Enrichment Staff
Ronnie Dimig is our elementary school art and music teacher. Passionate about the importance of the arts in the lives of children, she earned a bachelor's degree in art education from Middle Tennessee State University. She taught art at the Governor's School of Tennessee and has taught locally at Brockman Elementary School and Burnside Elementary School. Ronnie's work has been featured in local and national shows and she received art commissions from the Office of the President at Gallaudet University in Washington DC, the American Red Cross, and from numerous private collectors throughout the United States. Ronnie owned her own jewelry business for ten years, making custom jewelry and selling her pieces to art galleries in Columbia, Atlanta, GA, and New York, NY. Ronnie currently divides her time between painting portraits and botanicals, landscape design and part-time teaching at MSC.
Finnbar Dunphy is our elementary school teacher of Latin and Spanish. He has more than thirty years experience teaching in American International Schools abroad. He received his bachelor's degree in English with a minor in Irish and Latin from St. Patrick's College of Dublin, Ireland. He has earned a 3.0, 3.0 in Spanish at the Foreign Service Institute in Virginia, having attained the level of competency in the Spanish language required of U.S. diplomats posted abroad. Finnbarr holds the title of Distinguished Member of the International Society of Poets, and has written three historical fiction manuscripts based on Ireland. He has also coached and played advanced soccer, tennis, and golf.