Barbara Eggen Link
Barbara has her B.S. in P.E./Kinesiology from Iowa State University and graduate work in Women’s Health Studies at Drake University. She was a member of the Junior Olympic water polo team when just out of high school and has coached synchronized swimming for 8 – 14 year olds.
She has enjoyed a variety of vocations including Program Director and Development Director for the American Lung Association and Loaned Executive Trainer for United Way in Iowa. In Ohio she was Department Supervisor for the Department of Ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic. She has been an Executive Assistant for The Limited and for the Senior Partner of Forstmann Little & Co. (a private investment firm) in New York City. She also organized each annual World Leaders Conference for the firm from 1988 to 1993. While in Portland, OR she managed a small day care center and also became an Administrative Assistant and Research Assistant at the Oregon Health & Science University.
Barbara and her husband have two children who attend St. Catherine’s. In her spare time, Barbara enjoys reading, gardening, knitting and watching her children in their activities.
As new parents, the Links discovered Montessori upon observing their niece in a Montessori program in Portland, OR. They immediately enrolled their children in “The Family School” – a Montessori program in New York City, when each child turned 18 months. They’ve attended Montessori schools, when available, ever since. She appreciates the individual responsibility that Montessori develops in their students and loves that the Montessori programs look for the gift in each child, helping to build on it.
