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Board of Trustees

  • Richard Ailes
    • President
  • John Greene
    • Donald Bufano
      • Treasurer
    • Lynn Bufano
      • Registrar
    • Celia Riahi
      • Bookstore Manager
    • Martin Ping
    • Louise Hill
    • Robert Hill
    • Seth Jordan
    • Leah Kedar
    • Irene Mantel

    • Board Advisors: Gene Gollogly (New York, NY), Diana Hughes (Toronto, ON), Hans-Joachim Mattke (Stuttgart, Germany)



    The Staff


    Lynn Bufano, Institute Registrar, was for many years the food service coordinator and co-treasurer of the Rudolf Steiner Institute. She was a kindergarten teacher and business manager for fifteen years. She recently completed a five year Spacial Dynamics®Training.

     


    Donald Bufano, Treasurer, has been a Waldorf Teacher since 1977. A school consultant and former chairman of Association of Waldorf Schools of North America, he is currently high school chair at the Waldorf School of Baltimore.

    Celia Riahi, Bookstore manager, founder and director of The Other Mother, a Waldorf-inspired home day care in NYC. She was a kindergarten teacher at the Hartsbrook Waldorf School in Hadley, Mass. for 17 years and recently opened The Cottage Garden, a pre-school program, in Amherst, Mass. Celia is a painter and fiber artist. Visit, thecottagegarden.org.

    Pat Whitehead Children’s Program Coordinator. Pat is inspired by the work of Hiram Trust in her native UK. She is the Director of Admissions at the Waldorf School of Baltimore. She lives in north of Baltimore with her husband and two teenaged sons.