Dr. Meg English
Education Director
All issues related to academics at BHSW are handled by Meg English. In addition to her thirty years of classroom experience, she also holds a doctorate in education administration from the University of South Dakota.

Ken Froelich
Instructor: Hand Tools and Hand Joinery
In addition to being the fire chief, Ken spent many years repairing furniture in Rapid City, including pieces that were shipped back through Ellsworth Airforce Base from all over the world. He says that he learned a lot about wood movement and ambiest humidity during those years. President of the hand tools group of the South Dakota Woodworkers' Guild, he has an enormous collection of hand planes and swears that he doesn't own an extension cord...

John English
Instructor: Furniture Design/Build and Cabinetmaking
John was born in Limerick and moved to South Dakota in 1980, where he trained as a cabinetmaker. He worked as an assistant editor at Today's Woodworker, the publishing arm of Rockler Companies, and then editor of Woodworker's Journal. He now writes for Woodshop News, American Woodworker and American Woodturner. He writes a new woodworking book every year, but hands-on instruction is still his favorite way to spend a day in the shop.

Christie Jensen
Instructor: Stained Glass
Christie is a talented artist with more than two decades of both glass and woodworking experience. Raised by artistic/business-minded parents in New York and Northern New Jersey, art has been "not only a love, but a life". Her portfolio includes woodworking, antique restoration, artistic finishing and painting. She has exhibited for companies including IBM, MCI and the Chaco Canyon Visitors Center in New Mexico (National Park Service).

Mark Koons
Instructor: Bending, Lamination, Hand Tools
This Elkhorn, Wisconsin native found himself in Japan in 1966, staffing an army evacuation hospital for Vietnam casualties. There, he was introduced to "the remarkable focus" of traditional Japanese woodworkers, and the concept that craft was a worthy calling. An energetic participant in the show circuit, and a student and self-described "camp follower" of both James Krenov and Sam Maloof, he says he "draws many important personal lessons from my understanding of both the lives and works of those two".

Sam Angelo
Instructor: Bowl Turning
Sam was born in Akron, Ohio and worked for building contractors while still in high school. He attended college in Montana on a basketball scholarship and began teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in 1973, some seventy miles from the nearest town. Currently working as a middle school Counselor, he spends time in the school’s Industrial Technology shop giving lathe demonstrations and helping kids with woodworking projects. He began to refurbish and build furniture and custom cabinets in the early 80s near his present home in Wyoming. In 1988 Sam borrowed a Boise-Crane lathe that sparked a fire for turning that has never gone out. He teaches up to three students at a time in his Worland studio, and up to eight at BHSW.