CSEE mourns trustee

01.30.10

CSEE lost one of its longest standing trustees to an aggressive cancer January 25.

Carol W. Eliot was a teacher of religion and psychology at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., for 25 years, and an impassioned supporter of religious studies and ethics as academic disciplines at the middle school and high school levels. In the 1990's she co-authored one of the finest ethics text books available for use with middle school students. The text is still used in a number of independent schools.

Carol was born Carol Hobson Winfield in Petersburg, VA, she graduated from Westhampton College (now part of the University of Richmond) in Richmond, VA, with a Bachelor of Divinity Degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC.
She joined the faculty of National Cathedral School in 1983, and was invited to join the CSEE board of trustees—as its only full-time teacher member—in 1993. At National Cathedral School she taught a variety of courses including comparative religion, morality and the Holocaust, cathedral architecture, and human development.  One of her favorite activities was giving tours of the National Cathedral, with architectural details and other anecdotes known to very few people. Carol retired in 2008 and worked for two years with Tenley Circle Press, a publisher of children's books. 
In addition to her work at National Cathedral School and with CSEE—where she was vice-chair or the Board— Carol was a Teaching Fellow at the National Holocaust Museum and served on the board of directors of Religious Studies in Secondary Schools.
Carol is survived by her husband of 37 years, Frank C. Eliot of Bethesda; their sons Andrew, Christopher, and Philip. She had one daughter in law and a granddaughter.
Carol's service was scheduled for Saturday, January 30, at The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, in Bethesda.