Rondi Aastrup

Writer

Rondi Aastrup has been teaching English and Journalism since 1978.  A graduate of Atlantic Union College (B.A. ’77) and Andrews University (M.A. ’83), she has traveled extensively around the world with family, friends, and students.  She enjoys reading, writing, traveling, photography, listening to and playing music, and hanging out with family and friends.  Her blog (www.raastrup.blogspot.com) touches on all of those topics as well as her love for nature.
Formerly principal and English teacher at Greater Boston Academy, Rondi is the English teacher at Thunderbird Adventist Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona, doing what she loves best: connecting with young people through reading, writing, and learning. Collaborating with her colleagues is also a special joy, especially when that collaboration results in a journey to discovery and excellence with their students.

Beverley Bucknor

Writer

Beverley E. Bucknor has worked in the Atlantic Union area since 1980 and on the Teacher Bulletin Committee since 1987. She has enjoyed the teaching ministry serving in various configurations of multigrade and single grade classroom schools. She is presently working as the principal of Northeastern Academy. These venues have provided many opportunities to use her creativity. Throughout the years of serving in the Teacher Bulletin, Beverley has written several units and developed many art projects.

Sue Hayford

Writer

Sue Hayford is principal and teaches fifth and sixth grades at Parkview Junior Academy in Syracuse, NY. She earned a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education and Language Arts and a Master of Arts degree in English at Andrews University. She is an amateur radio operator and enjoys reading, gardening, and playing the organ in her spare time.

Erika Hinds

Writer

Erika Hinds teaches Spanish (secondary) at the Bermuda Institute. She holds a B.A., Spanish and a B.S., Biology from Oakwood College, and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Education at Atlantic Union College. Erika is often consumed with her interests in music and studying foreign languages. She has been singing with the Voices of Praise choir, Conant Gardens SDA Church since early childhood. Her interests also include writing, photography, and youth ministry which she believes is the substance that keeps the young Christian in communion with Christ and with their brothers and sisters... Ministry, hospital ministry in particular, has a special place in her life. Her desire is to see more and more youth get involved in the work.

Helen Hovanic

Writer

Helen Hovanic has been in the teaching profession for 25 years. During those years she has taught Spanish at various Academies as well as Atlantic Union College. Her teaching has covered grades K-12 and college level. In addition to authoring the Spanish units for the Teacher Bulletin, she has authored Spanish Study Guides for grades 7-12 for Home Study International.

She is married to Dr. Gregory Allen Hovanic. She has two married daughters and two granddaughters. She enjoys traveling, gourmet cooking, and reading. She’s still active in the classroom, teaching Spanish for grades 9-12 and enjoying every bit of it.

Carolyn Kearbey

Writer

Carolyn S. Kearbey has taught at nearly every grade level possible throughout her nearly 30 years of teaching. As a preservice teacher still in college, she worked as a substitute teacher during every vacation, allowing her to experience kindergarten through sixth grade before even starting her first job. As an elementary teacher, she taught fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. After receiving her doctorate in education from Loma Linda University, she became the associate director of the Reading Center at Atlantic Union College. There she conducted classes in study skills and speed reading for 7th, 8th, and 12th graders as well as individual tutoring for kindergarten through college students. As a professor in the Education Department, she taught study skills to college freshmen, education classes to undergraduate students, and graduate classes to teachers. Since leaving college teaching and moving to Napa Christian Campus of Education in 2005, Dr. Kearbey has taught 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th grades as well as serving as the resource teacher for the entire campus.

Carolyn Kearbey

Writer

Carolyn S. Kearbey has been teaching education and psychology classes at Atlantic Union College for the past twelve years. She received her doctorate in Curriculum and Supervision from what is now known as La Sierra University. Her hobbies include writing poetry and children's stories, reading, and researching history. She lives in Clinton, Massachusetts with her cockatiels, Woodrow and Baby, and her cat, Cleopatra.

Dawn Kirk

Writer

Dawn Kirk teaches sixth grade at Bermuda Institute. She received her Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from Atlantic Union College. She enjoys learning new things, reading, writing, gardening, interior decorating, and community based projects that focus on preserving our natural environment. Dawn has been involved in many gardening and conservation projects over the years including local biodiversity projects involving Bermuda’s schools. Dawn is a third generation Adventist and the last of nine children. She is the daughter of a retired minister and many of her siblings work for the church in various countries around the world.

Yvonne Moore

Writer

Yvonne Moore is a graduate of Andrews University and later Pratt Institute, NYC where she earned a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science. She joined the Faculty of Northeastern Academy where she has been for more than twenty years. Currently, she is Assistant Principal and teaches 9th and 10th grade English. Ms. Moore has conducted several student overseas (EF) trips to Europe and Mexico which she thoroughly enjoyed. She is a collector of "interesting stuff" and enjoys reading, traveling and entertaining, on occasion.

Larry Robbins

Writer

Larry Robbins is a teacher at A.W. Spalding Elementary School in Collegedale, Tennessee.  He teaches a combination class of Language Arts/History to the 8th grade.  He has been teaching for 31 years and has a BA in History from Atlantic Union College.

Larry has been married for over 37 years to his wife Martha and they have three grown sons and three grandchildren who all live in the Collegedale area.  Larry states that humor plays a big part in his everyday life and work.

Robyn Wheeler Rusenescu

Writer

Robyn Wheeler Rusenescu earned her Masters of Education from Andrews University, Newbold College Campus. She has been teaching English at Union Springs Academy in New York state for seven years. Robyn enjoys doing cross-stitch, reading, writing, researching her family history, and documenting that family history in scrapbooks for her two children.

William Snow, III

Writer

William Snow, III has served on the Atlantic Union Conference Teacher Bulletin committee for over 20 years in various positions.  He currently lives and teaches in Maine.  He is the principal and grades 6-9 teacher at Forestdale SDA School in South Woodstock, Maine.  Bill lives in Oxford with his wife, Beverly, and their two sons Billy, age 15 and Bradley (also known as Stewart), age 10.  He has a Master of Arts in Teaching from Andrews University in Michigan.  Bill's hobbies/interests include: backpacking and hiking, outdoor education, world band (shortwave) radio, Pathfinders, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, camping, cheering for the Boston Red Sox, and many many family activities.  Life is too SHORT!!!  Bill would like to say in closing that he really enjoys working with teenagers - although he often refers to them as 'hormones with feet.'

Dana Waterman

Writer

Dana is currently raising her two girls, tutoring students, writing curriculum for North American Division Teacher Bulletin, and substitute teaching. Dana received her B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Atlantic Union College and her M.Ed. in Teacher Leadership with an emphasis in Curriculum from the University of Southern Maine. She taught grades five and six for six years at Pine Tree Academy and was a student elementary teacher in the Marshall Islands. She enjoys reading, writing, researching, and spending summers on the lake swimming and boating with her husband and two daughters.