John Dawson
B.A., Middlebury
Admissions, History
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Work Phone: 860-945-7986
Year Appointed: 2011
Upon graduating from Choate Rosemary Hall, John attended Middlebury, where he majored in history, played four years of ice hockey, and served as the team’s captain as a senior. During his college years, he interned at Credit Suisse in London; and after graduation he worked as an associate at Morgan Stanley in New York City, where he performed market analysis and equity and fixed income trading. Then, in a return to the educational world and his alma mater, he became Middlebury’s assistant varsity ice hockey coach and head junior varsity coach for the next five years and assistant golf coach for three of these years. As a hockey coach, he became involved with USA Hockey, working at their National Select Festivals during summers. At Taft, John works in the Admissions Office, teaches history, coaches girls’ thirds field hockey and boys’ varsity ice hockey. He lives on CPT 2 with his wife, Kate.