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Instructor ♦ Writing Sequence Mrs. Byington has a B.A. in technical writing from the University of Washington, and now works as a technical writer in the aerospace industry. She also keeps active as a freelance writer and has several magazine articles and a full-length musical to her credit. She taught writing, grammar, and classical guitar at her local school district's program for homeschoolers; business writing at a technical college; and every subject imaginable when she homeschooled her son.
Instructor ♦ History Sequence Mr. Christiansen began studying history at a very early age, received his BA in History from Earlham College in 2006, and is currently enrolled in Earlham's MAT graduate program. He has taught US History and World History in Indiana, and is currently working in an after-school tutoring program with students aged 8 to 18. While at Earlham he dabbled in the classics, and ventured as far as Greece for a month. His focus in History was divided between European and American history, with additional courses of study in the history of the Mediterranean region, Russia, and Japan.
Instructor ♦ Classics Sequence
Miss Sasha Decker was homeschooled through high school, during which time she discovered her love of classical languages and literature under the tutelage of Scholars Online instructor Dr. Bruce McMenomy. She pursued further studies in Latin and Greek at the University of Dallas, as well as studying for a semester in Rome. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and Eta Sigma Phi (the national classics honors society), she graduated summa cum laude in May 2006 with a B.A. in Classical Philology, concentrating in Latin literature. She also received the Father Placid award in Classics from the University of Dallas Classics department.
Special areas of study have included Horace's Satires and the poetry of Catullus. Her undergraduate thesis was on a poem she has loved ever since she first encountered it in Scholars Online's Western Literature to Dante class in 1998 — Catullus' Carmen 64. Miss Decker tutored Latin and Greek for the University of Dallas, and she has also tutored both languages privately for several years. She is a co-owner of Refracted Light, a website devoted to reviewing fantasy literature from a Christian perspective. Besides classical languages and literature, her other loves include opera and English literature.
Instructor ♦ Latin Sequence Mrs. Susan Dennis has taught Latin classes online and in Southern California for the past four years. She holds a B.A. degree in English (with a minor in French) and a M.M. degree in Piano Performance from Texas Tech University. Besides homeschooling her four children, she has taught piano for over twenty-five years. Mrs. Dennis lives in Orange County, California with her husband and their two youngest children.
Instructor ♦ Classics Sequence
Mrs. Sarah Esposito has been involved in online education since 1997,
when she first began taking courses from Scholars' Online Academy. As
a graduate of the Latin and English sequences and a long time student
of Dr. Bruce and Dr. Christe McMenomy, she will be a second-generation
teacher at Scholars Online.
Sarah received her BA in Classics from Middlebury College in March,
2006. While in college, she studied Greek and Roman history and
archeology in Sicily, Naples, and Rome on the Intercollegiate Center
for Classical Studies' Semester in Rome Program. She also had the
opportunity to work as a research assistant to Prof. Randall Ganiban
on the Focus Press Aeneid Commentary Project over the summer of 2005.
Her undergraduate work was on Vergil's Georgics and its Greek literary
models, and she is currently in her second year of studying Greek and
Latin literature in the Classics graduate program at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Instructor ♦ Math Sequence Mrs. Christy Frary has a Masters in Teaching from Willamette University.
She taught mathematics both in public schools (seventh and eighth grade
mathematics) and privately (Pre-algebra through pre-calculus) for over fifteen
years. She has spent the last eight years running a private tutoring business
and consulting with families on graduation and college requirements.
Christy remains active in the mathematics community through various
professional organizations, such as Puget Sound Council of Teachers of
Mathematics and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Instructor ♦ Modern Language Sequence Miss Rosamund Hodge was homeschooled all the way through high school and took her first SOLA/RCA classes when she was thirteen. She went on to earn her B.A. in English at the University of Dallas, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. In 2007 she received an M.St. from Oxford University after completing a dissertation about Old Icelandic literature and Middle English romance.
Instructor ♦ Programming Sequence
Mr. John Hogan received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1974, being among the first to earn this newly-created degree. He proceeded with some post-graduate studies there for two more years before entering the workforce.
John learned to program computers in high school during the 1960’s, pursued this interest in college, even though it had no formal degree program when he entered. He has worked in the IT industry for over 30 years. He has extensive experience both in using a variety of programming and scripting languages and supporting programmers on both IBM mainframes and UNIX servers.
John has regularly taught beginners in the game of Go at the Seattle Go Center for 10 years and is regarded as one of their best teachers; he has assisted at the Youth program at the annual Go conference for several years and has recently worked at youth Go camps. His teaching style is to assist students discover concepts and ideas rather than merely to hand out information.
Instructor ♦ History Sequence — Writing Sequence Mrs. Howard received her Bachelor of Arts in History from Pitzer College. She taught World History, Grammar, and Dialectic Writing for SOLA/RCA (ISLAS) between 1998 and 2002, and, with her husband Andrew, also homeschooled their younger daughter during this period.
Instructor ♦ Writing Sequence Miss Emily Jennings was homeschooled from kindergarten through high school and studied English with Dr. Bruce McMenomy. She was awarded a National Merit Scholarship in 2005 and a 4-year full scholarship to the University of Tulsa, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2009 with a BA in Classics and Philosophy. As an undergraduate, she won school competitions for Greek and Latin, as well as the departmental award in philosophy, and was an Honors Fellow with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. A violinist and certified Suzuki instructor, she has taught violin to children ages 7 through 14. She currently works as a professional musician with the Tulsa Signature Symphony while preparing to attend law school in fall 2010. In her spare time, Emily enjoys creative writing, sewing, and gardening.
Instructor ♦ Mathematics Sequence Mr. Mabbott, M.S., is a mathematics teacher with more than 30 years experience. He has taught in grades 4-12 in both public and private schools around the Pacific Northwest as well as at the university level. Currently he is a mathematics specialist for secondary schools with Seattle Schools and an Adjunct Professor at Seattle University, College of Education. He earned a Master Degree in Mathematics and continues to deliver and engage in professional development and advanced training thru the Northwest Mathematics Interactions, the University of Washington and the Institute for Advanced Study/Park City Mathematics Institute. Mr. Mabbott is a perennial presenter at Northwest, Regional, and National Mathematics Conferences, offering back to his professional peers his years of experience. In addition to being a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, he is the most recent past president of the Puget Sound Council.
Instructor ♦ Classics Sequence — Literature Sequence Dr. Bruce McMenomy received his B.A. from Pomona College, an M. A. in History and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from UCLA. His field of specialization is Mediaeval Latin, and his dissertation an editio princeps of the first part of Claudius of Turin's (ca. 815) commentary on the Gospel of Matthew — the completion of which was somewhat delayed while he was homeschooling his own three children. Dr. McMenomy has taught online courses in history, literature, Greek, Latin, and Old English through the Scholars' Online Academy since 1995. His literary thought has largely been molded by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and he enjoys literature ranging from the ancient to the modern, but he has yet to discover a subject that is not somehow interesting. His chief joy in teaching is in exploring the various ways of understanding with his students, and he admits that in the process he has probably learned at least as much from his students as he has taught.
Dr. McMenomy was awarded an SDB Fellowship through the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth in 2005. The essay submitted for that occasion is linked here.
Instructor ♦ Science Sequence Dr. Christe McMenomy received her B.A. from Scripps College, studying Physics as a Joint Science student at Harvey Mudd, Scripps, and Pomona, and pursued a masters in astronomy for a year before changing majors and schools to complete a Ph.D. in the history of science at UCLA, concentrating on the organization and transmission of scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages. She has practiced science actively at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (where she was using MILNET to post to online bulletin boards in 1973), developing image processing and cataloguing techniques for the Landsat, Viking, and Voyager missions, and at the Rand Corporation applying computer simulation technologies to policy analysis. She currently supports software development at Boeing, and presents papers on software configuration management at national professional conventions. Over the years Dr. Christe has taught or assisted teaching courses at the college level in Western Civilization, history of technology, history of science, physics, and astronomy, as well as professional training courses in database design and programming for Boeing. Together with her husband, she homeschooled their three children through high school. Through Scholars Online Academy (ISLAS) and now Scholars Online, Dr. Christe has taught science courses over the Internet since 1996.
Instructor ♦ Philosophy Sequence
Karl F. Oles received a B.A. degree from Pomona College, an M.A. from the University of London, and an M.A. from UCLA, all in philosophy, as well as a J.D. degree from the University of Washington. Since 1986, Mr. Oles has practiced law in Seattle, Washington. He is currently head of the construction and design group in the Seattle office of Stoel Rives LLP, where his practice includes both complex litigation and transactional work. He has represented clients in state and federal courts and in arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Instructor ♦ Modern Language Sequence
Mr. Reeves received his BA in international relations from Stanford University in 1982 with a focus on Latin America and accompanying overseas study at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Later, after receiving his M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, he earned his M.A.T. from Emory University with an emphasis on foreign language education. He taught high school Spanish in Georgia for six years before becoming the Chaplain and Director of Religious Studies at the Presbyterian Pan American School in Kingsville, Texas, a boarding school for mostly Spanish speaking students. Mr. Reeves has also taught English as a Second Language to foreign students, immigrant adults, and migrant children, and was co-founder of the La Alba Nueva Education Center in Colorado, an ESL and computer skills training center for adult immigrants. In addition to his overseas study in Spain, Mr. Reeves has also lived, studied and taught in Mexico and the UK, and has either led or participated in student, educator, and church mission trips to Barcelona, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.
Instructor ♦ Mathematics Sequence
Mr. Fred Williams received his bachelor of arts in physics from Pomona College, and, after working full time for several years, completed his MSEE (Master of Science in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Southern California. He's moved back and forth between teaching and engineering ever since. He's taught microprocessors and digital circuit design at West Los Angeles College, analog techniques at UCSD, engineering at Cogswell College North, and most recently, mathematics and electronics at DeVry University. In between teaching stints, he's also designed circuits and provided customer support for both large corporations and small startups, including Hughes Aircraft, TRW, Virtual Vision, Siemens, Zetron, and Digital Control, Inc. He is presently combining both loves by working for Shine Micro, Inc. while teaching for Scholars Online.
Emeritus Teachers
Dr. Rachel Knudsen
Instructor ♦ Classics Sequence Summer 2006
Mr. Mark Johnson
Instructor ♦ History Sequence Academic year 2006/2007
Dr. Mary Luthien J. McMenomy
Instructor ♦ Latin Sequence Summer 2006
Dr. Andrew T. Seeley
Instructor ♦ Literature Sequence Summer 2006
Scholars Online has been provisionally accredited by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools.
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