Ousmane Diop, chairman of the Modern Languages Department of the Roxbury Latin School, was installed as the Stanley J. Bernstein Professor of Modern Languages on April 13. Diop is a longtime Roxbury Latin teacher and a resident of Roslindale.
A native of Senegal, Diop joined the Roxbury Latin faculty in 1994, a graduate of Oberlin College with degrees in French and mathematics. He later earned a master’s degree in education from Harvard University. At Oberlin he starred in tennis, one of the top players in that school’s history, ranking sixth in doubles by the ITA in his senior year. In 2006 he was inducted into Oberlin’s John W. Heisman Club’s Athletic Hall of Fame. In addition to teaching French, Diop serves as the school’s varsity tennis coach.
There is perhaps no more respected and more revered faculty member at Roxbury Latin than Diop. In his remarks to the assembled school community and guests, headmaster Kerry Brennan said, “For all of his 15 and a half years at Roxbury Latin, Mr. Diop epitomized all that we have come to expect and admire in the men and women who make up our faculty. He is a teacher, counselor, coach, adviser and mentor to scores of young men in his charge, a cherished and esteemed colleague of our faculty and staff. We are all better off from an association with Mr. Diop.”
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