Waldorf Without Walls

Roberta Miday Haupt teaches Parent and Child Classes at Spring Garden Waldorf School in Copley, OH. and a kindergarten class, Mornings Children, in Cleveland Heights, OH with area home schooling families. She developed a puppet troupe dedicated to bringing puppetry to children, currently performing at area farmers markets and civic art programs. She completed Waldorf Early Childhood Training at Sunbridge College in New York, completed a one week intensive with Suzanne Down and Nancy Blanning on Puppetry and Movement at the Rudolph Steiner Institute, currently attending GCU. Roberta is a mother of four sons and a grandmother.

Barbara S. Dewey, of Waldorf Without Walls, publishes a quarterly newsletter, writes publications, provides training workshops, and spends her spare time with husband, Quimby, family and friends, enjoying her unique solar home, and developing her farmland. She is the mother of four and grandmother to six. Barbara holds an M.S. in Waldorf Education from the Waldorf Institute of Sunbridge College in Spring Valley, N.Y. She has been teaching for 53 years.

John Quimby, after earning degrees in Entomology and Forestry from the University of Michigan, he was the State Forest Entomologist and Chief of the Forest Health Program of Pennsylvania for 30 years, and a Forester for the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska, Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado, and South Dakota for five years before that. Since retiring from forest entomology in 1999 'Quimby' (as he is called), has been devoting his time to cabinet making, planting trees, social action, and environmental education for youngsters. He has worked part time/full time for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and was named "Environmental Educator of the Year" by that organization in 2007. Several past summers have been spent guiding canoe trips for youngsters in the Adirondacks of upstate New York State. In that capacity he has run workshops on wildflower identification, tree identification, and other environmental education themes, as well as taken youth out into the wilderness for a week at a time.