Tim Smith (Timotheus)
President
Having started studying Latin and Greek in high school in Philadelphia, Tim Smith went on to receive his bachelor’s in Classics from the College of the Holy Cross and an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago. A semester abroad in Italy at the Centro further ignited his love of Rome’s history, architecture, art, and cuisine. Over the years, Tim has taught Latin, Ancient Greek, Classical Literature, Modern Literature, and the History and Philosophy of Ancient Greece and Rome in grades 2-12. He has served as a college advisor, led student tours to Italy and Greece, and in 2011, completed his translation of Vergil’s Aeneid. In 2014, despite having dismissed the speaking of Latin not only as frivolous but likely impossible, Tim gave in to his wife’s hectoring and went to his first Rusticatio and became an instant and zealous convert to the value of living Latin. Since then, he has served as coquus at numerous Rusticationes and as a repetitor and founder of Biduum Coloratanum. Tim lives in Fort Collins, Colorado and teaches at Loveland Classical Schools. He also runs the YouTube Latin Cooking Channel Coquamus and is a co-host of the Latin podcast Secunda Mensa. Tim also served on SALVI’s board as a member-at-large from 2021-2023. To contact him, e-mail president@latin.org.

Ilse Morehouse
Vice-President and Biduum Coordinator
Ilse started teaching Latin in 2012 and has been a part of SALVI since 2016 when she also started speaking Latin at Rusticatio Tironum. She is a Ph.D. student at Boston University. Ilse and her husband Andrew are the co-founders of Latinitas Animi Causa (habesnelac.com) which aims to promote inclusivity, accessibility, and engagement in classical language instruction. To contact her, e-mail vicepresident@latin.org.

Holly Russo (Annula)
Secretary
Holly Russo began teaching Latin in 2010 in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 2014, while pursuing a master’s degree in Latin and Classical Humanities at UMass Boston, she attended her first Latin-immersion event, the Conventiculum Bostoniense, where she met her husband Cori. The following summer, she participated in her first SALVI event, the Rusticatio Veteranorum. In 2015 she was hired at East Boston High School, where she now teaches Latin, World History, and Sheltered English Immersion History to ESL students. To contact her, e-mail secretary@latin.org.

Edie Barry (Editha)
Treasurer
Edie Barry teaches private Latin classes and tutors students in Spanish, French, German, and Italian in Santa Rosa, CA. She holds an MIM (Master of International Management) from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BA in International Business from Franklin & Marshall College. She is the former Director of Marketing for Maestro Pedestals. A life-long lover of language, Edie only recently discovered the joys of Latin. Since attending Rusticatio Virginiana in 2011, she has been a devoted participant in SALVI’s living Latin programs. To contact her, e-mail treasurer@latin.org.

Mercedes Barletta (Elea)
Rusticatio Planning Committee Chair
Born and raised in Boston, Mercedes began studying Latin in seventh grade, and her interest in the ancient world has never waned. Now living in Los Angeles, CA, she shares her passion for Classics with her students at Crossroads School where she teaches Latin and serves as the Dean of Teaching and Learning. Holding a BA in both Classical Studies and Archaeology from Wesleyan University, Mercedes has participated in digs in Sicily and traveled throughout the Mediterranean to visit ancient Greek and Roman sites. She attended her first Rusticatio Virginiana in 2014 and has since participated in several programs, including the inaugural Rusticatio Australiana, which she also helped to organize. Mercedes currently serves as Rusticatio Planning Committee Chair and Personnel Coordinator for all SALVI programs.
To contact her, email rusticatio@latin.org

Thomas J. Howell (Thomas)
member at large
TJ grew up in northeast Ohio, studied Latin and Greek at Ohio University, and afterwards completed his Master of Arts in Teaching at UMASS Amherst in 2000.  He has taught Latin and Greek for over 20 years in western Massachusetts, currently at East Longmeadow High School.  TJ is is the recipient of several awards, including the Classical Association of New England’s Matthew I. Weincke Award and the Society for Classical Studies’s Excellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate Level.  He has served as a repetitor and dux at various Rusticationes and Bidua for SALVI over the years, as well as being an instructor at the Conventiculum Bostoniense.

Catherine Reed (Catherina)
member at large
Catherine was born and raised in Maryland, and loves all the culture that the Baltimore area has to offer.  She has hosted scavenger hunts for her students at the Walters Art Museum there, amongst the mummies and Greek pottery.   She also enjoys indulging her interest in botany and scientific Latin during her frequent walks at Baltimore’s Cylburn Arboretum.  Catherine is the co-creator and co-host of the Latin cooking podcast, “Secunda Mensa”, and she has also co-hosted the Latin podcast, “Quomodo Dicitur?”   Catherine teaches Latin at Dulaney High School, a Baltimore County Public School.  She is a frequent instructor and organizer of SALVI’s Bidua and Rusticationes.

Andrew Morehouse (Andreas)
member at large

Andreas has been speaking Latin since 2016 and involved with SALVI since 2017 and has never looked back. Serving on staff as a repetitor for Bidua and Rusticationes, serving as a dux for SALVI Rusticatio Retialis and Biduum Coloratanum as well as spoken Latin events with other organizations, his interest in spoken Latin (and Greek) and the propagation thereof caused him to alongside his wife, Ilsa, co-found Latinitas Animi Causa (LAC, for short), emphasizing the iucunditas and humanitas of the practice. There he teaches classes and produces content for the ancient language speaking world. Andreas currently also teaches at the Woodstock Academy in Woodstock, CT.

Paul Perrot (Paulus)
Amy High Fellowship Coordinator (2020-)
Paulus first began working with Nancy Llewellyn (Annula) to promote SORGLL (Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature) conferences at Claymont in 2004 and again in 2005. Subsequently he helped launch Rusticatio Virginiana and has served to produce the event many times in subsequent years. Having received an Amy High Scholarship to study Latin in Rome with Father Reginald Foster in 2005, Paulus spearheaded the initiative to bring this program to SALVI in 2014 serving as Chairman of the first fundraising effort to increase the endowment entrusted to SALVI by Amy’s husband, Tim Gale. He continues to serve as Chairman of both the Amy High Fellowship Fund and the Amy High Fellowship Selection Committee. Paulus currently teaches French at Swanson Middle School in Arlington, VA.

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QUONDAM MEMBERS OF THE SALVI BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Nancy Llewellyn (Annula)
founder, member at large (1997-2019)
Nancy Llewellyn founded SALVI in 1997. Since 1998 she has conducted weekend and summer immersion seminars around the country and abroad. She currently holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of Latin at Belmont Abbey College and at St. Joseph College Seminary, both in North Carolina.  She made the move to NC after ten years in Wyoming, where she created Wyoming Catholic College’s innovative, immersion-based Latin program. Nancy Llewellyn holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College, a Licenza from the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome (where she also studied at the Gregorian University with Fr. Reginald Foster), and a PhD in Classics from UCLA.  

In Memoriam: David Morgan (David)
David Morgan was Professor of French (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures) at Furman University. He has given papers and served as an instructor at numerous living Latin workshops in the U.S. and Europe, including SALVI’s Rusticatio.  In his professional career and his personal life, he has given to SALVI and the entire Latin-speaking community an example of intellectual rigor, personal dedication, and patience with all – in short, humanitas – which we hope will continue to inspire and inform all SALVI’s work.

Diane Anderson (Diana)
member at large 200?-2021
Diane Warne Anderson currently teaches Latin and Classical Studies at UMass Boston. She taught for many years in Minnesota at the University of St. Thomas, University of Minnesota, and Saint John’s University, Collegeville, where she also was a research scholar at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. She has her BA from Wellesley College in Latin and Greek, and PHD in Classical Studies from Duke University. Her research has been in medieval manuscripts and in creating editions of Latin texts from manuscripts. For ten years she team-taught a summer “boot camp” on medieval manuscripts for HMML. Diane first attended a Latin immersion week at Conventiculum Vasintoniense in 2006, and has been involved in Latin immersion programs ever since, including serving as an instructor at the Conventiculum Bostoniense and the SALVI programs.

Elliott Goodman (Elias)
Secretary
Elliott taught middle and high school Latin for five years at an independent school near Los Angeles, California before joining the Ed.M. program in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Teachers College and administering the National Latin Survey. He served as California JCL Certamen Chair from 2010-2012 and is an alumnus of the Classical Summer School at the American Academy in Rome, the Klingenstein Summer Institute, and the Classics and Linguistics departments at the University of Chicago. He has attended or volunteered at a number of SALVI events, including the Academia Aestiva for high school students at the Getty Villa in California and Rusticatio in West Virginia. Most recently Elliott taught high school Latin at public school in Brooklyn, New York. Currently he helps teachers of all sorts through his work at a non-profit, English in Action which is part of The English-Speaking Union. Elliott’s favorite texts to read with students are the Testamentum Porcelli, the poems of Sulpicia and Catullus, and the epitaph of Allia Potestas.

Murphy Moellers (Murphea)
Rusticatio Planning Committee Chair
Murphy Moellers has been studying Latin since she stumbled upon it her freshman year in college. She holds a BA in Latin & Letters and a M.Ed from the University of Oklahoma. Her first experience at Rusticatio in 2012 changed her life — she was able to internalize and use Latin in an abundance of new ways. The incredible community SALVI fosters and creates is what she loves most about her experiences at Rusticationes and Bidua. She started helping the Rusticatio Planning Committee in 2014 and became Chair in 2016. She now resides in Houston, Texas where she teaches Latin at The Kinkaid School.

John Byron Kuhner (Ioannes Capillatus)
president 2015-2018
John Byron Kuhner has taught Latin at both the elementary and secondary school levels and since 2008 at SALVI’s flagship program, Rusticatio Virginiana. He had the privilege of studying with Reginald Foster in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, and 2007. He teaches occasionally for the Paideia Institute, for whom he also edits In Medias Res, the on-line magazine for lovers of the Classics (see our blog roll). He takes especial interest in nature, simple living, and good writing. His website is www.johnbyronkuhner.com.

Anna Andresian (Anna)
Anna Andresian taught middle and upper school Latin for 11 years before transitioning to a career as a software engineer in 2014. She holds a B.A. in Classics from Brown University and a M.St. in Latin & Greek Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford. She is the author of “Looking at Latin: A Grammar for Pre-College” and “Vocabula Picta: An Illustrated Latin Lexicon for the Modern World.” Her most recent Latin pedagogy project is Magistrula.com, a Latin grammar practice website. Anna’s first SALVI event was a Rusticatio in the Santa Cruz mountains in 2007, an experience which completely transformed her perspective on teaching Latin! Anna currently lives in San Francisco and works as a Software Engineer at AltSchool. She served as Vice President of SALVI from 2015-2016.

Heather Mulhern (Erica)
Heather attended her first Rusticatio in 2010. She attended in the following two summers of 2011 and 2012 and also attended the first Biduum at Claymont in 2012. She served on the Rusticatio Planning Committee in 2011 and as the chair of that committee from 2012-2016. She has hosted two Bidua in Oklahoma and brought four Latin teachers from Oklahoma to Rusticatio in 2012  through a Fund for Teachers Grant. Heather taught levels 1 through Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Latin at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, OK from 1999 – 2007 and later started the Latin program at Monte Cassino Middle School in Tulsa, where she taught from 2009 – 2013.She is currently out of the traditional classroom to be home with her son, though stays busy teaching Latin on the side.

Jacque Myers (Iacoba)
While growing up in the desert of southern California, Jacque dreamed of practicing archaeology and learning ancient languages. She finally had the chance to begin studying Latin and Ancient Greek at UC, Berkeley, and then earned an MAT from UMass, Amherst. Jacque first started hearing and speaking Latin at the Conventiculum Lexintoniense in 2000 and hasn’t stopped since. She attended her first Rusticatio in 2005, and she has taught at and helped to organize numerous other SALVI events since then. Currently living in Los Angeles, Jacque has taught Latin at schools in Massachusetts and California. Jacque served SALVI as Treasurer, 2006-2011, and President, 2011-2015.

John T. Young (Iohannes Iuvenalis)
John grew up in central Texas and earned an BA in Classics from UT Austin. He has taught Latin and mythology to undergraduates at Hunter College, NYC, where he earned an MA in Adolescent Education in Latin. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Classics at CUNY’s Graduate Center. Chair of the World Langauge Department, he has been teaching Latin to middle and high school students at the Browning School in Manhattan since 2008. He attended his first Rusticatio in 2009, which was for him, like so many others, a road to Damascus. Returning to learn at SALVI programs as often as possible since then, John has also served as repetitor and curator at numerous Rusticationes, as well as repetitor and dux at various Bidua. He has served on the Institution’s Planning Committee and Amy High Fellowship Award Committee. John served as Vice-President of SALVI from 2016-2018 and President of SALVI from 2019-2023.

Keith Toda (Silvius)
Keith Toda teaches Latin at Brookwood High School in Snellville, GA. He received his B.A. in Greek and Latin from UCLA, and then earned his M.A. in Latin from the University of Georgia. Keith is currently completing his Ed.S degree in Instructional Technology from Kennesaw State University. Keith was once one of the biggest opponents of any type of oral Latin, but following his first experience at the 2010 Rusticatio Virginiana, he is now an avid supporter of active Latin in the classroom. Keith is also an advocate of Comprehensible Input theory for the teaching of Latin and has given numerous presentations on the topic. Keith served as Vice-President of SALVI and Biduum Coordinator.

Evan Smith (Ioannes Faber)
member at large
Raised in northwest Florida, Evan migrated north for college at Northwestern, and from there, with a bit of Latin and Greek, he made his way, after a year of teaching middle and high schoolers in Boston, to Washington, DC to study early Christianity at Catholic University, after which he returned to teaching high school. He currently is head of World Languages in the upper school at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC.  He is a frequent instructor at Biduum Virginianum and Rusticatio Virginiana.

Justin Slocum Bailey (Iustus)
member at large
Justin Slocum Bailey, a longtime Latin teacher and teacher-trainer, operates Indwelling Language, a collection of resources and habits for boosting joy and success in language learning and teaching. Justin mentors and advises teachers and learners worldwide while consulting for schools, families, publishers, software developers, non-profit organizations, and academic departments. He holds a BA in linguistics, English, and German from the University of Michigan and an MA in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. Justin has been involved with SALVI since 2008.

Jacqui Bloomberg (Iacoba)
Secretary
Jacqui received a BA in Latin from Tufts University, a B. Mus. in French horn performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, and an MAT from Tufts University. She began her teaching at the Boston Latin School and has been teaching Upper School Latin to girls at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, MA, for thirty years. For fifteen of those years, she also served as chair of the World Languages Department. During her 2016 sabbatical semester, Jacqui visited a number of different Latin teachers throughout the country, primarily looking at active Latin methodologies. From that experience, she created a short film entitled, Modi Docendi: Latin Teaching in the XXI Century. She attended her first Rusticatio in 2009 and has helped and attended multiple Bidua and Rusticationes since then. She also served as repetitrix for a Rusticatio Tironibus. In addition, she leads the Boston chapter of Lupercal, a group of women who meet monthly to read about women in Latin. Jacqui loves to travel, has led eight student groups through Italy, and this past summer walked the length of Hadrian’s Wall. To contact her, e-mail secretary@latin.org.

Jason Slanga

Jennifer Nelson (Guenevera)

Dawn Mitchell (Aurora)

Carrie Vandervelde (Rivula)

Gina Soter (Aloisia)

Luke Henderson (Lucas)

Bob Patrick (Robertus)

Jim Dobreff (Iacobus)

Fred Ahl