Latin Teacher Starts 36th Year
in Somerset Hills School District!
Hello, everyone! I am Judi Martin (A.K.A. "Magistra"). September 2018 marks the start of my 37th year of teaching Latin for the Somerset Hills School District.
Originally from Massachusetts, in 1980 I received my B.A. in Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. I stayed on at UMass., where I received my M.A.T. in Latin two years later.
Certified to teach Latin, Greek, and Spanish, I left Massachusetts to start work in Bernardsville. I have been teaching Latin (and sometimes Spanish) here ever since.
Travel is one of my prime joys. How lucky I am to be able to say that I have been to Italy so many times that I have lost count! It seems as if I need a fix of Rome almost on an annual basis. Often, I travel with other Latin teachers through an organization named the Vergilian Society. With the Vergilians, I have explored North Africa (Tunisia and Morocco), Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Italy (especially Rome as well as the region of Campania in the Bay of Naples), France (Provence), Israel and Jordan.
I have also taken at least twelve trips with Somerset Hills students (to Italy, France, Spain and Costa Rica) and one trip with the "People to People" (to France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy).
In addition to the Latin taught in my classes, I bring a mix of my interests: archaeology, photography, and technology. Students also learn the important art of organization in my classes. Through all these approaches, I hope my students not only learn Latin but have some fun experiences along the way!
For the 2017-2018 school year, I will once again travel between the middle school and high school campuses as the district's only Latin teacher.
Indeed, no one can say "Latin is a dead language" in the Somerset Hills!
LATINA VIVIT!
Contact Magistra
Judi Martin
Bernardsville Middle School
141 Seney Dr.
Bernardsville, NJ 07924
Bernards High School
25 Olcott Ave
Bernardsville, NJ 07924
Tel 908-204-1930 (Ext: 8190)
The best way to contact Magistra Martin is via e-mail at jmartin@shsd.org
