Jane Almasy (Jane Elliott) — teacher — February 15, 2000
Audrian “Bunny” Kukleski — teacher — January 11, 2001 — 66 yrs old
Nancy Hovland – teacher – March 21, 2002 – 71 yrs old
Cynthia “Chita” Beal – teacher — October 22, 2002 – 85 yrs old
Mildred Dovey — teacher, Supervisor of Vocational Department – April 13, 2003 – 77 yrs old
Rose Delancey – dorm houseparent – May 9, 2003 – 79 yrs old
Paul Loera – psychologist – Nov. 5, 2003 – 55 yrs old
James Achtzehn – instructional media director – Nov. 10, 2003 – 63 yrd old
Lillian “Toni” Holler – housekeeping — February 6, 2005 – 73 yrs old
Jeanette “Jean” Joseph – teacher (and “Chita” Beal’s sister) – Feb. 26 – 2005 – 86 yrs old
Cynthia “Cindy” Germaine – teacher – Nov. 24, 2007 – 55 yrs old
Dorothy “Dot” Schwartzman – houseparent and aide – Dec. 3, 2007 — 91 yrs old
Solomon “Sol” Schwartzman – teacher – Jan 22, 2008 – 82 yrs old
Dr. William “Bill” Craig – Superintendent – Nov. 6, 2008 – 74 yrs old
Anthony “Tony” Crino – maintenance – February 16, 2009 – 85 yrs old
Margaret “Peggy” Ozark – nursery school aide – Nov. 23, 2009 – 91 yrs old
Priscilla “Tippi” Comden – media — Oct. 10, 2010 – 76 yrs old
Sally Stone – rhythm teacher – Nov 26, 2010 – 70 yrs old
Mary Newman – secretary – Jan. 29, 2011 – 94 yrs old
Kersti (Niiler) Hammermeister – teacher – July 3, 2011 – 77 yrs old
Bob Kropp – groundskeeper–Oct. 16, 2011 – 67 yrs old
Jeanette Ehrman – teacher – Feb. 3, 2012 – 95 yrs old
Caryl Wolff – resource teacher — Dec. 3, 2012 – 80 yrs old
Dan Emerick – phys ed and health teacher — January 24, 2013 – 57 yrs old
Virginia Scuro – after school and weekend secretary – Nov 17, 2013 – 87 yrs old
Mr. John Wilson – chief fiscal officer & board member – Sept. 3, 2013 – 87 yrs old
Aloysius “Lou” Briski – groundskeeper – d. Dec. 11, 2013 – 97 yrs old
Robert Neisworth – school illustrator – July 9, 2014 – 69 yrs old
John “Woody” Wood – housekeeping – Aug 7, 2014 – 65 yrs old
Mary Ann Schaefer – school librarian – September 29, 2014 — 64 yrs old
Geraldine “Gerry” Malmberg – Upper School Science and Math teacher – Feb. 22, 2015 – 89 yrs old
Deborah “Chris” Bhandari – Aanarde teacher, Lower School – April 5, 2015 – 62 yrs old
Marie Boal – Middle School teacher – April 16, 2015 – 68 yrs old
Rich Douglass – audio specialist — Jan 22, 2016 – 67 years old
Mary Christulides – library aide — January 23, 2017 – 96 yrs old
Virginia Schatz – rhythm teacher –September 22, 2017 – 96 years old
Rose McKelvey – secretary — December 27, 2017 – 96 years old
Donna Lee Groves – teacher — supervisor — January 10, 2018 – 82 yrs old
Kathryn “Kitty” Sgourakis – head nurse — May 10, 2018 – 86 years old
Gayle Mann – aide and secretary — June 25, 2018 – 89 years old
Rocco “Rocky” Casello – maintenance — August 19, 2018 – 85 yrs old
Carl Stepien — security — October 1, 2018 – 73 yrs old
Jean Rosfeld – art teacher –November 15, 2018 – 89 years old
Edward Kooser – housekeeping — March 23, 2019 – 87 yrs old
Anne Kalyvas – teacher — April 28, 2019 – 72 yrs old
Annette Nitko – aide — July 17, 2019 – 56 yrs old <—- did she also work in the dorm?
Russ Marcase – maintenane — August 11, 2019 – 70 yrs old
Eleanor (Schatz) Magyar – teacher — on September 17, 2019 – 70yrs old
G. Wesley Dickson – vocational teacher — December 20, 2019 – 90 yrs old
Sam Rochester – teacher — December 23, 2019 – 87 yrs old
Bob Noschese – maintenance — February 2020 – 69 yrs old
Jon Albitz – phys ed teacher — August 2, 2020 – yrs old – 81 yrs old
Ellen Troiano – vocational teacher — October 4, 2020 – 98 yrs old
Sylvia E. Wilson – teacher –February 17, 2021 – 96 yrs old
Connie Stepien – Dean of Girls, Dean of Students — November 21, 2021 – 77 yrs old
Charles Fisher – media — January 1, 2022 – 84 yrs old
Marion Craig – preschool aide in Aanarde — January 4, 2022 – 99 yrs old
Shirin Antia – teacher — February 6, 2022 – 70 yrs old
Polly Shay – aide — March 26, 2022 – 93 years old
Carl Kirchner (brother of Connie Stepien) — teacher – July 15, 2022 – 83 yrs old
Richard “Dick” Jones – phys ed teacher — November 29, 2022 – 96 yrs old
Susan Bailey – teacher — January 18, 2023 – 89 yrs old
Anthony “Tony” Remis – job coach –February 22, 2023 – 54 yrs old <—- he probably had other jobs… check!
Emma Liu – teacher — April 7, 2023 – 89 years old
Paul Rettger – finance officer –September 17, 2023 – 94 yrs old
Carol Swift – vocational teacher — November 25, 2023 – 97 yrs old
Charles Harkins – school principal — February 23, 2024 – 79 yrs old
Rose Holman – teacher — May 24, 2024 – 84 yrs old
Sandra “Sandi” (Kayner) Kitchen – dorm supervisor / secretary –June 16, 2024 – 60 yrs old
Edwin Kooser – housekeeping –June 17, 2024 – 92 yrs old
Mary Jo Garrity – teacher — March 12, 2025 – 83 yrs old
Karen Vormack – media secretary — April 20, 2025 – 81 yrs old
Jim Salem — Dean, Principal, Assistant Superintendent — May 22, 2025 — 89 yrs old
Special thanks to Vince Ruscavage, a retired WPSD teacher, for tracking and collecting information about staff members throughout the WPSD community.