Prior to coming to St. Ambrose Academy, Frank’s professional experience includes being a Licensed Clinical Counselor with a practice history in the supportive management of longer-term psychiatric illnesses.
After retiring from an executive position in Catholic healthcare, where he managed a broad array of clinical services in the area of behavioral sciences, Frank began working in the area of Catholic homeschooling. In this role, he engaged in providing in-home schooling services in subjects ranging from Latin to basic sciences to reading and English grammar.
Finding education to be a “true apostolate” Frank became connected to St. Ambrose Academy where he teaches Latin.
Frank is an excellent role model for students, as a teacher in a school that seeks to form students into life-long learners. Practicing what we preach, Frank is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Catholic Pastoral Studies from Holy Apostles College and Seminary. He holds a graduate degree in Counseling Psychology from Cambridge College in Massachusetts and also studied psychology at Northeastern University and spent three semesters at Our Lady of Grace Seminary where he studied philosophy and Romance languages, including Latin.
He enjoys reading, classical music, playing accordion, and walking his dog in state parks (Rocky Arbor and Mirror Lake are particular favorites). He’s also a student of languages – he can communicate in five, including Latin!
As a Latin teacher, Frank believes “Latin has three main benefits. First, it teaches discipline of the mind, second it develops skills in sorting, matching, and encoding that can be generalized to other areas of study, and thirdly, it helps connect us to antiquity and the history of our civilization.”
Outside of school, Frank is an involved member of St. Cecilia’s in the Wisconsin Dells, where you can find him singing in the Latin Schola and in the Adult Choir. He is also involved in the parish’s small group evangelization ministry.