Pete Follansbee

29 years
Pete Follansbee’s distinguished 41-year career in education, the last 29 in Collegiate’s Upper School English Department, comes to an end with his retirement in June. Since joining the School in 1994, Pete has taught American literature each year and created a variety of well-subscribed electives. He’s served as a department chair, lead advisor, literary magazine sponsor and coach of both boys and girls Cub soccer. In 2012, he earned the Brent Award, an honor presented annually to a career educator “who exemplifies the teacher, coach, mentor, counselor, friend model that is so vital to independent schools.”
 
We will greatly miss Pete’s intellectual spirit, his calming presence and his clever sense of humor. Now that Pete is retiring, he is looking forward to spending more time with his wife, Marita, his two daughters, Adriaan ’04 and Emma ’07, and his three grandchildren. Pete shared that he is excited to read more, to write more and to submit his new work for publication.
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