Adjunct Faculty
Each academic year we offer adjunct environmental educator positions to highly qualified individuals who have demonstrated a superior set of expertise related to the environment and education. This year we are fortunate to have three highly skilled individuals to help us teach our field-based classes at SOC. We are pleased to announce the addition of Thomas Card, William Foley and Margaret Fritze to the teaching staff at the School of Conservation!
Tom Card
We are particularly fortunate to have someone of Tom's character and experience as part of our adjunct teaching staff. He brings a wealth of knowledge, a wonderful sense of humor and the gift of being able to teach. His professionalism and enthusiasm are second to none.
Tom Card is a life long resident of Sussex County, New Jersey. Retired, Tom spent 33 years with the New Jersey Park Service as a ranger and a supervising lieutenant. He was a student at Seton Hall University and a graduate of the New Jersey State Police Academy.
Tom has had extensive training with the National Association of Search and Rescue (NASAR) and served on the High Angle Rescue Team, a rescue team that performs rescues on high cliff surfaces. He is active in the community as a member of the Wantage School Board and a leader with the Boy Scouts. Tom enjoys hiking, camping and all outdoor activities.
Bill Foley
The School of Conservation continues to attract the best teachers in the field. Who better to teach on a campus nestled in the middle of Stokes State Forest but the former Superintendent of the forest! Bill has brought a unique set of skills and expertise that compliment our program and the other SOC teachers.
Bill earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Forestry in 1978 while attending Michigan Technological University. His minor in Recreational Resource Administration prepared him for a twenty-eight year career as a Superintendent in New Jersey's Division of Parks and Forestry.
Spending almost half of his career as Superintendent of Stokes State Forest, Bill has accumulated a deep understanding of the history and attributes of Stokes Forest. Working closely with other natural resource agencies, he has gained an incredibly rich three-dimensional perspective of the dynamic forces that shape our natural world.
Retired from State Service, Bill has joined the teaching team at SOC and the school has benefitted greatly from the addition of this special person. Bill enjoys fly fishing, camping, lapidary and beekeeping. He serves on the Board of the Sussex County Beekeepers Association.
Margaret Fritze
Margaret has been a wonderful addition to our adjunct teaching staff this year. Her background in biology, evolution and ecology, coupled with her love and expertise working with birds makes her a perfect fit at the School of Conservation.
Margaret earned her B.A. in Biology at Wittenberg University and M.S. in Ecology and Evolution from Rutgers University’s Cook College. She serves on the Council of the Eastern Bird-Banding Association and is certified by North American Banding Council to band songbirds. In 2006 she earned Rutger's Environmental Steward Certification.
Margaret spent several years studying Gray catbird morphology and ecology and for the past twelve fall seasons has watched the skies as an official counter at the Chimney Rock Hawk-Watch. She is currently conducting a research project involving Prothonotary warbler nest boxes at the Duke Farms Foundation. Margaret has worked with children as a volunteer in her sons’schools for 20 years. Whenever possible she enjoys traveling the world in search of avian creatures great and small.