Timothy “Tim” Caryl-Klika P’23,’25

Tim Caryl-Klika earned an AB in Art and Art History from Colgate University in 1998 and was employed at Colgate as the Director of First Year Aid from 2000 to 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Caryl-Klika served for a year at Colgate as a campus life intern and as an admissions reader. He later earned a Master of Liberal Arts degree in Anthropology and Archeology from the Harvard Extension School while working at St. Paul’s.

As an undergraduate, Mr. Caryl-Klika was a linebacker for the Red Raider football team and to this day still has a healthy obsession with the sport of football, both as the St. Paul’s Defensive Coordinator and as a fan. Later on, his graduate work focused on anthropology and culture, ultimately producing a thesis entitled “The Role of Socioeconomic Status on Cultural Adaptation in Elite American Boarding Schools.” Having worked with admission and financial aid for almost twenty years, the issues surrounding student culture, success and equity are central to his professional work.

Mr. Caryl-Klika originally grew up in central New Jersey and still frequents the Jersey Shore each summer with his extended family and friends. When not reliving glory days down the Shore, Mr. Caryl-Klika can often be found immersed somewhere in the fiction of J.R.R Tolkien, practicing yoga and meditation, or playing games with his kids. Mr. Caryl-Klika also dedicates a lot of his free time to coaching youth lacrosse.

Mr. Caryl-Klika joined the SPS faculty in the fall of 2006 and lives on the grounds with his college sweetheart wife and their children. In a recent household poll, Mr. Caryl-Klika was voted the best daddy ever, winning the key demographic of the under 13-year-old crowd.