The Rev. Stephen B. Klots is chaplain of South Kent School in South Kent, Conn.
As chaplain, he oversees the school’s worship life, which includes four all-school worship services each week
and several voluntary services, and he serves as a pastoral presence on campus.
In addition to these duties, he teaches English, coaches cross-country, helps supervise a dorm, and otherwise does all the little things that go with working in a boarding school. He has in the past taught history as well, including European and U.S. history and topics in religious history, and he has served as a form dean. He is currently the president of the New England Preparatory School Track Association and an Honorary Member of the Cum Laude Society.
South Kent is a fairly small (145 students) all-boys boarding school affiliated with the Episcopal Church; it was founded in 1923. It is not connected to the much larger Kent School (which is in the same town), although Kent School’s founder, the Rev. Frederick H. Sill, provided the inspiration for South Kent School. Stephen is the longest serving member of the school’s teaching faculty.
Although he grew up in Tennessee, Stephen has spent a portion of every summer of his life at Hampton Beach, where his family has owned a beach house for decades along the seawall on the north shore. His parents still come up to that house for about a month every summer, and he has often accompanied them on Sundays to worship at St. Andrew’s-by-the-Sea.