke College in Mass., and an M.A. at the University of Texas at Austin. She loves teaching!
Christine Eastus taught upper school English at Greenhill for 35 years. Now “retired,” she directs Greenhill After Dark and fulfills a long-standing dream: making the talents of the Greenhill community available to adults. She holds her M.A. in Literature from the University of Texas at Austin.
This is Courtney Elliott Itson’s second year teaching history in Greenhill’s Upper School. A graduate of The Hockaday School, she earned a bachelor’s in history from Rhodes College and a master’s in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Courtney has taught previously at two independent schools and worked at Southern Methodist University. Outside the classroom, she’s a frequent traveler and enjoys exploring museums wherever she goes.
Warren Frerichs has lived, studied, and taught in Taiwan, mainland China, Japan, and Korea. He has studied several styles of taijiquan with a number of different teachers. He currently teaches Chinese language and courses in East Asian studies at Greenhill.
Barbara Graves taught at Greenhill from 1980 until retiring this past June. She completed a Ph.D. in English, with emphasis on the interactions of literature, art, and history, from the University of Oklahoma. Her personal academic passions remain contemporary poetry, literature and pop culture, and the philosophical and social implications of language in all its forms.
Dan Kasten has taught in the Greenhill English department for twenty-five years. His interest in world religions and spirituality arises in part from ten years experience living abroad in Turkey, Japan, and England. For nearly twenty years he has taught a successful senior elective in world religions. He also teaches a history elective called “Inner Light,” which explores meditative traditions around the world. He has a Master's in English Literature from St. Cloud University in Minnesota.
Michael Legacy has taught statistics for the past 18 years, and Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics since 1997. From 2001 to 2005, he served on the AP Statistics Development Committee, which writes the annual AP exam. In 2006, he published the Prep for the AP Exam Guide companion to the third edition of the popular textbook, The Practice of Statistics, by Yates, Moore, and Starnes. Michael also authored The Teacher’s Guide for AP Statistics, which will be published by the College Board in December 2007.
Frank Lopez is an editorial, corporate and former society wedding photographer. He has taught at the college and professional workshop level and is in his second year at Greenhill. Frank is currently in production of a portfolio from his summer trip to Vietnam and will be traveling to China in the coming year. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and in Japan, and is held in numerous private collections. Frank works primarily with alternative shooting techniques; utilizing pinhole photography, historical cameras and toy cameras.
Peggy Norvell Turlington ’75 has guided gifted writers in individual tutorials at Greenhill for the last few years. She has taught English at Greenhill and Greensboro Country Day School and published several short stories. Currently, she is working on a longer project aimed at teen readers.
Jack Oros has taught upper school math at Greenhill School for the past 17 years. This is his 26th year of teaching. He has been a member of the Dallas Symphony Chorus since 1993, where, besides singing locally, he has sung in Israel and Europe. Long-known campus-wide for his culinary skills, this is the third year Jack is offering his cooking classes.
John Perryman graduated from Greenhill in 1986 and majored in English at Williams College. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas and wrote his dissertation on the American antecedents of T. S. Eliot's variety of modernism. He has recently published work in The Southern Humanities Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and The South Carolina Review.
Mary Rhoades graduated from Greenhill in 1981 and from Skidmore College in 1985, with a degree in Economics and Philosophy. After college, Mary had a short stint in Public Affairs (much more enticing than Public Relations). Today, in addition to raising her children and caring for her family and supporting her husband in building their helicopter charter service, Zebra Air (you can see the zebra striped helicopter daily flying the skies of Dallas for live broadcasts of radio and TV traffic reports), she is an avid and highly experienced gardener with extensive contacts throughout the Dallas gardening community, including the Dallas Arboretum.
Sue Roman has taught Government at Greenhill for 37 years. She first became interested in politics when Warren Harding was elected President. She is a legend in her own time, a veritable fount of political information who has managed to keep her private leanings a mystery for all these years.
Jelcy Romberg is a former Greenhill parent and frequent substitute teacher who has taught beading professionally for the past seven years. When she’s not on campus, she’s often traveling, teaching various beading, chain making and wire wrapping techniques. She teaches classes across the United States and Canada, as well as on the high seas, where she spends four to six weeks a year teaching beading classes to cruise ship passengers. You can learn more at www.jelcy.com.
Tony Schraufnagel received his M.F.A. in sculpture from the University of North Texas in 1996. He has exhibited both locally and nationally; recent exhibitions include the peacock for the 2007 Greenhill School Parents Association Gala, The Addison Conference Center Outdoor Sculpture Garden in Addison, Texas, and The Navy Pier in Chicago. Tony has held teaching positions at Texas Tech University, The University of North Texas and Texas Woman’s University. He has taught sculpture and ceramics at Greenhill School for the past eight years, and he recently completed the construction of a home studio.
For questions, contact Christine Eastus at afterdark@greenhill.org, or by phone at (972) 628-5441.