List of 11 frequently asked questions.

• My primary roles at Thacher

  I teach English, coach boys’ varsity lacrosse, and serve as dorm head in Upper School.

• What my students call me

  Mr. Sullivan, Coach Sully.

• I knew I wanted to work at Thacher when

  I saw how lovingly and joyfully the students interacted with two-year-old Gavin Snyder during my first visit to Thacher.

• Favorite job perk

  Camping.

• When not in the classroom I can be found

  Exploring our campus’s many hiding spots and climbing surfaces with my two boys, Cooper and Beckett.

• Most memorable Thacher camping trip

  Recently, Mr. Snyder and I took a group to the Jennie Lakes Wilderness in the Sierra. On the second day of the trip, we hiked through snow, sleet, and freezing rain up to our campsite at Jennie Lake itself, only to find as we made camp that one of our four-man tents had failed. We made it through a cold, wet night and headed back to Thacher the next day, where we spent one night at Diamond Hitch before setting out to the Sespe for part two of our Spring EDT. On night number four, we enjoyed the beautiful view from the ridge overlooking Ojai, Ventura, and Santa Paula in conditions much different than those we'd encountered in the Sierra. At the end of the day, despite the setbacks, this trip had everything: we learned to tough it out in rough conditions far from home, and we also enjoyed the best of what the Sespe has to offer, right in our backyard.

• Favorite place at Thacher

  Upper Field at about 5 p.m. on a spring afternoon.

• Favorite place on earth

  Crosslake, Minnesota.

• Hardly anybody knows that

  I am a huge Baltimore Ravens fan. (Actually, everybody knows that.)

• The book, movie, work of art, or piece of music I cannot imagine life without

  Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

• What I wanted to be when I grew up (when I was 10)

  Wayne Gretzky.