Colin S. Farrar
B.A., Brown
History
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Work Phone: 860-945-7935
Year Appointed: 2003
After graduating first in his class from the Hotchkiss School in 1985, Colin majored in history at Brown University, where he also served as captain of the nationally ranked varsity sailing team. After college Colin spent ten years as a U.S. naval aviator. He made deployments to the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf, flying FA-18 Hornets from the USS Saratoga and USS Enterprise. He also served as a flight instructor in several types of aircraft. A two-time Top Gun graduate, he spent his last years in the Navy as a Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor at the east coast FA-18 Weapons School in Jacksonville, FL. Since coming to Taft in 2003, Colin has taught Atlantic Communities II for upper mids, Historical Civilizations for Middlers, and senior electives on Modern China, American Foreign Policy and World War II. He has coached varsity softball, boys' thirds and girls' JV hockey, and boys' and girls' crew. A former uppermiddle class dean, he currently serves as History Department chair. He is also the dormitory head of CPT2, where he and his wife, Blaire (who also teaches history at Taft) live with their two children, Owen and Megan. During his summers, Colin spends as much time as he can sailing in Maine with his family.
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