Tom McGraw

Title: Instructor in English
Department: English
PA Start Date: 1983

Degrees
BA, Notre Dame
MS, Boston University
MTS, Pending Harvard Divinity School

Profile
Two-Sport Varsity Athlete at Notre Dame basketball and baseball; US ARMY Veteran, Vietnam Era; have worked as a forester, radio broadcaster, union organizer before taking the job at Phillips in 1983; have taught overseas in Great Britain and France; lived in The Philippines as an exchange student in 1967; I have concentrated on teaching The Classics and poetry and am a classical translator; I have three children aged 21, 20 and 18, two dogs, a ferret and a leopard tortoise; my wife Celeste teaches at a charter school in Lowell, MA; we home-schooled our children until they were of an age to enter high school; I grew up in a small village on the Erie Canal in Upstate New York, going from K-12 with the same 41 kids.