“I enjoy the beautiful campus, the intellectually engaged students, the dedicated faculty, and the small classes.”   - Mary Kruck

Titles: Teacher of English and Religious Studies; Senior Class Advisor; Co-moderator of The National Honor Society and Student Ambassadors
Departments: English and Religious Studies

Courses Taught:
English 11
English 11 Honors
Junior Seminar

Academic Degrees: 
BA, St. Bonaventure University
MA, George Mason University

To contact:  mkruck@middleburgacademy.org

Nothing is more fulfilling for teacher Mary Kruck than “when a student finally connects with a concept that has been difficult up to that point or when I witness a student helping another student with a problem.”  She sometimes wishes more people knew how intellectually challenging Middleburg Academy is for its students.  Yet when she bumps into her former scholars, what they often recollect is not so much the academic rigors – though there is that memory, too – but the pleasure of Mrs. Kruck’s classes held under the tree outside Mary House.  Sitting in the warm sun, soaking up knowledge and understanding, discussing alternate interpretations of a passage in a novel . . . it is a fitting image for the Middleburg Academy goal to stretch students' critical thinking skills within a small and supportive learning environment.

Mrs. Kruck is married with two grown children as well as “Kate,” the German Shepherd she enjoys taking on long walks.  She also loves reading, traveling, and visiting her twin granddaughters.