TED SMITH
B.A., Middlebury College
M.A., Middlebury College
Upper School Dean of Students, French, Soccer (*1998)

Ted Smith is in his eighth year at Berwick Academy. In addition to his dean and teaching responsibilities, he is also a student advisor and a dedicated soccer coach. A self-proclaimed “short guy,” Mr. Smith makes up for his diminutive stature with his "loud voice and general Napoleonic tendencies.”

Mr. Smith grew up in Connecticut, but his formative years centered around summers at Camp Dudley in upstate New York – a place he still considers to be a home away from home. He attended Hotchkiss School, where he realized the many benefits of a private education, most notably the relationships he formed with teachers and coaches. Mr. Smith developed a love for French and all things French as an undergraduate at Middlebury College, where he spent a year studying abroad in Paris. After college, Mr. Smith taught at the Kents Hill School in Maine for two years and then skied for a year in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Returning to Middlebury for a Masters Degree in French, Mr. Smith spent another year in Paris living in the Latin Quarter. Despite his currently preppy exterior, Mr. Smith’s attire in his Euro phase was signaturely French – a striped shirt, beret and Hermes scarf around his neck, fashionably peppered with croissant crumbs. He returned from his many adventures in Europe to teach French at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, NH, where he met and married his wife, Laura.

Mr. Smith and his wife have three children, Margot, Tucker and Crosby. They live in an old farmhouse in South Berwick and enjoy being in New England near friends and family. When not renovating their new home, they camp, canoe, fish, ride horses, play any kind of ball, skate, play music, sing, and hike as much as possible.