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by Chris Palmer Published May 30, 2025, 3:36 p.m. ET
Carter P. Reese has had a distinguished and varied life in the Reading area.
The 77-year-old, who has three master’s degrees, worked for years at Pottstown’s prestigious Hill School — as a fine arts and history teacher and later as director of admissions.
He and his Harvard-educated wife co-founded and later sold an international company that helped students gain admission to elite American boarding schools and universities.
He was Taylor Swift’s next door neighbor in Wyomissing before she moved to Nashville to record her first album. At one