Harold Simons '68, '70 a Huron High School ( Ann Arbor )
physical education teacher and coach, was pictured and quoted
in a recent article in the Ann Arbor News. Simons attended
the Jones School in Ann Arbor , at the time for Black children.
Nanette Mueller, a third grade teacher at University Hills
Elementary School in Rochester Hills, is retiring this year
after a 30-year career, most of it in the same building. She
now plans to live on a sailboat.
Robin Evans '79, art teacher at Ypsilanti High School , and
her students have been featured recently in several newspaper
articles as they have prepared and placed large art objects
in downtown Ypsilanti .
Jean Britton-Durst '80, interim principal of Saline High
School , has been named to that position on a permanent basis.
Three of the six finalists for the Dearborn Heights superintendency
are EMU alums: Ricardo Medina '82, '86; Joseph Pius '84;
and George Przygodski '83. Medina is currently superintendent
of Bridgeport-Spaulding schools, Pius is the South Lake personnel
director, and Przygodski is the executive director of human
resources for Dexter schools.
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James Armitage '75, age 57, longtime head basketball coach at Henry Ford Community
College, died recently of cancer in West Palm Beach, FL. Prior to going
to HFCC, he coached basketball at EMU. Among his many recognitions was ' Michigan
community college coach of the year.'
EMU alums in Michigan schools who have received the 2004
Wal-Mart 'Teacher
of the Year'
award include:
Ronda Brodsky '95 , Lakeland High School, Huron
Valley; Robert Lapointe '69, '85 , Belleville
High School; Karen Malett-Grozenski '89 , Allen
Park High School; and Amy Nemeth '75 , Old
Village School, Northville.
Lynn Cleary '79, '86, principal
of Lincoln Middle School,
recently received an
educational leadership award from
the Ypsilanti Area Chamber
of Commerce. An extended
article and photo related
to Cleary's work at LMS
appeared recently in the Ann Arbor News.
Dawn Eule '84, '93 was pictured recently in the Detroit News
in a story about rapidly increasing costs of the MPSERS retirement
system.
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Michelle
Pesek '59, '64 died
recently. She opened Gay-Jay Nursery School
in 1963, which eventually became the Michelle Norris Montessori School until
it closed in 1995. She also taught in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti
public schools.
