New faculty appointed for 2007-2008

Stanstead College is pleased to announce the appointment of five new teachers for 2007-2008, including a new head coach for the school’s varsity boys hockey program.

Chris LaPerle, currently head hockey coach and general manager for Cleveland Barons Midget Major AAA Hockey Club in Cleveland, Ohio, will take over as head coach of the Senior Boys Spartans and teach in the school’s Math/Science Department. He replaces Mike McNamara, who during his 11-year tenure has helped build the boys hockey program into one of the best in the province.

Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Chris received his Bachelor of Science degree from New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University), where he earned four letters as a forward for the Penmen. He received his master’s in Sport Administration at SNHU in 2003.

Before moving to Ohio, Chris was the assistant hockey coach at Middlebury College in Vermont when they won back-to-back NCAA Men’s Division III Ice Hockey National Championships in 2005 and 2006 . He was volunteer assistant hockey coach for the University of Denver in 2003-2004 when the Pioneers won the NCAA Men’s Division I National Championship

Chris has also worked at summer hockey programs at the University of Maine and Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.

Returning to the Stanstead team will be Graham Chandler, who taught in the Math/Science Department here from 1997 to 2001. Graham will be teaching Geography and History, assisting in Admissions and coaching senior boys soccer and rugby.

Since 2001, Graham has been the head coach of Dalhousie University’s women’s soccer team. He was also head coach of the Atlanta Silverbacks Women of the United Soccer League in Atlanta, Georgia in 2005 and 2006 and was director of the National Training Centre (Atlantic) for the Canadian Soccer Association in Halifax from 2002 to 2005. Graham also has extensive volunteer coaching experience.

Replacing Music teacher Nathalie Roy will be D. Gavin Foster, who has just finished a three-year stint teaching in Ecuador. Gavin holds English, Music and Education degrees from Queen’s University, where he was artistic director of the jazz choir from 2001 to 2002. He was also assistant conductor of the Cantible Choirs in Kingston. Prior to teaching in Ecuador, Gavin was a supply teacher in Cornwall, Ont. and St-Regis, Que.

Gavin’s wife Rachel Foster will be teaching in Math/Science and coordinating the Learning Centre, which will be in place in September 2007. In Ecuador, she worked closely with special education and second language students, assisting their teachers to prepare lessons and implementing strategies for academic success.

Rachel has a B.Sc. and B.Ed. from Queen’s and is working on the second half of her Special Education certification.

Rachel has also worked as a literary coach, a Special Olympics swim coach and most recently as a supervisor for Habitat for Humanity in Ecuador.

Meaghan Fullerton is an alumnus of Stanstead College (Class of ’97) and a graduate of Queen’s University (BA Geography/History) and University of Ottawa (Education). She will be teaching in the Humanities Department and assisting with Stanstead’s ESL program.

Meaghan has taught ESL in South Korea and the Philippines and last year developed an after-school program for at-risk children at the Cridge Centre for the Family in Victoria, BC.

Stanstead College welcomes these new members of the faculty and wishes them all best of luck.