Fr. Christian is the Schoenstatt Fathers' superior in Austin. He was born and raised in Chile, received his degree in Catholic theology in Münster, Germany, and was ordained in 1970. He works with the Schoenstatt Movement in Texas and in Florida.
Our Director of Education, Suzy Gregory MA, teaches classes, supervises our other teachers, and counsels all our families about their homeschooling.
Suzy has degrees in Education and in British and American Literature from Cambridge and Emory. She has served as Head of School at three private academies, and has taught at Austin Community College where she received a Master Teacher Award.
Over time, Suzy has become convinced that the very best way to educate children is at home, with a curriculum steeped in Catholic theology.
Our classes are taught by a combination of paid, credentialed professionals and homeschooling parents. In most cases, those descriptions overlap. Our faculty includes:
Fr. Christian Christensen co-teaches middle and high school Theology.
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Fr. Christian is the Schoenstatt Fathers' superior in Austin. He was born and raised in Chile, received his degree in Catholic theology in Münster, Germany, and was ordained in 1970. He works with the Schoenstatt Movement in Texas and in Florida. |
Suzy Gregory MA teaches middle and high school English, high-school French, and middle-school Latin.
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Suzy's biographical information appears above under "Director of Education." |
Jill Hebda teaches Class III (grades 3-5).
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Jill has a degree in Education from the University of Arizona. She has been tutoring since 1996, and has worked with learning-disabled college students, taught at a Sylvan Learning Center, and worked in an after-school program for latch-key kids. She has been homeschooling for four years. |
Adrienne Kennedy-Puthoff co-teaches middle and high school Theology, and leads our Tuesday morning parents circle.
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Adrienne has a Masters degree from San Jose State University's College of Education and has done advanced work in curriculum studies at the University of Texas. Her specializations include child development, teacher education, and curriculum design. She has worked in, founded, and led a variety of public and private schools and she homeschooled her youngest son for six years prior to college. She has also established and led several Schoenstatt Mothers' Groups and Annunciation-Austin's Children's Garden. |
Carol-Lynne Meissner teaches science to Class III (grades 3-5).
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Celia Neumayr teaches middle and high school history.
| Raised in Austin, Dr. Neumayr attended Rice University for college. She received her doctorate in Literature in 2009 from the University of Dallas, where she taught in the university's undergraduate core program and tutored students in the writing lab. She also taught high school students on UD's Summer in Rome programs. She and her husband Tom, whom she met at UD, have two boys and a girl. Her two sons are in the preschool Class I. |
Angie Orozco teaches Class II (Grades K-2).
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Angie and her family moved to Austin from Anaheim, California, a year ago. There she taught first grade for ten years and was a bilingual assistant in grades K-3 for six years before that. She has a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies from Chapman University and a Master's in Education from Grand Canyon University. She and her husband Richard have two children ages 7 and 10. |
Lindsay Rendon teaches Class I (Preschool).
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Lindsay has a Bachelor's degree in Communications with minors in Psychology and Marketing from the University of Alabama. She was an assistant teacher to preschool classes for 6 years and also taught Sunday school. At Annunciation-Austin, she taught phonics to the Kindergarten and 1st Grades. She also is experienced in photography, coaching sports, and is the leader of the Gabriel Project at St. John Neumann (a Catholic Ministry administering help to pregnant women). She and her husband Robert have 2 boys, ages 3 and 6 and this is their second year of homeschooling. |
Teresa Ruhl teaches Math and Science to middle and high school.
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Born in Tennessee, Teresa was raised in Alabama, moving to Texas in 1977. She received her BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, after which she worked at IBM for ten years. She has three children; two sons, both at college, and daughter who is at Annunciation. Teresa has been involved in homeschooling now for eleven years. |
Fr. Christian Christensen