Faculty
Core Faculty
Andree T. Ward - Alkion Center: Early Childhood Specialization; Waldorf School: Early Childhood Teacher
B.A. in Liberal Arts from the University of Texas; M.A. in Early Childhood Education from Columbia University.
Andree T. Ward is currently teaching Parent-Child classes at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School. She has been a Waldorf Early Childhood educator at HVS since 1982, teaching Kindergarten, Nursery, and Parent-Child classes. Her other professional responsibilities include mentoring and evaluating Waldorf Early Childhood teachers and evaluating developing member schools for the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN).
Andree participates in the annual WECAN conferences in Spring Valley, NY and has also attended several international conferences in Dornach, Switzerland. She has gained further professional development by attending conferences which focus on specific topics, such as puppetry and birth-to-three. She has attended Association of Waldorf Schools of North American (AWSNA) conferences as the delegate for HVS. She is a member of WECAN, the Anthroposophical Society, First Class, and Pedagogical Section. Andree is a core member of the Alkion Center since its inception and teaches in the two year Foundation Studies program and the annual Summer Intensive. She directs the courses in the Early Childhood Specialization of the Waldorf Teacher Training Program.
Eric Müller - Alkion Center: Director of Teacher Education, Anthroposophical Studies, History through Music and English Teacher
Eric Muller is an English teacher in the high school. Other aspects of his Hawthorne Valley School role are being a student advisor, Grade Ten class advisor, chaperoning the annual Italy trip, working on design committee, music committee and council. He also helps with teacher development and was co-founder of the Alkion Center, where he is the Director of Teacher Education, Anthroposophical Studies, and History through Music. Eric holds a B.A. in History and Literature from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He completed the Foundation Year course for Waldorf teacher training at Emerson College in England and studied Education in Music at the Institute for Waldorf Pedagogy. Eric has taught at Bochum Waldorf Schule, the Eugene Waldorf School, at the Eugene Teacher Training Center, and Simon’s Rock College. Eric’s interests and hobbies include writing and composing music. For more information about his work, please visit his website.
Lynne Blankenship Stolfo - Eurythmy
B.S. in Education, Southwest Missouri State University; Diploma of Eurythmy, Spring Valley, NY; Diploma of Therapeutic Eurythmy, Copake, NY.
Lynne is a performing, pedagogical and therapeutic eurythmist. Besides having an extensive background in dance, choreography, physical education, early childhood education, and yoga, she has enjoyed teaching color eurythmy for painting courses, high school students in Waldorf Schools, and therapeutic eurythmy at Triform. Currently, she is busy being a long distance parent to six wonderful, adult children and working with the elderly in the healthcare profession.
Martina Angella Müller - Alkion Center: Painting and Drawing, Inner Development, Visual Arts Training, Administrator; School: Art Teacher
Martina Muller is a High School Art Teacher. She studied English and Art at Ruhruniveritaet in Bochum, Germany, received a certificate in English proficiency from Cambridge University & studied Art at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. Her Waldorf training includes Foundation Year at Emerson College, England & training as a High School Art Teacher at Institut fuer Waldorfpaedagogik in Witten, Germany. She has taught Painting at Eugene Waldorf School, Painting at Waldorf Teacher Training Institute in Eugene, Oregon where she is a founding member & Painting/Drawing and Inner Development at Alkion Center where she is also a founding member. She taught at the New Hampshire Center for Anthroposophy, is a member of the Anthroposophical Society, a member of the School of Spiritual Science, is a founding member of Gallery 345 in Hudson, New York, is a recipient of the Credere Grant, a published children’s book illustrator & an exhibiting artist and graphic designer focused on Anthroposophical Institutions. Her interests include painting, sculpture, music, European travel and reading. For more information about her art work, please visit her website.
Patrick Stolfo - Alkion Center: Anthroposophical and Pedagogical Studies, History through Art, Clay Modeling, and Sculpture; Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School: History through Art and Architecture, Sculpture
M.A. in Waldorf Education from Mercy College of Detroit, B.F.A. from Wayne State University.
Patrick Stolfo, B.F.A., M.A., is an educator and practicing artist. He studied fine arts at Wayne State University in Detroit and at Emerson College in England and education at the Waldorf Institute / Mercy College of Detroit. He has taught students at the middle school, high school, and adult levels since 1978 in clay sculpture, ceramics, woodcarving, stone carving, drawing, the history of art and architecture, philosophy, anthroposophy, and Waldorf pedagogy.
While continuing to mentor teachers and teach special subject arts blocks at several Waldorf schools, during his 22 years of full time involvement at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School he was also engaged in various aspects of school governance and administration, mostly as High School Chair. He has taught courses in numerous Waldorf Teacher Training programs across North America, is currently a core faculty member at the Alkion Center at Hawthorne Valley, and is an adjunct instructor at Antioch University, New England, and the Center for Anthroposophy in New Hampshire.
Adjunct Faculty
Douglas Sloan
Douglas Sloan, Ph.D. is retired Professor of History and Education Emeritus at Teachers College, Columbia University. For many years he was also Adjunct Professor of Religion and Education at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale University Divinity School and a doctorate in history and education from Columbia University. Among his books are The Great Awakening and American Education, Insight-Imagination: The Emancipation of Thought and the Modern World, and Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education.
John Barnes
Mr. Barnes was born in New York City, has a BA from Bowdoin College and an MA from Tufts University and has lived in Germany for many years. He is a publisher and editor-in-chief of Adonis Press, which publishes books on phenomena-centered science. He began his professional career as a Waldorf teacher and has devoted the last 10 years of his life to writing and publishing. Mr. Barnes is the author of Goethe and the Power of Rhythm, a biographical essay, and Participatory Science as the Basis for a Healing Culture (in Nature's Open Secret). He is a Waldorf teacher, publisher, and adult education teacher at the Hawthorne Valley Alkion Center. He is a founding board member of The Nature Institute.
Visiting Faculty (varies year to year)
Gloria Kemp (Education/Anthroposophy)
Gary Lamb (Three Fold Society)
John McManus (Speech)
Craig Holdrege (Goethean Science)
Henrike Holdrege (Projective Geometry)
Steve Simonak (Geometry)
Phyllis Skaller (Remedial Education)
Almuth Kretz (Handwork)
Harry Kretz (Mathematics)
Stuart Summer (Physics)
Laura Summer (Art)
Beatrice Birch (Curative Art)
Steffen Schneider (Hawthorne Valley Farm)
Dr. Margaretha Hertle (Medicine)
Regine Shemroske (Physics)
Leo Sanchez (Spatial Dynamics)
Channa Seidenburg (Music)
David Anderson (Speech & Drama)
Candace Bachrach (Kindergarten)
Janene Ping (Puppet Theater)
Kevin Kilb (Chemistry)
Seth Morrison (Curative Eurythmy)
Kim John Payne (Counseling)
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