Resident Directors
Laina Kominos and Nick Morgan, who are married to each other, are the Resident Directors at Glendarcy House.
Laina Kominos is currently a Social Studies teacher at Warren G. Harding High School in Bridgeport, CT. After completing her masters in educational psychology at Columbia in 2002, she has focused on helping at-risk students in urban districts in Jamaica, NY, Columbus, OH and Bridgeport, CT. Her specialties include assessing and instructing students with reading and learning disabilities, tailoring behavioral plans and academic improvement goals for at-risk students, and advising student-staff interactions. Over the last seven years, Mrs. Kominos has worked in collaboration with the New York Historical Society, the Gildher Lehrman Institute of American History, and the Bridgeport Board of Education at bringing primarysource materials to Title-1 schools. She is also a member and actress for the Orange Community Players, a communitysponsored theater troupe based in Orange, CT.
Dr. Morgan is currently a science teacher at Staples High School in Westport, CT, where he teaches in the school's Physics department and Authentic Science Research program. After completing his doctoral training at MIT in 2002, he worked as an astrophysicist specializing in large-scale digital sky surveys and high-redshift cosmology at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (2002-2004) and The Ohio State University Astronomy Department (2004-2007), having worked on the MIT Wide-Field Imaging Lens Survey and the Yale Palomar-Quest digital sky survey. He has discovered 7 of the currently 108 known examples of gravitationally lensed quasars (rare optical mirages in deep space) since the phenomenon's discovery in 1978, and has authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications using over 80 nights of telescope data. In addition to his teaching and research duties, Dr. Morgan currently manages the Staples High School telescopes at the Westport's Rolnick Observatory and serves as an MCAT physics instructor for medical students at The Princeton Review.
