Headmistress

Headmistress
Born and raised in Maine, she is 50 years old. She grew up on a farm, her dad was a farmer and her mom also stayed home and helped with daily life on the farm. Growing up she didn't have many friends and usually isolated herself at home. This made her anti-social. Getting her bachelors from the University of Maine, she went on to get a graduates degree from UMass. She worked as a college professor at UMass after graduating, but felt that she wanted to work with the younger generation of students. After 5 years at UMass, she applied for the opportunity to be headmistress at Russell. The job opened up after Mrs. Kent, the headmistress of 25 years, passed away of a heart attack. She ended up getting the job and has been headmistress for 20 years. She is divorced, and she became sort of crazy after the end to her marriage. She lives in a 3 story house all to herself. She is still socially awkward, which leads to many weird conversations between her and the faculty. She has 3 cats at home which she is obsessed with. She is generally liked by the staff, but everyone thinks shes out of her mind because they always see her talking to herself, and they have seen her call her house and leave messages on the answering machine for her cats to make sure they are okay. It seems like she hired Carl because she is attracted to him, and whenever they talk she flirts with him. She is strongly against sports, due to the fact that she played for her high school soccer team and scored a goal on her own team and was shunned by the student body at her high school. She wasn't able to live it down and was made fun of during school, and i guess this is why she was introverted as a teenager. That incident leads to her hatred for sports, which she makes clear often. She has tried to cut the sports budget year after year, and this upsets Pat O' Reilly, obviously. The two characters don't really get along because of this.