PETER O. WILLAUER

Trustee Emeritus

Peter is a graduate of Noble and Greenough School and earned a BA in Public and International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. Following his graduation from Princeton, he went on to the United States Naval Academy as a Sailing Officer, from 1956-58, Lt.JG. His teaching and educational career includes Associate Dean of Admissions, Princeton University; Teaching Fellow, Phillips Academy at Andover; Harvard Graduate School of Education, MAT (1961) and Visiting Practitioner at the Principals Center (1990-1991); Clark university, Doctor of Humane Letters, Hon.; past trustee of Commonwealth School, Proctor Academy, and Nobles.

He was a key contributor to the Leon Bean Mountain Center in Bethel, Maine for year-round programming, established The Baltimore-Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound Center, the Florida sea program in the Keys, and starting in 1974, five Florida bases to run programs for adjudicated youth. In 1986,  started the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center as part of HIOBS. From 1991-1998, Peter was President when TIOBEC separated from HIOBS. Peter was the Founder and President of the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School and was also a key contributor to the construction of the HIOBS Rockland base, eventually overseeing twelve bases in six different states. In 2009 he became the Founding Trustee of the Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership.

A celestial navigator, Peter has been a member of Cruising Club of America since 1959. He has extensively sailed, both cruising and racing, in the US east coast and West Indies, with two transatlantic crossings, wintering in Turkey; 20 Bermuda races and another 10 passages to Bermuda. Together with his wife Carol, he has lived aboard their J42 sailboat for 15 years and logged 80,000 miles.