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Celebrating 305 years at Park!
The Park School is celebrating the careers of ten remarkable individuals who are retiring at the end of this school year. We invite you to be a part of the celebration. These educators have been an integral part of the Park community for decades – for a cumulative total of 305 years of service! How lucky the Park community has been to be the beneficiary of their wisdom, energy, thoughtfulness, and caring.
The guests of honor will be: Margo Ayres Smith Growth Education Department Head (1972) Tom Smith Technology Specialist (1973) Comfort Halsey Cope Service Learning Coordinator & Secondary School Counselor (1977) Steve Kellogg Math Teacher (1983) Fern Cunningham Terry Art Teacher (1983) Bob Tisi Maintenance Staff (1983) Betty Hillmon Music Department Head (1991) Mike Massauro Maintenance Department Head (1996) Toni Gilligan Kindergarten Teacher (1997) Dorothea Black Library Department Head (2000)
Margo Ayres Smith
It is hard to list all the positions that Margo
Ayres Smith has held since coming to Park in 1972: assistant to the
Head of School, permanent substitute, faculty advisor to Student Council and the
GSA,
and
advisor
to scores of Grade VII and VIII students. And,
beloved Park traditions
like
TOTAL
Day
(an
annual spring field day for
Grades V – IX) started with
Margo. Park is where Margo
met her husband, Tom, where
their
children,
Heather
’95,
Andrew ’98, and Mally ’01 grew up,
and where grandchildren Anna (Grade
III) and Andrew Hsu (Pre-K) are current students.
With kindness, conviction, and a helping hand, Margo has made
a lasting difference to the School. The Growth Education program, in particular, bears her stamp. She began this unique curriculum in 1977
and, as Department Head, has helped it to evolve ever since. Likewise, she has guided the SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) program for faculty and staff colleagues over two decades. For forty-four
years, Margo has led from her heart and with an unwavering commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and it is this work that she plans to continue beyond Park.
Tom Smith Like
his
albums,
favorite
Tom
folk
Smith’s
tenure at Park has an “A
Side” and a “B Side:” two
distinct eras with a brief
intermission in the middle.
Arriving in 1973, he began
his career as a science and math
teacher in the Upper School. Over
the next ten years, Tom became the
head of the Math Department, Yearbook
advisor, and a husband – marrying Park
teacher, Margo Ayres, in 1976. In 1983, Tom left Park to pursue a career in
educational software, programming games that were used in classrooms throughout the country. With a reinvigorated understanding of the
educational opportunities that technology could support, he returned to Park in 1994 as the Director of Technology.
Under Tom’s leadership, the School engineered its very first network,
boldly adopted something called “the Internet,” introduced state-of-the-
art computer labs, and set the landscape for Park’s current cloud-based
technology. In that time, Tom and Margo watched their three children, Heather ’95, Andrew ’97 and Mally ’01, graduate from Park, and their
grandchildren, Anna Hsu ’21 and Andrew Hsu ’24, become Park students. A lifelong musician, Tom is excited about the opportunity to begin
recording a new album, to book more stage performances, and, of course, to spend time with Margo and their growing family.
Comfort Halsey Cope Comfort Halsey Cope came to Park
in 1977. Her thirty-eight years
at Park have been marked by inspired teaching and
wise leadership. Comfort
was a beloved classroom teacher in Grades III and
V before moving to the
Upper Division where
she taught Grade VI
English/Social
Studies.
Comfort has also worked
as an associate director
of admissions, a secondary
school counselor, a Grade IX
advisor, and a Growth Education
teacher. Closest to her heart, Comfort
has taken Park’s tradition of commitment to
community service and created a more unified service learning program,
culminating with a year-end Grade VIII service trip to Costa Rica. Comfort leaves an important legacy of service; her work has helped Park students to become true global citizens. Park has indeed been a family school for Comfort. She met her husband Greg Cope (Park class of 1971 and former Park teacher) here and their two children Eliza ’04 and Thomas ’07 both attended Park through Grade IX. Comfort looks forward to studying theology, tutoring in Boston, and time for projects, travel, and reading.
Steve Kellogg For
33
Kellogg Park
years,
has
Steve
inspired
students
with
his big voice, his big
heart, and his genuine
excitement for learning. Steve
started
teaching
just after graduating from
college 45 years ago, and he
came to Park in 1983 to head
the Math Department. Steve has
been at the heart of life in the Upper
Division across his tenure. In addition to
teaching math in Grades VI through IX, he has taught American History
and Growth Education, he has been a long-time Grade IX advisor, he has
coached lacrosse, soccer, and basketball as well as the Math Team, and he served for five years as the Upper School Division Head. Steve has been a steadfast member of Park’s Faculty Compensation Committee, and he
has served as a member of the Board for AISNE and for the Meadowbrook School. Steve’s wife, Emily, joined him at Park in 1998, working in the library, and their two sons, Jeremy Kellogg ’99 and Nathan Kellogg ’02,
attended Park from Pre-K through Grade IX. As an ardent history buff,
Steve looks forward to now having time for more research and travel around Civil War battlefields, and to spending time with his four children and four grandchildren.
Fern Cunningham Terry As
a
fifth
grader,
Fern Cunningham Terry
announced to her parents
that she was going to be an art teacher. Fern’s prediction came true,
and this June, she will
retire from a remarkable
career
as
an
iconic
educator at Park. For over
thirty years, she has nurtured
the
thinking,
understanding,
and creating of art for children ages
to
draw,
8 – 15. Hundreds of students learned
paint, and sculpt from a master teacher. With a passion
for sculpture, she taught that the arts are a way to view the world and the human form is a reflection of all humanity. Fern’s personal artwork
is integral to her teaching. In her public sculptures, she has shared the powerful messages of the African-American experience and culture with
the entire City of Boston, as well as the Park community. Fern started the One World Club and was named the School’s first Director of Diversity. In
her retirement, Fern’s studio may be filled with her twelve grandchildren and of course, her husband, Alvin.
Bob Tisi Before coming to Park 33 years ago, Bob Tisi was an
electrical
lineman
in the Air Force, and then worked at BLH Electronics years.
Since
for
24
being
hired by former Head of
Operations
Jim
Mamarchev in 1983, Bob
has been an iconic presence
at the School. His unique
mix of helpfulness and humor
has endeared him to decades of
students, families, and faculty alike.
In addition to keeping school spaces in
good shape, Bob has driven many hundreds of school and sports team bus trips, kept daily carpools in order with his omnipresent whistle, and
spent many early winter mornings on the ice with the Park School Hockey Team. Legions of former student athletes hold deep respect and affection for Coach Tisi and credit him with their love of the game.
As he embarks on this next and well-deserved chapter of his life,
Bob looks forward to continuing his role as referee coordinator for youth
hockey programs on the North Shore. He will spend more time with his daughter, Jennifer, his son, Robert, and his growing grandchildren. In addition, he has a long list of places to visit with his wife, Mary Anne.
Betty Hillmon Before
Betty
brought
her
wonderful
talents and expertise to Park in 1991,
she attended San Jose State for her undergraduate
work,
followed
by two Masters degrees – one
in cello performance from Fresno State University, and
the other in musicology from Harvard University.
Betty is also a KodĂĄly Music
a
Specialist,
certificate
in
with
music
education from the Franz
Liszt Academy in Budapest.
Betty came to Boston
specifically to serve as the
chair of music education at the
Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts/
National Center of Afro-American Artists
(NCAAA), where she still plays a big role in the
production of Black Nativity. When she heard about the department head
opening at Park, Betty was excited to apply. At Park, Betty has deftly served as department head for 25 years, teaching and advising hundreds of students, and growing close to her faculty and staff colleagues.
Come June, Betty looks forward to continuing to develop the Boston
City-Wide String Orchestra that she founded, completing a writing project on African American and Afro-European classical composers, her continued work at NCAAA, and sleeping in past 6:30 AM!
Mike Massauro
For nearly 50 years, Mike Massauro has been a guardian of schools. Mike first came to Park in 1996, after an invitation from his former colleague Jerry Katz. The two had worked together at Bowen School in Newton where Mike was the head custodian for twelve years before he went on to Newton North High School for another twelve
Mike’s Park,
years.
During
stewardship
the
School
at
has
grown into a 34-acre, multi-building with
events
campus
happening
almost every day of the
year. Mike has been a great
leader and advocate for Park’s
maintenance team, securing better
equipment, gaining recognition for their
tremendous service, and increasing staffing as the
School has grown in size and complexity. Mike’s leadership is personified
by his interactions with students -- teaching the youngest students how to
make apple cider and create pinwheels, visiting Raine Miller’s Kindergarten classroom for “take-a-part” lessons, and building working hovercrafts. Always, Mike keeps the students at the heart of all of his work, and the
School has greatly benefited from his care. Mike is looking forward to
spending more time with his wife, Roseanne, and his four grandchildren when he retires this spring.
Toni Gilligan
Before joining the Park faculty in 1997, Toni Gilligan, a dedicated and passionate teacher, worked in the Newton Public Schools. When former
Head of School Jerry Katz persuaded her to consider teaching Kindergarten
at Park, Toni was so impressed by the Kindergarten team and the plentiful resources, she quickly said “yes,” and brought her son, Bradford Gilligan ’08, to Park too.
Toni’s classroom is a place where learning comes alive both literally and figuratively. Known for her
love of animals, each spring finds
current
and
former
students in Toni’s classroom observing
the
chicks.
One spring Toni hatched chicks
and
ten
Indian
Runner ducks! One of her fondest
memories
orchestrating
a
was
surprise
visit with three of the ducks
following her down the hall,
into the elevator, through the
front lobby and into Jerry’s office.
The look on Jerry’s face as the ducks
entered his meticulous office still brings a
giant smile to Toni’s face.
Toni looks forward to spending time with her husband, Michael, and her
beloved 15-month-old golden retriever, traveling, reading, and being open to any opportunities that come her way.
Dorothea Black Dorothea Black joined Park’s library in 2000 through the Apprentice (Intern) Program, and the School never let her go. When Dorothea earned the position of Library Head in 2002, she inherited a library with a card catalog, slide carousels, and byzantine shelving. In less than a decade, she helped transform the library into a
model 21st-century learning
environment, complete with eReaders, blogs,
and
iPads,
librarian
mobile
access
to the collection, all run by a collaborative, multi-faceted team.
Under Dorothea’s leadership, the
library is now well-positioned as a hub of
interdisciplinary, inquiry-based curriculum and
instruction, and Park stands as a leader among peer schools in leaning into
questions around the ever-evolving forms and functions of library space
and collection development. “I have seen our napkin sketch plans for a renovated library come into being,” notes Dorothea, “and then seen those
realized plans reflected in our sister school across the world, in Hangzhou, China.”
Dorothea’s myriad talents and interests are an inspiration, and her
future plans are characteristically diverse and engaging. Mother-daughter travel, time with husband, Steve Logowitz, freelance teaching, letterpress printing, and fiber arts are just the beginning of a long to-do list. Plus an inflatable paddleboard in the car, just in case.
Please take a moment to write a memory or tribute to any or all of our honorees. Photos, poems, scrapbook mementos, funny stories – all welcome! Feel free to use either the enclosed cards or your own cards. Please send your tribute by May 31st, or bring it with you on June 3rd.
Please plan to join us to honor them in person, too! Celebrating 305 Years at Park! Friday, June 3, 2016 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on the Main Field Rain or Shine Kids welcome, of course! To help with planning, please tell us your name and the names of your guests. RSVP by May 31st development.communications@parkschool.org