Richard Barry

Dr. Dick Barry has occupied many roles in a long career in education: high school English teacher, multi-department supervisor, principal, district director of education, university lecturer, editor of educational newsletters, presenter at regional and national conferences, and curriculum consultant to a dozen Long Island school districts. He has also served on numerous community councils, boards and committees. A Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of New York University where he obtained an M.A., Dick then earned a second master’s degree and his doctorate from Columbia University, all four degrees on full fellowships and in related fields of English. He also did post-doctoral work at Harvard in strategic organizational planning and at Hunter College in administrative leadership.

Over a thirty-year span Dick has worked with Literacy Volunteers of America, tutoring adults in basic literacy, and he also conducted evening classes preparing adults for the high school equivalency exams. In retirement Dick has published twelve books, two specifically recounting his first two years and then eight years of residency at Woodland Pond, titled Experiencing Woodland Pond and Celebrating Woodland Pond.