He is always thrilled to hear from former LCDS students. His other interests include coaching basketball and leading skill-development clinics, aviation, and tinkering with mechanical projects. Hollister offers a “Shakespeare on Saturdays” program for fifth through eighth graders each January through April.
He has chaired numerous accreditation teams for the Virginia Association of Independent Schools (VAIS). Hollister is a National Endowment of the Humanities fellowship recipient and a Washington Post Distinguished Educational Leadership Award winner. In 1993, he became headmaster and continued to teach eighth grade English until 2006. He taught seventh and eighth grade English and writing lab, coached soccer and basketball and served as student council adviser. When there is time (and there really is very little of it) she enjoys attending concerts, photography and rooting for the Hokies during football Hollister joined LCDS in September 1988, following the completion of a doctorate of philosophy in foundations of education from the University at Buffalo. Angie now lives in Leesburg with her husband and her two daughters, who both attended LCDS from prekindergarten through eighth grade. After teaching at LCDS for 20 years, she became a division director where she enjoys supporting students, teachers, and families in preschool through second grade. Angie still has close contact with the Education Department at VT and assists with research projects and presentations each year. She also studied abroad in Italy twice, learning about their approach to early childhood education. During her study there, she was a member of the University Honors Program and wrote the first undergraduate “In-Honors” thesis for the College of Human Resources and Education. in Early Childhood Education and MaED in Education, Curriculum, and Instruction from Virginia Tech. She is a native of the area and was born and raised on a beef cattle farm in Lovettsville. His greatest accomplishments are his three daughters: Esther (’12), Rebecca (’14), and Sarah Cross began working at Loudoun Country Day School in 2002. A history buff, Tim enjoys strolling through the area’s many Civil War battlefields. In 2011, he became the Assistant Headmaster, though he still teaches eighth-grade Civics and also serves as the Secondary School Counselor. area and was hired to teach middle school Math, Civics, and History at LCDS. He earned a Master’s degree in Teaching from the University of South Carolina, returned to the D.C. After working in the political arena for several years, he recognized that solving the world’s problems was too big a job for him alone and decided that he could have a greater impact by empowering children to help him do it. He started as an intern at a national association of state legislators and eventually become its policy director. After graduating from the University of Rochester with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, he moved to the Washington, D.C. At home, Michelle enjoys spending time with Marcus and her dog, Cricket, as well as traveling, hiking, reading great books, learning new things, and trying new restaurants and Beauchemin has been with LCDS since 1997. Some of her favorite memories are related to her work as an educator and include traveling annually with students to the Florida Keys or Bahamas for science research, mentoring new teachers, and knowing students for their whole educational lives. She and her husband, Marcus, have two grown children, Mikaela and Jake, both of whom attended and graduated from an independent school. A lifelong learner, she earned her Doctorate in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California, her Educational Specialist degree in Curriculum, Technology, and Instruction from Nova Southeastern University, her Master’s degree in Exercise Science from the University of Arizona, and her Bachelor’s degree in Education specializing in Biology and Physical Education from Abilene Christian University in Texas. Michelle spent the last 22 years of her career in independent schools where she taught in lower, middle and upper school, coached track and field, cross country, and basketball, and served in a variety of leadership roles, most recently as an assistant head of school at Flint Hill School. A lifetime educator, she has worked in both public and private education as well as higher ed. Odell became the fourth head of LCDS faculty in July 2022.
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