Al’s main interests in mathematics are calculus and statistics. He taught his first calculus class in 1988 and the first honors statistics class in 1996. His interest in statistics began as an applied math major at Harvard, where he was a teaching assistant in the sociology department. In 2011, he was appointed director of the Taft Educational Center, a program of summer workshops for teachers. Al helped start the crew program at Taft in 1990 with Brooks Fisher ’92, and he coached the team for 10 years. Al now serves as the head wrestling coach and the head coach for boys’ cross country. Al lives on campus; his son, Alex, graduated from Taft in 2012.