Summer Staff

ESL+

Mercerburg is home to some of the finest teachers in the country, and the ESL+ staff reflects that excellence.  The experienced staff understands boarding school life and they assist students with each endeavor and challenge.  The faculty is diverse, with extensive language and multi-cultural teaching experience.  Former teachers have come from the University of Pennsylvania TESOL(Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Program.  Qualified instructors guide each class, with teaching assistant providing extra support and supervision beyond the classroom.

Mercersburg Adventure Camp

Mercersburg Summer searches the world round to find the best staff for our Adventure Camps.  Our counselors, many of them Mercersburg alumni, are usually college students or youthful teachers who have a passion for working with adolescents.  They are responsible, caring, young people that truly love what they do.

Mercersburg College Prep

Bill McClintick

Prior to coming to Mercersburg in 1989, Bill was assistant director of admission at Hartwick College in New York, and associate director of admission at Kalamazoo College(MI).  In September 2008, Bill was installed as president of the National Association for College Admission Counseling(NACAC); he had previously served three years as the organization’s vice-president for admission practices, and five years as its liaison to the NCAA.  Bill is past-president of the PA Association for College Admission Counseling, and the namesake of PACAC’s William R. McClintick Service Award.  He also served a three-year term on the College Scholarship Service(part of the College Board).

Young Writers Camp

Logan Chace

Logan Chace, an ‘01 graduate of Mercersburg Academy, received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Hollins University in 2008. He is a published poet and works on writing and submitting poetry and fiction in his spare time. He is an English Professor at Hagerstown Community College and is a tutor and a coach at the Mercersburg Academy. 2010 will be Logan’s third year directing Young Writers Camp.

Spacebots Robotics Camp

Dr. Julia Maurer

Julia’s doctoral work focused on developing novel nondestructive methodologies for analyzing critical titanium aerospace components. She presented her research at several global materials engineering conferences, including the Ninth World Titanium Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the SAMPE Conference in Tokyo, Japan. In addition, she was a consultant and programming analyst at Andersen Consulting in Cincinnati and a contract researcher for Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Julia received numerous academic awards including the Clare Booth Luce Graduate Fellowship, the Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) Doctoral Fellowship, the Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute (DAGSI) Ph.D. Scholarship, and the International Outstanding Graduate Student Award from SAMPE. She developed the robotics program at Mercersburg, served as the mathematics department chair for five years, and was named associate academic dean in 2009. 2010 will be Dr. Maurer’s 4th summer directing the Robotics Camp at Mercersburg.

Mercersburg Summer Theatre Workshop

Patrick Tansor

Patrick Tansor (SMTW Director) is a very proud graduate of the Mercersburg Academy. Patrick graduated with a BFA in Acting from the professional training program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama and proceeded to work in New York City as a stage actor and voice over artist (represented by Abrams Artists Agency). He is also a very proud member of Actor’s Equity Association (AEA), the Union for Actors and Stage Managers and has worked at The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Folger Theatre, The Everyman Theatre, West Viginia Public Theatre and The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to name a few. Patrick currently teaches full-time at Providence Day School (a PreK-12 campus) in Charlotte, NC, as well as at the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. His wife, Allison, is an accomplished actor, director, and teacher and they have a little daughter, Maggie. Patrick takes every opportunity to visit his second home, Mercersburg, and would like to extend a very warm welcome to you and your family.

Mercersburg Wrestling

Nate Jacklin

As an undergraduate student at Columbia University in New York City, Nate Jacklin earned four varsity letters in wrestling and was awarded Columbia’s Outstanding Freshman Wrestler award. He has spent the past six years teaching history and coaching wrestling and soccer in Stafford, Virginia. Nate has served on the Coaches Advisory Board, and was awarded “Excellence in Teaching” by the National Honor Society. Nate’s gift as a clinician both in and out of the classroom is apparent to those who are fortunate enough to sit in his classroom or on a Mercersburg Academy wrestling mat.

Mercersburg Girls Basketball

Monique Lidell

Monique is the associate director of athletics and the head women’s basketball coach. She came to Mercersburg from Seton Keough High School in Baltimore, where she taught geometry and was an assistant women’s basketball coach. Monique has served as an assistant coach at her alma mater, Morgan State University, and as a math tutor at Southern High School in Baltimore, where she assisted students in preparing for the Maryland Functional Math Test. She played professional basketball in Luxembourg, and was a three-time All-Conference selection during her playing career at Morgan State.

Mercersburg Boys Basketball

Mark Cubit

Coach Cubit spent two years at the University of Vermont before transferring to Syracuse University, where he played for head coach Jim Boeheim and assistant Rick Pitino. Cubit captained the team and led the Orangemen to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament his senior year; after graduation, he served as an assistant coach at Syracuse for two seasons before playing professionally in England’s National Basketball League. Many of Mark’s players have gone on to play and excel at the collegiate level and several have become captains of their college teams.