Administrative Staff
Administrator - Maureen Marklin
Maureen was born in a suburb of Detroit into a large family and spent her happiest childhood days camping around the Great Lakes. She went to college at the University of Michigan and subsequently studied medicine at Michigan State University, graduating with an MD in 1991. This was followed by an internship and residency in Anatomic Pathology at Washington University in St. Louis, where she met and married her husband Tom. Although she loved being a pathologist, Maureen left medicine when her first son was born in 1997. Children and study of alternative methods of early childhood education brought about a paradigm-shift that led to involvement in the Waldorf movement. Maureen’s focus since then has been Waldorf administration, and she has completed two-thirds of the Waldorf Administration and Community Development program at Sunbridge College in New York State. Maureen, her husband Tom, and their two sons Troy and Brad have been delighted to be so warmly embraced by the WIWS community and are exquisitely happy living on South Whidbey Island.
Financial Director - Paul Arand
Paul, our Financial Manager, is a CPA who hails from a small town in Illinois. He completed his bachelor’s of Arts at Cornell University and his master’s in Business at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He earned the coveted President’s award while attaining an associate’s degree in Computer Networking from Skagit Community College, and did further study to attain a certificate in technical writing from the University of Washington. Paul started his accounting career as an auditor with Grant Thornton in Chicago. After his family moved to the Seattle area, he continued as a personal tax accountant before joining the Waldorf School staff in 2002. Paul has a strong connection to sports and the arts. He has served for 10 years as the South Whidbey Parks and Recreation Commissioner, has been the South Whidbey High School girl’s varsity soccer coach since 1997, is the acting Director of Coaching for the South Whidbey Youth Soccer Club, has performed trumpet for local church services, and plays/composes music on the piano. Paul and his wife Betsy have 3 children all of whom have attended the WIWS beginning in the 3-day kindergarten. Two are graduates and the third will be in 6th grade in 2008-09.
Enrollment Director - Adam Fawcett
Adam Fawcett has a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and has worked as a manufacturing and environmental engineer in the corporate world. He taught as a substitute in the public schools in and around Tacoma for three years before he began his Waldorf teacher training and became a full-time, at-home father to two young boys. He and his partner Katy moved to the island in 2005 to enroll their boys in the Whidbey Island Waldorf School and to join the south Whidbey Island community. He completed the Waldorf teacher training certificate program in June of 2007 at Sound Circle Center in Seattle. Adam enjoys exploring the evolution of human consciousness and teaching adults about Waldorf education while preparing for the right time to teach a class of his own.
Development Director - Christyn Johnson
biography to be provided soon
Receptionist 3 day - Kate Poss
Kate was born in Wisconsin and attended Catholic grade school for eight years in Illinois. High school was 3 1/2 years at a rural high school in Wisconsin followed by a mid-year move with her family to Southern California, where she finished at an immensely large urban high school in Los Angeles. She visited her grandfather in Italy and great-uncles in Germany during the summer after high school. Kate met her husband Bill in the autumn after graduation and they married six years later. In the mean time, Kate worked at NBC, Burbank, traveled to New Zealand for two months, earned a Bachelor's degree in Political Science, worked with a veteran Hollywood radio writer and became a newspaper reporter for 16 years. Journalism is her passion to this day and she is glad to publish the WIWS weekly news as well as help friends with their editing projects. Kate and Bill traveled for three months in a vintage camping trailer, pulled by 'Olga the Volvo' throughout the western states in 1986 and wrote a magazine story about their adventure. They dream of having another vintage trailer as a guest house in their back yard. So if you have one, let Kate know. Daughter Gillian (now a high school senior, artist and musician) attended WIWS from 2000 until 2003 and, as Daniel Stokes, a former WIWS teacher said, "she found her true home with Waldorf education." Kate, too, has found her niche at WIWS since moving to Whidbey Island in 2000. She spent 2004 - 2006 pursuing a Masters in Teaching/Special Education degree with Seattle University and has two classes remaining before finishing the program. She enjoys working with children and their families immensely. Cooking, traveling (especially to Maui and swimming with turtles) and being with family and friends are favorite past times. Bill and Kate also have a son, Raymo, who is in 9th grade. He plays guitar, acoustic and electric. Both Bill and Raymo are Waldorf-inspired as well.
Receptionist 2 day - Rebecca Bartsch
biography to be provided